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The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin
with Ted Hughes's proposition that 'every child is nature's chance
to correct culture's error.' Established Hughes scholars alongside
new voices draw on a range of approaches to explore the intricate
relationships between the natural world and cultural environments -
political, as well as geographical - which his work unsettles.
Combining close readings of his encounters with animals and places,
and explorations of the poets who influenced him, these essays
reveal Ted Hughes as a writer we still urgently need. Hughes helps
us manage, in his words, 'the powers of the inner world and the
stubborn conditions of the other world, under which ordinary men
and women have to live'.
Meredith is a novelist whom many readers have discovered with
excitement, drawn to his radical portrayal of social and personal
relations, especially of gender. Neil Robert's book is the first
full-length study for ten years, and is the first to examine the
novels in the light of modern literary theory, especially the work
of Mikhail Bakhtin, showing that Meredith is a writer who engages
profoundly with the ideological discourses of his time and is a
still not fully discovered precursor of the modernist novel.
This Study and Revision Guide provides the essential knowledge you
will need to recap and revise for the exams. / Endorsed by Eduqas,
offering high quality support you can trust. / Key terms are
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'Quickfire' questions and 'Examiner Pointers' check your
understanding as you progress through the course. / Plenty of
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where mistakes are typically made and where extra marks can be
gained. / 'Grade Boosts' help refine exam technique and improve
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provides excellent study support throughout the course.
Endorsed by WJEC, this Study and Revision Guide offers you high
quality support you can trust. Written by an experienced teacher
and examiner, it provides essential underpinning knowledge to recap
and revise as well as supporting the development of skills you need
to correctly interpret and answer the new exam questions. / An exam
practice and technique section offers advice on how exam questions
are set and marked. / Plenty of practice questions are included
with teacher commentaries. / Grade boost tips help refine exam
technique, improve grades and avoid common mistakes. / Numerous
diagrams clearly explain each concept. / Pointers focus on
understanding and using the underpinning knowledge. / Key terms are
clearly defined on each page. / Quickfire questions check and
reinforce your understanding.
This Revision Workbook provides a comprehensive collection of
examination-style questions covering each topic from the WJEC
Biology for A2 Level specification. // Ideal for examination
preparation, exam question practice and for improving examination
technique. // Enables students to build on their knowledge of key
areas of study and develop their confidence in the subject. //
Helps students understand what is required in an exam and develop
the skills needed to be effective in an exam situation. // Includes
advice on how students can refine their exam technique and improve
their grade potential. // The helpful write-in format, together
with the answers, enables students to check their progress as they
work through the course.
How was Ted Hughes's poetry affected by Sylvia Plath? What is the
importance of his early life on the Yorkshire moors with his elder
brother, that he called Paradise? How did writing Birthday Letters
affect his attitude to his life and career? This book attempts to
answer these questions by a close study of Hughes's poetic
development.
Lawrence's autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers was written in
four drafts between August 1910 and November 1912. During that
period Lawrence's mother died, he broke for the final time with
Jessie Chambers, the original of Miriam, had an affair with Alice
Dax, the main model for Clara, had a year-long engagement to Louie
Burrows, nearly died of pneumonia, gave up teaching, met Frieda
Weekley who was to be his wife and life-companion, and lived abroad
with her in Germany and Italy. When he began Sons and Lovers he was
a schoolteacher in Croydon, South London. Writing after work in the
evenings; when he completed it he was a full-time professional
writer living with Frieda on the shores of Lake Garda. The writing
of the novel and the life on which it was based were closely
intertwined. Moreover, Frieda and Jessie crucially influenced the
writing of the book. In Jessie's case she wrote sections of it
herself as well as well as encouraging Lawrence to make it more
directly autobiographical. In many ways the book is the result of
dialogues with Jessie and Frieda. Jessie was devastated by the
outcome, which she considered a slander and a betrayal. But
Lawrence incorporated her answering voice, as well as Frieda's, in
the text. This book combines biography and textual scholarship to
bring to life the dramatic story of the writing of Sons and Lovers.
