What distinguishes realism from 'classic bourgeois' realism and magic realism? How does a Shakespearean sonnet differ from a Spenserian or a Petrarchan sonnet? Who were the Cambridge Critics, the Graveyard Poets and the Tribe of Ben?The answers to these and many other literary questions are provided in this expanded and updated edition of Martin Gray's much-acclaimed Dictionary. Wide in scope, it explains concepts and topics thatn range from the familiar to the comparativley esoteric and that cover such fields as literary movements (Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Imagism), genres and sub-genres (tragedy, elegy, roman a these), technical language (anapaest, synecdoche, hamartia), and schools of literary theory (structuralism, deconstructionism, feminist criticism). The result is a clear, lively and imformative guide through the bewildering maze of literary terminology, and one that will enhance the reader's enjoyment of literary studies. --This text refers to an alternate P

A Dictionary of Literary Terms

Literature & Fiction

Gray, Martin

History & Criticism

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Studying Chaucer provides a background to Chaucer's complete works which will be of great value to students making a concentrated study of any of the individual poems or tales. Few teachers, or examiners, would deny the advantages gained by students who are able to 'read around' their subject and to relate their set books to a wider context; but students faced with this task will know the problems confronting them. This Handbook offers guidance to the whole of Chaucer's output, which will help to identify those texts relevant to the set books, and to show how these relate to Chaucer's work as a whole. It also gives an account of Chaucer's life and times, his use of language, and further hints for study.

Studying Chaucer

Brewer, E.

READING THE SCREEN provides an introduction i i ll i i i * r to a subject which has developed into a tast- growing area of study in recent years, with cinema and television becoming the focus of more and more literary and artistic work. The intention of this Handbook is to introduce the film viewer to the range of techniques available to the film maker for the transmission of his message, and to analyse the effects achieved by these techniques. It is geared in particular to students beginning a course in film studies but it also has a great deal to offer any member of the film-going public who wishes to have a deeper understanding of the medium.

Reading the Screen-An Introduction to Film Studies

Izod, J.

Humor & Entertainment

An Introduction to English Literature

Stephen, M.

Reference

Studying Charles Dickens

Fielding, Kenneth J.

Studying Thomas Hardy

Education & Teaching

Buter, L.

Schools & Teaching

A clear, straightforward guide to the rudiments of linguistics, aimed at A-level and undergraduate students. Explains the technical features, and leads to a full understanding, providing the sound base needed for exploring other branches of the field.

An Introduction to Linguistics

Todd, L.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

York Notes are guides to literature in English, covering major British, American, Commonwealth and Third World works as well as English translations of some important writings in other languages. The Notes are designed for GCSE and A level and are tailored to exam requirements. The books provide criticism on specific texts plus questions. Information on the author and the historical background to the text is given and a specimen essay, commentaries, hints for study and a summary of the text is included. The present book provides a commentary and notes on selected poems by Ted Hughes.

Selected Poems

HUGHES,TED

Poetry

These are the notes on the poets of the Great War. York Notes are designed for GCSE and A Level students, but they also provide background information for first-year university students. The series covers major works from medieval to modern English literature, and classic and contemporary works from Europe, America, the Commonwealth and the Third World. Each book features a biography of the author; the literary and historical background to the work; a summary and glossary of the text; hints for study, to help students plan work and study effectively; a specimen essay; and suggestions for further reading.

Poets of the Great War

(THE VICTORIAN AGE OF LITERATURE reviews the lives and works of all the leading literary figures of the period, providing insights into their sources of inspiration and assessing their achievements. At the same lime it seeks to place Victorian literature in its historical context and to show how it is permeated by the political, social and religious concerns of the age. These concerns are highlighted in the opening section of the Handbook, which describes some of the salient features of the Victorian era, and they are then explored further in the accounts of the writers and their works that follow, with the result that the Handbook not only points up the huge range and diversity of Victorian literature but also clarifies the issues and attitudes that run through it and that give it its distinctive flavour)

The Victorian Age of Literature

Blamires, H.

Classics

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