Eagleton, Terry - How to Read Literature
V a l u e 1 9 1 an affair than tragedy. There are some searching comedies and some trite tragedies. Joyce’s Ulysses is a profoun ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 9 2 are less enamoured of stories than our ancestors. We also recognise that compelling ...
V a l u e 1 9 3 writing, including memos and menus. You do not have to sound like The Rainbow or Romeo and Juliet to qualify as ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 9 4 way it propels itself through so many sub- clauses, all draped around the main verb ...
V a l u e 1 9 5 station, through deep Cornish lanes, past granite cottages and disused, archaic tin- workings. They reached the ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 9 6 In the overcoat buttoned awry over the bathrobe he looked huge and shapeless like a ...
V a l u e 1 9 7 The lines know nothing of tact and reticence. They sacrifice elegance, rhythm and economy to a kind of writing w ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 9 8 Humbert Humbert, is sending himself up. The ridiculous name Humbert Humbert is itsel ...
V a l u e 1 9 9 motels. And this tension between him and his surroundings is reflected in the prose style. Despite his high- min ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 2 0 0 It is not quite the gunfight at the OK Corral. On the contrary, it is one of the mos ...
V a l u e 2 0 1 Nabokov’s writing is full- bloodedly ‘literary’ without being cluttered or claustrophobic. The American author C ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 2 0 2 mermaids might have cellulite tugs these mysterious creatures down to our own unglam ...
V a l u e 2 0 3 another splendidly imaginative stroke. Bodies, like meringues, are sweet but brittle. They can crumble to pieces ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 2 0 4 are brittle. The slightest gust of reality, one feels, would bring this brittle lite ...
V a l u e 2 0 5 We may end with a poet whose status is not in doubt. In fact, there is well- nigh universal agreement on the val ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 2 0 6 penned an indifferent or unremarkable line. It is idle to ask whether someone could ...
Index abstraction and literary criticism 149 accent and Victorian values 151 action and literary value 191–2 see also narrative; ...
2 0 8 I n d e x Beckett, Samuel (cont.. .) Waiting for Godot 35–6, 66, 69, 115, 191 beginnings see openings Bellow, Saul Henders ...
2 0 9 I n d e x contrivance language and style 42, 193–4, 195–7 plot manipulations 100–2, 103, 161, 162 convention as influence ...
2 1 0 I n d e x Faulkner, William Absalom, Absalom! 195–7 fiction see reality and fiction Fielding, Henry 58, 176, 180 Joseph An ...
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