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PROLOGUE: CHANGING 'ENGLISH' NOW Crossing borders, establishing boundaries. Taking responsibility: referencing and plagiarism. Studying English Literature and Language. Rob Pope casts a v… Altro …

PROLOGUE: CHANGING 'ENGLISH' NOW Crossing borders, establishing boundaries. Taking responsibility: referencing and plagiarism. Studying English Literature and Language. Rob Pope casts a very wide net and his - and our - reward is an amazing catch.". The Nile on eBay   FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE   Studying English Literature and Language by Rob Pope This handbook designed specifically to support students and teachers of English language, literature and culture by combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology. FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description Studying English Literature and Language: An Introduction and Companion is designed to support students studying on English Literature and Language degrees. 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. Formerly known as The English Studies Book, this new edition has been updated and revised throughout. Studying English Literature and Language: analyses local and global varieties of the English language in a range of media and discourses, including news, advertising, text messaging, rap, pop and street art includes fresh sections on the essential skills and study strategies needed to complete a degree in English--from close reading, research and referencing to full guidelines and tips on essay-writing, participating in seminars, presentation and revision covers the key theoretical positions and practical approaches taken by scholars in the field, including practical criticism, psychoanalysis, cultural materialism and new eclectic strands of thought. addresses crucial topics and terms such as accents and dialects, the canon, character and characterisation, discourse analysis, narratives in history, periodisation, realism, versification and intertextuality features extensive revisions and updates to the texts in the anthology, representing all the major genres from early elegy and novel to contemporary performance and flash fiction, and representing writers as diverse as Aphra Behn, Emily Dickinson, J.M. Coetzee, Angela Carter, Russell Hoban. Adrienne Rich and Arundhati Roy provides an authoritative guide to the life skills, further study options and career pathways open to graduates of the subject is supported by a Companion Website featuring a wide selection of additional anthology texts, extended interpretations of poetry, prose fiction, plays and critical essays, suggestions for further online research and a comprehensive glossary of grammatical terms. Studying English Literature and Language is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference for anyone interested in the study of English language, literature and culture. Notes 3rd edition. Author Biography Rob Pope is Professor of English Studies at Oxford Brookes University and a National Teaching Fellow. Table of Contents PROLOGUE: CHANGING 'ENGLISH' NOW Crossing borders, establishing boundaries Texts in contexts: literature in historySeeing through theoryEnglish Literature and Creative WritingEnglish Language TeachingTechnologising the subject: actual and virtual communities Forewords! Some propositions and provocationsPART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH STUDIESPreview1.1 Which 'Englishes'?One English language, literature, culture – or many historicallygeographicallysociallyby mediumSummary: one and many1.2 'Doing English' – ten essential actions |Getting your bearings Turning up, taking part: lectures and seminarsTaking and making notesClose reading – wide reading Library, web, 'home' – an ongoing cycle Taking responsibility: referencing and plagiarismWriting an essay to make a markDoing a presentation to prompt a responseRevision – preparing to take an examSeriously enjoy studying English! 1.3 Fields of study: a preliminary mappingLanguageLiteratureCulture, communication and media Summary: keeping on course and making your own wayPART TWO: CRITICAL & CREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATIONPreview2.1 Initial analysis: how to approach a textOpening moves: Notice—Pattern—Contrast—FeelingCore questions: What, Who, When. Where, How, Why and What if? Worked and played example: William Blake's 'London' 2.2 Full interpretation: informed reading, adventurous writingInterpretative framework and analytical checklist Poetry + Prose fiction + Play Script +Critical essay +2.3 Longer projects: lines of enquiry and sample study patternsFrom vague idea to viable projectWorking and playing from the AnthologyFurther strategies for critical-creative writing2.4 Overview of textual activities as learning strategies More kinds of critical-creative writingPART THREE: THEORETICAL POSITIONS, PRACTICAL APPROACHESPreview3.1 Theory in Practice – a working model to play with3.2 Words on the page – Practical Criticism and (old) New Criticism3.3 Devices and effects – Formalism into Functionalism3.4 Mind and person – Psychological approaches3.5 Class and community – Marxism, Cultural Materialism and New Historicism3.6 Gender and sexuality – Feminism, Masculinity and Queer theory3.7 Relativities – Poststructuralism and Postmodernism . . .3.8 Ethnicities – Postcolonialism and Multiculturalism3.9 The new Eclecticism? Ethics, Aesthetics, Ecology . . .PART FOUR: KEY TERMS, CORE TOPICS PART FIVE: ANTHOLOGYPreview 5.1 Poetries5.1.1 Early English verses Old English lament (anon.) 'Wulf and Eadwacer' Medieval lyric (anon.), 'Maiden in the mor lay'Geoffrey Chaucer, The General Prologue Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'They flee from me'5.1.2 Sonnets by various handsWilliam Shakespeare, 'My mistress' eyes' (Sonnet 130)John Milton, 'When I consider how my light is spent' Patience Agbabi, 'Problem Pages' (responses to Shakespeare's and Milton's sonnets)Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'The Windhover – To Christ our Lord'Rupert Brooke, 'The Soldier'; with Winston Churchill Ursula Fanthorpe, 'Knowing about Sonnets' (response to Brooke) 5.1.3 Heroics and mock-heroicsJohn Milton, Paradise LostAlexander Pope, The Rape of the LockElizabeth Hands, 'A Poem . . . by a Servant Maid'George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Vision of Judgement 5.1.4 Poetry that answers back Robyn Bolam, 'Gruoch' (Lady Macbeth) Tom Leonard, 'This is thi six a clock news'Chan Wei Meng, 'I spik Inglissh'Mario Petrucci, 'The Complete Letter Guide', 'Mutations', 'Reflections', 'Trench' 5.1.5 Performing poetry, singing cultureSeminole chants: 'Song for the Dying'; 'Song for Bringing a Child into the World' Patience Agbabi, 'The Word'Queen, 'Bohemian Rhapsody'πo, '7 daiz'The Flobots, 'No Handlebars'Philip Gross, 'Severn Song'5.2 Proses5.2.1 Short stories, fables and flash fiction (complete) Rudyard Kipling, The Story of Muhammad DinDon Barthelme, The Death of Edward Lear Margaret Atwood, Happy EndingsAngela Carter, The WerewolfAmy Tan, 'Feathers from a thousand li away' Dave Eggers, 'What the Water Feels Like to the Fishes'5.2.2 Slave narratives by name Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or The Royal SlaveDaniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe ('I call him Friday') Geoff Holdsworth, 'I call him Tuesday Afternoon'J.M. Coetzee, Foe5.2.3 Romance revisited Charlotte Brontë, Jane EyreJean Rhys, Wide Sargasso SeaOscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian GrayWill Self, Dorian5.2.4 Science and Fantasy Fiction – genre and genderPhillip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of DarknessRussell Hoban, Riddley Walker Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens 5.2.5 War on – of – Terror Ian McEwan, 'Only love and then oblivion', The GuardianArundhati Roy, 'The Algebra of Infinite Justice', The GuardianNick Barton, Voices from the Battlefields of Afghanistan – from the airSimon Panter, Voices from the Battlefields of Afghanistan – on the ground5.2.6 Media messages and street textsNews: headlines, captions, intros, outros Personal and not-so-personal ads Cash-machine and check-out exchangesAnswer-phone message, call-centre scriptStreet: signs, graffiti, word-art5.3 Voices5.3.1 Dramatising 'English' in Education Student talk amongst friends (transcript) Willy Russell, Educating RitaLloyd Jones, Mr Pip Jeremy Jacobson, 'The Post-Modern Lecture'5.3.2 Novel voices Jane Austen, Pride and PrejudiceAmos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke ha ha haJames Kelman, How late it was, how late 5.3.3 Voice—play, dream—drama Dylan Thomas, Under Milk WoodSamuel Beckett, Not IAthol Fugard, Boesman and LenaMartin McDonagh, The PillowmanAlice Oswald, Dart 5.3.4 'I'dentity in the balance – selves and othersJohn Clare, 'I am – yet what I am . . .' Emily Dickinson, 'I'm Nobody'Adrienne Rich, 'Dialogue'Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library 5.4 Crossings 5.4.1 Daffodils?William Wordsworth, 'I wandered lonely as a cloud'Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere JournalsLynn Peters, 'Why Dorothy Wordsworth is Not as Famous as her Brother'Heineken refreshes the poets other beers can't reach5.4.2 Mapping JourneysHarry Beck, first Map of the London Underground (1931) Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small IslandCaryl Phillips, Crossing the RiverBilly Marshall-Stoneking, 'Passage'Kathleen Jamie, 'Pathologies – A startling tour of our bodies'5.4.3 Translations / TransformationsBrian Friel, TranslationsJo Shapcott and Rainer Maria Rilke, 'Roses' (English and French) W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz5.4.4 Versions of ag, Taylor & Francis LTD<

