Research methods for English studies / edited by Gabriele Griffin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Griffin, Gabriele.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Research--Methodology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

English literature.

English literature--Research--Methodology.

English literature--Research.

Literature--Research--Methodology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Literature.

Literature--Research--Methodology.

Literature--Research.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2005]

Summary:

The first volume of this kind, Research Methods for English Studies introduces final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students taking Masters degrees or PhDs to a range of research methods that are deployed in the study of English, particularly for the periods of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The book covers methods familiar to many English scholars as well as those less commonly explored which also contribute significantly to research in English Studies. Bringing together a range of distinguished contributors, each chapter focuses on one particular method, offering both concrete practical advice on how to utilise it and exploring some of the methodological issues that are involved in the use of the particular method. These methods include textual analysis, auto/biographical methods, discourse analysis, interviewing, visual methodologies, archival methods, quantitative analysis, ethnographic methods, oral history, creative writing as a research method, and research using Information and Communication Technologies.

Contents:

1 Research Methods for English Studies: An Introduction / Gabriele Griffin 1

2 Archival Methods / Carolyn Steedman 17

3 Auto/biography as a Research Method / Mary Evans 31

4 Oral History as a Research Method / Penny Summerfield 47

5 Visual Methodologies / Gillian Rose 67

6 Discourse Analysis / Gabriele Griffin 91

7 The Uses of Ethnographic Methods in English Studies / Rachel Alsop 111

8 Numbers and Words: Quantitative Methods for Scholars of Texts / Pat Hudson 131

9 Textual Analysis as a Research Method / Catherine Belsey 157

10 Interviewing / Gabriele Griffin 175

11 Creative Writing as a Research Method / Jon Cook 195

12 ICT as a Research Method / Harold Short, Marilyn Deegan 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0748621555

0748621547

OCLC:

58050987