"Write It Right "covers everyday tasks and academic writing, offering user-friendly advice on how students can make the most of simple, practical methods for tackling essays and longer pieces of work. Divided into ten sections, this guide can be used either as a course book or for individual use. Ea[...]
Aimed at students wishing to improve their writing skills, this guide deals with the key basics of grammar, punctuation and spelling while also showing students how to construct a sentence, how to build a paragraph and how to structure an essay. This third edition includes an expanded 'Spot the Mist[...]
A step-by-step guide which shows the student how to gain a sense of what a poem or passage of prose or drama is about, how to analyze it and build a successful essay.[...]
This work offers a method for approaching a Shakespeare play. It includes five chapters that illustrate the nature and impact of new approaches to Shakespeare that have altered literary studies: structuralism, poststructuralism, deconstruction, feminism, new historicism and cultural materialism.[...]
"A Brief History of English Literature" provides a lively introductory guide to English literature from "Beowulf" to the present day. The book is written in a lucid style to enable the reader to engage fully with the narrative and easily understand the texts in relation to the social, political and [...]
This third edition, which contains updated material, additional discussion of critical terms and approaches and a revised further reading list, is a guide to the study of English literature.[...]
This new edition of an established text provides a lively, concise and up-to-date historical overview of the story of English literature. Focusing on how writing both reflects and challenges the periods in which it is produced, John Peck and Martin Coyle combine close readings of key texts with rece[...]