A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure?What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing questions and a host of others.
How to Read Literature is the book of choice for students new to the study of literature and for all other readers interested in deepening their understanding and enriching their reading experience.In a series of brilliant analyses, Eagleton shows how to read with due attention to tone, rhythm, texture, syntax, allusion, ambiguity, and other formal aspects of literary works. He also examines broader questions of character, plot, narrative, the creative imagination, the meaning of fictionality, and the tension between what works of literature say and what they show. Unfailingly authoritative and cheerfully opinionated, the author provides useful commentaries on classicism, Romanticism, modernism, and postmodernism along with spellbinding insights into a huge range of authors, from Shakespeare and J. Rowling to Jane Austen and Samuel Beckett. 'This is not only an entertaining book, it's an important one. What Eagleton refers to as 'slow reading', after Nietzsche, seems horribly endangered as a human activity.
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He draws us back to basics here, in a sequence of sharp analyses, taking into account the essential aspects of intelligent reading. I love his breezy style, so accessible and concrete; yet he never sacrifices nuance or subtlety. This is a book for every reader, not only beginners, yet it will prove immensely useful in the classroom.' —Jay Parini, author of Why Poetry Matters.
Reviews“'What makes Simon Morgan Wortham's work so remarkable and important is his clear and passionate thinking of the unavoidable politics of the institution in his timely study of the ongoing reverberations of the event.' - Dr Sean Gaston, Brunel University, UK” –“'A very exciting and important study, which will help to broaden the understanding of Derrida's work as one that is constitutively addressed to a broad public, from whom Derrida received not just solicitations, but also and above all invaluable stimulation and encouragement.' - Samuel Weber, Avalon Professor of Humanities, Northwestern University, USA” –“'Simon Morgan-Wortham is emerging as one of the most indispensable critical and political commentators of his generation. Shrewd, lucid, patient and disarmingly competent, his readings are altogether brilliant, staking strong and luminous arguments around Jacques Derrida's pathbreaking work.' - Avital Ronell, Professor of German, New York University, USA, and Jacques Derrida Chair, European Graduate School” –“Mention -Book News, February 2009” –“'Far from being an investigation into the minutiae of a particular strand of philosophical language, or a critique of grammar, Derrida: Writing Events demonstrates a broader and fresher perspective on Derrida, which is skillfully calculated to be neither too broad, nor too dense.
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For such a short book, this is a veritable achievement; and an ability to handle Derrida without loss of perspective is truly enviable.an important monograph in expounding the meaning of Derrida on the issue of writing events.' - Chris Wojtulewicz, University of Birmingham, for Academici” –.