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Acknowledgements.- Preface: How to use the book.- PART I: ABOUT LITERATURE.- Literature: Fundamental Questions.- Introduction; J.Wolfreys.- What is Literature?; B.Overton.- Why Study Literature?; K.Womack.- Your Literature Course.- What to Expect from your English Course; J.Wolfreys.- Typical Structure and Content; J.Wolfreys.- Literature and Language; J.Wolfreys.- Literature and Creative Writing; J.Cooke.- Comparative Literature; D.Bremm.- Getting the Most from your Course: J.Wolfreys.- Study Skills for Literature.- Introduction: J.Wolfreys.- Study Skills: C.Ringrose.- Writing and Presentation; J.Wolfreys.- PART II: LITERATURE MODULES.- Literature.- Introduction.- Critical Studies: an Example of a Core Module; J.Wolfreys.- Periods.- Old English Literature; P.Semper.- Medieval Literature; D.Griffith.- The Sixteenth Century; J.Fitzpatrick.- The Seventeenth Century; H.Adlington.- The Eighteenth Century; B.Overton.- Romanticism and Gothic; I.McCormick.- The Nineteenth Century and the Victorians; C.Kelley.- Modernism; A.Murray.- Forms, Genres and Other Popular Modules.- Tragedy; J.Wolfreys.- Comedy; J.Wolfreys.- The Novel; H.Wright.- Poetry; B.Overton.- Drama; N.Swettenham & R.J.Brocklehurst.- Epic; N.Wood.- Lyric; N.Wood.- Satire; N.Wood.- Realism; L.Phillips.- Fiction; L.Phillips.- Contemporary and Postmodern Fiction; A.Murray.- Gender; D.Bremm.- Class; N.Freeman.- Colonial and Postcolonial Literature; J.Ramone.- Subjectivity; M.Becker-Leckrone.- Chidren's Literature; J.Bavidge.- Film Studies; A.Dix.- Popular Fiction; J.Baetens.- American Literature; B.Jarvis & A.Dix.- Contemporary Literature; J.Wolfreys.- PART III: CRITICAL APPROACHES AND SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT.- Critical Approaches.- Introduction; J.Wolfreys.- Formalism; M.Becker-Leckrone.- Archetypal Criticism; D.Bremm.- New Criticism; M.Becker-Leckrone.- Bakhtin and Dialogic Criticism; K.Zbinden.- Feminism; R.Robbins.- Marxism; A.Murray.- Structuralism; A.Murray.- Psychoanalysis; B.Jarvis.- Deconstruction; M-D.Dick.- Postcolonialism; J.Ramone.- New Historicism; C.Ringrose.- Cultural Materialism; A.Murray.- African American Criticism; A.Dix.- Chicano/a Studies; J.Ramone.- Gay Studies and Queer Theory; H.Davies.- Cultural Studies; B.Jarvis.- Ecocriticism; J.Bavidge.- Postmodernism; A.Dix.- PART IV: KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS; R.Robbins, J.Wolfreys & K.Womack.- PART V: CAREER PATHWAYS.- Introduction; J.Wolfreys.- Careers for English Graduates; R.Robbins.- The Experience of a Degree in English; C.Bowditch.- Interview, Conducted by Claire Bowditch.- Conclusion; J.Wolfreys.- PART VI: LEARNING RESOURCE; J.Wolfreys.- Chronology.- List of Contributors.- Index.