| Description |
220 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sue Hosking and Dianne Schwerdt -- New and old worlds in The Tempest / David Smith -- Ophelia centre stage / Lucy Potter -- Romanticism: two poems / Philip Waldron -- Emily Dickinson: 'Homeless at home' / Megan Fyffe -- Jane Eyre: passion versus principle / Rosemary Moore -- Elizabeth Jolley's The Well and the female gothic / Amanda Nettelbeck -- What it means to be a man: reading the masculine / Philip Butterss -- Interpretation and intertextuality: Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Charlotte Jay's Beat Not the Bones / Marc Vickers -- Dancing masks: narrating the colonial experience in Achebe's Things Fall Apart / Dianne Schwerdt -- Aboriginalities: Jack Davis and Archie Weller / Sue Hosking -- Representation, power and genre in The Piano / Philip Butterss -- 'Did he smile his work to see?': the compelling aesthetics of murder in The Silence of the Lambs / Joy McEntee -- Television gothic: The X-Files / Mandy Treagus -- Girl culture: or, why study the Spice Girls? / Catherine Driscoll |
| Summary |
A collection of essays that are examples of the diversity of subject matter and the variety of critical approaches now used in English Studies, a discipline that has been undergoing a transformation. The discussions are not only concerned with great literary texts, but also film, television and the texts of everyday life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Tertiary students |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Hosking, Sue, 1948-
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Schwerdt, Dianne.
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Wakefield Press.
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| ISBN |
1862544980 |
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