Top Research Papers on English Literature

Ecocriticism these days is indeed a relatively new revisionist and reformist trend that has dominated the ecological point of view in recent English literature worldwide. The ecological perspective constructed under Eco-criticism delineates the nature-human alliance in both detrimental and constructive ways. The present research paper tries to inspect some post-1900 modern English literature from an Ecocritical perspective. The literature reviewed in the present study incorporates the analysis of some well-known authorship whichever is eminently written to gain insights from the ecological fra...

Learning English is already a challenging task, and when it comes to studying literature in English, the difficulty level increases even further. This Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is conducted to identify important challenges in the teaching and learning of English literature. The whole process of conducting this SLR followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework. PRISMA is a graphical representation of the complete process of doing a systematic review and meta-analysis, including the search for relevant articles, the filtering of them ...

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William Shakespeare English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was born in Poland, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, Vladimir Nabokov was Russian. In other words, English literature is as diverse as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the world. In academia, the term often labels departments and programmes practising English studies in secondary and tert...

This study juxtaposes Ian McEwan’s Solar and Helon Habila’s Oil on Water to illustrate their areas of convergence and divergence concerning their portrayal of ecological discourse. Attention is paid, to how McEwan and Habila deploy characterisation (particularly of the main characters and female characters) to bring to the fore the overwhelming influence of socio-political and economic issues on ecological or environmental crises in the societies portrayed in the two narratives. The aesthetic and socio-political dimensions of ecocriticism are deployed in this study. In the same vein, the inter...

Michael Gardiner [1] 17 December 2010 This essay traces the cultural embodiment of the British state in ‘English Literature’ in the period from 1790 to 1810, its uses and abuses, and the demise of this seminal metaphor for the ‘nationless nation’ which began in the 1970’s. The latter period saw a post-imperial unravelling of the culture of the unwritten British constitution, where the former had seen its settlement.

The article deals with research of the Catholic revival as a remarkable literary movement that amalgamated a number of authors who discussed problems of the Roman Catholicism in the works of various forms – from serious theological apologies to the popular genres like G.K. Chesterton's detective stories. Such Catholic novelists like Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene appeal to the wide readership and interpret the problem of faith in its complex ambivalence, actuality, psychological depth. Whilst Evelyn Waugh is in search for a solid ground in the Old Faith as an alternative to the modern anarchy ...

Ranging from early medieval times to the present, this diverse collection explores the myriad ways in which literary texts are informed by their historical contexts. The thirty-one chapters draw on varied themes and perspectives to present stimulating new readings of both canonical and non-canonical texts and authors. Written in a lively and engaging style, by an international team of experts, these specially commissioned essays collectively represent an incisive contribution to literary studies; they will appeal to scholars, teachers and graduate and undergraduate students. The book is design...

With a purpose of investigating if a book club creates spaces for students to experience personal involvement through the fruition of art, this paper discusses the book club experience of the novel “Wonder” in a group of 18 upper-intermediate English students. The data were collected through 6 personal responses from each student; then, a quantitative analysis of the Halliday’s types of processes (2004) and a qualitative categorization concluded that they have shown personal involvement with the novel through their lexicon-grammatical choices. As an outcome, in 71% of the answers, students exp...

This paper aims to study the integration of English and American literature in English education in colleges and universities. With the development of globalization, English has become an important tool for international communication, so the quality and effect of English education in colleges and universities are crucial to the comprehensive quality cultivation of students. As an important part of English teaching, English and American literature is of great significance in improving students' language ability, cultural awareness and critical thinking ability. This paper will study the theore...

This widely-praised book looks at the rise and fall of 'Britishness' in literature over the last three centuries. Arguing that for much of its history the subject of 'English Literature' has been bound up with an assumed English cultural centre, Devolving English Literature examines the literary construction and questioning of a British (rather than simply English) literary identity. Surveying eighteenth and nineteenth-century writers, including Robert Burns, James Boswell, Walter Scott and Thomas Carlyle, Robert Crawford remaps literary history. He argues that Scottish and non-metropolitan au...

