Author: Madeline Semmelmeyer Publisher: Laurel ISBN: 9780440205326 Category : English language Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Actually two books in one--a quick reference guide to correct usage and a step-by-step text for skill development--"The Instant English Handbook lets you express yourself with ease and accuracy in writing and speaking. Rapid answers to grammar questions and easy-to-follow instructions for avoiding embarrassing mistakes are at your fingertips in a compact, portable handbook for all your language needs.
Author: Rosemary Gelshen Publisher: ibooks ISBN: 1596875968 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 305
Book Description
Filled with fascinating information, this brief and entertaining survey features some of the major literary masterpieces of nineteenth-century England. If you ever wanted to know which Thomas Hardy novel to read first, or just wanted to hold your own at a cocktail party of English professors, this book is for you. In addition to telling you why Reverend Patrick Bronte burned his children's new red shoes, and whether George Eliot was a man or woman and more, INSTANT ENGLISH LITERATURE offers special features—including chapter summaries, lists of who's who, biographical and historical tidbits, title lists, and a host of illustrations, photos, and cartoons.
Author: Margaret Drabble Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 676
Book Description
Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this revised edition, existing entries have been fully updated and 60 new entries have been added on contemporary writers, such as Peter Acroyd,Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, and Jeanette Winterson. Detailed new appendices include a chronology of English literature, and a listing of major literary prize-winners.
Author: Student Resourc Tufts Publisher: Harper Paperbacks ISBN: 9780064610414 Category : Study Aids Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
For college and high school students, a convenient, comprehensive, and affordably priced guide to the 35 most frequently assigned books.
Author: Richard Garfinkle Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1466839589 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 425
Book Description
In his second novel Garfinkle shows again his own brand of large-scale imagination. All of an Instant is a groundbreaking SF novel that chronicles the discovery of a medium of existence outside of time--the Instant--from which one can influence all past and future history. War dominates this strange, abstract place--war among forces contending for control of all times and places.
Author: Jonathan Bate Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191614297 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis, with close readings from an extraordinary scene in King Lear to a war poem by Carol Ann Duffy, and a series of striking examples of how literary texts change as they are transmitted from writer to reader. The narrative embraces not only the major literary movements such as Romanticism and Modernism, together with the most influential authors including Chaucer, Donne, Johnson, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens and Woolf, but also little-known stories such as the identity of the first English woman poet to be honoured with a collected edition of her works. Written with the flair and passion for which Jonathan Bate has become renowned, this book is the perfect Very Short Introduction for all readers and students of the incomparable literary heritage of these islands. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author: Tory Young Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781139472203 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey of literary history or non-subject specific manuals that offer rigid guidelines on how to write essays, Studying English Literature invites students to engage with the subject's history and theory whilst at the same time offering information about reading, researching and writing about literature within the context of a university. The book is practical yet not patronizing: for example, whilst the discussion of plagiarism provides clear guidelines on how not to commit this offence, it also considers the difficulties students experience finding their own 'voice' when writing and provokes reflection on the value of originality and the concepts of adaptation, appropriation and intertextuality in literature. Above all, the book prizes the idea of argument rather than insisting upon formulaic essay plans, and gives many ways of finding something to say as you read and when you write, in chapters on Reading, Argument, Essays, Sentences and References.
Author: Madeline Semmelmeyer
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