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Summary: Good Overview
Review: A clear, understandable thourough (but not too technical) overview of the major types of literary criticism (historical, feminist, formalist, mimetic, psychological, etc.). Includes sample applications of each major approach to some major works.
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Summary: Good Overview
Review: A clear, understandable thourough (but not too technical) overview of the major types of literary criticism (historical, feminist, formalist, mimetic, psychological, etc.). Includes sample applications of each major approach to some major works.
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Summary: top notch
Review: a great introduction that leads up to present day. using five of the greatest works of literature as examples, the text fully explains and demonstates who each movement and theory operates and can be effectively implimented. highly recommmended.
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Summary: top notch
Review: a great introduction that leads up to present day. using five of the greatest works of literature as examples, the text fully explains and demonstates who each movement and theory operates and can be effectively implimented. highly recommmended.
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Summary: Bible for English Graduate Students
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone who plans to complete graduate work in English. During my undergraduate career, I learned nothing about theory, and therefore found myself oblivious to the subject when I attended a different school for graduate work, where such a background was required of undergraduates. This book is a comprehensive guide to the application of theory (e.g. psychoanalytic, marxist, feminist, structuralism, etc.) to literary works. The book thoroughly introduces each theory, along with its various subtheories, and provides examples on how to apply each theory to literary works. It also includes the do's and don'ts of work in the area. Literary theory can be quite exhaustive. This is the perfect place to start and you will find that it is a book you will refer to again and again.
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Summary: Clear, precise, and easy to use
Review: I used this text to teach introductory literary criticism to my high school seniors for over six years. The examples in the text are excellent, and the characteristics of each approach are clearly established. It is my first choice as a teaching tool, and I think it would be equally effective for a college student working independently. I give it my highest rating.
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Summary: Clear, precise, and easy to use
Review: I used this text to teach introductory literary criticism to my high school seniors for over six years. The examples in the text are excellent, and the characteristics of each approach are clearly established. It is my first choice as a teaching tool, and I think it would be equally effective for a college student working independently. I give it my highest rating.
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Summary: Fine Overview of Approaches to the Interpretation of Fiction
Review: This book introduces different approaches to the interpretation of literature (fiction). Both traditional and non-traditional approaches, including historical-biographical approaches, formalist approaches, psychological approaches, mythological approaches, feminist approaches, cultural approaches, structuralist approaches and other approaches. Throughout the book, the same examples are used (including Hamlet and Huckleberry Finn). The book is very clear and easy, yet extremely informative. Why do I, an information scientist without background in literature, review this book here on Amazon? Because I find that it is a very relevant book for students in library schools, one that can be used in my "domain analytic" approach to library and information studies. The classification and indexing of literature (fiction and non-fiction) is core activity for information professionals. This book demonstrates, that the interpretation of a book (say Hamlet) depends on the theoretical outlook of the interpreter. A book can be indexed or classified in many ways. Each approach or paradigm in a strong way is a theory about how a book should be interpreted, and has strong implication on how it should be indexed or classified in an ideal library. My impression is, however, that librarians and information specialist seldom uses such theory, when they discuss indexing or classification principles (e.g., for fiction). Most often they base their principles on empirical methods or common sense, which in my opinion is not enough.
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Summary: AMAZING
Review: This is a book that was a required text for one of my Lit. Crit. classes. I sold it back at the end of the semester and have had to borrow my prof's copy about 4 times this semester for papers for other classes. It is really helpful for writing any English paper (even for non-critical papers). I am excited to see it again and here it is the same price as a used copy at school.
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