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English Grammar for Literature Students

How to Analyse Literary Texts
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2024
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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.

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Laura Wright, Cambridge, UK.

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    Acknowledgements

    V
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    Contents

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    Introduction

    1
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    1 On Nouns

    5
    Seamus Heaney and W. H. Auden
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    2 Premodification in the Noun Phrase

    13
    Kingsley Amis and Dylan Thomas
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    3 On Adjectives

    21
    Ben Okri and Zelda Fitzgerald
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    4 On Definite and Indefinite Articles

    29
    Arthur Morrison and Graham Greene
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    5 Personal Pronouns

    35
    A. C. Jacobs and Derek Walcott
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    6 Prepositional Phrases

    43
    John Betjeman and H. G. Wells
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    7 On Verbs: Tense

    49
    Jeanette Winterson and Harold Pinter
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    8 Phrasal Verbs

    57
    James Joyce and Philip Larkin
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    9 Auxiliary Verbs

    63
    Denton Welch and Elizabeth Taylor
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    10 Auxiliary Verb do

    71
    Laurie Graham and Jerome K. Jerome
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    11 Modal Auxiliary Verbs

    77
    Penelope Fitzgerald and David Mamet
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    12 On Aspect

    87
    F. Tennyson Jesse and Raymond Chandler
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    13 Adverbs

    95
    John Dryden and Mary Robinson
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    14 Adverbials

    105
    Edwige Danticat, Henry Green and F. Scott Fitzgerald
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    15 On Clauses

    117
    Jean Rhys and Jack Kerouak
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    16 On Clauses: Coordinators and Subordinators

    125
    Ogden Nash and Mervyn Peake
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    17 On Clauses: Relative Pronouns

    131
    Lee A. Tonouchi and Ian Duhig
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    18 -ing forms

    141
    Sam Selvon and Anita Brookner
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    19 On Anaphora

    149
    C. B. Poultney and M. G. Sanchez
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    20 On Cataphora

    153
    Graham Swift and Virginia Woolf
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    21 End Focus and Endweight

    159
    Stevie Smith
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    22 Collocation and Colligation

    167
    E. M. Forster and Evelyn Waugh
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    23 Cohesion and Coherence

    173
    Muriel Spark and Caryl Churchill
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    24 Deixis

    181
    Thom Gunn and Elizabeth Bishop
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    25 Conversational Implicatures

    191
    Stevie Smith, Kingsley Amis and Nell Dunn
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    26 Speech Acts

    199
    M. J. Farrell and Tama Janowicz
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    Primary Sources

    205
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    References

    207
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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
July 22, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9783111348896
Paperback published on:
July 22, 2024
Paperback ISBN:
9783111348414
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Front matter:
8
Main content:
208
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111348896
eBook ISBN: 9783111348896
Paperback ISBN: 9783111348414
Keywords for this book
Literature; Poems; Plays; Novels; Grammar; Literary Interpretation
Audience(s) for this book
Students of Literature, anyone who studies English Literature at any level
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