Louis de Bernières: The Essential Guide

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Random House, Apr 24, 2012 - Literary Criticism - 208 pages

In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Louis de Bernières. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Louis de Bernières, relating specifically to the texts under discussion.

This guide will deal with de Bernières' themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will be accompanied with likely exam questions, and contexts and comparisons - as well as providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for all four novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complimentary and comparative reading, extracts from reviews, a biography, a bibliography and a glossary of literary terms.

 

Contents

PREFACE
1
VINTAGE LIVING TEXTS
27
The War of Don Emmanuels Nether Parts
121
Reading guides
143
The Troublesome Offspring
153
Contexts comparisons and complementary readings
168
Selected extracts from reviews
175
Glossary of literary terms used in this book
181
Select bibliography
187
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In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Louis de Bernières. The Vintage Living Texts series includes: Sebastian Faulks, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.

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