Handbook for Literary Analysis

Handbook for Literary Analysis: How to Evaluate Prose Fiction, Drama, and Poetry is a reference book (not a curriculum) that reclaims the metaphor, reclaims rhetoric, reclaims literary analysis. It has a high view of the reader, the critic, and the student. All three are invited to think critically, to discuss thoroughly, the great literary works of all civilization. Systematically, the Handbook defines, explains, and illustrates all significant literary terms in fiction, drama, and poetry. Along the way, readers explore copious, inspired examples, including biblical examples. Finally, readers read real literary analytical essays by high school students. An ideal resource for a novice or veteran literary critic. Will assist students who wish to begin with American, British, or World Literature without the preliminary work of Skills for Literary Analysis. 524 pages.

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