In 1967, C.L.R. James, the much-celebrated Afro-Trinidadian
Marxist, stated that he knew of no figure in history who had "such
tremendous influence on such widely separated spheres of humanity"
within a few years of his death as the eighteenth-century
philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. While this impact was most
pronounced in revolutionary politics inspired by political theories
that rejected basing political authority in monarchy, aristocracy,
and the Church, it extended to European literature, to philosophies
of education, and the articulation of the social sciences. But what
particularly struck James about Rousseau was the strong resonance
of his work in Caribbean thought and politics. This volume
illuminates these resonances by advancing a creolizing method of
reading Rousseau that couples figures not typically engaged
together, to create conversations among people of seemingly divided
worlds in fact entangled by colonizing projects and histories.
Doing this enables us to grapple with the meaning of creolization
and the full range of Rousseau's legacies not only in contemporary
Western Europe and the United States, but in the Francophone
colonies, territories, and larger Global South.
In 1967, C.L.R. James, the much-celebrated Afro-Trinidadian
Marxist, stated that he knew of no figure in history who had "such
tremendous influence on such widely separated spheres of humanity"
within a few years of his death as the eighteenth-century
philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. While this impact was most
pronounced in revolutionary politics inspired by political theories
that rejected basing political authority in monarchy, aristocracy,
and the Church, it extended to European literature, to philosophies
of education, and the articulation of the social sciences. But what
particularly struck James about Rousseau was the strong resonance
of his work in Caribbean thought and politics. This volume
illuminates these resonances by advancing a creolizing method of
reading Rousseau that couples figures not typically engaged
together, to create conversations among people of seemingly divided
worlds in fact entangled by colonizing projects and histories.
Doing this enables us to grapple with the meaning of creolization
and the full range of Rousseau's legacies not only in contemporary
Western Europe and the United States, but in the Francophone
colonies, territories, and larger Global South.
Poetry in English since the Second World War has produced a number
of highly original narrative works, as diverse as Derek Walcott's
Omeros, Ted Hughes' Gaudete and Anne Stevenson's Correspondences.
At the same time, poetry in general has been permeated by narrative
features, particularly those linguistic characteristics that
Mikhail Bakhtin considered peculiar to the novel, and which he
termed "dialogic". This book examines the narrative and dialogic
elements in the work of a range of poets from Britain, America,
Ireland, Australia and the Caribbean, including poetry from the
immediate postwar years to the contemporary, and novel-like
narratives to personal lyrics. Its unifying theme is the way in
which these poets, with such contrasting styles and from such
varied backgrounds, respond to and creatively adapt the
language-worlds, and hence the social worlds in which they live.
The volume includes a detailed bibliography to assist students in
further study, and will be a valuable resource to undergraduate and
postgraduate students of contemporary poetry.
For the past 30 years, Paget Henry has been one of the most
articulate and creative voices in Caribbean scholarship, making
seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean political economy,
C.L.R. James studies, critical theory, phenomenology, and Africana
philosophy. In the case of Afro-Caribbean philosophy, he
inaugurated a new philosophical school of inquiry. Journeys in
Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader outlines the trajectory
of Henry's scholarly career, beginning and ending with his most
recent work on the distinctive character of Africana and Caribbean
philosophy and political and intellectual leadership in his home of
Antigua and Barbuda. In between, the book returns to Henry's early
consideration of the relationship of political economy to cultural
flourishing or stagnation and how both should be studied, and to
the problem with which Henry began his career, of peripheral
development through a focus on Caribbean political economy and
democratic socialism. Henry's canonical work in Anglo-Caribbean
thought draws upon a heavily creolized canon.
For the past 30 years, Paget Henry has been one of the most
articulate and creative voices in Caribbean scholarship, making
seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean political economy,
C.L.R. James studies, critical theory, phenomenology, and Africana
philosophy. In the case of Afro-Caribbean philosophy, he
inaugurated a new philosophical school of inquiry. Journeys in
Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader outlines the trajectory
of Henry's scholarly career, beginning and ending with his most
recent work on the distinctive character of Africana and Caribbean
philosophy and political and intellectual leadership in his home of
Antigua and Barbuda. In between, the book returns to Henry's early
consideration of the relationship of political economy to cultural
flourishing or stagnation and how both should be studied, and to
the problem with which Henry began his career, of peripheral
development through a focus on Caribbean political economy and
democratic socialism. Henry's canonical work in Anglo-Caribbean
thought draws upon a heavily creolized canon.
