"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 ..."
" Praise for An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory ‘Sparkling, enthusiastic, and admirably well-informed' - HélèneCixous 'By far the best introduction we have, bar none. This unmatched book is for everyone: from those beginning literary study, through advanced students, and up to teachers; even those who, like me, have been professing literature for years and years' - J. Hillis Miller, UCI Distinguished ..."
"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 ..."
"Introduction. "Isn't she pretty at all?" 'I'm afraid not.' 'Spotty?" "I'm afraid she is,
rather.' "Oh dear, poor little thing.' 'It's horrible," said Julian, lighting her cigarette
for her, 'to be talking like this about a child. But she rattles me terribly. I can never
just look at her; I always feel as though I were catching her eye.' (TN37–8) This
passage of dialogue from To the North is not only an amusing evocation of Julian
T ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"Fresh, original and compelling, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. 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). Eschewing abstract isms, Bennett and Royle successfully illuminate ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"'The Uncanny', in Fantasy Literature: An Approach to Reality. London: Macmillan.
Aristotle. 1941. The Basic Works of Aristotle, ed. Richard McKeon. New York:
Random House. Aristotle. 1965. On the Art of Poetry, in Classical Literary
Criticism, Trans. T.S. Dorsch. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Aristotle. 2001. On the
Parts of Animals, trans. James G. Lennox. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Armbruster, Karla, and Kathleen R. Wallace, eds. ..."
"Literary texts belong to no particular time, they are universal and transcend
history: the historical context of their production and ... of the Age in Relation to
Poetry and Religion and The Eighteenth Century Background: Studies on the
Idea of Nature in the Thought ... The third model tends to be associated more with
traditional historical scholarship than with literary criticism, as it assumes that
literary texts ..."
"Organized around key critical concepts rather than around schools of criticism, this book is designed as an introduction to the fundamental concepts of literary theory and literary criticism. Each chapter begins by asking fundamental questions about a concept, explaining why such questions are important and relevant for discussions of literary texts, and then goes on to discuss the concept in greater detail with references and text exam ..."
"Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel argues that the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) is one of the most important, though undervalued, practitioners of the twentieth-century novel in English. This is an innovative study with significant implications for contemporary critical and theoretical writing. The authors contend that Bowen's work calls for a radically new conception of criticism and theory - and of the ..."
"Arguing that Elizabeth Bowen is the unrecognized genius of the 20th century novel in English this book contends that an appropriate response to Bowen s work calls for a radically new conception of criticism and theory and of the novel itself It includes new readings of all Bowen s novels Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel argues that the Anglo Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen 1899 1973 is one of the most important though under ..."