The English Studies Book
Published on 5. March 1998
Book
Hardback
440 pages
978-0-415-12866-7 (ISBN)
Description
The English Studies Book is revolutionary in scope and design. It combines a critical dictionary, anthology and study guide and is designed specifically for students studying English Language and/or Literature at colleges and universities. Interdisciplinary in approach and highly flexible in its range of applications, this book provides students and teachers with a text which supports learning and teaching across the whole range of introductory courses in English language, literature and culture.
Key features:
* Entries on over 100 common critical, theoretical and linguistic terms, each one including a definition, critical application, activities, discussion and further reading
* An anthology of diverse and provocative texts representing non-literary and modern media texts as well as poetry, prose and drama
* Introductions to the major theoretical positions and practical guidance on how to apply them
* An historical survey of 'English' as a university and college subject, including an overview of present practices and future prospects
* A supporting website at Oxford Brookes, linked to the Routledge website
Key features:
* Entries on over 100 common critical, theoretical and linguistic terms, each one including a definition, critical application, activities, discussion and further reading
* An anthology of diverse and provocative texts representing non-literary and modern media texts as well as poetry, prose and drama
* Introductions to the major theoretical positions and practical guidance on how to apply them
* An historical survey of 'English' as a university and college subject, including an overview of present practices and future prospects
* A supporting website at Oxford Brookes, linked to the Routledge website
Reviews / Votes
'A marvellously compact, all round guide to English, written primarily with the undergraduate in mind but suitable for everyone with an interest in the language. Seriously academic textbooks rarely make for interesting, accessible reading for the rest of us, but this is one very welcome exception.' - Writing Maga zine'Useful to teachers as a handbook to the changing nature of English Literature, and a source of classroom activities' - English and Media Magazine
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-12866-7 (9780415128667)
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Book
04/2002
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Person
Rob Pope is Principal Lecturer in English Studies at Oxford Brookes University. He has taught English at universities in England, Wales, Russia, New Zealand and Australia. Well known for his innovative teaching practices, he is author of Textual Intervention (Routledge, 1995).
Content
List of Figures Preface and acknowledgements What the book is about and how to use it
Part one INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH STUDIES
1.0 Preview 1.1 Which 'Englishes'? 1.2 One English Language, literature, culture - or many? 1.3 Summary: one and many 1.4 Activities, reading 1.5 How studied? 1.6 Summary: pasts, presents and futures 1.7 Activities, discussion, reading 1.8 Fields of Study 1.9 Summary: keeping on course and making your own way 1.10 Activities, reading
Part two THEORETICAL POSITIONS AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES
2.0 Preview 2.1 Getting some initial bearings 2.2 Theory in practice - a working model 2.3 Practical criticism and (old) new criticism 2.4 Formalism into functionalism 2.5 Psychological approaches 2.6 Marxism, cultural materialism and new historicism 2.7 Feminism and gender studies 2.8 Poststructuralism and postmodernism 2.9 Postcolonialism and multiculturalism 2.10 Developing positions and future prospects
Part three COMMON TOPICS
Preview Absence and presence, gaps and silences, centres and margins Accent and dialect Addresser, address, addressee Aesthetics and pleasure, art and beauty Author and authority Auto/biography and life-writing: self and other Bibles, holy books and myths Canon and classic Character and characterisation Comedy and tragedy, carnival and the absurd Difference and similarity, preference and re/valuation Discourse and discourse analysis Drama and theatre, film and TV Foreground, background and point of view Genre and kinds of texts Image, imagery and imagination Narrative in hi/story, novel, news and film Poetry and word-play Realism and representation: fiction, fact, faction and metafiction Speech and conversation, monologue and dialogue Standards and standardisation, varieties and variation Subject and agent, role and identity Text, context and intertextuality Versification: stress, rhythm, metre and rhyme Writing and reading, response and rewriting Your own additions and modifications
Part four TEXTUAL ACTIVITIES AND LEARNING STRATEGIES
4.0 Preview 4.1 Overview of textual activities 4.2 Frameworks and checklists for close reading 4.3 Writing and research from essays to the Internet 4.4 Alternative modes of critical and creative writing 4.5 What's (not) in a name? changing courses 4.6 Making anthologies and firing 'canons' yourself
Part five ANTHOLOGY OF SAMPLE TEXTS
Features 116 text examples, among them:
An Anglo-Saxon poem; Renaissance lyric and sonnet; heroic and mock-heroic verse from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries; poetry from W.B. Yeats, Judith Kazantsis, Adrienne Rich, Tony Harrison; the life-writing of Janet Frame; slave narratives and romances of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries; post-colonial tales from Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad and Zora Neale Thurston; news stories from national dailies; a case study from Freud; intertextual clusters featuring versions of `Humpty Dumpty', the `daffodils' of William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Lynn Peters and Heineken; `versions of age' from Shakespeare to a skincare advert; depictions of death; visions of England at war.
