Angles on English | p. 1 |
Lit and Crit | p. 3 |
The It of Lit | p. 4 |
Serious Play | p. 4 |
A Full Plate | p. 5 |
The Worm Turns | p. 6 |
Shifting Focus | p. 6 |
The Old English, or the Early Medieval Period (Fifth to Eleventh Centuries) | p. 7 |
The Middle English, or the Late Medieval, Period (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries) | p. 7 |
The Renaissance (1540-1640) | p. 7 |
The Augustan Period (1670-1790) | p. 8 |
The Romantic Period (1790-1840) | p. 8 |
The Victorian Period (1840-1900) | p. 9 |
The Modern Period (1900-1945) | p. 9 |
The Postmodern Period (1945-Present) | p. 9 |
The More Things Change | p. 11 |
So Why Study English? | p. 11 |
Holding Your Own | p. 12 |
Up Close and Textual | p. 15 |
Close Calls | p. 16 |
Still Critical | p. 16 |
Open and Close | p. 17 |
Cutting Both Ways | p. 17 |
Reading Actively | p. 18 |
Back and Forth | p. 18 |
The Ways of Words | p. 19 |
Reading by Design | p. 20 |
Seeing Is Believing | p. 21 |
Worth a Thousand Words | p. 21 |
Beyond Compare | p. 22 |
Descent from the Mountain | p. 22 |
Playing with God | p. 23 |
Hall of Famer | p. 24 |
Canon Fighting | p. 27 |
Gone but Not Forgotten | p. 28 |
Not Fade Away | p. 28 |
Making the Cut | p. 29 |
Canon to the Right of Them | p. 30 |
Annie Get Your Canon | p. 30 |
Canon Cannot | p. 31 |
Disarming the Canon | p. 31 |
In Defense of the Canon | p. 31 |
Loaded Canon | p. 32 |
Parting Shots | p. 33 |
It Takes All Kinds | p. 35 |
Assigning Labels | p. 36 |
Knowing Ahead of Time | p. 36 |
Hard to Pin Down | p. 36 |
Poking Holes | p. 37 |
Family Resemblance | p. 38 |
Generic Makeup | p. 38 |
Generic Mutation | p. 38 |
Good "Ode" Times | p. 39 |
Song and Dance | p. 40 |
The Other Ode | p. 40 |
"Ode" English | p. 41 |
The Ode Looks Inward | p. 42 |
The Ode Comes of Age | p. 42 |
A Well-Urned Retirement | p. 43 |
Forgotten, but Not Gone | p. 44 |
Between the Lines | p. 45 |
Structure and Beyond | p. 46 |
The Shape We're In | p. 46 |
Meaning Turned Inside Out | p. 47 |
Taking Talk Apart | p. 47 |
Coming Up Empty | p. 47 |
Pulling the Rug of Language Out from Under Us | p. 48 |
Disassembly Required | p. 48 |
The Human Element | p. 49 |
Key Players | p. 49 |
Meeting the Challenge | p. 50 |
The Point Is How Powerfully You Miss the Point | p. 50 |
P.C. (Political Criticism) | p. 53 |
Folks in Focus | p. 54 |
Made-Up Selves | p. 54 |
The Power of the Powerful | p. 55 |
The Legs We Stand On | p. 55 |
Strange Bedfellows | p. 56 |
New Historicism: It's All in the Timing | p. 57 |
Feminism: Angel Killers | p. 57 |
Essence Is Optional | p. 58 |
Postcolonialism: Who's "We," White Man? | p. 58 |
Radicals: Left Out and Taken Over | p. 59 |
Queer Theory: Same Difference | p. 59 |
Time and Tide | p. 61 |
It Is Written | p. 62 |
Close Encounters of the Literary Kind | p. 62 |
New and Newer | p. 63 |
Pride and Prejudice | p. 64 |
The "Great" Tradition | p. 64 |
Time Warps | p. 65 |
Bursting Bubbles | p. 66 |
Bridging the Gaps | p. 67 |
Levels of Difficulty | p. 67 |
Lines in the Sand | p. 68 |
Dead White Man's Burden | p. 69 |
Multiculturalism | p. 69 |
Different Sides of the Story | p. 69 |
Multiculturalism in the Classroom | p. 70 |
Finding a Place | p. 71 |
Fitting Forms | p. 73 |
The Best and the Verse | p. 75 |
Speaking Strangely | p. 75 |
Questions and Answers | p. 76 |
Talking a Good Game | p. 76 |
Less Clear, More Meaningful | p. 77 |
Spitting Imagery | p. 78 |
