Download or read book A Student's Guide to Literature written by R. V. Young and published by ISI Books. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 critic 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 more than that, learn to love the classic works of literature again—or for the first time.