The Complete Idiot's Guide to Critical Reading
Title | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Critical Reading PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Wall |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 403 |
Release | 2005-05-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 144069642X |
The essential guide to looking at literature with your own two eyes. What students know about Shakespeare, Orwell, Dickens, and Twain is primarily what their instructors tell them. Here’s a book that teaches the students how to move on to the next level—evaluate and read critically on their own, trust their own opinions, develop original ideas, analyze characters, and find a deeper appreciation for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more. • Ideal companion for college students and accessible for the casual reader as well. • Covers fiction, poetry, narrative nonfiction, biographies and memoirs, essays and editorials, and newspapers, magazines, and journals. • Features examples from published writing. • Includes a reading list and a glossary of literary terms.
Complete Idiot's Guide to Critical Reading
Title | Complete Idiot's Guide to Critical Reading PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Wall |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781336122987 |
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Title | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Steven J. Venturino, PhD |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2013-03-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1615643273 |
From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each chapter offers a conversational, step-by-step explanation of a single theory, critic, or issue, accompanied by concrete examples for applying the concepts and engaging suggestions for related literary readings. Following a section on the foundations of literary theory, the book is organized thematically, with an eye to the best way to develop a real, working understanding of the various theories. Cross-references are particularly important, since it's through the interaction of examples that readers most effectively advance from basic topics and arguments to some of the more specialized and complicated issues. Each chapter is designed to tell a complete story, yet also to reach out to other chapters for development and debate. Literary theorists are hardly unified in their views, and this book reflects the various traditions, agreements, influences, and squabbles that are a part of the field. Special features include hundreds of references to and quotations from novels, stories, plays, poems, movies, and other media. Online resources could also include video and music clips, as well as high-quality examples of visual art mentioned in the book. The book also includes periodic "running" references to selected key titles (such as Frankenstein) in order to illustrate the effect of different theories on a single work.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Technical Writing
Title | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Technical Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Krista Van Laan |
Publisher | Alpha Books |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780028641461 |
Covers the field of technical writing, providing information on such topics as building a portfolio, writing an effective resume, finding well-paying jobs, passing a writing exam, and creating a document online.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Team Building
Title | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Team Building PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur R. Pell |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2003-02-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0786542268 |
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Team-Building shows first-time managers and employees how to work together as a smooth, well-oiled machine. The book shows how to: -- Avoid and manage conflict. Inspire creativity. -- Coax employees to help team members who aren't performing. -- Get everyone to pitch in. -- Gain unprecedented results and make the team enjoy going to work.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Independent Filmmaking
Title | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Independent Filmmaking PDF eBook |
Author | Josef Steiff |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2005-08-02 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1440696527 |
You ought to be making pictures. Designed for people who want to tell a story their way, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Independent Filmmaking explains everything a budding auteur needs to know—from literary development and financial and organizational pre-production to principal photography production, post-production assembly, exhibition and distribution, and more. • The advent of desktop editing and a wide range of consumer cameras enable the average person to create a “film studio” at home. • A great “textbook” for novice filmmakers, whether film students or on-their-own auteurs. • The proliferation of film festivals around the world, many of which encourage submissions from “amateur” filmmakers, shows there are countless filmmakers who aren’t learning the ropes in school. • Author has terrific credentials and has a feature-length script in development in Hollywood.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to English Literature
Title | The Complete Idiot's Guide to English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Stevenson |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN | 9781592576562 |