belle_d_mort's review
3.0
DNF!
It does give you a broad overview over most of the topics. What is annoying though, is that most sentences are riddled with German vocabulary. If you're studying English and American Literature, you should be able to understand basic word from the English language or otherwise be able to get yourself a dictionary and look the word up. This German input is, in my opinion, very unnecessary and not really helpful. Also there are a lot of books that sum up the English and American Literature a lot better because they are far more detailed and less opinionated, because since it's an academic book, it should focus more on the topic itself and not what the authors deems "important". The literary epoch, for example, are practically non-existent because apparently the lack of feminism and racism (in his opinion) have created more sub-genres and now the epochs are too confusing. Ergo, that is the only summary you'll get from him. Otherwise, this book is a very short, very brief and not very detailed summary of pretty much everything that might be important in your literary studies of this subject.
It does give you a broad overview over most of the topics. What is annoying though, is that most sentences are riddled with German vocabulary. If you're studying English and American Literature, you should be able to understand basic word from the English language or otherwise be able to get yourself a dictionary and look the word up. This German input is, in my opinion, very unnecessary and not really helpful. Also there are a lot of books that sum up the English and American Literature a lot better because they are far more detailed and less opinionated, because since it's an academic book, it should focus more on the topic itself and not what the authors deems "important". The literary epoch, for example, are practically non-existent because apparently the lack of feminism and racism (in his opinion) have created more sub-genres and now the epochs are too confusing. Ergo, that is the only summary you'll get from him. Otherwise, this book is a very short, very brief and not very detailed summary of pretty much everything that might be important in your literary studies of this subject.
vren's review against another edition
4.0
This book helped me a lot in the improvement of my knowledge about literature. It has detailed definitions and examples of literary phenomenons and is suited for people who want to start getting into the analysis of literature and text in general.
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