Dominic Rainsford

Literature in English

How and Why

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Produktbeschreibung

Literature in English deals with the fundamental concepts of literary form and genre; the history of English-language literature from the medieval period to the present; relations between the study of literature and other disciplines; literary theory; researching a topic; and writing a paper

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780367228866
• ISBN-10: 0367228866
• Artikelnr.: 59357882

Autorenporträt

Dominic Rainsford is Professor of Literature in English and Head of Department at Aarhus University, Denmark, having previously taught in Britain, Poland and the United States. His publications include Authorship, Ethics and the Reader (1997), Literature, Identity and the English Channel (2002) and many articles on Dickens. He is president of the Danish Association of English Studies and general editor of the Dickens Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

Using this book Part 1: Beginnings 1. Good morrow 2. What is literature and
who does it belong to? 3. Canons Part 2: Form and Genre 4. Poetry 5. The
thing which is not 6. Prose fiction 7. Plays and films Part 3: Periods and
Movements 8. Medieval and early modern 9. From Colonial America and
Restoration England to 1900 10. From 1900 to the present Part 4: Positions,
Identities, Ideas 11. The place of literature 12. Literary theory 13.
Theories and goals Part 5: Over to You 14. Primary and secondary sources
15. Reading, research, writing Works cited Further reading