The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and includes literature from the margins, both geographical and cultural. Extensive quotations from poetry, prose and drama underpin the narrative. The third edition covers recent developments in literary and cultural theory, and features: a new chapter on novels, drama and poetry in the 21st century; examples of analysis of key texts drawn from across the history of British and Irish literature, including material from Chaucer, Shakespeare, John Keats and Virginia Woolf; an extensive companion website including extra language notes and key text analysis; lists of Booker, Costa and Nobel literature prize winners; and an A-Z of authors and topics. The Routledge History of Literature in English is an invaluable reference for any student of English literature and language.

Now Read On brings together literatures in English from around the world, combining an excellent choice of texts with sound methodological guidance.It contains approximately eighty texts and extracts from countries andcontinents including:
*Africa
*Australia
*Great Britain
*India
*Malaysia
*New Zealand
*Philippines
*Singapore
Designed as course for both native and non-native English-speakers in how to read literature, this anthology begins with shorter starter texts and questions, and develops in complexity as the reader progresses through the book. Now Read On provides the user with
*hands-on experience of working with a plurality of texts from around the world
*questions, exercises, pointers and commentary, accompanying all the passages of literature, and providing the student with the tools and confidence to critically evaluate any text
*an understanding of the major genres - poetry, short stories, drama and novels.

The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and includes literature from the margins, both geographical and cultural. Extensive quotations from poetry, prose and drama underpin the narrative. The third edition covers recent developments in literary and cultural theory, and features: a new chapter on novels, drama and poetry in the 21st century; examples of analysis of key texts drawn from across the history of British and Irish literature, including material from Chaucer, Shakespeare, John Keats and Virginia Woolf; an extensive companion website including extra language notes and key text analysis; lists of Booker, Costa and Nobel literature prize winners; and an A-Z of authors and topics. The Routledge History of Literature in English is an invaluable reference for any student of English literature and language.

This book is a user-friendly guide to English literature from 1960 to the present. Written by the authors of The Routledge History of Literature in English (now in its second edition), The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing considers the development and status of English writing today. From Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes to Caryl Churchill, Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett, the book is essential reading for all readers of contemporary writing.

Contents:
Part I Section 1. Poetry: Abdul Ghafar Ibrahim The Wall, Mutabaruka (Allan Hope) You Ask Me, William Carlos Williams This is Just to Say, Hilary Tham Offerings, Abdul Ghafar Ibrahim Hello, Arthur Gorges Her Face, Lord Byron So We'll Go No More A-Roving, Chinweizu Colonizer's Logic, J.R.D.A Dubreka Goodbye Europeans, Fadzillah Amin Dance.
Section 2. Short Stories: Ambrose Pierce The Disinterested Arbiter, Ernest Hemingway In Our Times, Samuel Clemens A Fable, Fredric Brown The Weapon, Grace Paley Mother, Catherine Lim The Journey, Laurie Clancy Reading the Signs.
Section 3. Plays: Edward Bond Bingo, Five Snippets, Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Ernest, Harold Pinter Silence, William Shakespeare Macbeth, Anton Chekhov The Bear.
Section 4. Novels: D.H.Lawrence Sons and Lovers, Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls, George Orwell Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Shahnon Ahmad No Harvest but a Thorn, Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things, Lloyd Fernando Scorpion Orchid, Anita Desai A Village by the Sea.
Part II Section 5. Poetry: Pitika Ntuli In My Country, Keorapetse Kgositsile Mandela's Sermon, Mabel Segun Bride Price, Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, John Keats La Belle Dame sans Merci, Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade, William Wordsworth Daffodils, John Agard Rainbow, Shirley Lim The Dulang-Washer, Maya Angelou Woman Work, The Joeys Men Are, Emily Dickinson A Narrow Fellow in the Grass, Muhammad Haji Salleh Three Beserah Fisherman, Thomas Hardy The Convergence of the Twain.
Section 6. Short Stories: Three Points of Entry, W. Somerset Maugham The Force of Circumstance, Isaac Asimov True Love, Nick Joaquin May Day Eve, Katherine Mansfield The Garden Party, Janet Frame You Are Now Entering the Human Heart
Section 7. Plays: William Shakespeare Macbeth, Harold Pinter A Night Out, Mahesh Dattani Dance Like a Man, Ramli Ibrahim In the Name of Love.
Section 8. Novels: George Orwell Animal Farm, Jack Schaffer Shane, Harper Lee To Kill a Mocking Bird, James Vance Marshall Walkabout.
Part III Section 9. Poetry: Kojo Gyinage Kyei Time, W.H.Auden Stop All the Clocks, Emily Dickinson Because I could not Stop for Death, Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility, Edwin Brock Song of the Battery Hen, James Berry Fantasy of an African Boy, Sudeep Sen New York Times, John Keats When I Have Fears, To Autumn.
Section 10. Short Stories: Steven Schutzman The Bank Robbery, Simon Tay Drive, Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Like Birds, Like Fishes, Siew Yue Killingley Everything's Arranged, Pira Sudham Rains, Saki (H.H.Munro) The Open Window.
Section 11. Plays: George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion, Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Ernest, William Shakespeare Hamlet, As You Like It, Julias Caesar Wole Soyinka The Swamp Dwellers, Athol Fugard Sizwe Bansi is Dead.
Section 12. Novels: John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, K.S.Maniam The Return, R.K.Narayan The Man-Eater of Malgudi, Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart.

