The English studies book

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The English studies book

Rob Pope

Routledge, 1998

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-404) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780415128667

内容説明

The English Studies Book is revolutionary in scope and design. It combines a critical dictionary, anthology and study guide and is designed specifically for students studying English Language and/or Literature at colleges and universities. Interdisciplinary in approach and highly flexible in its range of applications, this book provides students and teachers with a text which supports learning and teaching across the whole range of introductory courses in English language, literature and culture. Key features: * Entries on over 100 common critical, theoretical and linguistic terms, each one including a definition, critical application, activities, discussion and further reading * An anthology of diverse and provocative texts representing non-literary and modern media texts as well as poetry, prose and drama * Introductions to the major theoretical positions and practical guidance on how to apply them * An historical survey of 'English' as a university and college subject, including an overview of present practices and future prospects * A supporting website at Oxford Brookes, linked to the Routledge website

目次

  • List of Figures Preface and acknowledgements What the book is about and how to use it Part one INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH STUDIES 1.0 Preview 1.1 Which 'Englishes'? 1.2 One English Language, literature, culture - or many? 1.3 Summary: one and many 1.4 Activities, reading 1.5 How studied? 1.6 Summary: pasts, presents and futures 1.7 Activities, discussion, reading 1.8 Fields of Study 1.9 Summary: keeping on course and making your own way 1.10 Activities, reading Part two THEORETICAL POSITIONS AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES 2.0 Preview 2.1 Getting some initial bearings 2.2 Theory in practice - a working model 2.3 Practical criticism and (old) new criticism 2.4 Formalism into functionalism 2.5 Psychological approaches 2.6 Marxism, cultural materialism and new historicism 2.7 Feminism and gender studies 2.8 Poststructuralism and postmodernism 2.9 Postcolonialism and multiculturalism 2.10 Developing positions and future prospects Part three COMMON TOPICS Preview Absence and presence, gaps and silences, centres and margins Accent and dialect Addresser, address, addressee Aesthetics and pleasure, art and beauty Author and authority Auto/biography and life-writing: self and other Bibles, holy books and myths Canon and classic Character and characterisation Comedy and tragedy, carnival and the absurd Difference and similarity, preference and re/valuation Discourse and discourse analysis Drama and theatre, film and TV Foreground, background and point of view Genre and kinds of texts Image, imagery and imagination Narrative in hi/story, novel, news and film Poetry and word-play Realism and representation: fiction, fact, faction and metafiction Speech and conversation, monologue and dialogue Standards and standardisation, varieties and variation Subject and agent, role and identity Text, context and intertextuality Versification: stress, rhythm, metre and rhyme Writing and reading, response and rewriting Your own additions and modifications Part four TEXTUAL ACTIVITIES AND LEARNING STRATEGIES 4.0 Preview 4.1 Overview of textual activities 4.2 Frameworks and checklists for close reading 4.3 Writing and research from essays to the Internet 4.4 Alternative modes of critical and creative writing 4.5 What's (not) in a name? changing courses 4.6 Making anthologies and firing 'canons' yourself Part five ANTHOLOGY OF SAMPLE TEXTS Features 116 text examples, among them: An Anglo-Saxon poem
  • Renaissance lyric and sonnet
  • heroic and mock-heroic verse from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries
  • poetry from W.B. Yeats, Judith Kazantsis, Adrienne Rich, Tony Harrison
  • the life-writing of Janet Frame
  • slave narratives and romances of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries
  • post-colonial tales from Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad and Zora Neale Thurston
  • news stories from national dailies
  • a case study from Freud
  • intertextual clusters featuring versions of `Humpty Dumpty', the `daffodils' of William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Lynn Peters and Heineken
  • `versions of age' from Shakespeare to a skincare advert
  • depictions of death
  • visions of England at war. Part six GLOSSARY OF COMMON GRAMMATICAL AND LINGUISTIC TERMS Appendices A Maps of Britain and of the world B A chronology of language and literature, culture, communication and the media C English and or as other educational subjects Bibliography Relevant journals and useful addresses Index
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780415128674

内容説明

The English Studies Handbook is a combination of critical dictionary, anthology, workbook and study guide. It is designed primarily for students studying English Language and/or Literature at colleges and universities. Inter-disciplinary in approach and highly flexible in its range of applications, it provides students and teachers with a text adaptable enough to support learning and teaching the whole range of introductory courses in English language, literature and culture. Features: * contains 100 common critical, theoretical and linguistic terms * each entry is extensively cross-referenced, and includes a definition, critical historical application, activities, cues for discussion and notes for further reading * includes numerous examples from a wide range of texts: contemporary and classic, literary and otherwise. Each extract is contextualised and cross-referenced to items in the body of the book * introduces the historical, geographical, cultural and social complexities of 'English' and explores its study as a college and university subject * introduces the major theoretical positions and provides practical approaches to the subject * contains maps and a linguistic, literary and cultural chronology of 'Englishes' Benefits: * has a flexible structure suitable for a variety of courses and classroom contexts * introduces students to a wide range of literary and non-literary texts * can be used as a classroom text or as an aid to independent study * provides an overview of current materials and strategies for teaching and learning.

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