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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Clara Calvo, Jean Jacques Weber. TO WALTER NASH CONTENTS Acknowledgements Using this book xi xiii 1 MINIATURE POEMS.
Clara Calvo, Jean Jacques Weber. TO WALTER NASH CONTENTS Acknowledgements Using this book xi xiii 1 MINIATURE POEMS.
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... POEMS Reading the Elizabethan sonnet as a jewel The age of the sonnet Looking at the miniature case : the Italian and the English sonnet A poem inside a poem : the final couplet Opening the case : some basic tenets of Petrarchism ...
... POEMS Reading the Elizabethan sonnet as a jewel The age of the sonnet Looking at the miniature case : the Italian and the English sonnet A poem inside a poem : the final couplet Opening the case : some basic tenets of Petrarchism ...
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Clara Calvo, Jean Jacques Weber. 1. Miniature. Poems. Reading. the. Elizabethan. Sonnet. as. a. Jewel. DOI: 10.4324/9780203014646-1 In Elizabethan England, miniature portraits were worn as jewels ... Poems Reading the Elizabethan Sonnet as a ...
Clara Calvo, Jean Jacques Weber. 1. Miniature. Poems. Reading. the. Elizabethan. Sonnet. as. a. Jewel. DOI: 10.4324/9780203014646-1 In Elizabethan England, miniature portraits were worn as jewels ... Poems Reading the Elizabethan Sonnet as a ...
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... Poems , revised and edited by Richard J. Finneran , copyright 1928 by Macmillan Publishing Company , copyright renewed ( 1956 by Georgie Yeats ( New York : Scribner , 1997 ) , and an excerpt from Cathleen ni Hoolihan from The Collected ...
... Poems , revised and edited by Richard J. Finneran , copyright 1928 by Macmillan Publishing Company , copyright renewed ( 1956 by Georgie Yeats ( New York : Scribner , 1997 ) , and an excerpt from Cathleen ni Hoolihan from The Collected ...
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... poems in this chapter appear in their old - spelling versions , so we have added extensive notes that will help you to work out difficult words and ultimately - we hope to enjoy reading Elizabethan English . All the chapters conclude ...
... poems in this chapter appear in their old - spelling versions , so we have added extensive notes that will help you to work out difficult words and ultimately - we hope to enjoy reading Elizabethan English . All the chapters conclude ...
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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