Jeanette Winterson: The Essential Guide - Softcover

Reynolds, Margaret; Noakes, Jonathan

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9780099437673: Jeanette Winterson: The Essential Guide

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ISBN 10: 0099437678 ISBN 13: 9780099437673

Publisher: Vintage UK, 2003

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In "Vintage Living Texts", teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Jeanette Winterson. It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Jeanette Winterson, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Winterson's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

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In Vintage Living Texts, students, teachers, and general readers will find essential guides to some of the most exciting works in contemporary literature. Each guide focuses on three or four works by a major novelist; the series is unique in that it offers exclusive in–depth interviews with the authors relating specifically to the texts under discussion. Readers are introduced to the writers’ themes, genres, and narrative techniques, and a close reading of the guides provides a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Each of these outstanding books is complete with detailed reading plans for the novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative readings, extracts from reviews, and a biography, bibliography, and glossary of literary terms.

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In Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the writer's works, together with an in-depth interview relating specifically to the texts under discussion. Each guide deals with the writer's themes, genre and narrative technique and a close reading will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.
Texts:
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
The Passion
Sexing the Cherry
The Powerbook

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