This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing

by Nicholas Royle and Andrew Bennett

Book Overview

What is this thing called literature? Why should we study it? And how?

Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, this beautifully written book establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and rewarding subject to study. Bennett and Royle delicately weave an essential love of literature into an account of what literary texts do, how they work and what sort of questions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1408254018
• ISBN13: 9781408254011
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"