Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is the tragic story of an individual set in the wider context of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters.
English Literature covers the key themes, quotations, and literary terms for your introductory college course. All key topics are covered, including Old English language and poetry; Middle English masters such as Chaucer; Renaissance masters such as Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton; Restoration and eighteenth-century masters; the Romantic poets and novelists; the Victorians; and the modern writers. Reuploaded Thanks to colette
Slavoj Žižek: a critical introduction by Ian Parker
Since the publication of his first book in English in 1989, Slavoj Zizek has quickly become one of the most widely read and contentious intellectuals alive today. With dazzling wit and tremendous creativity he has produced innovative and challenging explorations of Lacan, Hegel and Marx, and used his insights to exhilarating effect in analyses of popular culture. While Zizek is always engaging, he is also elusive and even contradictory. It can be very hard to finally determine where he stands on a particular issue.
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Literature (Resource Books for Teachers)
The role of literature in language teaching has been variously interpreted over the past 100 years. In an earlier period, when the grammar-translation model was paramount, literary texts were the very staple of foreign language teaching, representing both models of good writing and illustrations of the grammatical rules of the language.During the period of structural dominance, literature found itself side-lined. The formal properties of the language took precedence, and literature study was seen as part of the bad old ‘traditional’ methods.
Outsiders - American Short Stories for students of ESL
The purpose of Outsiders is to help address this twofold obligation to nonnative English users in our colleges and universities by offering short stories carefully chosen for their quality, diversity, and appeal, so that they can provide a sound, structural basis for studying fiction as a literary genre in a college credit course. Since the "outsiders" theme, if left undiluted, could become somewhat intensive, an effort was made to intersperse the stories having more serious themes with lighter, more humorous pieces such as "The Loudest Voice," "Senor Payroll," "Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and Vocabulary," and "Rope."
