Sentences with phrase «of english literature»

I took an antique book — an A Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (that I already had) and tore a few pages out of it.

Instructor of English Literature — Al - Alsun University, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams, Cairo, Egypt 1988 — 1990 • Led class discussions of literary texts, suggested paper topics, worked extensively with students on developing writing and to develop critical skills necessary for understanding all facets of English language.

It would be an added advantage if the English teacher is aware of English literature and latest developments in the language.

James is a graduate of English Literature from Newcastle University.

The case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, as Charles Dickens called it, is well - known to every student of Law and of English Literature as an epic legal battle.

And no wingeing about BBC R4's Open Book in which Adam Roberts, professor of English literature at London University and sci - fi author, addresses a question from listener Elizabeth Thorne:

A teacher of English Literature at Harvard University with five volumes of poetry already behind him, he took up painting and collage in his forties.

Elizabeth Helsinger, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor of English Literature and Art History at the University of Chicago, in consultation with Anne Leonard, Smart Museum Curator and Mellon Program Coordinator.

A graduate of Boston University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Clover is a Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis, and was the distinguished Holloway poet - in - residence at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 - 2003.

She was made an Honorary Doctor of English Literature by London University (1994), a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London (1996) and received a Sargent Fellowship from The British School At Rome in 1997.

Working my way through my third year of an English Literature undergraduate degree at Newcastle University.

Featuring passages from four classics — Sense and Sensibility, Alice and Wonderland, Jane Eyre, and Pride and Prejudice — avid readers of English literature will delight in wearing both their love of words and English culture.

Marie is now a professor of English literature at Brooklyn College, where she teaches Renaissance drama, children's literature, and fiction writing.

One example featured below is a literary map of England prepared by William Lyon Phelps, an American author and professor of English literature.

In the process, though, you lose so much: books that mainstream opinion says won't sell, books that don't appeal to a narrow set of English Literature Graduates, books that only exist because they have a celebrity attached to them.

It is Swift's best known full - length work, and a classic of English literature.

Of course, your first essays will not be the masterpieces of English literature, but be sure, that regular practice will change it.

...» She is a professor of English Literature at a university near Venice and also the crime reviewer for the Sunday Times newspaper (UK), and an expert on opera.

It is immaterial whether in real life the Queen is an avid reader or not (one is told she's not)- her perceived character is merely the foil through which Bennett can poke some heartfelt fun and take the reader on a Queen's - eye whistle - stop tour through the best and worst of English literature.

«What about the most valuable relic in the history of English literature — would that be worth killing for?»

The Hogarth Shakespeare collection «will be true to the spirit of the original dramas and their popular appeal, while giving authors an exciting opportunity to reinvent these seminal works of English literature,» quoth the press release.

In The Dead Fathers Club, you have chosen to reimagine not merely a classic but arguably the classic work of English literature.

Franciska is in her third year of an English Literature degree at...

The DVD is ideal for lending libraries, literacy enthusiasts, schools, English teachers, and lovers of English literature.

A shake - up of English literature at A-level will result in teenagers studying a minimum of eight texts in depth, says a consultation paper.

Teachers also revealed that classics of English literature, such as those by Jane Austen, are putting boys off reading.

Schools from across Manchester, including The Manchester Grammar School, come together in partnership to foster independent reading and discussion of important literary texts, helping students gain confidence and broadening their knowledge of English literature.

Bringing together over 50 unique medieval manuscripts and early print editions from the 8th to 16th centuries, Discovering Literature: Medieval presents a new way to explore some of the earliest works and most influential figures of English literature.

Now I'm working on development of English literature online - courses.

This detailed and visually - appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students preparing for the «Unseen Poetry» elements of English Literature examinations.

Long after the vocabulary and memorized passages have faded away, I'll remember the experience of morphing each day into a student of my colleagues in the world language department and a classmate of my English literature students.

Not long before and after this, Disney had tapped famous works of English literature for movies like Alice in Wonderland and The Jungle Book.

These are words NO ONE should have to use in relating a film based upon one of the true classics of English literature like «Alice In Wonderland,» but Burton, who has directed some of my favorite films («Batman,» «Beetlejuice,» «Sleepy Hollow,» «Ed Wood,» «Edward Scissorhands») somehow manages the impossible.

Who knew that the story of a book that's been called the greatest work of English literature and how it came to be could be so entertaining?

Oh, the Academy Award nominee then teams up with actual Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins («Noah»), a crusty old British lord, and a comely professor of English Literature (Laura Haddock, «The Inbetweeners Movie») to search for and retrieve the missing artifact before Optimus and Megatron and whomever else get to it.

History Of English Literature.

It follows the journey of English Literature professor and specialist of John Donne, Vivian Bearing, as she discovers that she has stage four ovarian cancer and undergoes radical treatment, in part for the sake of research.

We conducted a comprehensive search of the English literature using Medline and EMBASE for Zika from inception through September 30, 2016.

Shakespeare's Fourth Folio — a rare 1685 edition of plays by the acknowledged king of English literature — has become a treasured addition to Western Libraries» Archives and Special Collections...

His grasp of diplomatic and policy language must be on a par with that of an English Literature don.

As a matter of fact, Ophelia is known as one of English literature's most analyzed female characters.

As a teacher of English literature, I also tend to think of George Herbert and Nicholas Ferrar, William Cowper and John Newton (an asymmetrical friendship, thanks to Cowper's profound mental and spiritual afflictions and Newton's attentiveness to them), Flannery O'Connor and several of her correspondents.

Too often, the teaching of English literature lacks the developmental sense that other disciplines have.

For years anthologies of English literature have included in the Elizabethan section several short selections from the King James Bible — selections often hurried over.

It was the 3E — that is what the cover reads — of the Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, probably the most celebrated Shakespeare scholar in America, and the senior editor of that college standby, The Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Similarly M. Taine, in the introduction to his history of English literature, has written: «Whether facts be moral or physical, it makes no matter.

Or this, from a Cambridge lecture by Arthur Quiller - Couch: «Is it possible, gentlemen, that you can have read one, two, thee, or more of the acknowledged masterpieces of English literature without having it borne in on you that they are great because they are alive, and traffic not with cold celestial certainties, but with men's hopes, aspirations, doubts, loves, hates, breakings of the heart; the glory and the vanity of human endeavor, the transcience of beauty, the capricious uncertain lease on which you and I hold life, the dark coast to which we inevitably steer; all that amuses, or vexes, all that gladdens, saddens, maddens us men and women on this brief and mutable traject which yet must be home for a while, the anchorage of our hearts?»

«For me,» he writes, «the most attractive Lewis is the author of English Literature «in the Sixteenth Century, a fluent, highly intelligent man talking about books in a manner which is always engaging.»

What if I were a prestigious Oxford don, a professor of English literature, a well - known author, and an authority on religion who repeatedly had some most unusual, unbelievable experiences?

The Lord of the Rings book trilogy represents, by any measure, some of the most popular books in the history of English literature.