A Student's Guide to Literature
Literature Guide
Skyhorse Publishing · Print & ebook · March 1, 2000
In a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended?
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- Who it’s for
- Readers exploring Western literature and poetry
- Themes
- Literature and liberal education, Intellectual and emotional horizons, Classic literature
- Genres
- Books & Reading, Poetry Criticism, Literary Criticism
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In a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended? Why is literature so compelling? What should we read? Literary critic R. V. Young addresses these timely issues in this guide to Western literature and poetry. He demonstrates that literature liberates the mind from cultural and temporal provincialism by expanding our intellectual and emotional horizons.
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Learn how great fiction and poetry are integral to a liberal education, and more than that, learn to love the classic works of literature again—or for the first time.
Who it’s for
- Readers exploring Western literature and poetry
- Learners seeking to value classic works of literature
Where it sits
| Books & Reading | 68% |
|---|---|
| Poetry Criticism | 33% |
| Literary Criticism | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
- Shakespeare Studies
- Conservatism & Liberalism
- Authors
- R. V. Young
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Published
- March 1, 2000
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Literature and liberal education · Intellectual and emotional horizons · Classic literature
- Reading lane
- Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism