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- ISBN:9780521729819
- Format:Paperback
- Subject(s):English Literature
- Author(s):Mary Ward
- Available from: May 2009
Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres.
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Each title includes a wide-ranging yet carefully levelled introductory discussion of a literary period, genre or theme, to provide students with an excellent introduction to an area of literature.
Helps students to address the new assessment objective 4 ('demonstrate understanding of the significance and influence of the contexts in which literary texts are written and received') - worth up to 35% of the A level qualification under new guidelines.
Discussion questions and end-of-section tasks offer an invaluable resource for self study as well as helpful exam preparation.
A mini-anthology of texts and extracts saves teachers time searching for appropriate 'wider reading' texts.
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- Introduction
- Part I. Approaching the literature of love: 1. Plato
- 2. The Bible
- 3. The Old Testament
- 4. The New Testament
- 5. Ovid
- 6. Courtly Love
- 7. Chaucer
- 8. Petracrch
- 9. Assignments
- Part II. Approaching the texts: 10. The geography of love
- 11. Food and desire
- 12. Love as a madness
- 13. Demon lovers
- 14. Love as a sickness
- 15. Transgressive love
- 16. Unrequited love
- 17. The proposal
- 18. The wedding
- 19. The honeymoon
- 20. Married love
- 21. Love and loss
- 22. Love and betrayal
- 23. Love, absence and death
- 24. The love elegy
- Part III. Texts and extracts: 25. William Cartright, 'No Platonique Love'
- 26. John Donne, 'Negative Love'
- 27. John Milton, from Paradise Lost
- 28. The Bible: King James Version, from The Song of Songs
- 29. Edmund Spenser, from 'Epithalamion'
- 30. Alexander Pope, from Eloisa to Abelard
- 31. Robert Herrick, 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'
- 32. W. H. Auden, 'Alone'
- 33. Geoffrey Chaucer, from Troilus and Criseyde
- 34. Andreas Capellanus, from De Arte Honesti Amandi
- 35. Lady Mary Wroth, from Pampilia to Amphilanthus
- 36. E.E. Cummings, 'somewhere I have never travelled, glady beyond'
- 37. William Shakespeare, from Othello
- 38. Emily Bronte, from Wuthering Heights
- 39. Sir Philip Sidney, from Astrophel and Stella
- 40. D. H. Lawrence, from The Rainbow
- 41. Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earnest
- 42. Evelyn Waugh, from Vile Bodies
- 43. Edward Albee, from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 44. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Sonnets from the Portuguese
- 45. Henry James, from The Portrait of a Lady
- 46. Vicki Feaver, 'The Crack'
- 47. Zora Neale Hurston, from Their Eyes Were Watching God
- 48. Graham Greene, from Brighton Rock
- 49. Thomas Hardy, 'The Going'
- Part IV. Critical approaches: 50. Reading Brideshead Revisited
- 51. Reading D.H. Lawrence
- 52. Reading Toni Morrison's Beloved
- Part V. How to write about the literature of love: 53. Comparing poems
- 54. Responding to prose
- 55. Comparing across genres
- 56. Assignments
- Resources: Further reading
- Websites and media resources
- Glossary
- Index
- Acknowledgements.
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