| Titre : |
Landmarks In British Literature : A British Literature Survey Introductory Notes Selected Texts |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Anouar Attia, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
O.P.U |
| Année de publication : |
2004 |
| Importance : |
208p |
| Format : |
15*24cm |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) |
| Index. décimale : |
820 Littérature de langue anglaise |
| Résumé : |
The Longman Anthology has elsewhere been presented as a skirmish in the canon wars because of the texts it includes or excludes. With the appearance of Norton's seventh edition, the differences in text selection are considerably narrower. Both anthologies offer thematic clusters on slavery, for example, though the Longman's is somewhat more extensive and is situated in the Romantic period, at the time when public debate about slavery was at its peak. Some of the Norton's new additions look particularly attractive, like the selections from Wollstonecraft's Short Residence in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway and Frances Burney's Letters and Journals. But changes to the Norton have been piecemeal, with the result that some of the introductory material looks dated, and the approach continues to be more author-centered. [End Page 200] Even the editing of the texts themselves reflects changes in thinking in the years since the Norton first appeared, when texts were more frequently standardized for spelling, punctuation, and grammar. The Longman editors have done less "cleaning up" of the poems I teach, which is welcome--in the Norton, some lines of Pope are unscannable because his elisions have been filled in. These differences will certainly not prompt every teacher of surveys to switch to the Longman (if nothing else, old reading notes are hard to part with), especially since Norton seven incorporates many of the Longman's innovations. Both aim at a more historically based method, but the Longman has provided a wider range of contexts. |
Landmarks In British Literature : A British Literature Survey Introductory Notes Selected Texts [texte imprimé] / Anouar Attia, Auteur . - [S.l.] : O.P.U, 2004 . - 208p ; 15*24cm. Langues : Anglais ( eng) Langues originales : Anglais ( eng)
| Index. décimale : |
820 Littérature de langue anglaise |
| Résumé : |
The Longman Anthology has elsewhere been presented as a skirmish in the canon wars because of the texts it includes or excludes. With the appearance of Norton's seventh edition, the differences in text selection are considerably narrower. Both anthologies offer thematic clusters on slavery, for example, though the Longman's is somewhat more extensive and is situated in the Romantic period, at the time when public debate about slavery was at its peak. Some of the Norton's new additions look particularly attractive, like the selections from Wollstonecraft's Short Residence in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway and Frances Burney's Letters and Journals. But changes to the Norton have been piecemeal, with the result that some of the introductory material looks dated, and the approach continues to be more author-centered. [End Page 200] Even the editing of the texts themselves reflects changes in thinking in the years since the Norton first appeared, when texts were more frequently standardized for spelling, punctuation, and grammar. The Longman editors have done less "cleaning up" of the poems I teach, which is welcome--in the Norton, some lines of Pope are unscannable because his elisions have been filled in. These differences will certainly not prompt every teacher of surveys to switch to the Longman (if nothing else, old reading notes are hard to part with), especially since Norton seven incorporates many of the Longman's innovations. Both aim at a more historically based method, but the Longman has provided a wider range of contexts. |
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