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REGION:
Australia & New Zealand
LEVELS:
Year 11 / Year 12
SUBJECT AREA:
English
EDITION:
1ed
ISBN:
9780521729826
PUBLICATION DATE:
21/05/2009
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Landscape and Literature explores different ways in which landscape has been represented in literature. It focuses on key aspects of this topic such as the importance of pastoral, contrasts between city and country, eighteenth-century developments from neo-classical to picturesque and Romantic ideas of the sublime, regional novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and varied styles of twentieth-century poetry from the Georgian poets to Heaney and Hughes. Poems and prose extracts from writers such as Marvell, Wordsworth, George Eliot, Hardy, Lawrence and Seamus Heaney are included. 
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Introduction 1. Approaching landscape and literature - Classical influences Biblical influences - Eden and expulsion The garden of love The greenwood Elegant shepherds Symbolic nature The eighteenth century - the Enlightenment Towards the Romantics Confinement and space Assignments 2. Approaching the texts - Chaucer's landscapes Shakespeare's landscapes Marvell's ingenuity Landscapes for elegy Landscapes for religion The country house Romantic solitude Landscapes of childhood The Romantics, the Sublime and the Gothic Hardy's Wessex Observation and beyond Working the land Desolated land Ancient and modern Assignments 3. Texts and extracts Simon Armitage Geoffrey Chaucer Thomas Carew Gerard Manley Hopkins John Milton James Thomson Dorothy Wordsworth Jane Austen Percy Bysshe Shelley Matthew Arnold George Eliot John Steinbeck Thomas Hardy D.H. Lawrence Edmund Blunden Stella Gibbons T.S. Eliot Richard Wilbur William Golding Angela Carter Ted Hughes 4. Critical approaches Political approaches Feminist approaches Ecological approaches Assignments 5. How to write about landscape and literature Responding to a poem Responding to prose Comparison Preparing to write about a topic Writing about the topic Assignments 6. Resources Further reading Media resources Websites Glossary Index Acknowledgements Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Offering critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres, Cambridge Contexts in Literature supports comparative and contextual study and is ideal for library reference or for building a senior module around a selected title. Each volume has been carefully planned to help students evaluate the influence of literary, cultural and historical contexts on both writers and readers, and includes an anthology of texts and extracts exemplifying key issues. ALL TITLES IN SERIES:
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