The Forms of Narrative: A Practical Study Guide for English - Softcover

Abbs, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521371597 ISBN 13: 9780521371599

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

These two companion volumes provide students aged 14-18 with a practical 'map' of the various literary forms of English. Each volume offers a diverse and imaginative anthology chosen from the whole field of English literature. They aim to encourage students to explore in practical ways the scope, development and uses of form in English. Each chapter offers a wide range of stimulating assignments both for use in the classroom and for personal study. Both volumes are illustrated throughout to provide a full context for the writing which is represented.

About this title

About the Author

JOHN RICHARDSON JR., Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, edits the "Theses in Documents" column for Government Publications Review.

Peter Abbs was born and grew up on the North Norfolk coast in England. He has written and lectured widely on the nature of creativity and the poetics of culture. He is the Poetry Editor of Resurgence and editor of Earth Songs, the first Anglo-American anthology of contemporary ecoverse. He has published nine volumes of poetry including Icons of Time, Viva la Vida and The Flowering of Flint. Most recently in The Greater Journey (2008) he has worked with the photographer John Pack to explore the relationship between image and word. He is Research Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Sussex.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521371597
• ISBN 13: 9780521371599
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194