Poetry in English since the Second World War has produced a number
of highly original narrative works, as diverse as Derek Walcott's
Omeros, Ted Hughes' Gaudete and Anne Stevenson's Correspondences.
At the same time, poetry in general has been permeated by narrative
features, particularly those linguistic characteristics that
Mikhail Bakhtin considered peculiar to the novel, and which he
termed "dialogic". This book examines the narrative and dialogic
elements in the work of a range of poets from Britain, America,
Ireland, Australia and the Caribbean, including poetry from the
immediate postwar years to the contemporary, and novel-like
narratives to personal lyrics. Its unifying theme is the way in
which these poets, with such contrasting styles and from such
varied backgrounds, respond to and creatively adapt the
language-worlds, and hence the social worlds in which they live.
The volume includes a detailed bibliography to assist students in
further study, and will be a valuable resource to undergraduate and
postgraduate students of contemporary poetry.
The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin
with Ted Hughes's proposition that 'every child is nature's chance
to correct culture's error.' Established Hughes scholars alongside
new voices draw on a range of approaches to explore the intricate
relationships between the natural world and cultural environments -
political, as well as geographical - which his work unsettles.
Combining close readings of his encounters with animals and places,
and explorations of the poets who influenced him, these essays
reveal Ted Hughes as a writer we still urgently need. Hughes helps
us manage, in his words, 'the powers of the inner world and the
stubborn conditions of the other world, under which ordinary men
and women have to live'.
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How was Ted Hughes's poetry affected by Sylvia Plath? What is the
importance of his early life on the Yorkshire moors with his elder
brother, that he called Paradise? How did writing Birthday Letters
affect his attitude to his life and career? This book attempts to
answer these questions by a close study of Hughes's poetic
development.
Meredith is a novelist whom many readers have discovered with
excitement, drawn to his radical portrayal of social and personal
relations, especially of gender. Neil Robert's book is the first
full-length study for ten years, and is the first to examine the
novels in the light of modern literary theory, especially the work
of Mikhail Bakhtin, showing that Meredith is a writer who engages
profoundly with the ideological discourses of his time and is a
still not fully discovered precursor of the modernist novel.
This new Revision Workbook provides a comprehensive collection of
examination-style questions covering each topic from Components 1
and 2 from the Eduqas Biology for A Level Year 1 and AS
specifications. // Ideal for examination preparation, exam question
practice and for improving examination technique. // Enables
students to build on their knowledge of key areas of study and
develop their confidence in the subject. // Helps students
understand what is required in an exam and develop the skills
needed to be effective in an exam situation. // Includes advice on
how students can refine their exam technique and improve their
grade potential. // The helpful write-in format, together with the
answers, enables students to check their progress as they work
through the course.
September 1940. A four-year-old London boy gazes at a night sky lit
by burning London. Eighty years later, in another emergency and a
hugely changed world, the same lad is persuaded to write about his
ordinary life that has occasionally been quite extra-ordinary.
Vividly described with much laughter, wit and occasional trenchancy
is a rewarding career in education, great pleasure in the arts and
in sport and all in a world that has now passed into history. In
addition, with often moving directness, the author reveals his home
life which over eight decades has provided a joyful safe haven for
his forays into the world.
Duncan Ferguson. David Moyes. Paul McCartney. A father and a son. A
passion for Everton, and a passion for The Beatles. Blues &
Beatles is a story of football and music across the generations,
showing in touching and hilarious detail how a young boy inherited
his father's obsessions - and would one day pass them on to his own
sons. A journalist like his father, Neil Roberts has special access
to his beloved football club, so his heartfelt memoir includes
glimpses within the inner sanctum of Goodison Park as well as every
unforgettable Everton moment since the 1980s, all soundtracked by
the Fab Four. Along the way, Neil meets his heroes - including
musical as well as Everton icons - and reveals intriguing
connections to Dixie Dean and a famous Victorian footballer. But
above all, Blues & Beatles is a story of football and music
shared by father and son. Described by Everton fans' website Blue
Kipper as "a fantastic read [which] covers every Everton 'moment'
from the 70's to date carefully captured in detail."
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