1st Edition
Texts and Contexts An Introduction to Literature and Language Study
By Adrian Beard
Copyright 2001
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
The idea of studying texts 'in context' has become a major new emphasis in contemporary literary studies. Texts and Contexts explores the idea of contexts and the way they affect texts, concentrating on: * the writer's context * the reader's context * the text's context * the language context * the meaning context. Through a series of units comprising texts, exercises and readings, Adrian Beard... Read more
1 Texts and contexts: a framework 2 Texts and contexts: whose dog are you? Epigram Alexander Pope 3 Texts and contexts: raising the Titanic: The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy; Every Man for Himself Beryl Bainbridge; Some Unmentioned Morals G.B. Shaw 4 Attitudes, values and assumptions: Nurofen advertisement; Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen; Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain; Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 5 Finding meanings in poetry: Mr Bleaney Philip Larkin; The Patriot Robert Browning; Sonnet 26 From the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning 6 Making readings in drama: Macbeth William Shakespeare; The Tempest William Shakespeare; Hamlet William Shakespeare; Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare; She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith; 29 January 2001 15:17:29; Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen; 7 Contexts and Shakespeare; (co-authored by Margaret Walker); The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare; 8 Similarity and difference; Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare; Sonnet 130 William Shakespeare; Hekatompathia Thomas Watson; Great Expectations Charles Dickens; Jack Maggs Peter Carey 9 Critical viewpoints: The Going Thomas Hardy.
Biography
Adrian Beard was previously Head of English at Gosforth High School, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and now works at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. He is a Chief Examiner for AS/A Level English Literature, Series Editor of Routledge A Level English Guides and joint Series Editor of Intertext.
'This text would be an asset to anyone studying AS or A2 Literature or Language and Literature, and we would be of considerable use to teachers.' - NATE
