| Description |
xii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
Very short introductions ; 249 |
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Very short introductions ; 249.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-174) and index. |
| Contents |
Once upon a time -- What it is -- When it began -- The study of English -- Periods and movements -- Among the English poets -- Shakespeare and dramatic literature -- Aspects of the English novel -- The Englishness of English literature? |
| Summary |
"Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis, with close readings from an extraordinary scene in King Lear to a war poem by Carol Ann Duffy, and a series of striking examples of how literary texts change as they are transmitted from writer to reader." -- Book jacket. |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
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Literatur.
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Englisch.
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English literature -- Introduction.
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| Genre/Form |
Nonfiction.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| ISBN |
9780199569267 (pbk.) |
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0199569266 (pbk.) |
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