Handbook of the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. The author discusses the major works and literary currents. The book is intended as an academic textbook for students of English department and a compendium of knowledge about the subject for all those who are interested in English literature.
Explore Literature Guides contain a thorough analysis of the plot and structure of key examination texts. They help students to fully understand the text in detail. In addition to helping prepare for the exam, these handy literature guides cover the literature as well as how students will be tested in the exam. - Give in-depth exploration of characters and themes - Include tips, guidance and quizzes to reinforce knowledge - Contain key quotations from the texts
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English And American Literature
In The Politically Incorrect Guide to English Literature, Elizabeth Kantor has great fun skewering silly English literature professors, a broad and easy target, but the real point of the book is the joy of reading great literature because it is good and true.
This text is intended for students and readers of classical and other literature. Topics include: Greek hexameter poetry; rhetoric; Greek literature under the Romans; Latin literature before 70 BC; poetry c.40 BC to the death of Tiberius; and Latin literature after c.150.
Literature and Its Theorists: A Personal View of Twentieth-Century Criticism
In selecting representative twentieth-century thinkers, Todorov's intention is both to illuminate significant conceptual issues and to suggest intellectual points of contact among well-known figures. . . . In addition to dealing with varying interpretations of criticism's functions and tasks, this work considers means by which several writers of fiction arrived at their own positions on major literary controversies. . . . Literature and Its Theorists work gives ample expression to Todorov's literary and moral convictions.
