Provides a basic skills course designed to equip students to handle the English major. Emphasizes critical writing and the acquisition of basic techniques and vocabulary of literary criticism through ...

Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one fully integrated and substantially revised, expanded ...

Literary devices are specific ways of using language or other literary elements that we can recognise and identify in a text (a piece of writing). These can work either at a word or sentence level or ...

3. “Let me tell you ’bout the birds and the bees / And the flowers and the trees / And the moon up above / And a thing called ‘love.’” Jewel Akens’s use of ‘and’ is an example of: ...

Keitai shosetsu, or "cellphone novels," are popular in Japan, and the trend could be moving to North America. ((Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images)) How does an aspiring writer go about publishing a novel?

We sometimes come across, in a poem or a novel, descriptions of nature that are not, strictly speaking, accurate. We may have read of flowers ‘dancing happily’ in the breeze or ‘angry waves’ smashing ...

Analyze global works of literature from medieval poetry to postmodern theory. Graduate as a critical thinker, writer and reader firmly rooted in narrative and rhetorical analysis. As a literary ...

This study compares and contrasts the selection and distribution of literary texts in the English programs of two diverse secondary schools, one in Massachusetts, USA, the other in Ontario, Canada.