Literary Movements for Students

Literary Movements for Students
Author: David Galens
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

A student guide to understanding literary movements, featuring entries on fourteen movements, each with information in the areas of representative authors and works, themes, style, movement variations, and historical context, as well as a critical overview.

Mr Bruff's Guide to GCSE English Language

Mr Bruff's Guide to GCSE English Language
Author: Andrew Bruff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2017-03-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781520692432

In 2011, I began creating online tutorial videos on Youtube, with a vision to share my GCSE expertise in English language and literature. As I write, these videos have been viewed over 10 million times across 214 different nations. My GCSE English Youtube channel has over 60,000 subscribers. To accompany these videos, I have published over 20 revision guide eBooks-one of which you are currently looking at! My guide to the previous GCSEs in English language and literature sat at the top of the Amazon bestseller's list for over 45 weeks and achieved huge acclaim; this book aims to build on those strengths.In this ebook, you'll receive detailed guidance on every question in the AQA GCSE English Language exams. Please note that this ebook is not endorsed by or affiliated to any exam boards; I am simply an experienced teacher using my expertise to help students. However, if you read some of the 100+ reviews for this guide, you will see that it has already helped students, teachers and parents across the UK.As an extra bonus, this ebook contains links to five special video tutorials which are only available to those who purchase this guide. These links appear later in the text. I hope you enjoy the ebook. You should also purchase the accompanying eBook which covers the English Literature exams.

Movements in English Literature

Movements in English Literature
Author: Gillie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1975-05-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521206556

In this 1975 volume, Christopher Gillie follows the method of selecting writers that are most significant for this study. He tries to show the main movements in English literature between 1900 and 1940, and selects for discussion those writers who have an abiding relevance, even those without a large readership. As a guide to himself as well as the reader, he includes in the account enough historical and social narrative as may help explain such relevance, and why he has made particular selections. Gillie reinforces his critical comments with quotations from the selected writers, and provides an extensive bibliography for further study.

Encyclopedia of Beat Literature

Encyclopedia of Beat Literature
Author: Kurt Hemmer
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2010-05-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1438109083

Discusses the literary works and great authors of the Beat Generation.

A Brief History of English Literature

A Brief History of English Literature
Author: John Peck
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350309532

This new edition of an established text provides a succinct and up-to-date historical overview of the story of English literature. Focusing on how writing both reflects and challenges the periods in which it is produced, John Peck and Martin Coyle combine close readings of key texts with recent critical thinking on the interaction of literary works and culture. Providing a lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day, the authors write in their characteristically lucid and accessible style. A true masterpiece of clarity and compression, this is essential reading for undergraduate students coming across the vast areas of English literature for the first time and looking for a way of making critical sense of the texts being studied. In addition, the concise nature and narrative structure of this book makes it excellent reading for general readers. New to this Edition: - Revised chapter on twentieth century literature - Complete new chapter on twenty-first century literature - Updated Chronology and Further Reading section

The Seafarer

The Seafarer
Author: Ida L. Gordon
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1979
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780719007781

Why Literary Periods Mattered

Why Literary Periods Mattered
Author: Ted Underwood
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-07-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0804788448

In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that surveyed discrete "periods." Since that time, scholars' definitions of literature and their rationales for teaching it have changed radically. But the periodized structure of the curriculum has remained oddly unshaken, as if the exercise of contrasting one literary period with another has an importance that transcends the content of any individual course. Why Literary Periods Mattered explains how historical contrast became central to literary study, and why it remained institutionally central in spite of critical controversy about literature itself. Organizing literary history around contrast rather than causal continuity helped literature departments separate themselves from departments of history. But critics' long reliance on a rhetoric of contrasted movements and fateful turns has produced important blind spots in the discipline. In the twenty-first century, Underwood argues, literary study may need digital technology in particular to develop new methods of reasoning about gradual, continuous change.

Renaissance Literature

Renaissance Literature
Author: Stephen P. Thompson
Publisher: Turtleback
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780613643177

An overview of Renaissance writers and literature.

Decadence

Decadence
Author: Alex Murray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 728
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108658598

Decadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and in the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, holds an endless fascination. Yet the ambiguity of the term 'decadence' and the challenges of identifying its practitioners make grasping its contours difficult. From the obsession with classical cultures, to the responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, this book offers one of the most comprehensive histories of literary Decadence. The essays here interrogate and expand the formal, geographical, and temporal frameworks for understanding Decadent literature, while offering a renewed focus on the role played by women writers. Featuring essays by leading scholars on sexuality, politics, science, translation, the New Woman, Russian and Spanish American Decadence, the influence of cinema on Decadence, and much more, it is essential reading for all those interested in the literature of the 1890s and Oscar Wilde.