Literary Analysis: The Basics

Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary analysis, it introduces readers to the genres, canons, terms, issues, critical approaches, and contexts that affect the analysis of any text. It addresses such questions as:

• What counts as literature?
• Is analysis a dissection?
• How do gender, race, class and culture affect the meaning of a text?
• Why i...