The English Handbook A Guide to Literary Studies [Paperback]

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

Preface. I: The Study of Literature:

II: Reading English: From Opening a Book to Critical Analysis:

III: Critical Practice:

IV: The Politics of Reading: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity:

V: Poetry and Poetics:

VI: Prose Fiction:

VII: Drama:

VIII: Library Research and Scholarly Method:

IX: The Analytical Essay and Other Assignments:

Bibliography.

Index.

“It would certainly be helpful to students to have multiple copies available in their academic libraries.”  (Reference Reviews, 2012)

 

William Whitla is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar in English and Humanities at York&lC%