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Studying Literature: The Essential Companion is a unique guide for English undergraduates. It combines practical advice on study skills with key information on literary theories and theorists, offering invaluable support throughout any English degree.

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A study skills guide combined with an overview of literary theories makes for a one-stop reference that can be used throughout your English degree. The study skills section prepares you for your course with advice on using the library for essay writing, and for your exams with tips on revision and preparation. The digital resource section provides information on how to use Google Books and sites such as Facebook, as well as the pros and cons of using Wikipedia. Understanding literary theory is essential to all English degrees and this section outlines the main theories in a clear and comprehensive way. Literary theorists are profiled to ensure that you have a comprehensive grounding in the subject.

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Studying literature: The Essential Companion is a unique book. It is designed to accompany students of literature – whether on English, combined humanities or foreign-language degrees – throughout the whole of their studies. This is a one-stop reference for all the information they need, both on their subject and on the best way to go about studying it.

Combining a concise glossary of critical terms and theories, a guide to literary theorists and a study skills guide in one, the Companion is written with a real awareness of the needs of students today and blends academic rigour with essential practical information.

Section 1: Study guide – takes the student through reading a text, preparing for courses, getting the most out of seminars and lectures, making presentations, finding and using secondary material, writing essays, and taking exams
Section 2: Guide to the use of electronic media – offers advice on finding information on-line, downloading texts and criticism, joining web and email discussion groups and using n-line bibliographies
Section 3: Introduction to literary theories and approaches – provides a clear overview of the field of literary studies, cross-referenced with sections 4 and 5
Section 4: Glossary of literary and theoretical terms – helps students with the essential terminology for literary analysis
Section 5: Guide to theorists – provides concise biographical and critical profiles of the key modern theorists in literary studies

About the Author
Paul Goring is Senior Lecturer in English, Jeremy Hawthorn is Professor of English and Domhnall Mitchell is Professor of English, all at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Section 1: Guide to studying literature at university

  • Introduction
  • Getting organized
  • Reading literary texts
  • Literary criticism
  • Writing essays
Section 2: Guide to the use of electronic media
  • Some introductory comments
  • Electronic media: opening definitions
  • Finding primary electronic information
  • Issues of reliability
  • Downloading literary texts
  • Reading in the electronic age
  • Searching and analyzing electronic texts
  • Browsing the web
  • Evaluating secondary sources
  • Revising and editing electronically
  • Documenting electronic media
  • Safety measures
Section 3: Theories and approaches
  • Why theory?
  • The theoretical object
  • Types of theory
  • Theory and method
  • Formalisms
  • The hermeneutic tradition
  • Structuralism and its progeny
  • Psychological and psychoanalytic theories
  • Isms
Section 4:
  • Glossary of literary and theoretical terms
Section 5: Guide to theorists


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780340759462
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 424
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 631 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0340759461
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2001
  • Depth: 31
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 631
  • Sub Title: The Essential Companion
  • Width: 157 mm


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