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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell's modern fable on the way power corrupts is as apt as
ever in the twenty-first century. Educational edition of this
much-loved classic from Longman.
Hairdresser Rita feels that life is passing her by. She wants an
education. But does Frank have anything to teach her? Willy
Russell's play gives a hilarious - and often moving - account of a
young woman's determination to change her life.
Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to
Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary
studies. Starting at 'The Beginning' and concluding with 'The End',
chapters range from the familiar, such as 'Character', 'Narrative'
and 'The Author', to the more unusual, such as 'Secrets',
'Pleasure' and 'Ghosts'. Now in its sixth edition, Bennett and
Royle's classic textbook successfully illuminates complex ideas by
engaging directly with literary works, so that a reading of Jane
Eyre opens up ways of thinking about racial difference, for
example, while Chaucer, Raymond Chandler and Monty Python are all
invoked in a discussion of literature and laughter. The sixth
edition has been revised and updated throughout. In addition, four
new chapters - 'Literature', 'Loss', 'Human' and 'Migrant' - engage
with exciting recent developments in literary studies. As well as
fully up-to-date further reading sections at the end of each
chapter, the book contains a comprehensive bibliography and an
invaluable glossary of key literary terms. A breath of fresh air in
a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical, this
book will open the reader's eyes to the exhilarating possibilities
of reading and studying literature.
Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to
Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary
studies. Starting at 'The Beginning' and concluding with 'The End',
chapters range from the familiar, such as 'Character', 'Narrative'
and 'The Author', to the more unusual, such as 'Secrets',
'Pleasure' and 'Ghosts'. Now in its sixth edition, Bennett and
Royle's classic textbook successfully illuminates complex ideas by
engaging directly with literary works, so that a reading of Jane
Eyre opens up ways of thinking about racial difference, for
example, while Chaucer, Raymond Chandler and Monty Python are all
invoked in a discussion of literature and laughter. The sixth
edition has been revised and updated throughout. In addition, four
new chapters - 'Literature', 'Loss', 'Human' and 'Migrant' - engage
with exciting recent developments in literary studies. As well as
fully up-to-date further reading sections at the end of each
chapter, the book contains a comprehensive bibliography and an
invaluable glossary of key literary terms. A breath of fresh air in
a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical, this
book will open the reader's eyes to the exhilarating possibilities
of reading and studying literature.
This is a collection of nine short stories by one of Britain's
best-loved writers. This edition is part of a series of pre- and
post-1914 works chosen especially for 14-18 year olds. The series
features fiction, anthologies, poetry, plays and non-fiction.
What is this thing called literature? Why study it? And how?
Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life,
death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called Literature
establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and
rewarding subject to study. Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle
expertly weave an essential love of literature into an account of
what literary texts do, how they work and the sort of questions and
ideas they provoke. The book’s three parts reflect the
fundamental components of studying literature: reading, thinking
and writing. The authors use helpful and wide-ranging examples and
summaries, offering rich reflections on the question ‘What is
literature?’ and on what they term ‘creative reading’. The
new edition has been revised throughout with extensive updates to
the further reading, and a new chapter on creative non-fiction.
Bennett and Royle’s accessible and thought-provoking style
encourages a deep engagement with literary texts. This essential
guide to the study of literature is as an eloquent celebration of
the value and pleasure of reading.
What is this thing called literature? What is the point of
studying literature? How do I study literature?
Relating literature to timeless topics such as dreams, politics,
life, death, the ordinary and the crazy, this beautifully written
book establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting
and rewarding subject to study. Bennett and Royle delicately weave
an essential love of literature into an account of what literary
texts do, how they work and what sort of questions and ideas they
provoke.
The book s three parts reflect the key components of studying
literature: reading, thinking and writing. Part One comprises short
chapters on reading a poem, reading a novel, reading a story, and
reading a play. Part Two considers what thinking is, especially in
relation to critical thinking and thinking about literature. Part
three includes practical chapters on writing an essay, creative
writing, and writing fiction. The authors use helpful, familiar
examples throughout and offer brief reflections on questions such
as 'What is literature?', on 'English' as a war zone, on crisis
management and literary criticism, on dictionaries and on what the
authors call creative reading
Bennett and Royle s lucid and friendly style engages and
encourages personal experience of this thing called
literature."
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, this tale is linked in its
poignancy and humour to Lord the the Flies. This edition is part of
a series of pre- and post-1914 works chosen especially for 14-18
year olds. The series features fiction, anthologies, poetry, plays
and non-fiction.
This volume investigates the changing definitions of the author,
what it has meant historically to be an 'author', and the impact
that this has had on literary culture. Andrew Bennett presents a
clearly-structured discussion of the various theoretical debates
surrounding authorship, exploring such concepts as authority,
ownership, originality, and the 'death' of the author. Accessible,
yet stimulating, this study offers the ideal introduction to a core
notion in critical theory.
This volume investigates the changing definitions of the author,
what it has meant historically to be an 'author', and the impact
that this has had on literary culture. Andrew Bennett presents a
clearly-structured discussion of the various theoretical debates
surrounding authorship, exploring such concepts as authority,
ownership, originality, and the 'death' of the author. Accessible,
yet stimulating, this study offers the ideal introduction to a core
notion in critical theory.
It is hard to imagine just how startling the Christian message must
have sounded to those who first heard it.The story of a crucified
messiah was absurd. The death of Jesus as a ransom, a punishment,
or a sacrifice was an offense and an affront. Yet, by making the
death of Jesus central to its preaching and worship, Christianity
took a scandal, the cross, and called it a gospel. In Labor of God
, author Tom Bennett revisits the church's speech about the cross.
