Description
The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies is a comprehensive textbook, providing essential practical and analytical reading and writing skills for literature students at all levels.
With advice and information on fundamental methods of literary analysis and research, Whitla equips students with the knowledge and tools essential for advanced literary study.
- Includes traditional close reading strategies integrated with newer critical theory, ranging from gender and genre to post-structuralism and post-colonialism; with examples from Beowulf to Atwood, folk ballads to Fugard, and Christopher Marlowe to Conrad's Marlow
- Draws on a wide range of resources, from print to contemporary electronic media
- Supplies a companion website with chapter summaries, charts, examples, web links, and suggestions for further study
Author: William Whitla
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 09/28/2009
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781405183758
ISBN10: 1405183756
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Reference
About the Author
William Whitla is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar in English and Humanities at York University in Toronto. He has published The Central Truth (on Robert Browning, 1963), Essays and Reviews (on Victorian literature and religion, with Victor Shea, 2000), and Foundations: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing (also with Victor Shea, 2001 and 2005).