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[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Taylor & Francis Ltd], Neuware - Studying English Literature and Language is unique in offering both an introduction and a companion for students taking English Literature and Language degrees. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, this is a freshly recast version of the highly acclaimed The English Studies Book. This third edition features:fresh sections on the essential skills and study strategies needed to complete a degree in English-from close reading, research and referencing to full guidelines and tips on essay-writing, participating in seminars, presentations and revision an authoritative guide to the life skills, further study options and career pathways open to graduates of the subject updated introductions to the major theoretical positions and approaches taken by scholars in the field, from earlier twentieth century practical criticism to the latest global and ecological perspectivesextensive entries on key terms such as 'author, 'genre', 'narrative' and 'translation' widely current in debates across language, literature and culturecoverage of both local and global varieties of the English language in a range of media and discourses, including news, advertising, text messaging, rap, pop and street art an expansive anthology representing genres and discourses from early elegy and novel to contemporary performance, flash fiction, including writers as diverse as Aphra Behn, Emily Dickinson, J.M. Coetzee, Angela Carter, Russell Hoban, Adrienne Rich and Arundhati Roy a comprehensive, regularly updated companion website supplying further information and activities, sample analyses and a wealth of stimulating and reliable links to further online resources. Studying English Literature and Language is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference for anyone interested in the study of English language, literature and culture., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 244x191x27 mm, 448, [GW: 870g], Banküberweisung, Offene Rechnung, Kreditkarte, PayPal, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten), Internationaler Versand<

