What Maisie Knew: A Study Guide
What Maisie Knew: A Study Guide includes chapter summaries with critical commentaries, a review of themes and stylistic techniques. detailed textual analysis, historical and literary contexts and a range of modern and historical critical approaches.
In this Study Guide, readers are provided with a detailed textual analysis of What Maisie Knew. The guide supports the reader in building insight and understanding of the writer's style, themes and concerns. It will support students in extending their knowledge and engaging with the text. The guide provides a detailed analysis and wider critical perspectives. Students can appreciate diverse interpretations of the text and develop their own critical thinking.
Throughout the guide, the reader is presented with various critical approaches to enable the exploration of style, structure, narrative voice and themes within the work. It provides careful support and a framework for reflection which challenges readers to establish their own interpretations and inform wider reading. An additional section on the writer's life and work and an outline of major critical views places the text within the wider contexts of reception and production. This guide offers students and general readers alike an account of the ways in which works have been received by academics, critical reviewers and the public.
About the Author
Thérèse Kenney is a teacher, examiner and moderator in English Literature and English Language and Literature. She is a postgraduate of Cambridge University and the Open University with an MA in Literature. She has written critical guides for a range of poetry, prose and drama texts.
What Maisie Knew: A Study Guide includes chapter summaries with critical commentaries, a review of themes and stylistic techniques. detailed textual analysis, historical and literary contexts and a range of modern and historical critical approaches.
In this Study Guide, readers are provided with a detailed textual analysis of What Maisie Knew. The guide supports the reader in building insight and understanding of the writer's style, themes and concerns. It will support students in extending their knowledge and engaging with the text. The guide provides a detailed analysis and wider critical perspectives. Students can appreciate diverse interpretations of the text and develop their own critical thinking.
Throughout the guide, the reader is presented with various critical approaches to enable the exploration of style, structure, narrative voice and themes within the work. It provides careful support and a framework for reflection which challenges readers to establish their own interpretations and inform wider reading. An additional section on the writer's life and work and an outline of major critical views places the text within the wider contexts of reception and production. This guide offers students and general readers alike an account of the ways in which works have been received by academics, critical reviewers and the public.
About the Author
Thérèse Kenney is a teacher, examiner and moderator in English Literature and English Language and Literature. She is a postgraduate of Cambridge University and the Open University with an MA in Literature. She has written critical guides for a range of poetry, prose and drama texts.
