"What is this thing called literature What is the point of studying literature How do I study literature Relating literature to timeless topics such as dreams politics life death the ordinary and the crazy this beautifully written book establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and rewarding subject to study Bennett and Royle delicately weave an essential love of literature into an account of what literary texts do how ..."
Suicide Century Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace by AndrewBennett Hardcover, 276 Pages, Published 2017 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-108-41804-1, ISBN: 1-108-41804-X
"Suicide Century investigates suicide as a prominent theme in twentieth-century and contemporary literature. Andrew Bennett argues that with the waning of religious and legal prohibitions on suicide in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the increasing influence of medical and sociological accounts of its causes and significance in the twentieth century, literature responds to the act and idea as an increasingly normalised but in ..."
"Starting at ‘the beginning’ and concluding with ‘the end’, the book covers topics that range from the familiar (‘character’, ‘narrative’, ‘the author’) to the more unusual (‘secrets’, ‘pleasure’, ‘ghosts’). This new edition incorporates five new chapters on ‘love’, ‘wounds’, ‘bodies’, ‘the affect effect’ and a ‘digital supplement’. Instead of relying on abstract ‘isms’, Bennett and Royle successfully illuminate complex ideas by engaging ..."
"In the reader '5 'bricoiage,' the elements that are re—employed, all being drawn
from official and accepted bodies of material. can cause one to believe that there
is nothing new in reading. See in particular the works of HANS ULRICH
GUMBRECHT ('Die Dramenschliessende Sprachhandlung itn Atistotolischen
Theater und ihre Problematisierung bei Marivaux'} and of KARLHEINZ STll-IRLE
('Das Liebesgestdndnis in Racine-s Pltédre und das Ver ..."
William Wordsworth in Context (Literature in Context) by AndrewBennett Hardcover, 359 Pages, Published 2015 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-02841-8, ISBN: 1-107-02841-8
"William Wordsworth's poetry responded to the enormous literary, political, cultural, technological and social changes that the poet lived through during his lifetime (1770‒1850), and to his own transformation from young radical inspired by the French Revolution to Poet Laureate and supporter of the establishment. The poet of the 'egotistical sublime' who wrote the pioneering autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude, and whose work is r ..."
Process Tracing From Metaphor to Analytic Tool (Strategies for Social Inquiry) by AndrewBennett, Jeffrey T. Checkel, Jacob Mandell Paperback, 342 Pages, Published 2014 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-68637-3, ISBN: 1-107-68637-7
"Advances in qualitative methods and recent developments in the philosophy of science have led to an emphasis on explanation via reference to causal mechanisms. This book argues that the method known as process tracing is particularly well suited to developing and assessing theories about such mechanisms. The editors begin by establishing a philosophical basis for process tracing - one that captures mainstream uses while simultaneously b ..."
Process Tracing From Metaphor to Analytic Tool (Strategies for Social Inquiry) by AndrewBennett, Jeffrey T. Checkel Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2014 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-04452-4, ISBN: 1-107-04452-9
"Advances in qualitative methods and recent developments in the philosophy of science have led to an emphasis on explanation via reference to causal mechanisms. This book argues that the method known as process tracing is particularly well suited to developing and assessing theories about such mechanisms. The editors begin by establishing a philosophical basis for process tracing - one that captures mainstream uses while simultaneously b ..."
"Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Beginning’ and concluding with ‘The End’, chapters range from the familiar, such as ‘Character’, ‘Narrative’ and ‘The Author’, to the more unusual, such as ‘Secrets’, ‘Pleasure’ and ‘Ghosts’. Now in its fifth edition, Bennett and Royle’s classic textbook successfully illuminates complex i ..."
Get Thee Behind Me, Santa An Inexcusably Filthy Children's Time-Travel Farce for Adults Only by low, phillip andrewbennett Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 2017 by Lulu.Com ISBN-13: 978-1-387-23284-0, ISBN: 1-387-23284-3
Suicide Century Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace by AndrewBennett Published 2017 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-108-30469-6, ISBN: 1-108-30469-9
"Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace Andrew
Bennett ... the task of 'literary suicidology' – a project that I would like to name and
in some ways to inaugurate in this book – to bring ... entailed by suicide can be '
productive' in the context of science fiction; Jeffrey Berman's Surviving Literary
Suicide ..."
"Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Beginning’ and concluding with ‘The End’, chapters range from the familiar, such as ‘Character’, ‘Narrative’ and ‘The Author’, to the more unusual, such as ‘Secrets’, ‘Pleasure’ and ‘Ghosts’. Now in its fifth edition, Bennett and Royle’s classic textbook successfully illuminates complex i ..."
"Much literary criticism focuses on literary producers and their products, but an important part of such work considers the end-user, the reader. It asks such questions as: how far can the author condition the response of the reader, and how much does the reader create the meaning of a text? Dr Bennett's collection includes important essays from such writers and critics as Wolfgang Iser, Mary Jacobus, Roger Chartier, Michel de Certeau, S ..."
"Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle. complexities involved in a first reading. If the
opening to Eliot«s poem refers to Chaucer«s, then when can we properly be said
to read ... The present book is, fundamentally, about questions of origins, about
beginning. It is concerned with how we might begin to read, to think about and
write about literary texts. In particular ... none of which can ever be taken for
granted. Neither author nor read ..."
"We will attempt to explore these questions in relation to one of the most famous
plays of all time, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (first published in 1597). But
before we ... An edition of the play that provides detailed commentary and notes
is a must: the Arden, the New Cambridge and the Oxford Shakespeare editions
are all excellent in this regard. (In the following pages we will rely on the Oxford
World's Classics edition of Rom ..."
"We would suggest that, in the first instance, you avoid contemporary remakes or
other modern dramatizations. Film versions of Romeo and Juliet by Franco
Zeffirelli (1968) or Baz Luhmann (1996) are brilliant in all sorts of ways, but take
you quite a long way from the play Shakespeare wrote. It is easy enough to get
hold of the BBC version with Patrick Ryecart, Rebecca Saire, John Gielgud and
others (1978, dir. Alvin Rakoff), for ex ..."
"What is this thing called literature? Why should we study it? And how? Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, this beautifully written book establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and rewarding subject to study. Bennett and Royle delicately weave an essential love of literature into an account of what literary texts do, how they work and what sort of questi ..."
Ignorance(Reprint) Literature and agnoiology by AndrewBennett Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-9743-0, ISBN: 0-7190-9743-6
"Andrew Bennett argues in this fascinating book that ignorance is part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about. He sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic period involves an often unacknowledged engagement with the experience of not knowing. From Wordsworth and Keats to George Eliot and Charles Dickens, from He ..."
"Wordsworth's account of a British reading public feverishly attached to
extravagant narratives helps us to understand his effort to craft a curative poetry
rooted in plain language and honest emotion. At this point it may be worth
pausing to consider together the two kinds ... On display throughout Lyrical
Ballads, Wordsworth's sense that readers must think for themselves is perhaps
most sharply dramatized in 'Simon Lee'. Beginning ..."