English Grammar for Literature Students: How to Analyse Literary Texts

Laura Wright

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2024

English Grammar for Literature Students

How to Analyse Literary Texts

Laura Wright

In the series Mouton Textbook

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111348896

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Contents

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Laura Wright, Cambridge, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 On Nouns Seamus Heaney and W. H. Auden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
2 Premodification in the Noun Phrase Kingsley Amis and Dylan Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
3 On Adjectives Ben Okri and Zelda Fitzgerald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
4 On Definite and Indefinite Articles Arthur Morrison and Graham Greene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
5 Personal Pronouns A. C. Jacobs and Derek Walcott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
6 Prepositional Phrases John Betjeman and H. G. Wells Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
7 On Verbs: Tense Jeanette Winterson and Harold Pinter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
8 Phrasal Verbs James Joyce and Philip Larkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
9 Auxiliary Verbs Denton Welch and Elizabeth Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
10 Auxiliary Verb do Laurie Graham and Jerome K. Jerome Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
11 Modal Auxiliary Verbs Penelope Fitzgerald and David Mamet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
12 On Aspect F. Tennyson Jesse and Raymond Chandler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
13 Adverbs John Dryden and Mary Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
14 Adverbials Edwige Danticat, Henry Green and F. Scott Fitzgerald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
15 On Clauses Jean Rhys and Jack Kerouak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
16 On Clauses: Coordinators and Subordinators Ogden Nash and Mervyn Peake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
17 On Clauses: Relative Pronouns Lee A. Tonouchi and Ian Duhig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
18 -ing forms Sam Selvon and Anita Brookner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
19 On Anaphora C. B. Poultney and M. G. Sanchez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
20 On Cataphora Graham Swift and Virginia Woolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
21 End Focus and Endweight Stevie Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
22 Collocation and Colligation E. M. Forster and Evelyn Waugh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
23 Cohesion and Coherence Muriel Spark and Caryl Churchill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
24 Deixis Thom Gunn and Elizabeth Bishop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
25 Conversational Implicatures Stevie Smith, Kingsley Amis and Nell Dunn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
26 Speech Acts M. J. Farrell and Tama Janowicz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Primary Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Students of Literature, anyone who studies English Literature at any level
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 208
Keywords: Literature; Poems; Plays; Novels; Grammar; Literary Interpretation

eBook

Published: July 22, 2024
ISBN: 9783111348896

Paperback

Published: July 22, 2024
ISBN: 9783111348414