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Basic information about English Language and Literature
This guide provides an overview of the library resources available for English Language and Literature students.
Programme website
Course Reading
Code Course Name
ENG101English Skills I
ENG102English Skills II
ENG111English Usage I
ENG112English Usage
ENG120Introduction to Literature
ENG140Introduction to Translation
ENG153Introduction to Cultural Studies
ENG160Introduction to Linguistics
ENG184Women’s Writing & Feminist Readings
ENG185Greek and Roman Mythology in Western Literature
ENG211English Writing I
ENG212English Writing II
ENG213Commercial Translation
ENG214Exploring English grammar
ENG233The Language of Poetry
ENG234City Culture and Hong Kong Urbanscape
ENG240Literary Translation
ENG250Sociolinguistics
ENG270Discourse Analysis
ENG273Children’s Literature
ENG274Modernist Fiction
ENG283Literature and Film
ENG284Modern Drama
ENG285Work Placement
ENG305Technoscience Culture
ENG320Critical Analysis of Drama
ENG330Gender, Language and Translation
ENG350Psycholinguistics
ENG360Work Placement (Education)
ENG361Pedagogical Grammar
ENG364Second Language Acquisition
ENG385Shakespeare
ENG388American Literature
ENG406Literature, Culture and Ecological Ethics
ENG409Interdisciplinary Approach to English Studies
ENG410Linguistic Approaches to Translation
ENG440Translation and Globalization
ENG450Phonological Studies in World Englishes
ENG460Contemporary Literature
ENG485Victorian Literature and Society
ENG486Issues in Pragmatics
ENG489Visual Culture Studies
ProQuest Literature Online
ProQuest Literature Online is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, nearly 240 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Gale Literature
Gale Literature brings together all of Gale's literary databases into one seamlessly cross-searchable research and study environment. Whether you're researching authors and their works, literary movements or genres, or trying to find book reviews of bestsellers, you can search across all of your library's Gale literary databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism and analysis, reviews, author biographies, and a rich collection of expertly written work overviews.

Road to IELTS
Road to IELTS is online preparation and practice resource for IELTS. With over 120 hours of interactive activities, advice videos from British Council experts, hints and tips on question types as well as downloadable practice tests, it is comprehensive, up-to-date and aimed precisely at the challenges candidates face. Road to IELTS is suitable for IELTS candidates from band score 4.5 upwards, and for institutions running IELTS preparation courses.

For the first time user of Clarity English, please register here. Steps for register.

Practical Writing

Practical Writing helps students not just with the essays and reports they have to write in their academic work, but also with the job application, personal profiles and letters they will need to write in their final year.

For the first time user of Clarity English, please register here.
 

Tense Buster
Tense Buster, Clarity's most popular program, helps learners improve their understanding of key grammar areas from some/any at Elementary level to phrasal verbs at Advanced level. The program is ideal as a self-access resource for extension or remedial work, or integrated into a course of study and used for classwork or homework.

For the first time user of Clarity English, please register here.

Physical Books
  Teaching literature in translation : pedagogical contexts and reading practices
Publication Date : 2023
Call number : 418.020711 TEA 2023
Location : English Book (4/F)
  Shakespeare's global sonnets : translation, appropriation, performance
Publication Date : 2022
Call number : 822.33 SHA 2023
Location : English Book (5/F)
  如果文學很簡單, 我們也不用這麼辛苦 = Nobody says it's easy when we talk about literature
Publication Date : 2023
Call number : 812.7 1111 2022
Location : Chinese Book (5/F)
  Futurism and the African imagination : literature and other arts
Publication Date : 2022
Call number : 809.9114096 FUT 2022
Location : English Book (5/F)
  别处的世界 : 早期近代欧洲旅行书写与亚洲形象
Publication Date : 2021
Call number : 819 804 2021
Location : Chinese Book (5/F)
  When translation goes digital : case studies and critical reflections
Publication Date : 2021
Call number : 418.02 WHE 2021
Location : English Book (4/F)
  文学人类学的想象力
Publication Date : 2019
Call number : 810.7 1408 2019
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
  文学与图像 = Literature and image
Publication Date : 2019
Call number : 812 416 2019
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
Chinese eBooks
  文學的40堂公開課:從神話到當代暢銷書,文學如何影響我們、帶領我們理解這個世界
Publication Date : 2023
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  美國拉丁美裔文學研究論集
Publication Date : 2021
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  戰勝英文翻譯與寫作:學好文法, 寫出流暢短文
Publication Date : 2020
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  諾貝爾文學獎百年風華
Publication Date : 2020
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  二十一世纪的比较文学与世界文学研究
Publication Date : 2020
Access via 華藝電子書
  《二十四诗品》研究:阿列克谢耶夫汉学论集
Publication Date : 2019
Access via 華藝電子書 [ebook]
  20世紀英國女性文學探微
Publication Date : 2018
Access via 華藝電子書 [ebook]
  中外文學比較
Publication Date : 2000
Access via 華藝電子書 [ebook]
English eBooks
  Communicating Linguistics : Language, Community and Public Engagement
Publication Date : 2023
Access via Ebook Central Perpetual [ebook]
  State of play : British politics on screen, stage and page, from Anthony Trollope to The thick of it
Publication Date : 2023
Access via DOAB Directory of Open Access Books [ebook]
  The art of language
Publication Date : 2022
Access via EBSCO [ebook]
  A Short Media History of English Literature
Publication Date : 2022
Access via Ebook Central Perpetual [ebook]
  Context in Literary and Cultural Studies
Publication Date : 2021
Access via DOAB Directory of Open Access Books [ebook]
  Belonging Beyond Borders: Cosmopolitan Affiliations in Contemporary Spanish American Literature
Publication Date : 2021
Access via DOAB Directory of Open Access Books [ebook]
  Comparative practices : literature, language, and culture in Britain's long eighteenth century
Publication Date : 2020
Access via JSTOR Books Open Access [ebook]