The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English

The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
Author: Dominic Head
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1241
Release: 2006-01-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521831792

This illustrated and fully updated Third Edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available. The Guide covers everything from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world. There are entries on writers from Britain and Ireland, the USA, Canada, India, Africa, South Africa, New Zealand, the South Pacific and Australia, as well as on many important poems, novels, literary journals and plays. This new edition has been brought completely up to date with more than 280 new author entries, most of them for living authors. The general reader will find it fascinating to browse and to discover many new writers and works, while students will find it an invaluable resource for daily use. This is a unique work of reference for the twenty-first century that no reader or library should be without.

The Wordsworth Companion to Literature in English

The Wordsworth Companion to Literature in English
Author: Ian Ousby
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Total Pages: 1036
Release: 1998
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 9781853267642

This volume is a reference source to literature in the English language throughout the world. It provides a survey of the world-wide literary tradition of this area, and offers explanations of genres, movements, critical terms and literary concepts.

Cambridge International AS and A Level Literature in English Coursebook

Cambridge International AS and A Level Literature in English Coursebook
Author: Elizabeth Whittome
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-07-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1107644968

Comprehensive student-friendly resources designed for teaching Cambridge International AS and A Level Literature in English (syllabus 9695). This Coursebook is a comprehensive guide to the study of Literature in English at AS and A Level, encouraging both the enjoyment of literature and rigorous academic study. It provides a clear approach for any Literature studies syllabus, and is divided into three parts: Part 1 and Part 2 covering poetry, prose and drama at AS and A Level respectively, and Part 3 covering key skills needed to succeed in assessment. It contains a range of stimulating literary material from around the world, including poems and extracts from plays and prose fiction, selected to include Cambridge set texts.

The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English

The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
Author: Lorna Sage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 708
Release: 1999-09-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521668132

An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.

A Reference Guide for English Studies

A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 872
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520051614

This ambitious undertaking is designed to acquaint students, teachers, and researchers with reference sources in any branch of English studies, which Marcuse defines as "all those subjects and lines of critical and scholarly inquiry presently pursued by members of university departments of English language and literature.'' Within each of 24 major sections, Marcuse lists and annotates bibliographies, guides, reviews of research, encyclopedias, dictionaries, journals, and reference histories. The annotations and various indexes are models of clarity and usefulness, and cross references are liberally supplied where appropriate. Although cost-conscious librarians will probably consider the several other excellent literary bibliographies in print, such as James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide (Modern Language Assn. of America, 1989), larger academic libraries will want Marcuse's volume.-- Jack Bales, Mary Washington Coll. Lib., Fredericksburg, Va. -Library Journal.