Comments | lit_addicts: embracing literature..

yaarg in lit_addicts

embracing literature..

May 11, 2007 17:11

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lifefullofwords May 11 2007, 18:12:29 UTC

I've found The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory to be very helpful... hope this is the type of thing you're looking for!

yaarg May 13 2007, 11:39:19 UTC

Yup absolutely the kind of thing I'm looking for. Thank you.

t3dy May 11 2007, 18:26:42 UTC

like lifefullofwords said, there are good intro books (I'm still a big fan of the comic book "introducing" and "for beginners" series 3 years into MA), theory dictionaries, etc. The Norton Anthology of Lit-Crit and Theory is a nice authoratative brick; there are thousands like it. I tend to use google, wikipedia and other online sources (esp. journal archives like JSTOR that have PDF articles) which tends to be faster for getting familiar with literary theory stuff than paper flipping ( ... )

yaarg May 13 2007, 11:41:25 UTC

Hey thank you for your response.

I've had a quick browse over the links and they look precisely the thing I'm after. Although I'd still like to invest in a paper book for in bed, on the bus..

I'll check out Walter Benjamin too.