This literature review provides a comprehensive examination of English vowels, their definition, pedagogical approaches for teaching them, and the benefits of learning them. The analysis explores that there are front vowel, central vowel, and back vowel. This research identifies the effectiveness of explicit instruction, auditory training, and visual aids in improving learners' pronunciation and perception of English vowels. Understanding and mastering English vowels contribute to enhanced pronunciation, listening skills, speaking fluency, reading ability, and overall language acquisition. Fur...

This research focuses on the study of English consonants. This research used literature review method to explore the English consonant such as the manner of articulation, the organs produced the consonant, and the benefit of learning English consonant. The results are, the first section explores the specific anatomical structures and organs within the vocal tract that play a role in producing consonant sounds. The second section examines the different ways in which airflow is obstructed or modified during consonant production, highlighting categories such as plosives, fricatives, affricates, n...

India, along with the contemporary and colonial history of the postcolonial culture, is seen to offer the study's a rich site that has intertextuality and influence. Furthermore, British imperialism is far more pragmatic as compared to several colonial powers. The motivation is not evangelical but economic. Under the emergence of Orientalism”, India was the first Nation to lay literary impact on the West, such an equation was then reversed during colonial intervention. The changes made by the British in the society of India appeared to be at the top. Where few critics of India are only focused...

The diversity of the culture in the world is a given thing.  Billions of people from different countries in the world have produced varieties of civilizations, ways of life, lifestyle, custom, heritage, habits, values, and traditions. It is hypothesized understanding the culture of different people can be valuable to the student’s character building. The comprehension of multicultural can be modality to be more aware of cultural dissimilarities. They can respect any variance of people whose backgrounds, minds, opinion and may behave in ways that are not the same. Besides, the possession of ric...

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This study aims at describing the types of onomatopoeia in Tintin comics with three stages such as data reduction, data display, and conclusion.

In the English-speaking countries you can earn a degree in English literature despite knowing almost nothing about the language as such. You scarcely need to know what nouns or verbs are. Worse, although some educated people have a degree of familiarity with English grammar, their acquaintance with it reflects what was understood more than 200 years ago. Hardly anything about the way English grammar is presented to the general public has changed since Lindley Murray’s million-selling grammar of English in 1795. The problem with this is not simply that modes of presentation and terminology are ...

What do we understand nowadays by the traditional phrase ‘English literature’? Is it the literature of England and England alone, or of the whole British Isles when English is used, or does it cover the literature of all the world when that literature is cast in English?

The social media of Instagram, one of the most used platforms to connect online, is used to build relations and correlations among individuals to support long-distance interaction.

This paper will focus on how the multimedia content helps to vary and enhance the learning process and to lead to a better understanding and memorising of English literature.

A reference guide to periodicals and newspapers that deal significantly with Canadian literature. The project indexes over one hundred English and French language Canadian sources and two foreign publications (Times literary supplement and New York review of books) that cover Canadian literature. The subject index provides a title approach so that all the critical articles and the reviews on a particular work are found together. Includes entries for criticism, reviews, bibliographical essays, and interviews. Un guide aux périodiques et journaux qui recensent la littérature canadienne. Le proje...

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OBJECTIVES The examination will assess: (a) candidates’ familiarity with the background and content of literary texts as well as literary techniques employed by the writers; (b) candidates’ ability to articulate an informed personal response; (c) candidates’ ability to write clear, succinct answers which demonstrate critical and analytical skills; and (d) candidates’ ability to express themselves more freely, informally and imaginatively in portfolio work which relates topics of chosen literary significance to issues of importance in our contemporary culture.

The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, Vladimir Nabokov was Russian. In other words, English literature is as diverse as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the world. In academia, the term often labels departments and programmes practising English studies in secondar...

Students have been plagued with various types of anxieties in the educational context, hence we propose to introduce the concept of literature anxiety in this study. This study investigates the possible factors inducing literature anxiety from the perspectives of university students studying Literature in English at tertiary level, and records their emotional experiences during their learning encounters with Literature in English. The study also presents how these students make sense of their Literature in English learning and how their knowledge and perceptions of Literature in English have i...

