Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Professor Philip Tew (born Enfield, Middlesex) is an English academic. Professor in English (Post-1900 Literature) in the School of Arts at Brunel University, Tew is a leading expert in the field of contemporary and modern British fiction after 1945, and various strands of critical or 'high' theory, particularly metarealism and materialism. He has been an outspoken opponent of the essentialism and anti-realist orthodoxies underlying much of postmodernist and postcolonial criticism. Tew is the author of standard works on B.S. Johnson, Jim Crace, Zadie Smith, and the contemporary British novel. He has edited numerous academic collections, series and journals. Tew was born into a working class English family in the London Borough of Enfield, attending the same primary school that actor Ray Winstone joined aged seven. Tew's secondary education took place at Enfield Grammar School, which he entered when Jim Crace, subsequently to become one of Britain's foremost novelists and the subject of a monograph by Tew, was in the third-year sixth re-sitting maths O-level to add to his A-Levels for university entry. The school became a comprehensive in Tew's second year. After A-levels Tew himself attended the University of Leicester, where he gained a BA (Upper Second Class Hons.) in American Studies (with English and History). Subsequently he was awarded a PGCE in English (Middle and Secondary Schools), at the Scraptoft Campus by Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), and he has taught in numerous schools and colleges. He worked in both primary and secondary schools in Leicester, Leicestershire and London. He also lectured in Further Education Colleges in English for the ILEA (Inner London Education Authority). After part-time research, Te... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=13534490We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Academics of Birmingham City University: Philip Tew. To get started finding Academics of Birmingham City University: Philip Tew, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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44
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Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1156207789
Academics of Birmingham City University: Philip Tew
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Professor Philip Tew (born Enfield, Middlesex) is an English academic. Professor in English (Post-1900 Literature) in the School of Arts at Brunel University, Tew is a leading expert in the field of contemporary and modern British fiction after 1945, and various strands of critical or 'high' theory, particularly metarealism and materialism. He has been an outspoken opponent of the essentialism and anti-realist orthodoxies underlying much of postmodernist and postcolonial criticism. Tew is the author of standard works on B.S. Johnson, Jim Crace, Zadie Smith, and the contemporary British novel. He has edited numerous academic collections, series and journals. Tew was born into a working class English family in the London Borough of Enfield, attending the same primary school that actor Ray Winstone joined aged seven. Tew's secondary education took place at Enfield Grammar School, which he entered when Jim Crace, subsequently to become one of Britain's foremost novelists and the subject of a monograph by Tew, was in the third-year sixth re-sitting maths O-level to add to his A-Levels for university entry. The school became a comprehensive in Tew's second year. After A-levels Tew himself attended the University of Leicester, where he gained a BA (Upper Second Class Hons.) in American Studies (with English and History). Subsequently he was awarded a PGCE in English (Middle and Secondary Schools), at the Scraptoft Campus by Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), and he has taught in numerous schools and colleges. He worked in both primary and secondary schools in Leicester, Leicestershire and London. He also lectured in Further Education Colleges in English for the ILEA (Inner London Education Authority). After part-time research, Te... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=13534490We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Academics of Birmingham City University: Philip Tew. To get started finding Academics of Birmingham City University: Philip Tew, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.