Studying English Literature and Language: An Introduction and Companion is designed to support students studying on English Literature and Language degrees. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, it has rapidly established itself as a core text on a wide variety of degree programmes. Formerly known as The English Studies Book, this new edition has been updated and revised throughout. Studying English Literature and Language: analyses local and global varieties of the English language in a range of media and discourses, including news, advertising, text messaging, rap, pop and street art includes fresh sections on the essential skills and study strategies needed to complete a degree in English--from close reading, research and referencing to full guidelines and tips on essay-writing, participating in seminars, presentation and revision covers the key theoretical positions and practical approaches taken by scholars in the field, including practical criticism, psychoanalysis, cultural materialism and new eclectic strands of thought. addresses crucial topics and terms such as accents and dialects, the canon, character and characterisation, discourse analysis, narratives in history, periodisation, realism, versification and intertextuality features extensive revisions and updates to the texts in the anthology, representing all the major genres from early elegy and novel to contemporary performance and flash fiction, and representing writers as diverse as Aphra Behn, Emily Dickinson, J.
M. Coetzee, Angela Carter, Russell Hoban. Adrienne Rich and Arundhati Roy provides an authoritative guide to the life skills, further study options and career pathways open to graduates of the subject is supported by a Companion Website featuring a wide selection of additional anthology texts, extended interpretations of poetry, prose fiction, plays and critical essays, suggestions for further online research and a comprehensive glossary of grammatical terms. Studying English Literature and Language is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference for anyone interested in the study of English language, literature and culture.