Just like it sounds, there is the review of a book I must do for an exam. But, I'm not really skilled at reviewing, so I thought I would ask for some help. The book is Jeanette Winterson's "The Passion". From where do I start reviewing a book? I mean, content-wise, character-wise, plot-wise and everything-else-wide...? How do I extract all these kinda contents and how do I treat them? And what about intertextual material? I mean, like when an author quotes another author/piece of work or embeds myths and the like whithin the text...how do I notice there is this kinda material inside a book and how do I extract such contents? How do I treat them? It's my very first time (never did something like this at school/university and never took courses which explain how to do so - Italian school/university sucks when it comes down to teach how do this kinda things; it's all theory, theory, theory and what someone else wrote on someone else...). Please, please help! I'm really at a loss. Oh, and if this isn't the right forum to ask so, please, forgive me.
this entire section is pretty much about reviews and reviewing. start at the top by cogito and read the posts all through this section. cog's are full of great advice.
