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The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies - Softcover

Whitla, William

 
9781405183758: The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1405183756 ISBN 13: 9781405183758
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

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The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies is a comprehensive textbook, providing essential practical and analytical reading and writing skills for literature students at all levels.

With advice and information on fundamental methods of literary analysis and research, Whitla equips students with the knowledge and tools essential for advanced literary study.

  • Includes traditional close reading strategies integrated with newer critical theory, ranging from gender and genre to post-structuralism and post-colonialism; with examples from Beowulf to Atwood, folk ballads to Fugard, and Christopher Marlowe to Conrad’s Marlow
  • Draws on a wide range of resources, from print to contemporary electronic media
  • Supplies a companion website with chapter summaries, charts, examples, web links, and suggestions for further study

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William Whitla is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar in English and Humanities at York University in Toronto. He has published The Central Truth (on Robert Browning, 1963), Essays and Reviews (on Victorian literature and religion, with Victor Shea, 2000), and Foundations: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing (also with Victor Shea, 2001 and 2005).

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The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies is a comprehensive new textbook providing essential practical and analytical reading and writing skills for literature students at all levels. The Handbook features coverage of all key areas, from sonnets to irony to close textual analysis. Unprecedented in bringing within one volume a combination of traditional and contemporary methods for literary analysis of fiction, drama and poetry, this is a uniquely practical reference tool.

Detailed yet succinct, the book contains guidance on library and web research techniques, new technologies, and provides help in shaping essays and other assignments for different class requirements. The companion website provides further clarity and insight with helpful chapter summaries and resources for continuing study. With a perfect balance of academic rigor and essential practical information, The English Handbook is an accessible and wide-ranging manual, indispensable for all students of literature.

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The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies is a comprehensive new textbook providing essential practical and analytical reading and writing skills for literature students at all levels.   The Handbook features coverage of all key areas, from sonnets to irony to close textual analysis. Unprecedented in bringing within one volume a combination of traditional and contemporary methods for literary analysis of fiction, drama and poetry, this is a uniquely practical reference tool.

Detailed yet succinct, the book contains guidance on library and web research techniques, new technologies, and provides help in shaping essays and other assignments for different class requirements. The companion website provides further clarity and insight with helpful chapter summaries and resources for continuing study. With a perfect balance of academic rigor and essential practical information, The English Handbook is an accessible and wide-ranging manual, indispensable for all students of literature.

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Verlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1405183756
ISBN 13 
9781405183758
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
359
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