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1. What is Literature, What is a Text?  2. Major Genres in Textual Studies  1. Fiction  2. Poetry  3. Drama  4. Film  3. Periods of English Literature (Old-English, Middle-English, Renaissance, Eighteenth Century, Puritan Age, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Realism and Naturalism, Modernism, Postmodernism, Feminist and 'Minority' Literatures, New Literatures in English) 4. Theoretical Approaches to Literature  1. Text-Oriented Approaches  2. Author-Oriented Approaches  3. Reader-Oriented Approaches  4. Context-Oriented Approaches  5. Literary Critique and Evaluation  5. Where and How to Find Secondary Literature  6. How to Write a Scholarly Paper  7. Suggestions for Further Reading  8. Glossary of Literature and Cinematographic Terms  Notes  Author and Title Index  Subject Index