Publisher's Synopsis
This book provides a collection of English Literature essays which received First Class/Distinction at Undergraduate level. They can be used to assist your studies in a particular topic or as a more generalised template of how to go about answering your essay question. The topics covered include: * From Beowulf to Blake: The Evolution of the Individual Identity (An Exploration of Identity in Beowulf, Hamlet and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell) * The Sonnet and Its Blurred Boundaries (An Analysis of Paterson's 101 Sonnets) * The Revelation or Concealment of Reality (Plato Versus Aristotle) * Contestation of Britain's Status as a Multi-Racial Nation (Gilroy's Challenge of High Society) * Tearing Down the Binary (The Multiplicity of Hall's Queer Theories) * Interrupting Salih's Migration to the North (Complications Arising from Bhabha's Location of Culture) * Appropriated Bodies, Appropriated Voices (The Silenced Women of the South African Transition)