Format Hardcover Subject Literary Reference General Miscellaneous English Dictionaries Thesauri Literary Theory General Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Genres Literary Forms Literary Criticism Publisher Basingstoke Hampshire Higher and Further Education Division Macmillan 1984

Literary Terms and Criticism: A Students' Guide

Peck, John

Coyle, Martin

Reference

Palgrave HE UK

Shakespeare is often the first dramatist people study. You may have read, seen and even acted in plays, but Shakespeare may well be the first writer whose plays you are expected to analyse and discuss. This book provides a crystal clear method of approaching Shakespeare's plays.

How to Study a Shakespeare Play

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

What are the differences between traditional readings of Hamlet and those produced by modern criticism? What sort of questions does structuralist or feminist criticism raise? What issues are foregrounded by contemporary critics and how do these challenge our understanding of the play? This new collection on Hamlet brings together three traditional essays on the play and sets them alongside nine pieces of modern criticism that reflect the way in which contemporary discussion of Shakespeare is now heavily indebted to the ideas of structuralism, feminism, deconstruction, Marxism and new historicism. Complete with Introduction and a guide to Further Reading, the volume offers students a clear account of how the exciting developments in modern literary criticism and theory have influenced the current debate about Hamlet.

Hamlet (New Casebooks, 126)

Red Globe Press

This edition has been expanded to make it more relevant to the needs of today's students, offering a comprehensive guide to English poetry, drama and the novel. It also includes expanded essays on post-colonial literature and 20th-century literature and a wide variety of new entries, for example - on women's poetry, discourse, contradiction, the subject and the text. In addition, there is an extensive and revised guide to modern critical theory. John Peck and Martin Coyle are the series editors both of the How to Study Literature series and the New Casebooks series.

Literary Terms and Criticism

History & Criticism

Practical criticism underlies everything students of English literature do. It is a way of reading the text closely, but with a grasp of the larger issues involved. This book is a practical, step-by-step guide which shows the student how to gain a sense of what a poem or passage of prose or drama is about, how to analyse it and how to build a successful essay. Easy to read and uncluttered by technical vocabulary, it will prove an invaluable resource for any student.

Practical Criticism (Bloomsbury Study Skills, 91)

Bloomsbury Academic

This collection of essays is aimed at students who are working on The Merchant of Venice and who are looking for new ways of thinking about the play and new ways of thinking about their own practice as critics. The collection offers a spectrum of the more recent writings on the play, that open up its historical, cultural and political significance and serve to demonstrate some of the ways in which contemporary criticism is not only based upon critical theory but is also about the practice of criticism. This is a strong collection of essays about Shakespeare's most controversial play.

The Merchant of Venice: William Shakespeare (New Casebooks, 123)

A Brief History of English Literature

A Brief History of English Literature provides a lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day. The authors write in their characteristically lucid style which enables the reader to engage fully with the narrative and easily understand the texts in relation to the social, political and cultural contexts in which they were written. A masterpiece of clarity and compression, this book is a must have for anyone interested in the history of literature from the British Isles.

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Literary Terms and Criticism has long been established as the best-selling guide to the study of English literature. It offers a comprehensive introduction to English poetry, drama and the novel, complete with practical advice and tips on how to analyse texts and how to make sense of the critical terms we employ in discussing literature. It is also the clearest and most useful of all guides to modern critical theory. There are entries on all aspects of critical thinking, ranging from traditional criticism through to postcolonialism and cultural materialism. This new edition also contains updated material, a revised further reading list and additional discussion of critical terms and approaches. In so doing, it remains the indispensable guide - providing you with the vital starting-point for whatever text you are studying, and giving you ideas you can draw on throughout your course.

Literary Terms and Criticism (Key Concepts)

How to Study a Shakespeare Play (How to Study Literature)

Longwood Pr Ltd

This new edition of an established text provides a succinct and up-to-date historical overview of the story of English literature. Focusing on how writing both reflects and challenges the periods in which it is produced, John Peck and Martin Coyle combine close readings of key texts with recent critical thinking on the interaction of literary works and culture. Providing a lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day, the authors write in their characteristically lucid and accessible style.
A true masterpiece of clarity and compression, this is essential reading for undergraduate students coming across the vast areas of English literature for the first time and looking for a way of making critical sense of the texts being studied. In addition, the concise nature and narrative structure of this book makes it excellent reading for general readers.

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Literary Terms and Criticism: A Students' Guide

How to Study a Shakespeare Play

Hamlet (New Casebooks, 126)

Literary Terms and Criticism

Practical Criticism (Bloomsbury Study Skills, 91)

The Merchant of Venice: William Shakespeare (New Casebooks, 123)

A Brief History of English Literature

Literary Terms and Criticism (Key Concepts)

How to Study a Shakespeare Play (How to Study Literature)

A Brief History of English Literature