Product Description: This volume investigates the changing definitions of the author, what it has meant historically to be an 'author', and the impact that this has had on literary culture. Andrew Bennett presents a clearly-structured discussion of the various theoretical debates surrounding authorship, exploring such concepts as authority, ownership, originality, and the 'death' of the author...read more

This photocopiable teacher's file is part of an English GCSE course for high achieving students working at grades B-A (star). It supports the student book and provides extension material, including example answers together with a range of assignments that meet a variety of criteria.

This student's book is part of an English GCSE course for high achieving students working at grades B-A (star). The course supports the NEAB syllabus and aims to help boost both coursework grades and exam performance.

Why did the Soviet Union use less force to preserve the Soviet empire from 1989 to 1991 than it had used in distant and impoverished Angola in 1975? This book examines how actors' preferences and causal conceptions change as they learn from their experiences. Andrew Bennett draws on interviews and declassified Politburo documents as well as numerous public statements to establish the views of Soviet and Russian officials. He argues that Soviet leaders drew lessons from their apparent successes in Vietnam and elsewhere in the 1970s that made them more interventionist. (view table of contents)

This text is designed to help students achieve their full potential in the Year 7 tests. There are diagnostic tests and end of unit assignments so students can monitor their progess, and practice tests help to provide vital preparation.

In line with KS3 National Tests, this scheme aims to help students understand conventions of text types and how to write about texts; to equip students with skills needed for the five reading foci to be tested; give students practice in applying those skills; and provide guidance on the tests.

Product Description: Who contributes to alliances and why? Is a state's relative capabilities the major factor in determining participation? How do perceived threats, dependence on other alliance members, domestic politics and learned experience from analogous situations matter? For the most part, questions like these have been answered by using NATO as the example...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Andrew Bennett argues in this fascinating book that ignorance is part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about. He sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic period involves an often unacknowledged engagement with the experience of not knowing...read more

Product Description: An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is an indispensable guide. In twenty-four short, compelling and highly readable chapters, this book presents the key critical concepts in literary studies today. Bennett and Royle avoid the jargonistic, abstract nature of much 'theory'...read more

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This book offers a new introduction to Katherine Mansfield's short stories, focusing on the connection between life and writing in her work. Professor Bennett argues that Mansfield's multiple and unstable identities and identifications are bound up with issues of colonialism, nationality, gender,ansd sexuality, and that they may be said to be embedded with the very texture of her prose.

Product Description: Literacy Through Texts Pupils' Book: Motivate and intrigue pupils with an exceptional variety of texts ranging from Chaucer to The Empire Strikes Back and Bridget Jones. Encourage and support extended reading with substantial extracts and whole texts...read more

Product Description: The book is based on true life events, of life living alone in a haunted flat in southern England. An ordeal that lasted three terrifying years. and tested his courage and powers of determination to the extreme. a journey that has left him mentally scarred by what he lived through...read more

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Product Description: Music- and style-centred youth cultures are now a familiar aspect of everyday life in countries as far apart around the globe as Nepal and Jamaica, Hong Kong and Israel, Denmark and Australia. This lucid and original text provides a lively and wide-ranging account of the relationship between popular music and youth culture within the context of debates about the spatial dimensions of identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text consists of various contributions to such areas of study as: interaction between text and reader; reader-response criticism; toward a feminist theory of reading; reading as poaching; and "Wilde's Hard Labour and the Birth of Gay Reading".

This 1999 book examines the way in which the Romantic period's culture of posterity inaugurates a tradition of writing which demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the true poet, a figure of neglected genius, can be properly appreciated only after death. Andrew Bennett argues that this involves a radical shift in the conceptualization of the poet and poetic reception, with wide-ranging implications for the poetry and poetics of the Romantic period. He surveys the contexts for this transformation of the relationship between poet and audience, engaging with issues such as the commercialization of poetry, the gendering of the canon, and the construction of poetic identity. Bennett goes on to discuss the strangely compelling effects which this reception theory produces in the work of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Byron, who have come to embody, for posterity, the figure of the Romantic poet.

Product Description: William Wordsworth's poetry responded to the enormous literary, political, cultural, technological and social changes that the poet lived through during his lifetime (1770‒1850), and to his own transformation from young radical inspired by the French Revolution to Poet Laureate and supporter of the establishment...read more

Product Description: This original book examines the way in which the Romantic period inaugurates a tradition of writing that demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the true poet, a figure of neglected genius, can only be properly appreciated after death...read more