How to Read Texts: A Student Guide to Critical Approaches and Skills

By Neil McCaw

Book Overview

How to Read Texts introduces key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical introduction for students developing their own critical and close-reading skills. Written in a jargon-free style, it explains critical concepts, approaches and ideas that includes debates around critical theory; the role of history and context; the links between creativity and criticism; and the relationship between author, reader and text. Chapters include Beginning from where you are-finding your critical voice; The creative critic; and Unveiling the self-conscious critic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826492886
• ISBN13: 9780826492883
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.4" x 5.5"