English Grammar for Literature Students: How to Analyse Literary Texts
This book teaches the basics of the structure of the English language with plentiful extracts from novels, poems and plays, so that literature students learn how to identify parts of speech and discuss their effects. No previous linguistics experience is assumed. Each chapter is divided into a definition of a specific linguistic feature; a demonstration of it in a literary text; a literary exercise where readers identify it themselves and assess its effect; and a brief summary of the teaching point. Interpretation is subjective and readers will learn how to build linguistic evidence to support their view. Essential knowledge for anyone who analyses English Literature.

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English Grammar for Literature Students: How to Analyse Literary Texts
This book teaches the basics of the structure of the English language with plentiful extracts from novels, poems and plays, so that literature students learn how to identify parts of speech and discuss their effects. No previous linguistics experience is assumed. Each chapter is divided into a definition of a specific linguistic feature; a demonstration of it in a literary text; a literary exercise where readers identify it themselves and assess its effect; and a brief summary of the teaching point. Interpretation is subjective and readers will learn how to build linguistic evidence to support their view. Essential knowledge for anyone who analyses English Literature.

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English Grammar for Literature Students: How to Analyse Literary Texts

English Grammar for Literature Students: How to Analyse Literary Texts

by Laura Wright
English Grammar for Literature Students: How to Analyse Literary Texts

English Grammar for Literature Students: How to Analyse Literary Texts

by Laura Wright

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This book teaches the basics of the structure of the English language with plentiful extracts from novels, poems and plays, so that literature students learn how to identify parts of speech and discuss their effects. No previous linguistics experience is assumed. Each chapter is divided into a definition of a specific linguistic feature; a demonstration of it in a literary text; a literary exercise where readers identify it themselves and assess its effect; and a brief summary of the teaching point. Interpretation is subjective and readers will learn how to build linguistic evidence to support their view. Essential knowledge for anyone who analyses English Literature.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783111348414
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 07/22/2024
Series: Mouton Textbook
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Laura Wright, Cambridge, UK.
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