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W F Garrett-Petts - Writing About Literature: A Guide for the Student Critic - 9781551117430 - V9781551117430
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Writing About Literature: A Guide for the Student Critic

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Description for Writing About Literature: A Guide for the Student Critic Paperback. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: CBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 352.
Writing About Literature introduces students to critical reading and writing through a thorough and engaging discussion of the field, but also through exercises, interviews, exemplary student and scholarly essays, and visual material. It offers students an insider's guide to the language, issues, approaches, styles, assumptions, and traditions that inform the writing of successful critical essays, and aims to make student writers a part of the world of professional literary criticism. Much of the discussion is structured around ways to analyse and respond to a single work, Stephen Crane's story The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky . The book presents ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
352g
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Peterborough, Canada
ISBN
9781551117430
SKU
V9781551117430
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-99

About W F Garrett-Petts
W.F. (Will) Garrett-Petts is Professor of English at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.

Reviews for Writing About Literature: A Guide for the Student Critic
I have used Writing About Literature a number of times to great success. As it progressively takes students from being uninformed readers of a literary text to becoming engaged critics in conversation with advanced scholars, it provides an invaluable framework for introducing students to the fundamental goals and techniques of critical writing, the kinds of issues that critics explore and ... Read more

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