A Student's Guide to Literature

R.V. Young

Maison d'édition: Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Synopsis

Explore the works of Western literature that have stood the test of time—and discover titles to enrich your own book collection.A Student’s Guide to Literature takes up these questions: In a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended? Why is literature so compelling? What should we read? Literary scholar R. V. Young addresses these timely issues in this guide to Western literature and poetry. He demonstrates that literature liberates the mind from cultural and temporal provincialism by expanding our intellectual and emotional horizons. Learn how great fiction and poetry are integral to a liberal education, and visit the classic works of literature again—or for the first time.

Disponible depuis: 29/07/2014.

Longueur d'impression: 77 pages.

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