The Routledge heritage of Literature in English covers the most advancements within the background of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which discover the interrelationships among language and literature at each one degree. With a span from advert six hundred to the current day, it emphasises the expansion of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and altering features, and contains literature from the margins, either geographical and cultural. broad quotations from poetry, prose and drama underpin the narrative.
The 3rd variation covers fresh advancements in literary and cultural idea, and features:
- a new bankruptcy on novels, drama and poetry within the 21st century;
- examples of research of key texts drawn from around the heritage of British and Irish literature, together with fabric from Chaucer, Shakespeare, John Keats and Virginia Woolf;
- an wide significant other site together with additional language notes and key textual content research; lists of Booker, Costa and Nobel literature prize winners; and an A-Z of authors and topics.
The Routledge background of Literature in English
is a useful reference for any scholar of English literature and language.
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