Literature in our Lives: Talking About Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman

ISBN-13: 9780367189341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 200 str.

Richard Jacobs

Opis

A remarkable and frankly personal collection of seventeen lectures by an award-winning teacher with forty years of experience that covers an unusual range of literary texts regularly studied and enjoyed. The book models what it means to be excited about reading and studying literature and how it can change our lives.

O autorze

Richard Jacobs is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Brighton, School of Humanities, where he was subject leader for literature and Principal Lecturer for many years and where he received teaching excellence awards. His publications include A Beginner’s Guide to Critical Reading: An Anthology of Literary Texts (Routledge), Teaching Narrative (Palgrave), chapters on the 20^th century novel (Penguin and Palgrave), editions for Penguin Classics, articles on literature and the teaching of literature, and several reviews.