How to Read Texts: A Student Guide to Critical Approaches and Skills

<div><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt">How to Read Texts </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt">introduces key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical introduction for students developing their own critical and close-reading skills. Written in a jargon-free style, it explains critical concepts, approaches and ideas that includes debates around critical theory; the role of history and context; the links between creativity and criticism; and the relationship between author, reader and text. Chapters include Beginning from where you are—finding your critical voice; The creative critic;</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Dax-Light"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt">and Unveiling the self-conscious critic.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span> <br/><p class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div>>