TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beard, Adrian
TI  - The language of literature 
SN  - 0-415-28632-8
U1  - 808 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literary texts
N2  - The Language of Literature:
*looks at how writers use language to create literary texts
*explores a wide variety of literary texts from Shakespeare to Helen Fielding, via Alexander Pope, William Blake, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Julian Barnes and Martin Amis
*covers the key skills and topics, including structure, shapes and patterns, genre and sub-genre, narrative and narrators, representing talk, metaphor, allegory and intertextuality
*offers a step-by-step guide to approaching literary texts and structuring a response
*can be used as both a course stimulus and a revision tool
ER  -