Hearing Things | p. 79 |
Sound Off | p. 80 |
Rosy Rhythm | p. 80 |
Lines Through Time | p. 82 |
Stressed Out | p. 82 |
Coupling | p. 82 |
Shooting Blanks | p. 83 |
Free and Easy | p. 84 |
Stage lights | p. 87 |
Serious Play | p. 88 |
Two Major Occasions | p. 88 |
Introducing Drama | p. 89 |
Aristotle: A Man of Principles | p. 89 |
Tragic Turns | p. 89 |
Tying Things Together | p. 90 |
Drama's Second Start | p. 91 |
Staging Morality | p. 91 |
The Subject of Morality Plays | p. 91 |
Old Styles, New Forms | p. 92 |
School Plays and Court Dramas | p. 93 |
Production Numbers | p. 93 |
Not Playing Around | p. 93 |
Drama Curriculum | p. 94 |
The Influence of Senecan Tragedies | p. 94 |
More Changes in Theater | p. 95 |
Limitations of the Restoration | p. 96 |
Pantomime and Melodrama | p. 96 |
The Return of Serious Drama | p. 97 |
Shaw's Socialist Satire | p. 97 |
Trade Secrets | p. 98 |
Taking Lit by the Tale | p. 101 |
Tell Me Another | p. 101 |
Writing the Unwritten | p. 102 |
Speaking and Writing | p. 102 |
Oral Fixations | p. 103 |
Structured Stories | p. 103 |
Telling Characters | p. 104 |
Spoken Perspective | p. 105 |
The Write Place at the Write Time | p. 105 |
Story Lines | p. 105 |
Written Writers | p. 106 |
Epic Achievements | p. 106 |
The Romance of Narrative | p. 108 |
Narrative Necessity | p. 109 |
Leave It to the Prose | p. 111 |
All Talk | p. 112 |
Nice Figures | p. 112 |
Eloquent Examples | p. 113 |
Shining Lives | p. 113 |
Prose Reformers | p. 114 |
Try, Try Again | p. 114 |
Literary Characters | p. 115 |
Essay Issues | p. 116 |
Good Morals and Good Taste | p. 116 |
Common Bonds | p. 117 |
Way Back When | p. 119 |
Old School | p. 121 |
In the Beginning | p. 122 |
The Christian Empire Emerges | p. 122 |
A Mixed Bag | p. 123 |
Mental Mergers | p. 123 |
All Signs Point Up | p. 124 |
What's the Big Ideal | p. 124 |
Typecasting | p. 125 |
Deja Vu | p. 125 |
A Tale of Types | p. 126 |
A January-May Romance | p. 127 |
Mythic Figures | p. 128 |
True and False | p. 128 |
Born-Again Classicism | p. 129 |
Virgil's Vocation | p. 129 |
Echoes of Virgil | p. 130 |
Polished Models and Deism | p. 131 |
Rite and Wrong | p. 132 |
Christ Victorian | p. 133 |
From Nostalgia to Irony | p. 134 |
Monks and Warriors | p. 135 |
"Dark" Is Beautiful | p. 136 |
Hard to Fathom | p. 136 |
Will the Real "English Lit" Please Stand Up? | p. 137 |
The Whole Story | p. 137 |
From Tribal to Scribal | p. 138 |
Fighting and Writing | p. 138 |
Caedmon: In Your Dreams | p. 138 |
Strong Survivors | p. 139 |
Charmed, I'm Sure | p. 140 |
Riddle Me This | p. 140 |
You Know It | p. 141 |
Beowulf: Old Hero | p. 142 |
Praise and Blame | p. 143 |
Men and Monsters | p. 143 |
Quests and Visions | p. 145 |
Stormin' Normans | p. 146 |
A Day of Knights | p. 146 |
Hello, Ladies | p. 146 |
Conquered and Conquering Kings | p. 147 |
Stories from the Round Table | p. 147 |
Off with His Head! | p. 147 |
Nobody's Perfect | p. 148 |
Tales for the Road | p. 149 |
Narrative Frame | p. 150 |
Lightening Up | p. 150 |
Birds of a Feather | p. 151 |
Chaucer's Trade Secrets | p. 152 |
Works and Plays | p. 153 |
Family Feud | p. 154 |
Courtiers and Cavaliers | p. 157 |
Brave New World | p. 158 |
Fame and Finesse | p. 158 |
Boy Meets Girl, Boy Gets Tree | p. 159 |
Order in the Court | p. 159 |
Queen and Country | p. 160 |
Old-Fangled Language | p. 161 |
The Queen Is Dead! (and Other Changes) | p. 162 |
