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Literature in our lives : talking about texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman /
This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for over forty years. This is a book written for students, whether starting their studies or m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1. The myth of the Fall and its impact: Pullman, Lewis and others
- 2. Claribel's story: a few thoughts on gender, race and colonialism in The Tempest
- 3. Wuthering Heights: myth and the wounds of loss
- 4. Beckett's Waiting for Godot: transforming lives
- 5. Great Expectations: intertextualities, endings and life after plot
- 6. Emily Dickinson: 'And then the windows failed'
- 7. Emma: rhetoric, irony and the reader's assault course
- 8. Dorian Gray: 'queering' the text
- 9. The Fallen Woman: Emma Bovary and (many) others
- 10. Two transgressive American women: Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- 11. Hamlet / Lear: realism / modernism
- 12. John Keats: three (or is it two?) poems and thoughts on 'late style'
- 13. Republicanism, regicide and 'The Musgrave Ritual'
- 14. Jean Rhys: her texts from the 1930s
- 15. Twelfth Night: Dream-Gift
- 16. Please read Proust
- 17. Paradise Lost: radical politics, gender and education.