Dealing with exciting new ideas and contentious debates that make up English today, this volume is an essential purchase for those students embarking on English at degree level
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Dealing with exciting new ideas and contentious debates that make up English today, this volume is an essential purchase for those students embarking on English at degree level
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I HOW WE READ; 1 Where did English come from?; 2 Doing English today; 3 English and 'the right answer'; 4 Critical attitudes; PART II WHAT WE READ; 5 Literature, value and the canon; 6 Doing Shakespeare; PART III READING, WRITING AND MEANING; 7 The author is dead?; 8 Metaphors and figures of speech; 9 Narrative and closure; 10 Creative writing and critical rewriting; PART IV ENGLISH STUDIES . . .?; 11 English, national identity and cultural heritage; 12 English, literature and politics
13 Interdisciplinary EnglishConclusion: The importance of English; Further reading; Index
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