[PDF] A To Z Of English Literature eBook

Author : David Rothwell
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2010
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781840226508

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Anyone with a desire to learn more about English Literature can find it difficult to know where to start, but here is the perfect solution. David Rothwell's book is an idiosyncratic and light-hearted review of all that is great (and not so great) about the major figures of English Literature, and provides lucid and entertaining explanations of every literary form and technique. Free of pointless biographical detail, it concentrates on providing examples of prose and poetry that help to understand the essence of the work.With their total lack of any pretence of neutrality, you may not always agree with David Rothwell's views, but you can hardly fail to be informed and entertained by them.

Author : D. L. Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of writers from Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and English-speaking Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Written by subject experts.

Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810863456

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Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.

Author : William J. Long
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : History
ISBN :

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"English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World" by William J. Long resents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era. It's a useful and interesting guide for students as well as teachers of English literature, specially European and American, despite over a hundred years passing since the time of its first publication.

Author : Marion Wynne-Davies
Publisher :
Page : 2000 pages
File Size : 14,1 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9780747519546

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A comprehensive reference guide to English literature. Detailed entries cover subjects from Paradise Lost to St Cecilia, and cross-references guide the reader between the sections. It also contains biographies and assessments of writers, thinkers, essayists and critics.

Author : Meyer Howard Abrams
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781413002188

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This text defines and discusses terms, critical theories, and points of view that are commonly used to classify, analyse, interpret, and write the history of works of literature. The Glossary presents a series of essays in alphabetic order.