Studying English Literature: A Practical Guide - Couverture souple

Young, Tory

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521690145 ISBN 13 : 9780521690140

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey of literary history or non-subject specific manuals that offer rigid guidelines on how to write essays, Studying English Literature invites students to engage with the subject's history and theory whilst at the same time offering information about reading, researching and writing about literature within the context of a university. The book is practical yet not patronizing: for example, whilst the discussion of plagiarism provides clear guidelines on how not to commit this offence, it also considers the difficulties students experience finding their own 'voice' when writing and provokes reflection on the value of originality and the concepts of adaptation, appropriation and intertextuality in literature. Above all, the book prizes the idea of argument rather than insisting upon formulaic essay plans, and gives many ways of finding something to say as you read and when you write, in chapters on Reading, Argument, Essays, Sentences and References.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tory Young is Senior Lecturer in English at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521690145
• ISBN 13: 9780521690140
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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