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The Literature Student's Survival Kit: What Every Reader Needs to KnowISBN: 978-1-4051-2284-9
Hardcover
316 pages
February 2006, ©2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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J.M. Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania <!--end-->
"The Literature Student's Survival Kit is a remarkably useful
collection of information of sure value to many students of
literature. Written in a measured way, it presents with both
clarity and grace a wide but manageable range of
knowledge--historical, political, cultural, biographical,
mythological, theological--that will help open up the textures of
literary texts, past and present, for readers without that
information already at their fingertips. Littlewood's text offers
the kind of knowledge--accessibly laid out, accessibly
written--that a reader so often needs to know in order to enable
informed and sensitive literary interpretation. A book not only
valuable but enjoyable too."
Francis O'Gorman, University of Leeds
“This is exactly the kind of book I wish I'd had as a
student. It introduces and explains the unfamiliar: the Bible,
classics, history. A remarkable combination of explanation,
encyclopedia, glossary and database--an indispensable vade mecum.
It contains fascinating insights as well as useful facts. How can a
reference work be so readable?”
Laurie Maguire, University of Oxford
"This really is a remarkably useful little book."
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