He recovers an equally shocking, but often overlooked, metaphor
from Scripture and tradition: the cross as an act of divine labor,
the travail through which God gives birth to the church. This
ancient understanding of the cross enables a fresh theology of
Christian atonement, one better able to answer questions of sin,
suffering, and divine violence. As Bennett argues, this
understanding of the cross can also reshape the classical
systematic doctrines of creation, election, soteriology, and the
church. Developed through close readings of biblical texts and
interaction with voices from theology and the sciences, Labor of
God shows how the Christian message of the cross can once again
prick the ears and trouble the hearts of those who hear it. To a
church immune to the radical character of its own message, Bennett
resists the temptation to sanitize and relishes the offenseaan
offense that gives birth to a scandalous gospel for a secular age.
Much literary criticism focuses on literary producers and their
products, but an important part of such work considers the
end-user, the reader. It asks such questions as: how far can the
author condition the response of the reader, and how much does the
reader create the meaning of a text? Dr Bennett's collection
includes important essays from such writers and critics as Wolfgang
Iser, Mary Jacobus, Roger Chartier, Michel de Certeau, Shoshana
Felman, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man and Yves Bonnefoy. It looks
in turn at deconstructionist, feminist, new historicist and
psychoanalytical response to the school. The book then considers
the act of reading itself, discussing such issues as the uniqueness
of any reading and the difficulties involved in its analysis.
Much literary criticism focuses on literary producers and their
products, but an important part of such work considers the
end-user, the reader. It asks such questions as: how far can the
author condition the response of the reader, and how much does the
reader create the meaning of a text? Dr Bennett's collection
includes important essays from such writers and critics as Wolfgang
Iser, Mary Jacobus, Roger Chartier, Michel de Certeau, Shoshana
Felman, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man and Yves Bonnefoy. It looks
in turn at deconstructionist, feminist, new historicist and
psychoanalytical response to the school. The book then considers
the act of reading itself, discussing such issues as the uniqueness
of any reading and the difficulties involved in its analysis.
What is this thing called literature? What is the point of
studying literature? How do I study literature?
Relating literature to timeless topics such as dreams, politics,
life, death, the ordinary and the crazy, this beautifully written
book establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting
and rewarding subject to study. Bennett and Royle delicately weave
an essential love of literature into an account of what literary
texts do, how they work and what sort of questions and ideas they
provoke.
The book s three parts reflect the key components of studying
literature: reading, thinking and writing. Part One comprises short
chapters on reading a poem, reading a novel, reading a story, and
reading a play. Part Two considers what thinking is, especially in
relation to critical thinking and thinking about literature. Part
three includes practical chapters on writing an essay, creative
writing, and writing fiction. The authors use helpful, familiar
examples throughout and offer brief reflections on questions such
as 'What is literature?', on 'English' as a war zone, on crisis
management and literary criticism, on dictionaries and on what the
authors call creative reading
Bennett and Royle s lucid and friendly style engages and
encourages personal experience of this thing called
literature."
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This study argues that ignorance is a part of the narrative and
poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its
thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about. It sees
that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic
period involves an often unacknowledged engagement with the
experience of not knowing. From Wordsworth and Keats to George
Eliot and Charles Dickens, from Henry James to Joseph Conrad, from
Elizabeth Bowen to Philip Roth and Seamus Heaney, writers have been
fascinated and compelled by the question of ignorance, including
their own. There is a politics and ethics as well as a poetics of
ignorance: literature's agnoiology, its acknowledgement of the
limits of what we know both of ourselves and of others, engages
with the possibility of democracy and the ethical, and allows us to
begin to conceive of what it might mean to be human. Now available
in paperback, this exciting approach to literary theory will be of
interest to lecturers and students of literary theory and
criticism. -- .
What is this thing called literature? Why study it? And how?
Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life,
death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called Literature
establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and
rewarding subject to study. Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle
expertly weave an essential love of literature into an account of
what literary texts do, how they work and the sort of questions and
ideas they provoke. The book’s three parts reflect the
fundamental components of studying literature: reading, thinking
and writing. The authors use helpful and wide-ranging examples and
summaries, offering rich reflections on the question ‘What is
literature?’ and on what they term ‘creative reading’. The
new edition has been revised throughout with extensive updates to
the further reading, and a new chapter on creative non-fiction.
Bennett and Royle’s accessible and thought-provoking style
encourages a deep engagement with literary texts. This essential
guide to the study of literature is as an eloquent celebration of
the value and pleasure of reading.
Andrew Bennett argues in this fascinating book that ignorance is
part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an
important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary
texts are about. He sees that the dominant conception of literature
since the Romantic period involves an often unacknowledged
engagement with the experience of not knowing. From Wordsworth and
Keats to George Eliot and Charles Dickens, from Henry James to
Joseph Conrad, from Elizabeth Bowen to Philip Roth and Seamus
Heaney, writers have been fascinated and compelled by the question
of ignorance, including their own. Bennett argues that there is a
politics and ethics as well as a poetics of ignorance: literature's
agnoiology, its acknowledgement of the limits of what we know both
of ourselves and of others, engages with the possibility of
democracy and the ethical, and allows us to begin to conceive of
what it might mean to be human. This exciting approach to literary
theory will be of interest to lecturers and students of literary
theory and criticism. -- .
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