Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-402) and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- How to use the book -- PART I: STUDYING LITERATURE -- Studying Literature -- Your Literature Course -- Study Skills for Literature -- PART II: LITERATURE -- Literature -- Forms &--Genre -- Other Popular Modules &--Options -- PART III: CRITICAL APPROACHES -- PART IV: TERMS AND CONCEPTS -- PART V: CAREER PATHWAYS -- PART VI: LEARNING RESOURCE -- Chronology.

"JULIAN WOLFREYS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA. His teaching and research is concerned with 19th- and 20th-century British literary and cultural studies, literary theory, the poetics and politics of identity, and the idea of the city. He is the series editor of Transitions and his publications include Introducing Literary Theories (ed. 2001), Readings: Acts of Close Reading in Literary Theory (2001) Glossalalia: An Alphabet of Critical Keywords (2003), and Thinking Otherwise: Difference and Pedagogy (2004)"--