Kusch C. Literary Analysis: The Basics

Routledge, 2016. — 158 p. — (The Basics). — ISBN: 978-1-315-68837-4.Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary analysis, it introduces readers to the genres, canons, terms, issues, critical approaches, and contexts that affect the analysis of any text. It addresses such questions as:
What counts as literature?
Is analysis a dissection?
How do gender, race, class and culture affect the meaning of a text?
Why is the social and historical context of a text important?
Can digital media be analysed in the same way as a poem?
With examples from ancient myths to young adult fiction, a glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading, Literary Analysis: The Basics is essential reading for anyone wishing to improve their analytical reading skills.
True PDFIntroduction: thinking about literature
What is literature?
Analysis, classics, and the literary canon
Readers, authors, and meanings
What does it really mean? Analysis and evidence
References and further readingClose reading: words and forms
Animal, vegetable, or mineral: Why genre matters
Analysing language
Poetics and literary terms
References and further readingAnalysis in context
History and literature, literature as history
Literary periods and movements: Communities of writersComparative analysis
Common themes
Translation, variation, repetition, and remixing
References and further readingAnalysis and the critics
About criticism
Reading criticism and identifying critical debates
Critical response
References and further readingAnalysis and literary theory
Everyone has a theory
Everything is a construction
Everything is a text
References and further readingConclusion: analytical writing
Academic writing about literature
The popular critic: Writing about literature in the world
References and further readingGlossary
Index