A Student’s Guide to Literature, by R. V. Young

A Student’s Guide to Literature, by R. V. Young, ISI Books, 2000.

This study guide takes up the following questions: In a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended? Why is literature so compelling? What should we read? Literary scholar R. V. Young addresses these timely issues in this guide to Western literature and poetry. He demonstrates that literature liberates the mind from cultural and temporal provincialism by expanding our intellectual and emotional horizons. Learn how great fiction and poetry are integral to a liberal education, and visit the classic works of literature again — or for the first time.

R. V. Young is Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of English at North Carolina State University. He is the author of At War with the Word: Literary Theory and Liberal Education (ISI Books) and co-founder and joint editor of the John Donne Journal. His other books are Richard Crashaw and the Spanish Golden Age, a bilingual edition of Justus Lipsius’s Principles of Letter-Writing (with M. Thomas Hester), and Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Literature.

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