Mastering English literature / Richard Gill.
By: Gill, Richard
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BookSeries: Palgrave master series: Publisher: Basingstoke [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xxxii, 528 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1403944881.Subject(s): English literature -- History and criticism | English LiteratureDDC classification: 820.9 GIL-M 2006 12750 Online resources: ( Click here for Online Access ) | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Previous ed.: Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 513) and indexes.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART 1: THE NOVEL
Stories
Characters
Narration
Plot
Settings
The Scope of the Novel
PART 2: DRAMA
Familiar Drama
The Language of the Stage
Plots and Actions
Characters
Audience
Watching and Studying
PART 3: POETRY
Valuing, Performing, Hearing
What Poets Make
What Poets Think
What Poets Do: Words and Meanings
Poetic Shapes and Sounds
The Work of Poets
PART 4: GENRE
Classification
Tragedy
Comedy
Epic
Lyric
Satire
Romance
Gothic
Pastoral
PART 5: CONTEXT
The Past
Religion and the Bible
Classical Civilisation
Books and Ideas
The Arts
Society
PART 6: INTERPRETATION
Discovering Meanings
Internal Interpretation: Narratology, Grammar and Genre
Internal Interpretation: Formalism
Theorists and Literary Features
Debating Interpretations
External Interpretation: Social
External Interpretation: Feminism
External Interpretation: Psychological
External Interpretation: Ideas
Issues in Interpretation
PART 7: THEMES
The Scope of Literature
The Living World
The Four Seasons
The Earth
Aspects of Nature
Ideas about Nature
Buildings
Mortality
The Human Mind and Society
Love
War
Glossary
Bibliography
'I think students could do with reading a book like this which covers the main ground quickly and simply. It would also do as a 'refresher' book...many books of this kind can be returned to afterwards for a 'remind read.' - Martin Coyle, Chair of English Literature, Cardiff University, UK
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