Literature in English: How and Why, Edition 2
About this ebook
Overall, Literature in English:
• Grounds the study of literature throughout by referencing a selection of well-known novels, plays and poems
• Examines the central questions that readers ask when confronting literary texts, and shows how these make literary theory meaningful and necessary
• Links British, American and postcolonial literature into a coherent whole
• Discusses film as literature and provides the basic conceptual tools needed to study film within a literature-course framework
• Places particular emphasis on interdisciplinarity by examining the connections between the study of literature and other disciplines
• Links literary theory to current global challenges, placing special emphasis on new and evolving approaches such as ecocriticism, new materialism and the spatial turn
• Provides extensive guidance on further reading.
Written in a clear and engaging style, this is an essential guide for literature students around the world.
About the author
Dominic Rainsford is Professor of Literature in English and Head of Department at Aarhus University, Denmark, having previously taught in Britain, Poland and the United States. His publications include Authorship, Ethics and the Reader (1997), Literature, Identity and the English Channel (2002) and many articles on Dickens. He is president of the Danish Association of English Studies and general editor of the Dickens Quarterly.
