Is there a good "first year literature textbook" type of thing you've ever read?
Something like pic related, which went through editing, sound, genre, angles, misenscene, form, content, but instead about prose.
Burroway, Writing Fiction
>>8247906
thanks
Is that actually good?
>>8247886
Goulimari's 'Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to postcolonialism'
Anyone know a book that goes over how to make effective sentences/paragraphs?
>>8247886
If you want to identify literary devices
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>>8249433
very helpful
Long shot but does anyone know a decent book like this in Swedish?
>>8249425
Is this basically TVtropes.com in a book?
>>8250057
Probably not as reddit.
anyone else feel like they're missing a lot when they read and need to read this stuff and learn it all?
Is there anything like this but for readers rather than writers?
I wish to have a richer reading experience, but I feel I do not have the perception required.
Does Bloom have anything on this? I figure he's the sort of guy who would.
>>8253060
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and ABC of reading by Ezra Pound.
>>8253060
>Does Bloom have anything on this? I figure he's the sort of guy who would.
How To Read And Why + The Art Of Reading Poetry