Living Language: Language & Literature: Language and Literature

by George Keith (Author), George Keith (Author)

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  1999

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  This text offers advice to students on how to discern and evaluate some distinctive ways in which writers use English in prose fiction, poems and plays and other media scripts. Students are invited to explore different kinds of verbal art by close reference to specific texts drawn largely from familiar English literature syllabuses. Throughout the book, practical approaches to literary stylistics are demonstrated by exploration of specific examples, followed up by additional texts. A range of contemporary critical comment and concepts are applied in the three sections devoted to prose fiction, poetry and drama respectively. Introductory and concluding sections explore and summarize important general principles.

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  Paperback
  2000

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  'Living Language 3rd edition' has been devised to meet all the new specifications for AS and A level English Language. The best-selling previous edition has been comprehensively revised to ensure full assessment objectives coverage and fulfilment, and delivery of the new four-unit courses from 2008 onwards. 'Living Language 3rd edition' provides linguistic theory, information and ideas which are easily accessed via supported activities and investigations. The text will actively develop students' skills in reading, listening and responding to an extensive range of text genres and data. Building on students' own experience of language, 'Living Language 3rd edition' offers a wealth of shared, group and individual activities to lift the theory from the page and stimulate creative and analytical work. In preparation for examinations and for coursework, students will learn how to apply their linguistic knowledge of literary, non-literary and multi-modal texts to produce original, re-creative and analytical writing with related commentaries. On-line resources which offer exam and coursework exemplars, model answers, interactive activities and extended support for each unit in 'Living Language 3rd edition' can be found at www.alevel-english.co.uk. Previous edition ISBN: 9780340771884