Studying Literature in English

Studying Literature in English provides the ideal point of entry for students of English Literature. This book is an accessible guide for Literature students around the world. This book:Grounds literature and the study of literature throughout by referencing a selection of well-known novels, plays and poemsExamines the central questions that readers ask when confronting literary texts, and shows how these make literary theory meaningful and necessaryLinks British, American and postcolonial literature into a coherent wholeDiscusses film as literature and provides the basic conceptual tools in order to study film within a literature-course frameworkPlaces particular emphasis on interdisciplinarity by examining the connections between the study of literature and other disciplinesProvides an annotated list of further readingFrom principal literary genres, periods and theory, to strategies for reading, research and essay-writing, Dominic Rainsford provides an engaging introduction to the most important aspects of studying literature in English. This book is invaluable reading for anyone studying literature in English.

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Dominic Rainsford is Professor of Literatures in English at Aarhus University, Denmark, having previously taught in Britain, Poland and the United States. His publications include Authorship, Ethics and the Reader (1997), Literature, Identity and the English Channel (2002), and many articles on Dickens. He currently works on literature, ethics and quantification.

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Acknowledgements Using this book Part 1: Beginnings 1: Good Morrow 2: What is literature and who does it belong to? 3: Canons Part 2: Form and Genre 4: Poetry 5: The thing which is not 6: Prose fiction 7: Plays and films Part 3: Periods and Movements 8: Medieval and Early Modern 9: From Colonial America and Restoration England to 1900 10: From 1900 to the present Part 4: Positions, Identities, Ideas 11: The place of literature 12: Literary theory Part 5: Over to You 13: Primary and secondary sources 14: Reading, research, writing Further reading