Part six GLOSSARY OF COMMON GRAMMATICAL AND LINGUISTIC TERMS
Appendices
A Maps of Britain and of the world
B A chronology of language and literature, culture, communication and the media
C English and or as other educational subjects
Bibliography
Relevant journals and useful addresses
Index
Part one INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH STUDIES
1.0 Preview 1.1 Which 'Englishes'? 1.2 One English Language, literature, culture - or many? 1.3 Summary: one and many 1.4 Activities, reading 1.5 How studied? 1.6 Summary: pasts, presents and futures 1.7 Activities, discussion, reading 1.8 Fields of Study 1.9 Summary: keeping on course and making your own way 1.10 Activities, reading
Part two THEORETICAL POSITIONS AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES
2.0 Preview 2.1 Getting some initial bearings 2.2 Theory in practice - a working model 2.3 Practical criticism and (old) new criticism 2.4 Formalism into functionalism 2.5 Psychological approaches 2.6 Marxism, cultural materialism and new historicism 2.7 Feminism and gender studies 2.8 Poststructuralism and postmodernism 2.9 Postcolonialism and multiculturalism 2.10 Developing positions and future prospects
Part three COMMON TOPICS
Preview Absence and presence, gaps and silences, centres and margins Accent and dialect Addresser, address, addressee Aesthetics and pleasure, art and beauty Author and authority Auto/biography and life-writing: self and other Bibles, holy books and myths Canon and classic Character and characterisation Comedy and tragedy, carnival and the absurd Difference and similarity, preference and re/valuation Discourse and discourse analysis Drama and theatre, film and TV Foreground, background and point of view Genre and kinds of texts Image, imagery and imagination Narrative in hi/story, novel, news and film Poetry and word-play Realism and representation: fiction, fact, faction and metafiction Speech and conversation, monologue and dialogue Standards and standardisation, varieties and variation Subject and agent, role and identity Text, context and intertextuality Versification: stress, rhythm, metre and rhyme Writing and reading, response and rewriting Your own additions and modifications
Part four TEXTUAL ACTIVITIES AND LEARNING STRATEGIES
4.0 Preview 4.1 Overview of textual activities 4.2 Frameworks and checklists for close reading 4.3 Writing and research from essays to the Internet 4.4 Alternative modes of critical and creative writing 4.5 What's (not) in a name? changing courses 4.6 Making anthologies and firing 'canons' yourself
Part five ANTHOLOGY OF SAMPLE TEXTS
Features 116 text examples, among them:
An Anglo-Saxon poem; Renaissance lyric and sonnet; heroic and mock-heroic verse from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries; poetry from W.B. Yeats, Judith Kazantsis, Adrienne Rich, Tony Harrison; the life-writing of Janet Frame; slave narratives and romances of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries; post-colonial tales from Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad and Zora Neale Thurston; news stories from national dailies; a case study from Freud; intertextual clusters featuring versions of `Humpty Dumpty', the `daffodils' of William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Lynn Peters and Heineken; `versions of age' from Shakespeare to a skincare advert; depictions of death; visions of England at war.
Part six GLOSSARY OF COMMON GRAMMATICAL AND LINGUISTIC TERMS
Appendices
A Maps of Britain and of the world
B A chronology of language and literature, culture, communication and the media
C English and or as other educational subjects
Bibliography
Relevant journals and useful addresses
Index