How to Study Literature
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This is a guide for students of English, illustrating ways of constructing a critical response to novels. It shows how, through analysis of passages, they can approach novels confidently and independently and construct and articulate a personal response.
Shakespeare is often the first dramatist people study. You may have read, seen and even acted in plays, but Shakespeare may well be the first writer whose plays you are expected to analyse and discuss. This book provides a crystal clear method of approaching Shakespeare's plays.
This edition has been expanded to make it more relevant to the needs of today's students, offering a comprehensive guide to English poetry, drama and the novel. It also includes expanded essays on post-colonial literature and 20th-century literature and a wide variety of new entries, for example - on women's poetry, discourse, contradiction, the subject and the text. In addition, there is an extensive and revised guide to modern critical theory. John Peck and Martin Coyle are the series editors both of the "How to Study Literature" series and the "New Casebooks" series.