1st Edition
Studying English A Guide for Literature Students
Acknowledgements
List of figures
A Note for Students
Chapter 1 Studying English
Chapter 2 Where did English come from?
Chapter 3 Studying English Today
Chapter 4 English and ‘disciplinary consciousness’
Chapter 5 Critical attitudes
Chapter 6 Literature, value and the canon
Chapter 7 Castle Shakespeare
Chapter 8 The author is dead?
Chapter 9 Metaphors and figures of speech
Chapter 10 Narrative and closure
Chapter 11 Creative writing and critical rewriting
Chapter 12 English, identity and politics
Chapter 13 Why study English?
Conclusion
Further Reading
Biography
Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Jonathan Beecher Field is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University, USA.
'Designed to help the student "think like a critic," Eaglestone and Field's splendid new book Studying English will also help them enjoy the process. Students--and their professors--should celebrate the arrival of a book that will make their lives easier, more efficient, and more productive.' Geoffrey Harpham, Professor of English, Tulane University, USA
