The English Handbook

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A Guide to Literary Studies

By William Whitla

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The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies is a comprehensive textbook offering essential practical and analytical reading and writing skills tailored for literature students of all levels. It provides detailed advice on literary analysis methods, incorporating both traditional close reading techniques and contemporary critical theories such as gender studies, genre analysis, post-structuralism, and post-colonialism.

The book features examples ranging from Beowulf to Margaret Atwood, folk ballads to Athol Fugard, and Christopher Marlowe to Joseph Conrad's Marlon. It draws from diverse resources, including print and electronic media, and includes access to a companion website with chapter summaries, charts, examples, web links, and suggestions for further study.
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This book is ideal for literature students at all levels pursuing practical and analytical skills in literary studies, as well as educators seeking a thorough guide to literary analysis and critical theory integration.

The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies is a comprehensive new textbook providing essential practical and analytical reading and writing skills for literature students at all levels. The Handbook features coverage of all key areas, from sonnets to irony to close textual analysis.

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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.
Drawing on a wide range of resources, from print to contemporary electronic media.
A companion website with chapter summaries, charts, examples, web links, and suggestions for further study.

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

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781405183758

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 September 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 553g

Pages: 360

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About the Author

William Whitla is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar in English and Humanities at York University in Toronto. He has published The Central Truth (on Robert Browning, 1963), Essays and Reviews (on Victorian literature and religion, with Victor Shea, 2000), and Foundations: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing (also with Victor Shea, 2001 and 2005).