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The average rating for Once Upon a Time, Volume 1 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.has a rating of 4 stars

Review # 1 was written on 2008-10-20 00:00:00
2010was given a rating of 3 stars Siegel Regis
A very comprehensive look at class, historical from Medieval times through the twentieth century. Day bases his definitions of class on Karl Marx's work and although the literature he explores is British (English specifically), his ideas can be universal'as Day says himself: "I trace the rise of exchange [trade; the system of money] and its connection with English literature because it was in England that the development of capitalism first took place and because Marx based his analysis of class on English society. This does not mean, however, that my observations cannot be applied to other literatures since we now live in a world of global capitalism" (2). While Marx can only be applied to British literature, but British literature can be applied to the whole world is not made clear in the text. Further, most of his observations is in British (especially), or European politics, so there can be some stretch of trying to apply these thoughts to what was happening in America and other parts of the world during the nineteenth Century and the challenge against monarchism. Throughout, he questions the term class itself, as it is a relatively new word. Status, he shows and explains, is more apt. Class as a term does not come about the nineteenth century, as a "consequence of the attempt to understand some of the major upheavals of the period 1780-1848" with the French Revolution, population explosion, and the Industrial Revolution (113). Regardless of its British and European exclusivity, Class (The New Critical Idiom) is an exhaustive text on class studies. And because of the literature is based in England, it offers a great introduction to British working-class literature.
Review # 2 was written on 2018-01-13 00:00:00
2010was given a rating of 5 stars Doris Ciesinski
1 نویسنده راهبردی قیاسی و مثالی برای آموزشِ خوانشِ ادبیات جهان در پیش می‌گیرد؛ هر فصل با یک تِم مشخص (حماسه، شعر، نمایش‌نامه، رمان و ...) موضوعِ مشخصی را بیان می‌کند. 2 ضعف کتاب، بیانِ مقصودش با استفاده از آثار ادبی و تماماً حول موارد مثال‌زده‌شده است؛ به‌گونه‌ای که به‌سختی می‌توان شیرۀ خالص و سودمندی از کتاب به ذهن داد؛ مثال‌ها کامل و خوب بررسی می‌شوند، اما برای حوزه‌های ناشناخته کمی دشوار می‌نماید که با این کتاب راهبرد نگاهِ درست به آثار ادبی سایر ملل را یافت. 3 استفادۀ نویسنده از آثار کمتر شناخته‌شده کتاب را خواندنی‌تر کرد؛ علاوه بر اینکه قیاس این موارد ناشناخته تا حدی با آثار مشهورتر و ارائۀ اطلاعاتی مفید دربارۀ آنها موجب می‌شود مخاطبِ کتاب هم به مطالعۀ آثار ترغیب شود، هم شناخت بهتری از «مجموعۀ» ادبیات جهان بیابد که البته هدف کتاب نیز تاحدی همین است. 4 به گفتۀ خود نویسنده، تلاشش ارائۀ نقشه‌ای برای مخاطب ناآشنا با ادبیات جهان بوده تا او را به مسیر هدفمند و مناسب آثار ادبی پیش ببرد تا بتواند آثاری از تمامی جهان بخواند. خب تاحدی به این هدف رسیده، کمترین کاربردِ کتاب، شناساندن ادبیات ملل مختلف به مخاطب و ارائۀ توضیحات و تفاسیری به آنها بوده تا خواننده بداند چه آثاری برای شروع مطالعۀ ادبیاتِ یک فرهنگ مناسب‌تر هستند.


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