How to Study a Novel: 111 (Macmillan Study Skills) - Softcover

Peck, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333639944 ISBN 13: 9780333639948

Publisher: Palgrave, 1995

Synopsis

How to Study a Novel has long been established as the one book about the novel that every student of literature at school or university needs to read. In a series of clearly written, eminently practical chapters, John Peck takes the reader through a set of logical steps that show him how to respond to, interpret and develop his own view of a novel and how to present that response in an effective essay. This thoroughly revised and expanded Second Edition has three new chapters taking this process one step further, showing how to make use of the new critical thinking that has swept through literary criticism in recent years.

About this title

From the Publisher:

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Contents: Acknowledgements - General Editors' Preface - Preface - PART 1 - Tackling the Text - Constructing a Basic Analysis - Looking at Aspects of a Novel - Coping with Different Kinds of Novel - Tackling a Long and Difficult Novel - Writing an Essay - Writing a More Complicated Essay - PART 2 - New Approaches - New Readings - New Novels - Further Reading

About the Author:

John Peck is now retired and was formerly Reader in Victorian Literature at Cardiff University, UK. With Martin Coyle he edits the Key Concepts series for Palgrave Macmillan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0333639944
• ISBN 13: 9780333639948
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 220