- ISBN:9780521729826
- Format:Paperback
- Subject(s):English Literature
- Author(s):Stephen Siddall
- Available from: October 2014
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
- 1. Approaching landscape and literature: Classical influences
- Biblical influences: Eden and expulsion
- The garden of love
- The greenwood
- Elegant shepherds
- Symbolic nature
- The eighteenth century: the Enlightenment
- Towards the Romantics
- Confinement and space
- Assignments
- 2. Approaching the texts: Chaucer's landscapes
- Shakespeare's landscapes
- Marvell's ingenuity
- Landscapes for elegy
- Landscapes for religion
- The country house
- Romantic solitude
- Landscapes of childhood
- The Romantics: the Sublime and the Gothic
- Hardy's Wessex
- Observation and beyond
- Working the land
- Desolated land
- Ancient and modern
- Assignments
- 3. Texts and extracts: Simon Armitage, from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Geoffrey Chaucer, from The Parlement of Foulys
- Thomas Carew, 'The Spring', John Clare, from The Shepherd's Calendar
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'Spring'
- John Milton, from Paradise Lost
- James Thomson, from The Seasons
- Dorothy Wordsworth, from her Journals
- Jane Austen, from Sense and Sensibility
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, from 'Monte Blanc'
- Matthew Arnold, from 'The Scholar Gipsy'
- George Eliot, from The Mill on the Floss
- John Steinbeck, from The Grapes of Wrath
- Thomas Hardy, from Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- D.H. Lawrence, from The Rainbow
- Edmund Blunden, from Undertones of War
- Stella Gibbons, from Cold Comfort Farm
- T.S. Eliot, from The Four Quartets
- Richard Wilbur, 'Year's End'
- William Golding, from Free Fall
- Angela Carter, from 'The Erl-King'
- Ted Hughes, from Tales from Ovid
- 4. Critical approaches: Political approaches
- Feminist approaches
- Ecological approaches
- Assignments
- 5. How to write about landscape and literature: Responding to a poem
- Responding to prose
- Comparison
- Preparing to write about a topic
- Writing about the topic
- Assignments
- 6. Resources: Further reading
- Media resources: film and television
- Websites
- Glossary
- Index
- Acknowledgements.
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