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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
1. Studying literature
What is this thing called literature?
What’s the point of studying literature?
The sky is not the limit
Literature and other worlds
Politics of literature, literature of politics
Life and death
Literature and magical thinking
The ordinary and the everyday
Creative reading
Part I: Reading
2. Reading a poem
3. Reading a novel
Questions for the novel
4. Reading a short story
5. Reading a play
Prologue to reading Shakespeare
To the ancient feast
Afterwards
Part II: Thinking
6. Thinking about literature
1. Thinking about literature involves thinking about thinking.
2. Thinking about literature is thinking about everything in the world.
3. Thinking about literature allows you to think another person’s thoughts.
4. Thinking about literature can also entail not thinking.
5. Thinking about literature teases us into thought.
6. Thinking about literature is thinking about nothing.
7. Thinking about literature is virtual thinking.
8. Thinking about literature is like thinking about silent film.
9. Thinking about literature should be rigorous, exacting, disciplined, hard.
10. Thinking about literature is not thinking about any old thing.
11. Thinking about literature prompts you to think ultimate thoughts.
12. Thinking about literature is not an order.
7. Thinking critically
Part III: Writing
8. Writing an essay
9. Creative writing: the impossible
10. Writing short fiction
Appendix: the wordbook
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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