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Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students 4th edition [Kietas viršelis]

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(Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
  • Formatas: Hardback, 178 pages, aukštis x plotis: 198x129 mm, weight: 280 g
  • Serija: Doing... Series
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Aug-2017
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138039616
  • ISBN-13: 9781138039612
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 178 pages, aukštis x plotis: 198x129 mm, weight: 280 g
  • Serija: Doing... Series
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Aug-2017
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138039616
  • ISBN-13: 9781138039612
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Doing English presents the ideas and debates that shape how we ‘do’ English today, explaining arguments about the value of literature, the canon, Shakespeare, theory, politics, and the subject itself.

In his lucid and engaging style, Robert Eaglestone:

  • ?Orients students by encouraging them to think about what they are doing when they study literature
  • ? Bridges the gap between English at A-level and International Baccalaureate to English in Higher Education by exploring traditional and theoretical approaches to literature and explaining key ideas and trends
  • ? Explains to students why English, more than any other subject, is the cause of public debate and concern in the media and amongst politicians and educators.

This popular and classic guide has been fully updated throughout, to take account of recent research, educational changes and current events, and now includes a chapter called ‘Why Study English?’ – showing how and why the skills taught by English are transferable to a range of careers. This immensely readable book is the ideal introduction to studying English Literature.

Recenzijos

'This new edition of Doing English is stunningly good. It manages the tough feat of bettering the earlier editions, which were themselves an invaluable introduction to literary study. The introduction of new material not only updates but also adds new lines of thought and addresses fresh issues at the heart of the subject. Always written in admirably clear prose, it never oversimplifies, opening up the nature of the discipline, its practices and debates, for those engaging with it for the first time.' Barbara Bleiman, Education Consultant and Co-Editor of emagazine, the English and Media Centre

List of illustrations
xi
Acknowledgements xiii
A note for students xv
A note for teachers and academics xvii
Part I How we read
1 Studying English
3(8)
Who is this book for?
3(5)
1 Reading is active
5(1)
2 English is a discipline
6(1)
3 English is controversial
7(1)
4 English is constantly changing
7(1)
How to use this book
8(1)
Summary
9(2)
2 Where did English come from?
11(14)
Beginning the conversation
12(1)
Before English: The nineteenth century
12(7)
How modern English began
19(3)
The `Leavis method'
22(1)
Summary
23(2)
3 Studying English today
25(10)
Changing world, changing English
25(4)
Using theory
29(2)
English today
31(2)
Summary
33(2)
4 The discipline of English
35(12)
What is a discipline, anyway?
35(4)
Problems in English and `disciplinary consciousness'
39(6)
Conclusion
45(1)
Summary
46(1)
5 Critical attitudes
47(10)
Into the text or out from the text?
47(1)
Intrinsic attitudes: Into the text
48(2)
Extrinsic attitudes: Out of the text
50(2)
Contrasting these two attitudes
52(1)
Summary
53(4)
Part II What we read
6 Literature, value and the canon
57(12)
Can literature be defined?
57(2)
What is literary value?
59(1)
What is the canon?
60(4)
How does the canon affect you?
64(2)
Canons tomorrow?
66(2)
Summary
68(1)
7 Castle Shakespeare
69(20)
Shakespeare the Star: The traditionalists' argument
72(2)
Shakespeare the Black Hole: The cultural materialists' argument
74(1)
Is Shakespeare `simply the best'?
75(3)
Does Shakespeare teach values?
78(3)
Does Shakespeare have a universal appeal?
81(1)
The effects of this debate on studying Shakespeare
81(1)
Traditionalists and iconoclasts in other debates
82(2)
Conclusion
84(1)
Summary
85(4)
Part III Reading, writing and meaning
8 The author is dead?
89(2)
How important is the author in deciding what a work of literature means?
89(1)
For authorial intention: The authority of the author
90(1)
1 Meaning
91(1)
2 Biographical evidence
92(1)
3 Authorial presence
92(1)
4 Simple evaluation
92(1)
Against authorial intention: The death of the author
92(1)
1 Meaning: Is literature a code?
93(1)
2 Biographical evidence
93(2)
3 Authorial presence
95(1)
4 Simple evaluation
96(5)
So why has the author always seemed so important?
97(1)
Consequences of the death of the author
98(2)
Summary
100(1)
9 Metaphors and figures of speech
101(10)
Figures of speech everywhere
101(2)
Metaphors in literature
103(1)
Metaphors in everyday speech
104(1)
Basic conceptual metaphors
105(1)
What metaphors mean and how they shape the world
106(3)
Summary
109(2)
10 Narrative and closure
111(8)
How are narratives made?
111(3)
Narrators
114(1)
Closure
115(3)
Summary
118(1)
11 Creative writing and critical rewriting
119(10)
What is creative writing?
119(4)
Nuts and bolts and assessment
123(2)
Creative English?
125(1)
Summary
125(4)
Part IV English and you
12 English, politics and identity
129(12)
English and the polis
129(2)
Critical attitudes and politics
131(1)
The extrinsic attitude: Literature as politics?
131(1)
The intrinsic attitude: Literature versus politics?
132(1)
Where does your communal identity come from?
133(2)
English as cultural heritage
135(3)
Why has English been a political battleground?
138(1)
Summary
139(2)
13 Why study English?
141(10)
What's the use of `use'?
142(1)
The values of English
143(2)
`My degree taught me skills?'
145(3)
Conclusion
148(1)
Summary
149(2)
Conclusion: The importance of English 151(6)
Further reading 157(14)
Index 171
Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is widely published and has advised a range of government bodies and exam boards. In 2014, he won a HEA National Teaching Fellowship.