Comparing Texts: Routledge a Level English Guides
Autor Nicola Onyett, Onyett Nicolaen Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2004
Focusing on the AOs most relevant to their topic, the books help students to develop their knowledge and abilities through analysis of lively texts and contemporary data. Each book in the series covers a different area of language and literary study, and offers accessible explanations, examples, exercises, summaries, suggested answers and a glossary of key terms.
Comparing Texts:
- provides students with the skills they need to compare and contrast texts
- explores and compares texts from a wide range of genres and periods
- draws on a large number of literary and non-literary texts, from Chaucer's Wife of Bath to The Good Wife's Guide, from Frankenstein to poetry by Carol Ann Duffy, and from Nigella Lawson to Fast Food Nation
- introduces the main themes and issues students need to consider when comparing texts: themes, genre, time and place, form and structure, and intertextuality.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415328593
ISBN-10: 0415328594
Pagini: 81
Ilustrații: 2 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Taylor & Francis Group
Seria Routledge a Level English Guides
ISBN-10: 0415328594
Pagini: 81
Ilustrații: 2 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Taylor & Francis Group
Seria Routledge a Level English Guides
Cuprins
Preface 1. Genre Text Conventions Case Study: The Recipe Genre. Conclusion. Summary. 2. Theme Bridging the Gap between Texts. Case Study: Single Parents and their Children. Bleak House in Context. Choosing Your Own Theme. Conclusion Summary. 3. Linked and Labelled Texts Labelling Texts. The 'Great Tradition' and Cultural Capital. Problems with the Labelling Process. Case Study: The Romantic Movement. The Romantic Background and the Age of Revolution. The Byronic Hero. Romantic Texts in Context. Key Contextual Questions. Extension Exercise: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Conclusion. Summary. 4. Sources and Adaptations Parody Case Study: Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary. Comparing Form, Structure and Language. Interpretations of Texts. The Writer's Context. The Text's Context. The Reader's Context. The Readings Context. Conclusion. Summary. 5. Comparing Texts in Examinations Case Study 1: Comparing Literary Texts. Case Study 2: Comparing Non-Literary Texts. Conclusion: Comparing Texts in Examinations - Methods and Approaches. Summary. Suggestions for Answers. Glossary
Notă biografică
Nicola Onyett is an experienced A level examiner, moderator and coursework advisor. Previously Head of English at Queen Margaret's School in York she now teaches in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of York.