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Language, Literature and the Learner is an edited volume evolving from three international seminars devoted to the teaching of literature in a second or foreign language. The seminars explicitly addressed the interface between language and literature teaching to investigate the ways in which literature can be used as a resource for language growth at secondary, intermediate and upper-intermediate level. This book presents the reader with a practical classroom-based guide to how the teaching of language and literature, until recently seen as two distinct subjects within the English curriculum, can be used as mutually supportive resources within the classroom. Through essays and case studies it reports on the most recent developments in classroom practice and methodology and suggests ways in which the curriculum could be reshaped to take advantage of this integrated approach. The text will be essential reading for students undertaking PGCE, TESOL/MA, UCLES, CTEFLA, RSA and Teachers' Diploma courses worldwide. Students of applied linguistics, those on stylistics courses and undergraduates studying English language will welcome it as accessible supplementary reading.

The Language of Poetry: * develops the student's ability to read and evaluate poetic texts of many kinds * includes activities, commentaries and extensions to each extract * covers a variety of poetic language, ranging from songs, advertisements and spoken language to the more traditional forms of the sonnet, ode and free verse * includes poetry from Philip Larkin, Maya Angelou, Dylan Thomas and Tony Harrison.

Language, Literature and the Learner is an edited volume evolving from three international seminars devoted to the teaching of literature in a second or foreign language. The seminars explicitly addressed the interface between language and literature teaching to investigate the ways in which literature can be used as a resource for language growth at secondary, intermediate and upper-intermediate level. This book presents the reader with a practical classroom-based guide to how the teaching of language and literature, until recently seen as two distinct subjects within the English curriculum, can be used as mutually supportive resources within the classroom. Through essays and case studies it reports on the most recent developments in classroom practice and methodology and suggests ways in which the curriculum could be reshaped to take advantage of this integrated approach. The text will be essential reading for students undertaking PGCE, TESOL/MA, UCLES, CTEFLA, RSA and Teachers' Diploma courses worldwide. Students of applied linguistics, those on stylistics courses and undergraduates studying English language will welcome it as accessible supplementary reading.

This second edition of The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain and Ireland provides an illustrated introduction to the work of the most important writers and their historical background from the year 600 to the end of the twentieth century. It covers the works of novelists, dramatists and poets from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Austen to Dickens, James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, right through to modern-day authors such as Jeanette Winterson, Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh.

In 1963 President John F. Kennedy was shot, Sylvia Plath published "The Bell Jar" and the Beatles were in their prime. This was a changing world, which British and Irish writers both contributed to and reflected in drama, poetry and prose.;"The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing" tells the story of British and Irish writing from 1963 to 2003. From the first performance of Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" in the 1960s to lad novels and chick lit in the 21st century, the authors guide the reader through the major writers, genres and developments in English writing over those 40 years.;Providing an in-depth survey of the main genres and extensive treatment of a wide range of writers including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Angela Carter, Benjamin Zephaniah and Nick Hornby, this readable handbook also offers notes on language issues, quotations from selected works, a timeline and a guide to other works. Written by the authors of "The Routledge History of Literature in English" (second edition 2001), this is a guide for all readers of contemporary writing.

The Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra is one of the earliest Mahayana sutras and influenced the development of Prajnaparamita, Pure Land, and Yogacara philosophies. It propounds a particular samadhi, or meditation, called the “meditation in which one is brought face to face with the Buddhas of the present” or “the meditation of direct encounter with the Buddhas of the present.” This meditation is a developed form of the earlier practice of buddhanusmrti or “calling the Buddha to mind.” It also attempts to reconcile the vision of the Buddhas and Buddha-fields of the prsent with the insights of the Perfection of Wisdom school, or the Sunyavada (theory of emptiness) tendency in Mahayana Buddhism. The Surangama Samadhi Sutra expounds the essentials of this meditative practice as the key to attaining Buddhahood. It is written in narrative form, beginning with a grad assembly on Vulture Peak, where the Buddha is surrounded by great numbers of bhiksus, Bodhisattvas, and other beings. The dialogue begins with a question by a Bodhisattva named Resolute Mind, then proceeds involving a number of participants, including Bodhisattvas, Sravakas, gods, and goddesses. It also uses several different supernatural manifestations, such as the simultaneous offering of innumerable elaborate chairs for the Buddha by all the most highly ranked gods present. The grad climax is the Buddha's manifestation of all the innumerable Buddhas of the ten directions. This magnificent epiphany is presented as part of a dramatic hesitation toward the end of the dialogue, when some of the Bodhisattvas in Sakyamuni's assembly become discouraged by the apparent difficulty of the path of Buddhahood being described. Finally, there is the charge to Ananda to preach the Sutra, which is also carried up by one of the many Indra kings who appear in the text. Themes covered in this text include the question of how to account for the apparently dismal spiritual fates of Hinayanist practitioners, the Sravakas, Pratyekabuddhas, and Arhats, the description of innumerable other Buddha lands, the bestowal of the prediction of future Buddhahood and the spiritual identity and fate of women.