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Author : June Waudby
Release : 2014-08-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 901/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis York Notes Companions: Renaissance Poetry and Prose by : June Waudby
Download or read book York Notes Companions: Renaissance Poetry and Prose written by June Waudby. This book was released on 2014-08-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : June Waudby
Release : 2010
Genre : English literature
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Book Rating : 788/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Renaissance Poetry and Prose by : June Waudby
Download or read book Renaissance Poetry and Prose written by June Waudby. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and exciting approach to the poetry and prose of the Renaissance which discusses the best-known writers and poets of the age - Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser and Donne - alongside writers much newer to the canon, such as Mary Sidney, Anne Locke and Aemilia Lanyer. The cultural context of the period is covered extensively in chapters focusing on religion, exploration and gender, and relevant modern critical theory is integrated throughout.
Author : Carole Maddern
Release : 2014-08-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 820/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis York Notes Companions: Medieval Literature by : Carole Maddern
Download or read book York Notes Companions: Medieval Literature written by Carole Maddern. This book was released on 2014-08-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume spans five centuries of post-Conquest literature, written at a time in which enormous social, political and linguistic changes transformed life in Britain. Medieval genres such as Arthurian romance, lyrics, dream narratives and mystery plays are brought to life and accompanied by discussions of key debates such as “Gender and Power”, “The Emergent Individual” and “Society and Class”. Bringing together historical contexts and critical theory, this is essential reading for any student of medieval literature.
Author : Beth Palmer
Release : 2014-08-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 88X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis York Notes Companions: Victorian Literature by : Beth Palmer
Download or read book York Notes Companions: Victorian Literature written by Beth Palmer. This book was released on 2014-08-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the era, this Companion explores influential dramatic works by Ibsen, Shaw and Wilde; the poetry of mourning; novelistic genres, including social problem novels and sensation fiction; and the literature of the fin de siècle’s aesthetes and decadents. Cultural and historical debates – focussing on empire, national identity, science and evolution, print culture and gender – supply essential context alongside discussion of relevant critical theory.
Author : Susan Chaplin
Release : 2014-08-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 847/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis York Notes Companions: Gothic Literature by : Susan Chaplin
Download or read book York Notes Companions: Gothic Literature written by Susan Chaplin. This book was released on 2014-08-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Gothic literature from its origins in Horace Walpole’s 1764 classic The Castle of Otranto, through Romantic and Victorian Gothic to modernist and postmodernist takes on the form. The volume surveys key debates such as Female Gothic, the Gothic narrator and nation and empire, and focuses on a wide range of texts including The Mysteries of Udolpho, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Magic Toyshop and The Shining.
