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Louis de Bernières: The Essential Guide (Vintage Living Texts, 7) - Softcover

Buch 4 von 14: Vintage Living Texts

Noakes, Jonathan; Reynolds, Margaret

 
9780099437574: Louis de Bernières: The Essential Guide (Vintage Living Texts, 7)

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In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Louis de Bernières. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Louis de Bernières, relating specifically to the texts under discussion.

This guide will deal with de Bernières' themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will be accompanied with likely exam questions, and contexts and comparisons - as well as providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for all four novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complimentary and comparative reading, extracts from reviews, a biography, a bibliography and a glossary of literary terms.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Margaret Reynolds is a writer, academic, critic and broadcaster. Her critical edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize. Other books include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion, Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology (with Angela Leighton) and a series of study guides on contemporary writers, Vintage Living Texts. She is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's long running 'Adventures in Poetry'.

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This exciting new series provides readers with an introduction to some of the best works in contemporary literature. Each is a guide to the works of the subject author, his or her themes, genre and narrative technique.
Each guide features an exclusive interview with the author giving valuable insights into their writing. The guide also offers an introduction to their themes and methods as well as questions for essays and discussion, contextual materials, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, a picture essay, extracts from reviews, a biography, bibliography, reading list of literary criticism and a glossary of literary terms.
Included are detailed reading plans for Captain Corelli's Mandolin, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman, Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord and The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts.

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In Vintage Living Texts, students, teachers, and general readers will find essential guides to some of the most exciting works in contemporary literature. Each guide focuses on three or four works by a major novelist; the series is unique in that it offers exclusive in depth interviews with the authors relating specifically to the texts under discussion. Readers are introduced to the writers themes, genres, and narrative techniques, and a close reading of the guides provides a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Each of these outstanding books is complete with detailed reading plans for the novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative readings, extracts from reviews, and a biography, bibliography, and glossary of literary terms.

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