Roddy Doyle: Vintage Living Texts - Novel Book

Roddy Doyle: Vintage Living TextsAuthor: Jonathan Noakes Margaret Reynolds
Publisher: CCV
Category: Literary Studies: General, Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
Book Format: Paperback

In Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Roddy Doyle. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Roddy Doyle, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Doyle's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will prove 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 three novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material suggested texts for complementary reading, extracts from reviews, a critical overview, a biography, bibliograpgy and a glossary of literary terms.

About Jonathan NoakesThe Series Editors of Vintage Living Texts have, between them, more than thirty years teaching experience at senior school and undergraduate level. Their association with Vintage - and with the Vintage authors - guarantees a series that is lively and informative and fun. Margaret Reynolds is a writer, academic, critic and broadcaster. Her critical edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize. Other books include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion, Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology (with Angela Leighton) and a series of study guides on contemporary writers, Vintage Living Texts. She is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's long running 'Adventures in Poetry'.