Studying English - Robert Eaglestone, With Jonathan Beecher Field

Studying English

A Guide for Literature Students
Buch | Hardcover
166 Seiten
2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-83725-5 (ISBN)
143,40 inkl. MwSt
Studying English presents the ideas and debates that shape how we study English today, covering arguments about the value of literature, the canon, Shakespeare, theory, politics and the future of the subject.
Clearly focussed on the needs of students, Robert Eaglestone and Jonathan Beecher Field have revised the best-selling Doing English specifically for English literature courses in America.

Studying English presents the ideas and debates that shape literary studies in America today. This overview of the discipline explains not only what students need to know, but how and why English came to be the way it is. This uniquely comprehensive guide to the subject gives students the background they need to understand and enjoy their studies more fully.

The book covers arguments about criticism and theory, value, the canon, Shakespeare, authorial intention, figural language, narrative, writing, identity, politics and the skills that are learned from studying English for the world of work.

In a clear and engaging way, Robert Eaglestone and Jonathan Beecher Field:



Orient you, by exploring what it is to study English in America now.
Equip you, by explaining the key ideas and trends in English in context.
Enable you to begin higher level study.

Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Jonathan Beecher Field is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University, USA.

Acknowledgements

List of figures

A Note for Students

Chapter 1 Studying English

Chapter 2 Where did English come from?

Chapter 3 Studying English Today

Chapter 4 English and ‘disciplinary consciousness’

Chapter 5 Critical attitudes

Chapter 6 Literature, value and the canon

Chapter 7 Castle Shakespeare

Chapter 8 The author is dead?

Chapter 9 Metaphors and figures of speech

Chapter 10 Narrative and closure

Chapter 11 Creative writing and critical rewriting

Chapter 12 English, identity and politics

Chapter 13 Why study English?

Conclusion

Further Reading

Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-415-83725-1 / 0415837251
ISBN-13 978-0-415-83725-5 / 9780415837255
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