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Studying English literature and language: an introduction and companion

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Main Author:	Pope, Rob 1951- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London [u.a.] Routledge 2012
Edition:	3. ed.
Subjects:	Anglistikstudium Einführung
Online Access:	Klappentext Inhaltsverzeichnis
Item Description:	Frühere Ausg. u.d.T.: Pope, Rob: The English studies book
Physical Description:	XX, 427 S. graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:	9780415498777 9780415498760

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adam_text	CONTENTS List of figures and tables xiii Preface and acknowledgements xv What the book is about and how to use it 1 PRELUDE: CHANGING ENGLISH NOW 6 Crossing borders, establishing boundaries 8 Texts in contexts: literature in history 9 Seeing through theory 10 English Literature and Creative Writing 11 English Language Teaching 12 Technologising the subject: actual and virtual communities 13 Forewords! Some propositions and provocations 14 PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH STUDIES 19 Preview 19 1.1 Which Englishes ? 20 One English language, literature, culture - or many? 23 Historically one or many? 23 Geographically one or many? 26 Socially one or many? 27 One code , many media? 28 Summary: one and many 29 1.2 Doing English - ten essential actions 32 1.2.1 Getting your bearings and getting organised 32 1.2.2 Turning up, taking part - lectures and seminars 35 1.2.3 Taking and making notes 38 1.2.4 Close reading - wide reading 40 1.2.5 Library, web, home - an ongoing cycle 44 1.2.6 Taking responsibility: referencing and plagiarism 48 1.2.7 Writing an essay to make your mark 52 1.2.8 Giving a presentation, stimulating a response 56 1.2.9 Revision: preparing to take an exam 59 1.2.10 Seriously enjoy studying English 61 1.3 Fields of study 63 1.3.1 Language 66 1.3.2 Literature 71 1.3.3 Culture, communication and media 75 1.3.4 Summary: keeping on course and making your own way 81 PART TWO: CRITICAL AND CREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION 83 Preview 83 2.1 Initial analysis: how to approach a text 84 2.1.1 Opening moves: Notice-Pattern-Contrast-Feeling 84 2.1.2 Core questions: What, Who, When, Where, How, Why and What if? 85 2.1.3 Worked and played example 87 2.2 Full interpretation: informed reading, adventurous writing 90 2.2.1 Interpretative framework and analytical checklists 90 2.2.2 Poetry + 95 2.2.3 Prose fiction + 97 2.2.4 Play script + 107 2.2.5 Critical essay + 112 2.3 Longer projects: sample study patterns and lines of enquiry 118 2.3.1 From vague idea to viable project 118 2.3.2 Working and playing from the Anthology 120 2.3.3 Further strategies for critical-creative writing 122 2.4 Overview of textual activities as learning strategies 126 PART THREE: THEORETICAL POSITIONS, PRACTICAL APPROACHES 129 Preview 129 3.1 Theory in practice: a working model to play with 130 3.2 Words on the page - Practical Criticism and (old) New Criticism 136 3.3 Devices and effects - Formalism into Functionalism 140 3.4 Mind and person - Psychological approaches 147 3.5 Class and community - Marxism, Cultural Materialism and New Historicism 155 3.6 Gender and sexuality - Feminism, Masculinity and Queer Theory 163 3.7 Relativities - Poststructuralism and Postmodernism 174 3.8 Ethnicities - Postcolonialism and Multiculturalism 183 3.9 The new Eclecticism? Ethics, Aesthetics, Ecology . . . 198 PART FOUR: KEY TERMS, CORE TOPICS 211 Preview 211 Absence and presence, gaps and silences, centres and margins 212 Accent and dialect 214 Author and authority 216 Canon and classic 218 Character and characterisation 220 Comedy and tragedy, carnival and the absurd 222 Discourse and discourse analysis 226 Drama and theatre, film and TV 228 Foreground, background and point of view 232 Genre and kinds of text 235 Images, imagery and imagination 237 Narrative in story and history: novel, news, film 240 Poetry and word-play 246 Realism and representation: fiction, fact, metafiction 249 Speech, conversation and dialogue 252 Standards and standardisation, varieties and variation 256 Text, context, intertextuality 261 Translation and literature in translation 263 Versification: rhythm, metre and rhyme 266 Writing and reading, response and rewriting 271 Your own additions and modifications 278 PART FIVE: ANTHOLOGY 279 Preview 279 5.1 Poetries 280 5.1.1 Early English verses 280 Old English lament (anon.), Wulf and Eadwacer 280 Medieval lyric (anon.), Maiden in the mor lay 281 Geoffrey Chaucer, The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales 282 Sir Thomas Wyatt, They flee from me 283 5.1.2 Sonnets by various hands 284 William Shakespeare, My mistress eyes (Sonnet 130) 284 John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent 284 Patience Agbabi, Problem Pages (responses to Shakespeare s and Milton s sonnets) 285 Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover 286 Rupert Brooke, The Soldier 286 Ursula A. Fanthorpe, Knowing about Sonnets (response to Brooke) 287 5.1.3 Heroics and mock-heroics 288 John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV 288 Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock 289 Elizabeth Hands, A Poem ... by a Servant Maid 290 George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Vision of Judgement 291 5.1.4 Poetry that answers back 292 Robyn Bolam, Gruoch 292 Tom Leonard, This is thi six a clock news 293 Chan Wei Meng, I spik Ingglish 294 Mario Petrucci, The Complete Letter Guide , Mutations , Reflections , Trench 295 5.1.5 Performing poetry, singing culture 297 Seminoie chants: Song for the Dying , Song for Bringing a Child into the World 297 Patience Agbabi, Give me a Word 298 Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody 300 TTo, 7 daiz 302 The Flobots, No Handlebars 303 Philip Gross, Severn Song 305 5.2 Proses 306 5.2.1 Short stories, fables and flash fiction (complete) 306 Rudyard Kipling, The Story of Muhammad Din 306 Don Barthelme, The Death of