Literature in our Lives: Talking About Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman
Autor Richard Jacobsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 feb 2020
These lectures discuss, in an open but richly informed way, a wide range of texts that are regularly studied and enjoyed. They model what it means to be excited about reading and studying literature, and how the study of literature can be life-changing - perhaps even with the effect of changing the lives of readers of this eloquent and remarkable book.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367189341
ISBN-10: 0367189348
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0367189348
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate and UndergraduateCuprins
Introduction
- The myth of the Fall and its impact: Pullman, Lewis and others
- Claribel’s story: a few thoughts on gender, race and colonialism in The Tempest
- Wuthering Heights: myth and the wounds of loss
- Beckett’s Waiting for Godot: transforming lives
- Great Expectations: intertextualities, endings and life after plot
- Emily Dickinson: ‘And then the windows failed’
- Emma: rhetoric, irony and the reader’s assault course
- Dorian Gray: ‘queering’ the text
- The Fallen Woman: Emma Bovary and (many) others
- Two transgressive American women: Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Hamlet / Lear: realism / modernism
- John Keats: three (or is it two?) poems and thoughts on ‘late style’
- Republicanism, regicide and ‘The Musgrave Ritual’
- Jean Rhys: her texts from the 1930s
- Twelfth Night: Dream-Gift
- Please read Proust
- Paradise Lost: radical politics, gender and education
Recenzii
"In this intimate, accessible and passionate book, Richard Jacobs shows us why reading literature matters and how it can change our lives." -- Will Norman, University of Kent
"Richard Jacobs’ lectures give personal warmth to critical expertise. Literature in Our Lives is a wonderful model of how to think about literature. This book provides an approachable introduction for beginners and a stimulating companion for advanced literary scholars." -- Rachel Trousdale, Framingham State University
"The studies published here, while impeccably rigorous and forensic, have a deeply appealing thread of personal memories and enthusiasm…Literature in our Lives is a reminder of the best tradition of literary criticism, an ongoing conversation, and recalled for me the memorable lessons, tutorials and lectures that helped me to find the place that literature has in my own life. I would warmly recommend the book to anyone wishing to see the kind of directions literary discussions can take." -- Malcolm Hebron, The Use of English 72.2
"As a lucid model of assured and inspiring close reading which resolutely connects together critical interpretation with our own lives, [this book] is perfectly pitched for both sixth-formers and university students. I think it’s a book to reinvigorate all of us who want to learn, or to teach how to read well." -- Sean McEvoy, Teaching English
"Richard Jacobs’ lectures give personal warmth to critical expertise. Literature in Our Lives is a wonderful model of how to think about literature. This book provides an approachable introduction for beginners and a stimulating companion for advanced literary scholars." -- Rachel Trousdale, Framingham State University
"The studies published here, while impeccably rigorous and forensic, have a deeply appealing thread of personal memories and enthusiasm…Literature in our Lives is a reminder of the best tradition of literary criticism, an ongoing conversation, and recalled for me the memorable lessons, tutorials and lectures that helped me to find the place that literature has in my own life. I would warmly recommend the book to anyone wishing to see the kind of directions literary discussions can take." -- Malcolm Hebron, The Use of English 72.2
"As a lucid model of assured and inspiring close reading which resolutely connects together critical interpretation with our own lives, [this book] is perfectly pitched for both sixth-formers and university students. I think it’s a book to reinvigorate all of us who want to learn, or to teach how to read well." -- Sean McEvoy, Teaching English
Descriere
A remarkable and frankly personal collection of seventeen lectures by an award-winning teacher with forty years of experience that covers an unusual range of literary texts regularly studied and enjoyed. The book models what it means to be excited about reading and studying literature and how it can change our lives.