Andrew Bennett (1) (1960–)
Autore di An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
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Sull'Autore
Andrew Bennett is Reader in English Literature at the University of Bristol.
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Bennett, Andrew John
- Data di nascita
- 1960-12-02
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
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- Opere
- 10
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 427
- Popolarità
- #57,179
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 96
- Lingue
- 3
Like the Klages and Lynn and Culler, B and R are clear as heck; unlike the Klages, B and R always come back around to reading particular texts (even some Chaucer! in Middle English!); unlike the Lynn, B and R never dumb things down.
Highly, highly recommended to all readers who read more than how-to manuals, and even, perhaps, for them.
UPDATE, Nov. 2008: Now that I've taught this, I'm much more aware of its limitations. 100 pages in my students groaned every time some version of the suspended law of non-contradiction showed up. "Let me guess, this is both X and not-X? How astonishing!" By the end of a month or so with them, they became a cautionary tale about biases: what would they have emphasized had they not been doctrinaire poststructuralists but instead Marxists? Feminist? Postcolonialists? Phenomenologists and Ethicists?… (altro)