Roddy Doyle: The Essential Guide: 10 (Vintage Living Texts, 10) - Softcover

Book 10 of 14: Vintage Living Texts

Noakes, Jonathan; Reynolds, Margaret

 
9780099452195: Roddy Doyle: The Essential Guide: 10 (Vintage Living Texts, 10)

Synopsis

In Vintage Living Texts, teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of Roddy Doyle. Also included is an exclusive in-depth interview with Roddy Doyle relating specifically to the novels under discussion.

Roddy Doyle's themes, genre and narrative techniques are put under scrutiny and the emphasis is on providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Amongst many other features you'll find inspirational reading plans and contextual material, suggested complementary and comparative reading and an indispensable glossary.

Featuring the texts: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, The Van and A Star Called Henry.

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About the Author

Margaret Reynolds is a writer, academic, critic and broadcaster. Her critical edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize. Other books include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion, Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology (with Angela Leighton) and a series of study guides on contemporary writers, Vintage Living Texts. She is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's long running 'Adventures in Poetry'.

From the Back Cover

The essential guide to Doyle's themes, genre and narrative techniques in The Snapper, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, The Van, The Commitments, and including an exclusive author interview.

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