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| Author | : Andrew Sanders |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 732 |
| Release | : 2000-01 |
| Genre | : English literature |
| ISBN | : 9780198186960 |
A guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The volume includes information on Old and Middle English, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the 17th and 18th centuries, the Romantics, Victorian and Edwardian literature, Modernism, and post-war writing.
| Author | : Jonathan Bate |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2010-10-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0199569266 |
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.
| Author | : Joyce Carol Oates |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 788 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780195092622 |
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
| Author | : Chris Baldick |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : English literature |
| ISBN | : 0198183100 |
A major new survey of literature in England during the first half of the twentieth century, Chris Baldick places modernist with non-modernist writings, high art with low entertainment. The Modern Movement ranges broadly covering psychological novels, war poems, detective stories, satires, children's books, and other literary forms evolving in response to the new anxieties and exhilarations of twentieth-century life.
| Author | : Pat Rogers |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 580 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780192854377 |
Traces the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day.
| Author | : Daniel Donoghue |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0470776803 |
This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the author calls ‘figures’ from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar. An innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature. Structured around ‘figures’ from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar. Situates Old English literary texts within a cultural framework. Creates new connections between different genres, periods and authors. Combines close textual analysis with historical context. Based on the author’s many years experience of teaching Old English literature. The author is co-editor with Seamus Heaney of Beowulf: A Verse Translation (2001) and recently published with Blackwell Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend (2003).
| Author | : John Arnold |
| Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 2000-02-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 019285352X |
Starting with an examination of how historians work, this "Very Short Introduction" aims to explore history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather than to delve into specific periods.
| Author | : Alastair Fowler |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Engelska litteraturen Medeltiden |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Andrew Sanders |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 1982-09-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1349168696 |
| Author | : Glenda Abramson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Glenda Abramson's informative introduction sets the scene for a powerful literary collection, the definitive anthology of a vibrant modern genre.
