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Mar 5, 2020 · By considering previous incarnations of medievalism and romanticism in British history as well as Tolkien’s own participation in antiquarianism and constructions of Britishness, this chapter suggests that Led Zeppelin’s allusions to Tolkien’s literature rely on cultural memory to actively participate in a dialogue of urban criticism and a ...
The Routledge history of literature in English: Britain and Ireland/Ronald Carter and John McRae.—2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. English literature—History and criticism. 2. Great Britain—Intellectual life. 3. Ireland—Intellectual life. 4. English language—History. I. McRae, John. II. Title. PR83.C28 2001
concentrating on some fundamental questions about literature and its contexts: i. Does literature refer to or correspond to something outside texts? What sort of ‘truth’ does literature aim towards? ii. What mental process—the writer’s or reader’s—contributes to the production of literary texts? iii. To what extent are texts ...
English Literature in Context. Comprehensive and accessible, this textbook supports the study of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present, and is designed as a main resource for all English Literature students.
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Editor’s note
- The entries fall into the following categories
- Some of the wider or less obvious topics which receive entries
- Entries
Michael Abbott Robert Ackerman James Aikens Margaret Allen Susan Ang Stephen M. Archer Marie-Louise Ayres Christopher Baldick Cameron Bardrick Gillian Beer Alan Bell Misha Berson Delys Bird Jeremy Black M. H. Black Alison Blair-Underwood Paul Bongiorno John L. Bradley Andrea Brady Andrew Brown Frances Bzowski Jo-Anne Carty Paul Chipchase Jean Choth...
The following contributors deserve a special mention for their substantial work on this new edition: Andrea Brady, Christopher Innes, Neil Lazarus, Daniel Lea, David Madden, Tim Middleton, Stuart Murray, Patrick O’Donnell, John Thieme, Elizabeth Webby and Don B. Wilmeth. I have enjoyed unerring support, advice and encouragement from the following e...
Since the first edition of this Cambridge Guide was published it has sometimes seemed that the priorities of academics working in the various (and expanding) fields of literary study have not always corresponded with the priorities of non-academic enthusiasts: those so-called ‘ordinary’ or ‘general’ readers. In a practical sense, for an editor of a...
This edition has been revised and expanded with the central aim of previous editions in mind: to provide a handy reference guide to the literature in English produced by all the various English-speaking cultures throughout the world. It embraces literature from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, New Zealand, the South Pacific and the ...
Writers. This includes not just poets, novelists and playwrights but also those ‘non-literary’ authors who were an important influence on the literary culture of their age, including: theologians, philoso-phers, economists, naturalists, scientists, essayists, critics and historians. Individual plays, poems, novels and other works. Generous coverage...
Arthurian literature Baconian heresy Bible in English, The bluestocking Booker Prize boys’ companies canon children’s literature Cockney School, The cognitive poetics include dialogic/dialogism dub poetry dumb show English dictionaries English language estates satire ethical criticism expressionism feminist criticism genre fiction Condition of Engl...
Entries are listed in alphabetical word-by-word order. Entries on people come before those on works when names and titles are the same. Headings for writers, movements, literary terms, and so on, appear in bold face. Headings for titles of books and magazines in bold face italics. The appearance of small capitals or small italic capitals in the cou...
Its meaning is often different from the meanings of its parts. Compare the meanings of the verbs get on and run away in (a) and (b) below. You can easily guess their meanings in (a) but in (b) they have special meanings. (a) She got on at Agra when the bus stopped for breakfast.
What does the verb ramble mean? There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb ramble . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
