The English Literature Companion

ISBN-13: 9780230008137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str.

Julian Wolfreys

Opis

What does it mean to study English Literature? Have can you navigate and get the most from your degree? The English Literature Companion is your comprehensive introduction to, and exploration of, the discipline of English and Literary Studies. It is your advisor on key decisions, and your one-stop reference source throughout the course. It combines:
- A wide-ranging introduction to the nature, breadth and key components of the study of English Literature
- Essays by experts in the field on key topics, periods and critical approaches
- A glossary of critical terms and a chronology of literary history
- Guidance about study skills, from using your time effectively to the practical mechanics of writing essays
- Extensive signposting to wider reading and further sources of information
- Advice on key decisions taken during a degree and on subsequent career direction and further study.
Giving you the foundation and resources you need for success in English Literature, this book is essential pre-course reading and will be an invaluable reference resource throughout your degree.

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Acknowledgements Preface: How to use the book PART I: ABOUT LITERATURE Literature: Fundamental Questions Introduction; J.Wolfreys What is Literature?; B.Overton Why Study Literature?; K.Womack Your Literature Course What to Expect from your English Course; J.Wolfreys Typical Structure and Content; J.Wolfreys Literature and Language; J.Wolfreys Literature and Creative Writing; J.Cooke Comparative Literature; D.Bremm Getting the Most from your Course: J.Wolfreys Study Skills for Literature Introduction: J.Wolfreys Study Skills: C.Ringrose Writing and Presentation; J.Wolfreys PART II: LITERATURE MODULES Literature Introduction Critical Studies: an Example of a Core Module; J.Wolfreys Periods Old English Literature; P.Semper Medieval Literature; D.Griffith The Sixteenth Century; J.Fitzpatrick The Seventeenth Century; H.Adlington The Eighteenth Century; B.Overton Romanticism and Gothic; I.McCormick The Nineteenth Century and the Victorians; C.Kelley Modernism; A.Murray Forms, Genres and Other Popular Modules Tragedy; J.Wolfreys Comedy; J.Wolfreys The Novel; H.Wright Poetry; B.Overton Drama; N.Swettenham & R.J.Brocklehurst Epic; N.Wood Lyric; N.Wood Satire; N.Wood Realism; L.Phillips Fiction; L.Phillips Contemporary and Postmodern Fiction; A.Murray Gender; D.Bremm Class; N.Freeman Colonial and Postcolonial Literature; J.Ramone Subjectivity; M.Becker-Leckrone Chidren's Literature; J.Bavidge Film Studies; A.Dix Popular Fiction; J.Baetens American Literature; B.Jarvis & A.Dix Contemporary Literature; J.Wolfreys PART III: CRITICAL APPROACHES AND SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT Critical Approaches Introduction; J.Wolfreys Formalism; M.Becker-Leckrone Archetypal Criticism; D.Bremm New Criticism; M.Becker-Leckrone Bakhtin and Dialogic Criticism; K.Zbinden Feminism; R.Robbins Marxism; A.Murray Structuralism; A.Murray Psychoanalysis; B.Jarvis Deconstruction; M-D.Dick Postcolonialism; J.Ramone New Historicism; C.Ringrose Cultural Materialism; A.Murray African American Criticism; A.Dix Chicano/a Studies; J.Ramone Gay Studies and Queer Theory; H.Davies Cultural Studies; B.Jarvis Ecocriticism; J.Bavidge Postmodernism; A.Dix PART IV: KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS; R.Robbins, J.Wolfreys & K.Womack PART V: CAREER PATHWAYS Introduction; J.Wolfreys Careers for English Graduates; R.Robbins The Experience of a Degree in English; C.Bowditch Interview, Conducted by Claire Bowditch Conclusion; J.Wolfreys PART VI: LEARNING RESOURCE; J.Wolfreys Chronology List of Contributors Index.

O autorze

JULIAN WOLFREYS is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA. His teaching and research is concerned with 19th- and 20th-century British literary and cultural studies, literary theory, the poetics and politics of identity, and the idea of the city. He is the series editor of Transitions and his publications include Introducing Literary Theories (ed.), Readings: Acts of Close Reading in Literary Theory, Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory, Thinking Otherwise: Difference and Pedagogy and Literature, in Theory: Tropes, Subjectivities, Responses and Responsibilities.