Getting It Donne | p. 162 |
Now or Never | p. 163 |
Severed Head of State | p. 164 |
Justifying the Ways of God to Men | p. 164 |
Devilish Doings | p. 165 |
The Bard | p. 167 |
William Who? | p. 168 |
Strokes of Genius | p. 168 |
That's Show Biz | p. 169 |
Shakespeare's Playbook | p. 170 |
Paper Trail | p. 170 |
Playing with the Past | p. 171 |
The Tudor Myth | p. 172 |
Bad Rap | p. 173 |
Signs of the Times | p. 174 |
Status Symbolism | p. 174 |
Back to Nature | p. 175 |
Depth of Character | p. 177 |
Blue-Blooded and Blue | p. 177 |
A Chip Off the Old Chopping Block? | p. 178 |
August Personages | p. 181 |
King and Stage Restored | p. 182 |
Good Manners | p. 182 |
Good Boys Behaving Badly | p. 182 |
Potent Pretence | p. 183 |
Satire: The Best Medicine | p. 183 |
High Standards, Low Expectations | p. 183 |
Swift Kicks | p. 184 |
Wry Lines | p. 186 |
Novel Ideas | p. 187 |
True to Life-Sometimes | p. 187 |
Just Desserts | p. 188 |
These Days | p. 191 |
Romantic Moods | p. 193 |
Rising Tides | p. 194 |
Growing Pains | p. 194 |
All, All Alone | p. 194 |
Wordsworthy Sentiments | p. 195 |
Theory and Practice | p. 195 |
Formative Years | p. 196 |
All for One | p. 197 |
Byron: Alone with Others | p. 197 |
Fitting the Profile | p. 198 |
A Hopeless Romantic | p. 198 |
Plain Jane | p. 199 |
Even Keel | p. 199 |
Off Again, on Again | p. 200 |
Gothic Novels: Scary Stories | p. 200 |
Grave Ideals | p. 200 |
Seeing Things | p. 201 |
Works for Victoria | p. 203 |
Pride and Power | p. 204 |
From Bildungsroman to Sci Fi | p. 204 |
Keeping It Real | p. 205 |
Shifting Standards | p. 205 |
Going to the Dickens | p. 206 |
It's a Twisted World | p. 206 |
A Virtue of Naivete | p. 207 |
Getting Dark | p. 207 |
Dark Hearts, Dark Minds | p. 208 |
Kurtz Rejoinders | p. 208 |
Skip This Section If You Haven't Read the Book | p. 209 |
Good Liars | p. 209 |
Lady Killer | p. 210 |
The Mating Game | p. 211 |
You Better Believe | p. 212 |
Gasping for Eyre | p. 212 |
Losing Game | p. 213 |
Gothic Revival | p. 213 |
Wilde and Earnest | p. 213 |
Modern Methods | p. 217 |
In the Line of Fire | p. 218 |
Entrenched in War | p. 218 |
A Tomb of One's Owen | p. 218 |
Showing and Knowing | p. 220 |
Modern Shake-Up | p. 220 |
Old and New | p. 220 |
A Big Waste | p. 221 |
Typist as Archetype | p. 222 |
Stream Lines | p. 223 |
Words Unspoken | p. 224 |
Mind in Motion | p. 224 |
This Just In | p. 227 |
From Pillar to Post | p. 228 |
Pointless Plays | p. 228 |
Laid Bare | p. 228 |
Arrested Development | p. 229 |
Play List | p. 230 |
Spell-Binders | p. 230 |
Clash of Enchantment | p. 230 |
A Magic State | p. 231 |
Eyes of the Beholders | p. 231 |
More Charmers | p. 232 |
Cyber-Fi | p. 232 |
Don't Call 'Em Geeks | p. 232 |
Brain Link | p. 233 |
A Hard Case | p. 234 |
Now Is the Future | p. 234 |
...And Read All Over | p. 237 |
New Theories, Wider Focus | p. 238 |
There's More to Life Than Literature | p. 238 |
Don't Ask What, Ask How | p. 239 |
Fitting In | p. 239 |
Act Locally, Think Globally | p. 240 |
All Connected | p. 240 |
Writ Large | p. 241 |
Culture: High vs. Mass | p. 241 |
What Are We, Barbarians? | p. 242 |
Industrial Strength | p. 242 |
You Are Getting Sleepy | p. 242 |
Muddling Along | p. 243 |
Culture R Us | p. 243 |
Net Culture | p. 244 |
Lit Lives On | p. 244 |
Appendixes | |
Lit Gloss | p. 247 |
Read On, MacDuff | p. 257 |
Index | p. 313 |
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