Review a: Mohammad A. Quayum & Md. Mahmudul Hasan (eds.). 2021. Bangladeshi Literature in English: A Critical Anthology. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 302 pp.

This research article focuses on how it works to teach both speaking domains and fundamental language abilities (how to read, how to listen, and how to speak) (i.e. and vocab, grammatical structure, and pronunciation of words). Since English is the only language in which all topics are taught, it is important to emphasize and utilize texts in English as a foreign learning language as well as the primary considerations for choosing appropriate literary texts. Additionally, there are advantages to teaching language skills through various literary genres (such as poetry, short fiction, drama, and...

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Literature represents the culture and is a medium of art. English literature analysis helps people to create new world concepts and ideas. It's looking to assist people to be educated. It includes understanding the relevance of community and how people function in the boundaries of community's framework. The ability to recognize why work supports the person and how that affects the person's culture needs to be given further attention. It may generate contradictory emotions and an overall "divine" sense of well-being. For the learning of thematic and creative interactions and literary conventio...

This ambitious account of skepticism's effects on major authors of England's Golden Age shows how key philosophical problems inspired literary innovations in poetry and prose. When figures like Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert of Cherbury, Cavendish, Marvell and Milton question theories of language, degrees of knowledge and belief, and dwell on the uncertainties of perception, they forever change English literature, ushering it into a secular mode. While tracing a narrative arc from medieval nominalism to late seventeenth-century taste, the book explores the aesthetic pleasures and politic...

Abstract:Between the middle of the thirteenth century and the middle of the fourteenth, trilingual miscellanies dramatically increased the presence of English in the manuscript record. Even in those that have an evident functional rationale, structural patterns appear that arise precisely from the combination of languages; and in those that are less obviously functional, language can influence not only the choice of texts, but also the organization. A non-pragmatic, 'literary' tendency can be identified, whereby texts acquire additional significance through their relationship to other texts an...

The integration of literature and literary works has always played an undeniable role in language education. Despite the existence of a wealth of literature in non-native English-speaking countries, in the majority of the coursebooks, the entire attention is devoted to literary works of the native English-speaking countries. In this study, five coursebooks claiming to be based on English as an international language (EIL) were randomly selected and analysed to investigate to what extent they have incorporated the literatures of native and non-native English-speaking countries. The criteria for...

In Indonesia, teaching English through literature (literary text) in primary school has challenges because it does not have a curriculum. Especially English subject is only local content that does not have to include in primary school. A school that never implemented English in their learning must be difficult to provide teaching. So, this study aims to research the challenges in teaching English literature in primary school from a teacher’s perspective and the strategies used to solve the challenges. The method used in this research is qualitative descriptive and the subject is an English tea...

English is widely recognized as the language of science, and English‐language publications (ELPs) are rapidly increasing. It is often assumed that the number of non‐ELPs is decreasing. This assumption contributes to the underuse of non‐ELPs in conservation science, practice, and policy, especially at the international level. However, the number of conservation articles published in different languages is poorly documented. Using local and international search systems, we searched for scientific articles on biodiversity conservation published from 1980 to 2018 in English and 15 non‐English lang...

Malaysia has become one of the epitomes of multiculturalism in Southeast Asia due to its richness of diversity. Colonised by multiple European countries and Japan for centuries, the country, formerly known as Malaya, achieved its independence on 31st August 1957. The emergence of inspiring words by Malaya writers and poets during the colonial era became the beacons of hope amongst the Malaya people in forging a new future for their newly independent country. Furthermore, the revival of Malaysian literature in English in the postcolonial era can strengthen the trust, understanding, acceptance, ...

This reference book includes an A-Z section with over 5000 detailed entries, 12 essays on the historical and social context of English literature, contemporary critical approaches to literature, medieval literature, and the history and development of main genres.

This essay introduces an approach to teach electronic literature in English Studies students; first introduces to the students what electronic literature is, that is, its main features, goals and genres. Secondly, it provides examples of women writers and their importance in the development of this kind of literature. Thirdly, it shows two electronic literary works written by women that may be part of the course’s core readings. This article dives into and breaks apart these literary texts through an introduction and a close reading of them.

