The English Studies Book: An Introduction to Language, Literature and Culture

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Routledge, 2005 M10 5 - 448 páginas
The English Studies Book is uniquely designed to support students and teachers working across the full range of language, literature and culture. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, it has rapidly established itself as a core text on a wide variety of degree programmes nationally and internationally.
Revised and updated throughout, features of the second edition include:
* a new prologue addressing changes and challenges in English Studies
* substantial entries on over 100 key critical and theoretical terms, from 'absence' and 'author' to 'text' and 'versification' - with new entries on 'creative writing', 'travel writing' and 'translation'
* practical introductions to all the major theoretical approaches, with new sections on aesthetics, ethics, ecology and sexuality
* a rich anthology of literary and related texts from Anglo-Saxon to Afro-Caribbean, with fresh selections representing the sonnet, haiku, slave narratives and science fiction, and with additional texts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Darwin, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Amy Tan and others
* handy frameworks and checklists for close reading, research, essay writing and other textual activities, including use of the Internet.
 

Contenido

What the book is about and how to use it
1
CHANGE AND CHALLENGE TODAY
5
INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH STUDIES
13
THEORETICAL POSITIONS AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES
73
COMMON TOPICS
167
TEXTUAL ACTIVITIES AND LEARNING STRATEGIES
265
ANTHOLOGY OF SAMPLE TEXTS
281
GLOSSARY OF GRAMMATICAL AND LINGUISTIC TERMS
367
APPENDICES
389
Bibliography
399
Relevant journals and useful addresses
410
Index
411
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Rob Pope is Professor of English Studies at Oxford Brookes University and a National Teaching Fellow.

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