Description
Book SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to present to scholars, students and enthusiasts in the fields of literature and linguistics a way to study a text analytically. Reading is multi-faceted and shaped by contexts, participants, and technologies. The ways of reading tackled most enthusiastically in this book are interpretations which show active involvement of readers: Each literary or linguistic approach can be compared to a window through which we see, grapple, comprehend, personalize and internalize the text, hence the world.
Table of ContentsContents: Selami Aydın: Reading and Language Teaching – Ceyhun Yükselir: Reading Skills and Strategies – Leyla Harputlu:
Creative Reading – Zennure Koseman: New Criticism and Ernest Hemingway’s
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber – Violetta Trofimova:
Russian Formalism and Reading – Meryem Ayan: A Psychoanalytic Analysis of
The Portrait of A Lady – Feryal Cubukcu:
A Jungian Archetypal Analysis of
The Iliad –
Feryal Cubukcu: A Deconstructionist Reading of
Goblin Market – B. Ayça Ulker Erkan: A New Historicist Reading of William Shakespeare’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Meryem Ayan: A Feminist Analysis of
The Awakening – Burak Irmak:
Changing Masculinities and Femininities: A Comparative Analysis of
Bridget Jones’s Diary and
Pride and Prejudice – Dilek İnan:
A Reader-Response Approach to Reading Martin Crimp’s
The Country – Dilek İnan:
A Geocritical Reading of Harold Pinter’s
Ashes To Ashes – Nazan Tutas:
Stylistics and Reading – Krunoslav Mikulan/Vladimir Legac: Free Indirect Discourse and Reading – Catherine Wong:
Cognitive Poetics in the analysis of narrative of Kazuo Ishiguro’s
A Pale View of Hills – Laya Heidari Darani:
Systemic Functional Linguistics as an Analytical Tool in Reading Comprehension.
