The Literature WorkbookThe Literature Workbook is a practical introductory textbook for literary studies, which can be used either for independent study or as part of a taught class. Laying the ground for further study, The Literature Workbook introduces the beginning student to the essential analytic and interpretative skills that are needed for literary appreciation and evaluation. It also equips the teacher with practical tools and materials for use in seminars or when setting written assessments and projects. Arranged according to genre and chronology, the chapters acquaint the reader with a range of key figures in English literaure and encourage the reader to think about them in their historical and cultural contexts. Adopting a user-friendly case-study approach, each chapter contains * exercises and activities * discussion hints * project work * suggestions for further reading The Workbook also includes: * a glossary * a subject and name index. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 27
Page
... of Elizabethan miniatures are usually surrounded by elaborate ruffles, Renaissance sonnets often clothe feelings and ideas in the artifice of Petrarchan love rhetoric. Miniature Poems Reading the Elizabethan Sonnet as a Jewel.
... of Elizabethan miniatures are usually surrounded by elaborate ruffles, Renaissance sonnets often clothe feelings and ideas in the artifice of Petrarchan love rhetoric. Miniature Poems Reading the Elizabethan Sonnet as a Jewel.
Page 2
... Renaissance sonnets often clothe feelings and ideas in the artifice of Petrarchan love rhetoric . This chapter will aim to show you how to open the richly decorated case , once you have admired it , so that you can see and understand ...
... Renaissance sonnets often clothe feelings and ideas in the artifice of Petrarchan love rhetoric . This chapter will aim to show you how to open the richly decorated case , once you have admired it , so that you can see and understand ...
Page 3
Clara Calvo, Jean Jacques Weber. b ) Renaissance sonnets are often accused of being artificial , static , hieratic ( like the faces in the miniatures which have no wrinkles or lines ) . They are seen as expressing not real feeling but ...
Clara Calvo, Jean Jacques Weber. b ) Renaissance sonnets are often accused of being artificial , static , hieratic ( like the faces in the miniatures which have no wrinkles or lines ) . They are seen as expressing not real feeling but ...
Page 5
... Renaissance sonneteers . In Surrey's sonnet , emotions sound just as sincere if not more . Surrey's exclamation in line 6 ( ' Ay me , while life did last , that league was tender ' ) is wedged into the natural syntactic structure of the ...
... Renaissance sonneteers . In Surrey's sonnet , emotions sound just as sincere if not more . Surrey's exclamation in line 6 ( ' Ay me , while life did last , that league was tender ' ) is wedged into the natural syntactic structure of the ...
Page 8
... Renaissance sonnet as a site of experimentation : many different rhyme - schemes seem to have been used by different writers ( the sonnets reproduced in this chapter make a varied sampler ) and some writers seem to have considered it ...
... Renaissance sonnet as a site of experimentation : many different rhyme - schemes seem to have been used by different writers ( the sonnets reproduced in this chapter make a varied sampler ) and some writers seem to have considered it ...
Contents
6 | |
14 | |
From the Elizabethan sonnet to the present | 23 |
Miltons When I Consider | 30 |
Shelleys Sonnet to England in 1819 | 36 |
same but different | 45 |
Activity and project work | 51 |
DEATH ON STAGE | 54 |
The artist as dreamer | 87 |
Characterization through dialogue | 93 |
Dialogue and wit | 99 |
Hard Times | 105 |
The two meanings of fancy | 111 |
LAUGHTER IN PATRIARCHY | 116 |
Colonial and patriarchal implications | 122 |
Lies of Silence | 129 |
Women welcoming death in The White Devil | 61 |
SHERIDANS SCHOOL FOR MARRIAGE | 68 |
Comedy and the confusion of identity | 74 |
DEGENERATE APEMEN OR HEROIC | 80 |
Activity and project work | 136 |
Index | 145 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Antoinette Austen beauty become beginning chapter characters comedy concerned consider couplet critics dead death described discourse DISCUSSION dream effect Elizabethan English example expression eyes fact feelings final give Hamlet hand head human ideology included indirect Ireland Irish Italy Jane John kill Knightley lady laughter letters lies literary literature lives look lover Lydia Malaprop marry means metaphors miniature Miss Fairfax narrator nature never novel offers particular passage Petrarchan play poem poet poetry point of view political present PROJECT question reader referred Renaissance representation rhyme Rochester says seems seen sense sentence Shakespeare's share silence social sonnet stereotypes story structure suggest talk tell thing thou thought topics tragedy turn voice walls Wide woman women writers written young