Studying English Literature: A Practical Guide
by Tory Young
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Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey of literary history or non-subject specific manuals that offer rigid guidelines on how to write essays, Studying English Literature invites students to engage with the subject's history and theory whilst at the same time offering information about reading, researching and writing about literature within the show more context of a university. The book is practical yet not patronizing: for example, whilst the discussion of plagiarism provides clear guidelines on how not to commit this offence, it also considers the difficulties students experience finding their own 'voice' when writing and provokes reflection on the value of originality and the concepts of adaptation, appropriation and intertextuality in literature. Above all, the book prizes the idea of argument rather than insisting upon formulaic essay plans, and gives many ways of finding something to say as you read and when you write, in chapters on Reading, Argument, Essays, Sentences and References. show lessTags
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 820.711 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures Education and research
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- PR33 .Y68 — Language and Literature English English Literature Literary history and criticism
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- English
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