50 Literature Ideas You Really Need To Know
Publisher: Quercus Books
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781848660601
Description: The essential guide to all the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature. It provides a clear, opinionated and thorough overview of theories about the nature of language and meaning, and outlines the thinking behind key literary concepts such as postmodernism, semiology, postcolonialism and structuralism. Packed with insights and examples from both classic and popular works, this is a book that will delight anyone who has ever been mystified by literary jargon and wants to gain a deeper, more thorough enjoyment of reading and writing.