Name: Mastering English Literature By Richard Gill
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Mastering English Literature by Richard Gill

The third edition of this leading text provides a comprehensive guide to literary study. Emphasis has been placed on contextualizing literature and this updated version takes these changes into account by incorporating more material on historical and cultural contexts as well as in-depth discussions on novels, drama and poetry.

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'I think students could do with reading a book like this which covers the main ground quickly and simply. It would also do as a 'refresher' book...many books of this kind can be returned to afterwards for a 'remind read.' - Martin Coyle, Chair of English Literature, Cardiff University, UK

About Richard Gill

RICHARD GILL teaches English at Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, Leicester, UK, and teaches adults at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Mastering Shakespeare and Mastering the Novels of Jane Austen (with Susan Gregory).

Introduction.- PART 1: THE NOVEL.- Stories.- Characters.- Narration.- Plot.- Settings.- The Scope of the Novel.- PART 2: DRAMA.- Familiar Drama.- The Language of the Stage.- Plots and Actions.- Characters.- Audience.- Watching and Studying.- PART 3: POETRY.- Valuing, Performing, Hearing.- What Poets Make.- What Poets Think.- What Poets Do: Words and Meanings.- Poetic Shapes and Sounds.- The Work of Poets.- PART 4: GENRE.- Classification.- Tragedy.- Comedy.- Epic.- Lyric.- Satire.- Romance.- Gothic.- Pastoral.- PART 5: CONTEXT.- The Past.- Religion and the Bible.- Classical Civilisation.- Books and Ideas.- The Arts.- Society.- PART 6: INTERPRETATION.- Discovering Meanings.- Internal Interpretation: Narratology, Grammar and Genre.- Internal Interpretation: Formalism.- Theorists and Literary Features.- Debating Interpretations.- External Interpretation: Social.- External Interpretation: Feminism.- External Interpretation: Psychological.- External Interpretation: Ideas.- Issues in Interpretation.- PART 7: THEMES.- The Scope of Literature.- The Living World.- The Four Seasons.- The Earth.- Aspects of Nature.- Ideas about Nature.- Buildings.- Mortality.- The Human Mind and Society.- Love.- War.- Glossary.- Bibliography.- Index.

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GOR003512403

ISBN 13

9781403944887

ISBN 10

1403944881

Title

Mastering English Literature by Richard Gill

Author

Richard Gill

Series

Macmillan Master Series

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Macmillan Education UK

Year published

2006-07-28

Number of pages

560

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Mastering English Literature Richard Gill

Mastering English Literature by Richard Gill

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