Now Read On

Now Read On: A Course in Multicultural Reading

John McRae & Malachi Edwin Vethamani 1999

E-Book: 174 English Pages

Publisher: Routledge

Price: 1000 Toman

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Now Read On brings together literatures in English from around the world, combining an excellent choice of texts with sound methodological guidance.It contains approximately eighty texts and extracts from countries andcontinents including:
*Africa
*Australia
*Great Britain
*India
*Malaysia
*New Zealand
*Philippines
*Singapore
Designed as course for both native and non-native English-speakers in how to read literature, this anthology begins with shorter starter texts and questions, and develops in complexity as the reader progresses through the book. Now Read On provides the user with
*hands-on experience of working with a plurality of texts from around the world
*questions, exercises, pointers and commentary, accompanying all the passages of literature, and providing the student with the tools and confidence to critically evaluate any text
*an understanding of the major genres – poetry, short stories, drama and novels.

About the Author

John McRae is Special Professor of Language in Literature Studies at the University of Nottingham. His publications include A Routledge History of Literature in English (1997) and The Language of Poetry (1998), both available from Routledge.