Literature in English: How and Why

ISBN-13: 9780367228866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str.

Dominic Rainsford

Opis

Literature in English deals with the fundamental concepts of literary form and genre; the history of English-language literature from the medieval period to the present; relations between the study of literature and other disciplines; literary theory; researching a topic; and writing a paper

Spis treści

Using this book  Part 1: Beginnings  1. Good morrow  2. What is literature and who does it belong to?  3. Canons  Part 2: Form and Genre  4. Poetry  5. The thing which is not  6. Prose fiction  7. Plays and films  Part 3: Periods and Movements  8. Medieval and early modern  9. From Colonial America and Restoration England to 1900  10. From 1900 to the present  Part 4: Positions, Identities, Ideas  11. The place of literature  12. Literary theory  13. Theories and goals  Part 5: Over to You  14. Primary and secondary sources  15. Reading, research, writing  Works cited  Further reading

O autorze

Dominic Rainsford is Professor of Literature in English and Head of Department at Aarhus University, Denmark, having previously taught in Britain, Poland and the United States. His publications include Authorship, Ethics and the Reader (1997), Literature, Identity and the English Channel (2002) and many articles on Dickens. He is president of the Danish Association of English Studies and general editor of the Dickens Quarterly.