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This book explores ways to study and teach the literary works of William Clark Falkner and William Faulkner to ESL students in todays digital environment. Through these activities, ESL students are expected to comprehend the literature of the American South as the cultural phenomenon that is connected to their own social formations.

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Offers a link between pre-degree study and undergraduate study by introducing students to: the history of English literature from the Renaissance onwards; the key literary genres (poetry, prose, and drama); a range of techniques, tools and terms useful in the analysis of literature; and, critical and theoretical approaches to literature.

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Offers a link between pre-degree study and undergraduate study by introducing students to: the history of English literature from the Renaissance onwards; the key literary genres (poetry, prose, and drama); a range of techniques, tools and terms useful in the analysis of literature; and, critical and theoretical approaches to literature.

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This guide offers an introduction to the basic skills and intellectual tools required for making a study of fiction. It presents an explanation of the most common features of prose, using practical examples drawn from six short stories which are included as part of the study programme. -- .

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This book provides an accessible introductory guide to some of the most important aspects of literary theory, linking them to more traditional terms and approaches.

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-Updated throughout to explore the impact of digital resources, e-reading and growing interest in world literature, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of the novel in all its forms---

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John M. Ganim presents a revised theory of late medieval literary history based on the relationship of the poet to the reader. His work shows how the increasingly compromised exemplary intent of later medieval poets led them to dramatize the reader as a character in the text and to develop complex forms of narrative characterized by discontinuity,

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This work undertakes an empirical test of stereotypical notions about women's and men's 19th-century fiction, utilising the computer to examine 80,000 of text from passages randomly chosen in 20 novels each by women and men. This material has also been compared with 20th-century fiction.

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Shakespeare intended his plays to be seen, not read. With this thought uppermost in mind, Charney offers here a provocative analysis of Hamlet, the most stylistically inventive of all Shakespeare's plays, strictly in terms of its style-by which he means the distinct modes of expression used by the playwright in accomplishing his dramatic ends. Care

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Explores theories and practices of style in literary studies and philosophy.

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Explores theories and practices of style in literary studies and philosophy.

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A closely documented, balanced account of the bitter political struggle in May and June of 1960 when thousands of Japanese rioted in protest against the revised treaty. William W. Lockwood calls it "one of the best case studies of Japanese political behavior ever written." Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest

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With the aid of new analytic techniques, including the computer, Karl Kroeber examines the fictional styles of three consecutive English novelists, presenting an objective and systematic comparison of the stylistic coherence of their work. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to aga

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This collection shows how Cormac McCarthy's The Road reacts aesthetically to many of the ethical, ontological, and political concerns that define our times.

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This collection shows how Cormac McCarthy's The Road reacts aesthetically to many of the ethical, ontological, and political concerns that define our times.