An Introduction to Literary StudiesPDF电子书下载

1 What is literature，what is a text？ 1

1 Genre，text type and discourse 3

2 Primary and secondary sources 5

2 Major genres in textual studies 9

1 Fiction 10

2 Poetry 28

3 Drama 44

4 Film 56

3 Periods of English Literatures 67

4 Theoretical approaches to literature 75

1 Text-oriented approaches 79

2 Author-oriented approaches 90

3 Reader-oriented approaches 92

4 Context-oriented approaches 94

5 Literary critique or evaluation 100

5 Where and how to find secondary literature 103

6 How to write a scholarly paper 109

7 Suggestions for further reading 121

8 Glossary of literary and cinematographic terms 131

Notes 149

Author and title index 151

Subject index 159