What Happens in LiteratureUniversity of Chicago Press, 2000 - 162 páginas How can we become good readers? In this classic handbook, Edward W. Rosenheim lays out the basics that can help us all become sharper, more proficient readers. Looking at specific poems, novels, and plays, this excellent critical guide raises questions and offers suggestions designed to make us think more and enjoy more fully what we are reading. Designed for students of literature as well as those who simply like to read, What Happens in Literature helps readers appreciate literary works as unique creations, born in a particular time and place, but powerful enough to speak across centuries. |
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... discussion in the kind of text I have tried to produce . But I am somewhat uneasily aware of an ethical or social ... discuss is fairly lim- ited geographically and in great part " canonical , " while both my protagonists and my pronouns ...
... discussion in the kind of text I have tried to produce . But I am somewhat uneasily aware of an ethical or social ... discuss is fairly lim- ited geographically and in great part " canonical , " while both my protagonists and my pronouns ...
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... discuss nor from the legitimacy of the questions I ask about these writings . I am reminded that when David Hume asserts ... discussion and to do so for reasons I have tried to communicate to my readers , hoping they will share in that ...
... discuss nor from the legitimacy of the questions I ask about these writings . I am reminded that when David Hume asserts ... discussion and to do so for reasons I have tried to communicate to my readers , hoping they will share in that ...
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... discussion of historical contexts , which are deferred , in my book as in our Humanities course , for later treatment because " there are certain grave dangers in ex- posing students to historical fact at the same moment they are ...
... discussion of historical contexts , which are deferred , in my book as in our Humanities course , for later treatment because " there are certain grave dangers in ex- posing students to historical fact at the same moment they are ...
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... discussion of a poem which emphasizes , above all else , its power to delight . My preface concludes by referring to the debt the book owes to a number of my colleagues in the College Humanities courses of the University of Chicago . My ...
... discussion of a poem which emphasizes , above all else , its power to delight . My preface concludes by referring to the debt the book owes to a number of my colleagues in the College Humanities courses of the University of Chicago . My ...
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... discussion are reprinted in the text , and the references to longer works are made in the frank expecta- tion that those readers who are unfamiliar with them will be prompted to make their acquaintance . Obviously , this book proceeds ...
... discussion are reprinted in the text , and the references to longer works are made in the frank expecta- tion that those readers who are unfamiliar with them will be prompted to make their acquaintance . Obviously , this book proceeds ...
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What Happens in Literature: A Student's Guide to Poetry, Drama, and Fiction Edward W. Rosenheim Vista de fragmentos - 1960 |
What Happens in Literature: A Student's Guide to Poetry, Drama, and Fiction Edward W. Rosenheim Vista de fragmentos - 1960 |
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