Buku ini membahas dua macam pendekatan terhadap karya sastra. Pertama, pendekatan ekstrinsik, yakni pendekatan yang mengaitkan karya sastra dengan bidang lain (psikologi, masyarakat, dan biografi). Kedua, pendekatan intrinsik, yakni pendekatan yang mengkhususkan diri pada unsur-unsur kritik sastra, teori sastra, sejarah sastram sastra nasional, sastra perbandingan, dan lainnya.
Karana is the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year she waited for a ship to rescue her. But while she waited, she kept herself alive by building shelter, making weapons, finding food, and fighting her enemies, the wild dogs. Hers is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery
The God of Small Things explores the tragic fate of a family which 'tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how." -- Christina Patterson, Observer
After four years' separation, Alison had been forced to return to her husband Dirk du Bois; blackmailed by his threat to take their little son away from her if she didn't agree. But it was clear that Dirk hated her now, and was as indifferent to her as he had been when they were first married - so why did he insist that she stayed with him? For Yvette Paulson, who had broken up the marriage, wa…