 | 1. A Survey of Modern English
Covering new developments such as the impact of email on language, and corpus-based grammars, the second edition of this accessible text has been extensively re-written and brings the survey of modern English right up to date.
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 | 2. British Folk Tales and Legends
An extravaganza of beautiful princesses and stout stable boys, sour-faced witches and king with hearts of gold. Each tale is a masterpiece of storytelling from the hilarious Three Sillies to the delightfully macabre Sammles ghost.
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 | 3. Caribbean-English Passages
Postcolonialism is used as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevence to the Caribbean experience.
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 | 4. Cognitive Poetics in Practice
Cognitive poetics involves the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This student-friendly book provides case studies to help students understand the theory and master the practice of cognitive poetic analysis.
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 | 5. Colonialism/Postcolonialism
A vital introduction to the historical dimensions and theoretical concepts associated with colonial and postcolonial discourses.
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 | 6. Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work.
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 | 7. Conrad Language and Narrative
In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and narrative at the heart of his literary achievement. Greaney offers an examination of a wide range of Conrad's work which combines recent critical approaches to language in post-structuralism with an impressive command of linguistic theory.
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 | 8. Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook
A refreshingly clear and readable introduction. Its tailor-made combination of extracts from literary and critical works, guiding commentary, a variety of exercises, glossary and bibliography, is ideal for the beginning student.
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 | 9. Feminist Poetics
Terry Threadgold looks principally at the influence of poststructuralism and feminism on poetics, the study of ready-made textual forms.
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 | 10. George Crabbe
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
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 | 11. Introduction to Communication Studies
Fiske's essential text aims to equip the reader with a range of methods of analysing examples of communication in our society, together with a critical awareness of the theories underpinning them.
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 | 12. Introduction to Communication Studies Second Edition
The second edition of this widely used introductory textbook updates the work to take accounts of developments in the last few years. John Fiske's study equips the reader with a range of methods for analysing examples of communication in our society, together with a critical awareness of the theories underpinning them. The reader will be able to tease out the latent cultural meanings in such...
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 | 13. James Joyce. Volume I: 1907-27
Writings include: Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, Dubliners. 2 Volumes cover 1906-1964. Extras: Appendices include a list of the early editions of Joyce's writings.
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 | 14. Language and Literary Structure: The Linguistic Analysis of Form in Verse and Narrative
Nigel Fabb provides a simple and realistic linguistic explanation of poetic form in English from 1500-1900, drawing on the English and American verse and oral narrative tradition, as well as contemporary criticism. He offers a new linguistic approach to how metre and rhythm work in poetry.
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 | 15. Language in History: Theories and Texts
In Language in History, Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions. Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin, he demonstrates, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and cultural identity in Britain and Ireland. For example, he examines the ways in which language was employed to construct a bourgeois public sphere...
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 | 16. Language of Literature
Built around the assessment objectives for AS and A2 level English, offering explanations, examples, exercises, summaries, a glossary of key terms and suggested answers.
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 | 17. Men of Letters Writing Lives
An in-depth look at developments within Victorian auto/biography, asking what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority.
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 | 18. Moving Pageant
Spanning public and private, documentary and the imaginative, the writings collected here evoke the physical and social atmosphere and the cultural life of London's streets and other sites of ceremony and popular assembly.
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 | 19. Myth
An indispensable overview of the evolution of 'myth', from the Greek definitions to those of a range of contemporary thinkers. Coupe also provides an introduction to myth-making.
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 | 20. Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan provides a synthesis of contemporary approaches to narrative fiction, considering in particular Anglo-American New Criticism, Russian Formalism and French Structuralism.
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 | 21. Poe and the Printed Word
Kevin Hayes reappraises Edgar Allan Poe's work in the context of nineteenth-century print culture. Beginning with Poe's early exposure to the printed word, and ending with the ambitious magazine and book projects of his final years, this study is part biography, part literary history and part history of the book.
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 | 22. Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men
This book examines the ways in which Polari - a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men - was used in order to construct 'gay identities' in the UK over the past fifty years.
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 | 23. Reading Between the Lines
Annabel Patterson tackles the hottest topic in literary studies today - the `Great Books Debate' and the question of teaching the canon of English literature. Her superbly formulated moderate stance will be a welcome attribute to the debate.
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 | 24. Renaissance Computer
Some of today's foremost Renaissance scholars look afresh at the remarkable products of the first age of print and explore how these anticipated many of the conditions of the present digital age.
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 | 25. Romanticism
Day examines the history and usage of the term Romanticism and the changing views and debates which surround it. A range of writers - canonical and non-canonical - are included, as are today's debates such as feminism and new historicism.
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