Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult‎.‎ We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what ‎'‎genre‎'‎‎,‎ ‎'‎style‎'‎ and ‎'‎narrative‎'‎ mean‎,‎ but do we really understand them fully and how they can enrich our reading experience‎?‎ How should we approach the works of great writers such as William Shakespeare‎,‎ T‎.‎S‎.‎ Eliot‎,‎ Charles Dickens and Jane Austen‎?‎ And what can we hope to learn from apparently difficult ideas such as ‎'‎hermeneutics‎'‎‎,‎ ‎'‎affective fallacy‎'‎ and ‎'‎bricolage‎'‎‎?‎ 50 Literature Ideas you Really Need to Know is the essential guide to all the important forms‎,‎ concepts‎,‎ themes and movements in literature‎.‎ It provides a clear‎,‎ opinionated and thorough overview of theories about the nature of language and meaning‎,‎ and outlines the thinking behind key literary concepts such as postmodernism‎,‎ semiology‎,‎ postcolonialism and structuralism‎.‎ Best‎-selling author and critic John Sutherland offers a fresh and challenging overview of literary ideas and theories‎,‎ from the apparently familiar to the decidedly unfamiliar‎.‎ Packed with insights and examples from both classic and popular works‎,‎ it is a book that will delight anyone who has ever been mystified by literary jargon and wants to gain a deeper‎,‎ more thorough enjoyment of reading and writing‎.‎