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Teaching Literature Overseas: Language-based Approaches This 1983 book is intended to promote discussion and experimentation in what had become a neglected field – that of English literature study abroad in the context of language teaching. The Introduction (by Neil Gilroy-Scott, although the volume’s overall editor is Christopher
Jan 1, 1997 · For the data, the primary source of this study is Storytelling from BBC Learning English. Secondary sources include books, publications, journal articles, English encyclopedias, observations, and ...
Language through Literature: Back to the ‘New’ 1.1 Preamble 1.2 On the language/literature relation in educational contexts 1.3 On the literary text as a language learning opportunity 1.4 On ‘authentic’ language, texts, culture 1.5 But how? On the ‘whens’ and ‘whats’ of literature in language pedagogy 1.6 What next?
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Editor’s note
- The entries fall into the following categories
- Some of the wider or less obvious topics which receive entries
- Entries
Michael Abbott Robert Ackerman James Aikens Margaret Allen Susan Ang Stephen M. Archer Marie-Louise Ayres Christopher Baldick Cameron Bardrick Gillian Beer Alan Bell Misha Berson Delys Bird Jeremy Black M. H. Black Alison Blair-Underwood Paul Bongiorno John L. Bradley Andrea Brady Andrew Brown Frances Bzowski Jo-Anne Carty Paul Chipchase Jean Choth...
The following contributors deserve a special mention for their substantial work on this new edition: Andrea Brady, Christopher Innes, Neil Lazarus, Daniel Lea, David Madden, Tim Middleton, Stuart Murray, Patrick O’Donnell, John Thieme, Elizabeth Webby and Don B. Wilmeth. I have enjoyed unerring support, advice and encouragement from the following e...
Since the first edition of this Cambridge Guide was published it has sometimes seemed that the priorities of academics working in the various (and expanding) fields of literary study have not always corresponded with the priorities of non-academic enthusiasts: those so-called ‘ordinary’ or ‘general’ readers. In a practical sense, for an editor of a...
This edition has been revised and expanded with the central aim of previous editions in mind: to provide a handy reference guide to the literature in English produced by all the various English-speaking cultures throughout the world. It embraces literature from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, New Zealand, the South Pacific and the ...
Writers. This includes not just poets, novelists and playwrights but also those ‘non-literary’ authors who were an important influence on the literary culture of their age, including: theologians, philoso-phers, economists, naturalists, scientists, essayists, critics and historians. Individual plays, poems, novels and other works. Generous coverage...
Arthurian literature Baconian heresy Bible in English, The bluestocking Booker Prize boys’ companies canon children’s literature Cockney School, The cognitive poetics include dialogic/dialogism dub poetry dumb show English dictionaries English language estates satire ethical criticism expressionism feminist criticism genre fiction Condition of Engl...
Entries are listed in alphabetical word-by-word order. Entries on people come before those on works when names and titles are the same. Headings for writers, movements, literary terms, and so on, appear in bold face. Headings for titles of books and magazines in bold face italics. The appearance of small capitals or small italic capitals in the cou...
a work of literature and extract a broader and deeper meaning presents various challenges that need to be addressed if you wish to successfully complete the course, pass the Continuous Assessment Tests (CATs), and enjoy the process in the meantime. As CAT1 will focus on theoretical questions of definition (what literature
verse, on a tomb. Later it came to mean a short poem that compressed meaning and expression in the manner of an inscription. Epigraph: a motto or quotation that appears at the beginning of a book, play, chapter, or poem. Occasionally, an epigraph shows the source for the title of a work. Because the epigraph usually
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For Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan, the genre is ‘notoriously refractory to definition’. Michael Kowaleski refers to its ‘dauntingly heterogeneous character’, and notes that it ‘borrows freely from the memoir, journalism, letters, guidebooks, confessional narrative, and, most important , fiction’.