ABSTRACT This article takes Margaret Meek Spencer’s 1988 pamphlet “How Texts Teach What Readers Learn” to frame a discussion about the purpose of English Literature in English secondary schools. The primary data informing this article is taken from original interviews with ten Heads of English departments in English secondary schools. Henri Lefebvre’s framework of conceived, perceived and lived spaces is used to analyse the data to understand how the Heads of Department conceptualise the place and purpose of English Literature in their schools. The views of the Heads of English are then discus...

The following paper aims to analyse the functions of the interjection oh in the English corpus provided by Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and its translation into Polish. Once the functions and patterns of the form are defined, the translation strategies employed are analysed. The study reveals which translational strategies proposed by Cuenca (2006) are employed in the translation of oh : literal translation, using an interjection with dissimilar form but having the same meaning, using a non‑interjective structure but with similar meaning, using an interjection with a different meanin...

The findings show that researchers have devoted more attention to the education domain using retrieval-based approaches while the generation-based approach has grown in popularity recently for providing new responses tasks.

This study aimed to identify age-appropriate materials for teaching English to young students, explore engaging teaching methods that promote active participation and language acquisition, and investigate the importance of creating a supportive learning environment for young students. This research uses a library research method, which involves identifying and locating sources of factual information or personal or expert opinion on a research question. This method was chosen in this study because of its performance-enhancing properties. Therefore, this study requires strong theoretical and exp...

Songs are typically composed for certain goals, messages, and audiences, and occasionally they are produced with particular listeners in mind. Common subjects in song lyrics include societal and current issues and challenges, with which the artist tries to communicate through manifestations of his or her beliefs, feelings, and ideologies. Therefore, language research to song lyrics is indeed very interesting to do, because it examines meaning. This research is interested in researching a song lyric entitled Toi Moi by Kids United. The researchers are interested in examining the anti-racism con...

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The occurrence of phonological interference can be found if the native is able to acquire multilingually. The research aims to reveal the phonological aspects causing phonological interference and establish the strategies for avoiding interference. Students of the English literature department that take English Language Teaching (ELT) and speak Javanese, Indonesia, and English language become the primary sources of this research. The method used in this research is a descriptive qualitative as research design and the theory of Geoffry S. Nathan for the analysis. Meanwhile, Marsono’s theory is ...

This study critically investigates the role that a text of English literature plays, in comparison with the local literary text in English, in the learning of English as a second language. To provide data for this research, two literary texts are selected and targeted: 'Araby' by James Joyce and 'The New Constitution' by Sadat Hassan Manto, a Pakistani short story writer. This analysis is based upon the perceptions and prescriptions of Piaget's world known schema theory which reads that to comprehend and understand a social product fully, the langue ( mental lexicon of a speech community) and ...

The period from the Mamlūk reconquest of Acre (1291) to the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1453) witnessed the production of a substantial corpus of Middle English crusade romances. Marcel Elias places these romances in dialogue with multifarious European writings to offer a novel account of late medieval crusade culture: as ambivalent and self-critical, animated by tensions and debates, and fraught with anxiety. These romances uphold ideals of holy war while expressing anxieties about issues as diverse as God's endorsement of the crusading enterprise, the conversion of Christians to Islam, ...

The study examined using interactive teaching strategies to raise the understanding of students in literary texts. The study used reciprocal teaching strategies with undergraduate students at UST University in Yemen. The sample research included 46 female students from the English Department's 4th level in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, UST. The study's sample was randomly chosen and divided into control and experimental groups. Both groups were taught the exact content of the literature; the experimental group was taught using novel reciprocal strategies, while the control group re...

This article analyzes how drama in learning English can be an interesting and not boring lesson for students at school. This is to ensure that learning English is well integrated. Drama can be used to teach English skills, speaking, and listening. In addition, the teacher hopes that learning drama can be a way to improve learning literature in schools and increase students' talents. This study was conducted at the Al-Mahduqiah Modern Islamic Boarding School in East Java that uses a curriculum muallimin. The research methodology used in this article is qualitative, using a literature survey and...