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[EAN: 9780415498760], Neubuch, [SC: 35.55], [PU: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan 2012], Neuware - Studying English Literature and Language is unique in offering both an introduction and a companion for students taking English Literature and Language degrees. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, this is a freshly recast version of the highly acclaimed The English Studies Book. This third edition features:fresh sections on the essential skills and study strategies needed to complete a degree in English-from close reading, research and referencing to full guidelines and tips on essay-writing, participating in seminars, presentations and revision an authoritative guide to the life skills, further study options and career pathways open to graduates of the subject updated introductions to the major theoretical positions and approaches taken by scholars in the field, from earlier twentieth century practical criticism to the latest global and ecological perspectivesextensive entries on key terms such as 'author, 'genre', 'narrative' and 'translation' widely current in debates across language, literature and culturecoverage of both local and global varieties of the English language in a range of media and discourses, including news, advertising, text messaging, rap, pop and street art an expansive anthology representing genres and discourses from early elegy and novel to contemporary performance, flash fiction, including writers as diverse as Aphra Behn, Emily Dickinson, J.M. Coetzee, Angela Carter, Russell Hoban, Adrienne Rich and Arundhati Roy a comprehensive, regularly updated companion website supplying further information and activities, sample analyses and a wealth of stimulating and reliable links to further online resources. Studying English Literature and Language is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference for anyone interested in the study of English language, literature and culture., Books<

2012, ISBN: 0415498767

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[EAN: 9780415498760], Neubuch, [SC: 0.0], [PU: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan 2012], Neuware - Studying English Literature and Language is unique in offering both an introduction and a companion for students taking English Literature and Language degrees. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, this is a freshly recast version of the highly acclaimed The English Studies Book. This third edition features:fresh sections on the essential skills and study strategies needed to complete a degree in English-from close reading, research and referencing to full guidelines and tips on essay-writing, participating in seminars, presentations and revision an authoritative guide to the life skills, further study options and career pathways open to graduates of the subject updated introductions to the major theoretical positions and approaches taken by scholars in the field, from earlier twentieth century practical criticism to the latest global and ecological perspectivesextensive entries on key terms such as 'author, 'genre', 'narrative' and 'translation' widely current in debates across language, literature and culturecoverage of both local and global varieties of the English language in a range of media and discourses, including news, advertising, text messaging, rap, pop and street art an expansive anthology representing genres and discourses from early elegy and novel to contemporary performance, flash fiction, including writers as diverse as Aphra Behn, Emily Dickinson, J.M. Coetzee, Angela Carter, Russell Hoban, Adrienne Rich and Arundhati Roy a comprehensive, regularly updated companion website supplying further information and activities, sample analyses and a wealth of stimulating and reliable links to further online resources. Studying English Literature and Language is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference for anyone interested in the study of English language, literature and culture., Books<

ISBN: 9780415498760

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Paperback / softback. New. Studying English Literature and Language is unique in offering both an introduction and a companion for students taking English Literature and Language degrees. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, this is a freshly recast version of the highly acclaimed The English Studies Book. This third edition features: fresh sections on the essential skills and study strategies needed to complete a degree in English-from close reading, research and referencing to full guidelines and tips on essay-writing, participating in seminars, presentations and revision an authoritative guide to the life skills, further study options and career pathways open to graduates of the subject updated introductions to the major theoretical positions and approaches taken by scholars in the field, from earlier twentieth century practical criticism to the latest global and ecological perspectives extensive entries on key terms such as 'author, 'genre', 'narrative' and 'translation' widely current in debates across language, literature and culture coverage of both local and global varieties of the English language in a range of media and discourses, including news, advertising, text messaging, rap, pop and street art an expansive anthology representing genres and discourses from early elegy and novel to contemporary performance, flash fiction, including writers as diverse as Aphra Behn, Emily Dickinson, J.M. Coetzee, Angela Carter, Russell Hoban, Adrienne Rich and Arundhati Roy a comprehensive, regularly updated companion website supplying further information and activities, sample analyses and a wealth of stimulating and reliable links to further online resources. Studying English Literature and Language is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference for anyone interested in the study of English language, literature and culture., 6<