To engage with literary works from the past involves a play between familiarity and strangeness, and this play should be located as part of a readers response to texts, rather than expecting students to imbibe the dead knowledge about literary periods and authors in which textbooks and literary ...
To engage with literary works from the past involves a play between familiarity and strangeness, and this play should be located as part of a readers response to texts, rather than expecting students to imbibe the dead knowledge about literary periods and authors in which textbooks and literary ...
Movements & Periods in World Literature Modern Egyptian Women in Culture & Literature Anton Chekhov: Stories, Plays & Biography Classic Russian Literature | History, Books & Authors African Literature Lesson Plan Literary Works from English-Speaking African Countries Create an account to start this...
Victorian era literature was characterized by depictions of everyday people, hard lives, and moral lessons. They were meant for more than just entertainment. Victorians were interested in the hero as well as folk art. Victorian novels often focused on these themes. There are a few authors and...
Some of the most recognized authors of the Victorian era include Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, her husband Robert, Matthew Arnold, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. Within the Victorian Period, two other literary movements, that of The Pre-...
Weaving between periods of Alex’s life in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, Zacharias follows Alex’s transformation from a neglected teen to a conflicted adult. All the while, readers stand beside Alex both cheering her on and cringing at her bad decisions. ...
the existence of regional and localdialects, and several stages in the structural representation of the written graphs, or “characters.” Even the partial or total conquests ofChinafor considerable periods by non-Han Chinese ethnic groups from outside theGreat Wallfailed to disrupt thiscontinuity, ...
literature, a body of written works. The name has traditionally been applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the perceivedaestheticexcellence of their execution. Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems, including...
Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography, signed scholarly essays that provide essential context to understand the careers and writings of more than 12,000 published novelists from all time periods and all parts of the world. Gale Literature: Something About the Author,engaging author biograph...
In this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, Greek, French, and Italian - casting an unusual and rewarding light on the work of literature itself. He traces the history of names through Homer, ...