AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LITERATURE

An Introduction to the Study
of Literature sets forth, in a simple and lucid manner, the issues and
questions to be kept in mind while studying the vast canon of English
literature. It takes much of its substance from a series of twenty – five
lectures delivered before University Extension audiences at the Municipal
Technical Institute, West Ham and the Polytechnic, Woolwich. This book
compresses the matter from these lectures, along with a good deal of
additional information, to provide a compact and handy guide that should
prove extremely useful to new students of literature as well as veterans in
the subject. Comprising ways and methods to study various genres such as
poetry, prose fiction, drama, essay and short story, it covers every facet of
literature. It also analyses the task of critiquing literature to bring out
the necessity of studying the subject. A must – read for all literature
aficionados.