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How To Study Literature: A Guide To The Intensive Study Of Literary Masterpieces - Softcover

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick

 
9780371747360: How To Study Literature: A Guide To The Intensive Study Of Literary Masterpieces

Synopsis

How To Study Literature: A Guide To The Intensive Study Of Literary Masterpieces by Benjamin Alexander Heydrick is a practical guide focused on systematic, text-centered analysis of literature. It offers a framework for the intensive study of literary masterpieces, outlining six major forms: narrative poetry, lyric poetry, dramatic poetry, fiction, the essay, and the oration. Accompanying questions are designed to foster independent interpretation. The volume features specimen studies, including Lowell’s Vision of Sir Launfal, Tennyson’s Bugle Song, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, George Eliot’s Silas Marner, Macaulay’s Essay on Samuel Johnson, and Webster’s Bunker Hill Monument Oration, along with appendices on figures of speech and versification. The Preface emphasizes teaching students to discern fundamental principles of literary construction and to form their own judgments, rather than simply accepting established opinions. This manual is intended to supplement standard texts and encourage collateral and comparative reading.

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