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Summary - "Approaches to Literature: A Practical Handbook for Beginners"
Title: Approaches to Literature: A Practical Handbook for Beginners
Genre: English Instruction
Author: Gilbert Vaughan
Editor: Maureen Kingston
Production Editor: Eddie Elfers
US Price: $ (Paperback, 143 p)
ISBN 0-9766513-2-7
Publication Date: 2005
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Summary:
“This book attempts to summarize and explain some basic approaches to literature, some traditional and some modern. It is designed for beginning students of literature and introduces them to different ways of reading and interpreting literature.” – Gilbert Vaughan
Excerpts:
“When did literary criticism begin? Our earliest critics are the Greeks, Plato and Aristotle. Aristotle wrote the first formal literary criticism, giving us terms like plot and character. But Aristotle probably did not form his critical principles from scratch. His criticism must go back to earlier critics. If we try to imagine the first critics of literature, we have to remember that literature was at first oral; the first creators of literature were people who told stories to audiences—audiences who must have asked questions and discussed the storytelling process among themselves and passed down their stories and traditions of storytelling to younger storytellers. Thus, analyzing and discussing literature has probably always accompanied the enjoyment of literature. Perhaps analysis is even part of the pleasure of literature.” – Gilbert Vaughan |
