Advantages: exteemly useful book Disadvantages: interest specific
This may seem like an obscure book to write an opinion on but i think it is a very useful book that people should know about. It was originally intended for undergraduate English students but would be very useful to anyone studying English and/or English Literature, indeed anyone with an interest in these subjects. It is very accessable and easy to read. Originally published in 1957, my copy is the seventh (and most recent, published in 1999)edition, ... ...an A-Z (A-W actually) of literary terms beginning with "Absurd, the literature of" and ending 330 pages later with "Wit,Humor(sic)and the comic". It covers many, many literary terms from single definitions (e.g."poetic justice" and "ivory tower") which can be from a few lines to half a page long, through lterary terms (e.g. "Ode" and "myth") up to summaries of complete lierary theories ('New Historicism' and 'Queer theory'to name but two examples).It ...
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Advantages: In depth analysis of different interpretations of sight Disadvantages: I could find no faults with this masterpiece of literature
I found in my reading of John Bergers "Ways of Seeing", that the way in which Berger discusses the way we view art both aesthetically and culturally was explored in such great depth.
"Ways of Seeing" offers a view of our culture and emphasizes in particular the way that, nowadays, culture reproduces and makes use of images of the past. Placed in museums, on bulletin boards, on T-shirts and in advertisements, the images tell a story of us, seen from ... ...there waiting to be discovered, to be recognized for exactly what it is. History a
