02492cam a22003138i 45000010009000000050017000090080041000260100017000670200018000840200018001020200018001200400023001380420008001610430021001690500022001900820027002121000037002392450132002762600055004082630009004633000019004725040051004915201332005426500047018746500048019216500024019696500025019937760160020182233003020240716112757.0211201s2022    enk      b    001 0 eng    a  2021044772  a9780367650384  a9780367650407  z9781003127567  aDLCbengerdacDLC  apcc  ae-uk---an-us---00aPR83b.J3425 202200a820.9223/eng/202112011 aJacobs, Richard,d1952-eauthor.10aLiterature and the critics :bdeveloping responses to texts /cRichard Jacobs ; with Sam Cutting, Sean McEvoy and Joel Roberts.  aLondon :bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,c2022  a2202  a241p. ;b23cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"This timely volume presents a rich and absorbing selection of extracts from over two hundred leading literary critics of the last several decades, writing on many of the most widely studied literary texts in English, from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison. Structured chronologically, working through familiar literary periods, this book presents illuminating and stimulating examples of critical readings of familiar texts, demonstrating a variety of methods and approaches to critical practice. The range of critical voices represented - from Abrams and Adelman to Zimmerman and Žižek - provides students with eloquent and insightful models of how to read, think and write about texts so that they can form their own critical responses and develop as independent readers. The book also shows how criticism has developed over time and how it has always been intimately involved in wider cultural, social and political debates. Connections between criticism, culture and politics are explored in the book's wide-ranging first chapter. In his warm, clear, and engaging style, Richard Jacobs provides the perfect introduction to literature and criticism. Literature and the Critics is a book to which students will want to return to throughout their courses as they read more widely and encounter new texts and critical voices"-- 0aEnglish literaturexHistory and criticism. 0aAmerican literaturexHistory and criticism. 0aEnglish literature. 0aAmerican literature.08iOnline version:aJacobs, Richard.tLiterature and the criticsdLondon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022z9781003127567w(DLC) 2021044773