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A review by eskathar
The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by D.K. Publishing
5.0
I absolutely loved this one.
It took me too long to read in my laziness though.
This book tries to give you a general yet also comprehensive idea of human literature since its inception in history to our contemporary era.
The division is done first based on the time period, dividing human history into 7. Next, a few literary works are selected as representatives of each period, usually they tend to vary in both location, genre, and themes, in order to give as complete a picture of the literature of each time period.
The only negative to be said is that the selection still comes out as too western in the end. but maybe that is for a good reason? And if it isn't, we cannot expect too much in this area due to the complexity of the task at hand.
This book made me want to take a chronological approach to reading literature and try to do it in a similar fashion to how this book selects literary works, if not go through the exact same selection.
I recommend this to absolutely everyone. There is nothing like getting an idea about the literary products of humanity as a species over 4000 years and more.
It took me too long to read in my laziness though.
This book tries to give you a general yet also comprehensive idea of human literature since its inception in history to our contemporary era.
The division is done first based on the time period, dividing human history into 7. Next, a few literary works are selected as representatives of each period, usually they tend to vary in both location, genre, and themes, in order to give as complete a picture of the literature of each time period.
The only negative to be said is that the selection still comes out as too western in the end. but maybe that is for a good reason? And if it isn't, we cannot expect too much in this area due to the complexity of the task at hand.
This book made me want to take a chronological approach to reading literature and try to do it in a similar fashion to how this book selects literary works, if not go through the exact same selection.
I recommend this to absolutely everyone. There is nothing like getting an idea about the literary products of humanity as a species over 4000 years and more.