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. |
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... Shakespeare's Sonnets . A curious version of the sonnet- sequence is the crown sequence , as in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus , which includes a sonnet - sequence in which each new sonnet begins by repeating the last line ...
... Shakespeare's Sonnets . A curious version of the sonnet- sequence is the crown sequence , as in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus , which includes a sonnet - sequence in which each new sonnet begins by repeating the last line ...
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... ( Shakespeare's sonnet 144 is an example of the first way of linking the first two quatrains with the remainder of the sonnet and Sidney's sonnet 31 in Astrophil and Stella is an example of the second . ) ◇ Alternatively , the octave can ...
... ( Shakespeare's sonnet 144 is an example of the first way of linking the first two quatrains with the remainder of the sonnet and Sidney's sonnet 31 in Astrophil and Stella is an example of the second . ) ◇ Alternatively , the octave can ...
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... Shakespeare . The iambic pentameter provides the Elizabethan sonnet with its particular ' pace ' , its familiar discursive rhythm : And thus I see among these pleasant thinges Eche care decayes , and yet my sorow springes . If one tries ...
... Shakespeare . The iambic pentameter provides the Elizabethan sonnet with its particular ' pace ' , its familiar discursive rhythm : And thus I see among these pleasant thinges Eche care decayes , and yet my sorow springes . If one tries ...
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... Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet and by Cervantes in Don Quixote . When it fell into good hands , such as those of Lady Mary Wroth who wrote the sonnet- sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus ( 1621 ) , the topic could be turned into a ...
... Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet and by Cervantes in Don Quixote . When it fell into good hands , such as those of Lady Mary Wroth who wrote the sonnet- sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus ( 1621 ) , the topic could be turned into a ...
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... Shakespeare ( 1564-1616 ) also included a description of his lady in his sonnet sequence ( written 1593-6 ; published 1609 ) , but it is somehow very different from either Spenser's or Watson's orthodox Petrarchan female portraits ...
... Shakespeare ( 1564-1616 ) also included a description of his lady in his sonnet sequence ( written 1593-6 ; published 1609 ) , but it is somehow very different from either Spenser's or Watson's orthodox Petrarchan female portraits ...
Contents
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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 |
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