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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... thou bread And sawest thy cosin crowned in thy sight ; Shelton for love , Surrey for Lord thou chase , Ay me , while life did last , that league was tender : Tracing whose steps thou sawst Kelsall blaze , Laundersey burnt , and battered ...
... thou bread And sawest thy cosin crowned in thy sight ; Shelton for love , Surrey for Lord thou chase , Ay me , while life did last , that league was tender : Tracing whose steps thou sawst Kelsall blaze , Laundersey burnt , and battered ...
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... thou chase , / ... Tracing whose steps thou sawst Kelsall blaze ' ) as if the poet had not been able to restrain a sigh of sorrow . Surrey's sonnet also conveys clearly felt admiration for Clere's valour in running to succour the dying ...
... thou chase , / ... Tracing whose steps thou sawst Kelsall blaze ' ) as if the poet had not been able to restrain a sigh of sorrow . Surrey's sonnet also conveys clearly felt admiration for Clere's valour in running to succour the dying ...
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... thou would'st , when all have given him over , From Death to Life , thou might'st him yet recover . GLOSSARY line 1 ther's there is line 2 Nay no line 3 yea yes line 5 Vowes vows , promises line 7 seene seen ; Browes brows , foreheads ...
... thou would'st , when all have given him over , From Death to Life , thou might'st him yet recover . GLOSSARY line 1 ther's there is line 2 Nay no line 3 yea yes line 5 Vowes vows , promises line 7 seene seen ; Browes brows , foreheads ...
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... thou do'st love ? Looke in this glasse ( quoth I ) there shalt thou see The perfect forme of my faelicitie . When , thinking that it would strange Magique prove , He open'd it : and taking off the cover , He straight perceav'd himselfe ...
... thou do'st love ? Looke in this glasse ( quoth I ) there shalt thou see The perfect forme of my faelicitie . When , thinking that it would strange Magique prove , He open'd it : and taking off the cover , He straight perceav'd himselfe ...
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... thou do'st love ' , I. 9 ) . Whether this ' I ' is assumed to be male or female , the sonnet contemplates the existence of same - sex love . Since other sonnets in the sequence enable us to read the ' I ' in the poem as male , the poem ...
... thou do'st love ' , I. 9 ) . Whether this ' I ' is assumed to be male or female , the sonnet contemplates the existence of same - sex love . Since other sonnets in the sequence enable us to read the ' I ' in the poem as male , the poem ...
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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