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

McCaw, Neil

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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.

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Neil McCaw is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Winchester, UK.

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