基本説明
Offers a carefully structured, step by step guide to getting a first class mark in Literature essays.
Full Description
This concise student friendly guide focuses on three key strategies for improving essay performance: answering the question and making a strong argument, analyzing language and examining literary technique, and discussing genre and considering context. Tony Myers's writing is lively and humorous, offering advice that is supported by helpful examples drawn directly from student essays.
Contents
Introduction; Section One Essay writing; answering the question; constructing an argument; making a coherent argument; making a connected argument; making a complex argument; analyzing a text; stucturing an essay. Section Two Technical language; analyzing language; analyzing themes; analyzing grammar; analyzing rhetoric; analyzing structure; analyzing text and context; analyzing the structure of comedy; analyzing the reader's response. Section Three Genre; analyzing different types of drama; analyzing tragic drama; analyzing comic drama; analyzing plays in performance; analyzing Shakespearean drama; analyzing the structure of poetry (part 1); analyzing the structure of poetry (part 2); analyzing poetic figuration; analyzing the meaning of the poem; analyzing different types of poetry; analyzing the structure of novels; analyzing point of view in novels; analyzing characterization in novels; analyzing different types of novels; analyzing Gothic, historiographic and Postcolonial novels.
