Calvo, Clara, 1961-

The literature workbook / Clara Calvo and Jean-Jacques Weber. - xiv, 148 pages ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Using this book -- Miniature Poems: Reading the Elizabethan Sonnet as a Jewel -- What's Syntax Got to do with Poetry?: On Puritan Mind-Style and Romantic World-View -- Women's Poetry: Same or Different? -- Death on Stage: Learning to Die in a Revenge Tragedy -- Sheridan's School for Marriage: The Effect of Education and the Nature of Comedy -- Degenerate Apemen or Heroic Dreamers?: On Cultural Stereotypes and Synges's (The Playboy of the Western World) -- Talking About the Weather: (Emma) -- And the Social Web of Dialogue -- Of Elephants, Serpents and Fairy Palaces: Simile and Metaphor in Dickens' (Hard Times) -- Laughter in Patriarchy and Colonialism: Lexical Repetition and Jean Rhys' (Wide Sargasso Sea) -- Point of View and its Effects: Resisting Brian Moore's (Lies of Silence) -- Glossary. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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