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• think about the role of language in literature • establish initial ideas about representation in literary texts. 1.1 Introduction: the elements of literary study Your A Level English Literature course will bring you into contact with many of the well-known writers and great ideas of history and contemporary culture. It will
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ENGLISH LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION. Timothy H. Wilson. An introduction to the study of English Literature, including discussions of: how to define "literature", why study literature?, how to approach the great books, and English literary periods. See full PDF.
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English Literature in Context Comprehensiveandaccessible, thistextbook supports thestudy ofEnglishliterature from the Middle Ages to the present, and is designed as a main resource for all English Literature students. The book is carefully structured for undergraduate use, with a rich range of illustrations and textboxes that enhance and ...
- 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...
history of the English-language literature of Britain and Ireland from the beginnings of the English language in Anglo-Saxon times through to the present, when that language, or what has become of it, is not just the language of some islands off the coasts of the European continent but has become a lingua franca for the world, and a literary ...
The Nature of Literature. find that there are certain principles of word-arrangement. common to all works that the world has received as good literature, just as there are certain principles of sound arrangement common to all true music, we shall then be. able to say w7ith confidence that literature is the product of.
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