Mario Klarer is Professor of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His recent research interests focus on Mediterranean piracy and slavery. His publications include Barbary Captives (Columbia UP, 2022) and A Short Literary History of the United States (Routledge, 2014).

• FiguresPreliminary RemarksPreface to the Fourth EditionAcknowledgments1. What Is Literature? What Is a Text?Genre, Text Type, and DiscoursePrimary and Secondary SourcesParatexts2. Major Genres in Literary StudiesFictionPoetryDramaFilm3. Periods of Literature4. Theoretical Approaches to LiteratureText-Oriented ApproachesAuthor-Oriented ApproachesReader-Oriented ApproachesContext-Oriented ApproachesLiterary Critique or EvaluationFilm Theory5. Where and How to Find Secondary Literature6. How to Write a Research PaperStructuring Your Research PaperCiting Your Sources: The MLA Style Guide7. Suggestions for Further ReadingGeneral Literary TerminologyAuthors and WorksLiterary TheoryGenresLiterary HistoryHow to Write a Research PaperGlossary of Literary and Cinematic TermsReferencesAuthor and Title IndexSubject Index

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Mario Klarer is Professor of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His recent research interests focus on Mediterranean piracy and slavery. His publications include Barbary Captives (Columbia UP, 2022) and A Short Literary History of the United States (Routledge, 2014).

• FiguresPreliminary RemarksPreface to the Fourth EditionAcknowledgments1. What Is Literature? What Is a Text?Genre, Text Type, and DiscoursePrimary and Secondary SourcesParatexts2. Major Genres in Literary StudiesFictionPoetryDramaFilm3. Periods of Literature4. Theoretical Approaches to LiteratureText-Oriented ApproachesAuthor-Oriented ApproachesReader-Oriented ApproachesContext-Oriented ApproachesLiterary Critique or EvaluationFilm Theory5. Where and How to Find Secondary Literature6. How to Write a Research PaperStructuring Your Research PaperCiting Your Sources: The MLA Style Guide7. Suggestions for Further ReadingGeneral Literary TerminologyAuthors and WorksLiterary TheoryGenresLiterary HistoryHow to Write a Research PaperGlossary of Literary and Cinematic TermsReferencesAuthor and Title IndexSubject Index

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Mario Klarer is Professor of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His recent research interests focus on Mediterranean piracy and slavery. His publications include Barbary Captives (Columbia UP, 2022) and A Short Literary History of the United States (Routledge, 2014).

• FiguresPreliminary RemarksPreface to the Fourth EditionAcknowledgments1. What Is Literature? What Is a Text?Genre, Text Type, and DiscoursePrimary and Secondary SourcesParatexts2. Major Genres in Literary StudiesFictionPoetryDramaFilm3. Periods of Literature4. Theoretical Approaches to LiteratureText-Oriented ApproachesAuthor-Oriented ApproachesReader-Oriented ApproachesContext-Oriented ApproachesLiterary Critique or EvaluationFilm Theory5. Where and How to Find Secondary Literature6. How to Write a Research PaperStructuring Your Research PaperCiting Your Sources: The MLA Style Guide7. Suggestions for Further ReadingGeneral Literary TerminologyAuthors and WorksLiterary TheoryGenresLiterary HistoryHow to Write a Research PaperGlossary of Literary and Cinematic TermsReferencesAuthor and Title IndexSubject Index

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