The Literature WorkbookThe Literature Workbook is a practical introductory textbook for literary studies, which can be used either for independent study or as part of a taught class. Laying the ground for further study, The Literature Workbook introduces the beginning student to the essential analytic and interpretative skills that are needed for literary appreciation and evaluation. It also equips the teacher with practical tools and materials for use in seminars or when setting written assessments and projects. Arranged according to genre and chronology, the chapters acquaint the reader with a range of key figures in English literaure and encourage the reader to think about them in their historical and cultural contexts. Adopting a user-friendly case-study approach, each chapter contains * exercises and activities * discussion hints * project work * suggestions for further reading The Workbook also includes: * a glossary * a subject and name index. |
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... Wyatt . a ) Compare the following two sonnets by Wyatt and Surrey and jot down some notes about their differences regarding their subject - matter and their rhyme patterns . b ) Renaissance sonnets are often accused of being artificial ...
... Wyatt . a ) Compare the following two sonnets by Wyatt and Surrey and jot down some notes about their differences regarding their subject - matter and their rhyme patterns . b ) Renaissance sonnets are often accused of being artificial ...
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... Wyatt Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde but as for me helas I may no more the vayne travaill hath weried me so sore I ame of theim that farthest cometh behinde yet may I by no meanes my weried mynde drawe from the Deere but ...
... Wyatt Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde but as for me helas I may no more the vayne travaill hath weried me so sore I ame of theim that farthest cometh behinde yet may I by no meanes my weried mynde drawe from the Deere but ...
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... a person , the impossibility of enjoying the company of someone the poet loves : Wyatt laments that Anne Boleyn is beyond his reach since the King takes an interest in her ; Surrey 4 MINIATURE POEMS : THE ELIZABETHAN SONNET.
... a person , the impossibility of enjoying the company of someone the poet loves : Wyatt laments that Anne Boleyn is beyond his reach since the King takes an interest in her ; Surrey 4 MINIATURE POEMS : THE ELIZABETHAN SONNET.
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... Wyatt's is a love poem ; Surrey's is an elegy , a lament for someone's death . Wyatt uses an extended metaphor : deer - beloved - Anne Boleyn ; hunter - lover - Wyatt himself ; hunting courting . Surrey is very sparse with metaphor ...
... Wyatt's is a love poem ; Surrey's is an elegy , a lament for someone's death . Wyatt uses an extended metaphor : deer - beloved - Anne Boleyn ; hunter - lover - Wyatt himself ; hunting courting . Surrey is very sparse with metaphor ...
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... Wyatt was the first to translate and write sonnets in English . At first his sonnets were translations of Petrarch's sonnets , but he was soon writing sonnets of his own , in imitation of those he had translated . When Wyatt introduces ...
... Wyatt was the first to translate and write sonnets in English . At first his sonnets were translations of Petrarch's sonnets , but he was soon writing sonnets of his own , in imitation of those he had translated . When Wyatt introduces ...
Contents
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From the Elizabethan sonnet to the present | 23 |
Miltons When I Consider | 30 |
Shelleys Sonnet to England in 1819 | 36 |
same but different | 45 |
Activity and project work | 51 |
DEATH ON STAGE | 54 |
The artist as dreamer | 87 |
Characterization through dialogue | 93 |
Dialogue and wit | 99 |
Hard Times | 105 |
The two meanings of fancy | 111 |
LAUGHTER IN PATRIARCHY | 116 |
Colonial and patriarchal implications | 122 |
Lies of Silence | 129 |
Women welcoming death in The White Devil | 61 |
SHERIDANS SCHOOL FOR MARRIAGE | 68 |
Comedy and the confusion of identity | 74 |
DEGENERATE APEMEN OR HEROIC | 80 |
Activity and project work | 136 |
Index | 145 |
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