This text has established itself as a successful and popular introductory student guide. This fully revised and expanded third edition offers practical help and guidance. It shows the reader how to approach novels, plays and poems, and includes chapters on themes, characters, structure, style, irony and analysis. In addition, sections on writing essays, how to revise, and how to use the critics make this book an invaluable companion for anyone beginning to study English literature.
Author(s): Nicholas Marsh
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 160
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
General editors’ preface......Page 10
What is a theme?......Page 12
Choosing a passage to study......Page 13
How to study......Page 14
Wuthering Heights......Page 16
'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night'......Page 24
'The Tyger'......Page 30
Characters and themes......Page 36
Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice......Page 37
Studying characters from plays......Page 48
What is structure?......Page 52
Basic structure in novels and plays......Page 53
Othello......Page 54
Structure in more complicated texts......Page 60
Structure in poems......Page 61
'The Faithful Swallow'......Page 62
'Sonnet 52'......Page 66
Imagining plays......Page 70
What is style?......Page 75
'The Wreck of the Deutschland'......Page 76
How imagery works......Page 79
Romeo and Juliet......Page 80
'Harry Ploughman'......Page 86
What irony is not......Page 95
What to do when you find irony......Page 96
How to describe irony......Page 103
Irony, viewpoints and the narrator......Page 104
The literature examination......Page 111
The essay question......Page 112
Making a case......Page 120
How to write a simple paragraph......Page 121
How to write more complicated paragraphs......Page 125
Using the critics......Page 127
Revision......Page 135
Practice for the examination......Page 139
Natural developments from your study......Page 143
Experts and expertise......Page 147
Further reading......Page 155
H......Page 160
Y......Page 161