Edward Lear 308 Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings 310 Angela Carter, The Werewolf 312 Amy Tan, Feathers from a thousand li away 313 Dave Eggers, What the Water Feels Like to the Fishes 314 5.2.2 Slave narratives by name 315 Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave 315 Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe ( I call him Friday ) 315 Geoff Holdsworth, I call him Tuesday Afternoon 316 J.M. Coetzee, Foe 317 5.2.3 Romance revisited 318 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 318 Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea 319 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 320 Will Self, Dorian: An Imitation 321 5.2.4 Science and fantasy fiction: genre and gender 322 Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 322 Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness 323 Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker 323 Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens 324 5.2.5 War on - of - Terror 325 Ian McEwan, Only love and then oblivion 325 Arundhati Roy, The Algebra of Infinite Justice 326 Nick Barton, Voices from the Battlefields of Afghanistan (I) - from the air Simon Panter, Voices from the Battlefields of Afghanistan (II) - on the ground 5.2.6 Media messages and street texts Personal and not-so-personal ads Cash-machine and check-out exchanges Answer-phone messages and call-centre script Street: signs, graffiti, word-art 5.3 Voices 5.3.1 Dramatising English in education Student talk amongst friends (transcript) Willy Russell, Educating Rita Lloyd Jones, Mister Bip Jeremy Jacobson, The Post-modern Lecture 5.3.2 Novel voices Jane Austen, Bride and Prejudice Amos Tutuola, The Balm-Wine Drinkard Roddy Doyle, Baddy Clarke ha ha ha James Kelman, How Late it Was, How Late 5.3.3 Voice-play, dream-drama Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices Samuel Beckett, Not I Athol Fugard, Boesman and Lena Martin McDonagh, The Billowman Alice Oswald, Dart 5.3.4 I dentity in the balance - selves and others John Clare, I am Emily Dickinson, I m Nobody Adrienne Rich, Dialogue Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Bool Library 5.4 Crossings 5.4.1 Daffodils? William Wordsworth, I wandered lonely as a cloud Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere Journals Lynn Peters, Why Dorothy Wordsworth is Not as Famous as her Brother TV advert, Heineken refreshes the poets other beers can t reach 5.4.2 Mapping journeys Harry Beck, map of the London Underground Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River Billy Marshall-Stoneking, Passage Kathleen Jamie, Pathologies - A startling tour of our bodies 5.4.3 Translations/Transformations 355 Brian Friel, Translations 355 Jo Shapcott and Rainer Maria Rilke, Roses 356 W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz 358 5.4.4 Versions of ageing 359 May Sarton, As We Are Now 359 Skincare advert, Clarins, the problem solver 359 William Shakespeare, Devouring Time (Sonnet 19) 360 Dennis Scott, Uncle Time 360 5.4.5 Epitaphs and (almost) last words 361 Epitaphs by Pope, Gray, Burns, et al. 361 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations 362 Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart 362 Toni Morrison, Beloved 363 Grace Nichols, Tropical Death 363 PART SIX: TAKING IT ALL FURTHER: ENGLISH AND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE 365 Preview 365 6.1 Living, learning, earning 366 What now? What next? Why? What if ... ? 367 6.2 English again, afresh, otherwise 368 English and or as other subjects 368 6.3 Further study 372 Postgraduate courses in and around English 372 6.4 Into work 375 Transformable skills, transformative knowledges 376 Career pathways and interesting jobs for English graduates 380 Towards application and interview 381 6.5 Play: recreation and re-creation 382 Afterwords: a postlude 383 APPENDICES A Grammatical and linguistic terms - a quick reference В An alphabet of speech sounds С Chronology of English by period and movement D Maps of Britain, the USA and the world Bibliography 402 Relevant journals and associations 413 Index 415 Afterwords 427 I Studying English Literature and Language is unique in offering both an introduction and a companion for students taking English Literature and Language degrees. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, this ¡s a freshly recast version of the highly acclaimed The English Studies Book. This third edition features: • fresh sections on the essential skills and study strategies needed to complete a degree in English - from close reading, research and referencing to full guidelines and tips on essay writing, participating in seminars, presentation and revision • an authoritative guide to the life skills, further study options and career pathways open to graduates of the subject • updated introductions to the major theoretical positions and approaches taken by scholars in the field, from earlier twentieth-century practical criticism to the latest global and ecological perspectives • extensive entries on key terms such as author , genre , narrative and translation widely current in debates across language, literature and culture • coverage of both local and global varieties of the English language in a range of media and discourses, including news, advertising, text messaging, rap, pop and street art • an expansive anthology representing genres and discourses from early elegy and novel to contemporary performance and flash fiction, including writers as diverse as Aphra Behn, Emily Dickinson, J.M. Coetzee, Angela Carter, Russell Hóban, Adrienne Rich and Arundhati Roy • a comprehensive, regularly updated companion website supplying further information and activities, sample analyses and a wealth of stimulating and reliable links to further online resources. Studying English Literature and Language is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference for anyone interested in the study of English language, literature and culture.
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