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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... lovers. Sonnets, like miniatures, belonged to intimacy. Today, when Elizabethan sonnets can easily be reproduced and obtained, they may still seem to resemble miniatures, as their meaning remains hidden in their beautiful formal cases ...
... lovers. Sonnets, like miniatures, belonged to intimacy. Today, when Elizabethan sonnets can easily be reproduced and obtained, they may still seem to resemble miniatures, as their meaning remains hidden in their beautiful formal cases ...
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... lovers . Sonnets , like miniatures , belonged to intimacy . Today , when Elizabethan sonnets can easily be reproduced and obtained , they may still seem to resemble miniatures , as their meaning remains hidden in their beautiful formal ...
... lovers . Sonnets , like miniatures , belonged to intimacy . Today , when Elizabethan sonnets can easily be reproduced and obtained , they may still seem to resemble miniatures , as their meaning remains hidden in their beautiful formal ...
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... lover - Wyatt himself ; hunting courting . Surrey is very sparse with metaphor , though he does use personification ( a figure of personification speech in which inanimate objects or abstract entities are given human attributes ) ...
... lover - Wyatt himself ; hunting courting . Surrey is very sparse with metaphor , though he does use personification ( a figure of personification speech in which inanimate objects or abstract entities are given human attributes ) ...
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... lover , ' let's try again ' . John Donne ( 1572-1631 ) has also mixed seriousness and wit in a well - known sonnet on death whose first two lines read : ' Death , be not proud , though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadfull , for ...
... lover , ' let's try again ' . John Donne ( 1572-1631 ) has also mixed seriousness and wit in a well - known sonnet on death whose first two lines read : ' Death , be not proud , though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadfull , for ...
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... lover : a lover who is burning because , as Petrarchan rhetoric dictates , love is fire and passion burns . In Petrarchan sonnets , lovers usually lament their sad fate , which is to love without being loved in return . The Petrarchan ...
... lover : a lover who is burning because , as Petrarchan rhetoric dictates , love is fire and passion burns . In Petrarchan sonnets , lovers usually lament their sad fate , which is to love without being loved in return . The Petrarchan ...
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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