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ALEXANDER 2000

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Alexander 2000. – 1997.

Шыққан жылы
1997
Сыныптау индексі (ӘОЖ)
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Английский
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Кітап
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This History is written for two audiences: those who know a few landmark texts of English literature but little of the surrounding country; and those who simply want to read its long story from its origins to the present day. The history of English writing begins very early in the Middle Ages and continues through the Renaissance, the Augustan and Romantic periods to the Victorian age, the twentieth century, and down to the present. This account of it is written so as to be read as a coherent whole. It can also be read in parts, and consulted for information. Its narrative plan and layout are clear, and it aims to be both readable and concise. Attention is paid to the greater poets, dramatists, prose writers and novelists, and to more general literary developments. Each part of the story gains from being set in literary and social contexts. Space is given to illustrative quotation and to critical discussions of selected major authors and works. Minor writers and movements are described rather than discussed, but a great deal of information about them is to be found in the full apparatus which surrounds the narrative. This apparatus allows the History also to be used as a work of reference. A look at the following pages will show the text supplemented by a set of historical tables of events and of publications; by boxed biographies of authors and their works; and by marginal definitions of critical and historical terms. There are some sixty illustrations, including maps. There are also suggestions for further reading, and a full index of names of the authors and works discussed.