English Literature
A Very Short Introduction
(Sprache: Englisch)
English Literature: A Very Short Introduction discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Jonathan Bate considers how we determine the content of the field, and looks at the three major...
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English Literature: A Very Short Introduction discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Jonathan Bate considers how we determine the content of the field, and looks at the three major kinds of imaginative literature - English poetry, English drama and The English novel.
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English Literature: A Very Short Introduction discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Jonathan Bate considers how we determine the content of the field, and looks at the three major kinds of imaginative literature - English poetry, English drama and The English novel.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „English Literature “
- 1: Once upon a time
- 2: What it is
- 3: When it began
- 4: The study of English
- 5: Periods and movements
- 6: Among the English Poets
- 7: Shakespeare and dramatic literature
- 8: Aspects of the English novel
- 9: The Englishness of English literature
- Further Reading
Autoren-Porträt von Jonathan Bate
Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. Among his many books are John Clare: A Biography (Farrar Straus Giroux), which won Britain's two oldest literary prizes, the Hawthomden and the James Tait Black, a best-selling book on Shakespeare for the general reader, The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador, UK and OUP, USA), and a major intellectual biography of Shakespeare in the cultural context of the Elizabethan Age (The Soul of the Age. He is also chief editor of The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works (Macmillan UK/Random House Modern Library USA).Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jonathan Bate
- 2010, 192 Seiten, Maße: 11,2 x 17,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199569266
- ISBN-13: 9780199569267
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.10.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
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While exploring towering works, Bate remins us that literature can also be terrific fun. Christopher Hirst. The Independent
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While exploring towering works, Bate remins us that literature can also be terrific fun. Christopher Hirst. The Independent
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