Literary Criticism

Friendship in the classical world was celebrated as among the highest human achievements: nothing was more likely to lead to the divine than looking for it in the eyes of a friend. In exploring the complexities of male-male relations beyond the simple...

This is an edition of Christopher Marlowe's play Dr Faustus as it was printed in its revised and augmented form in 1616. It follows the publication of the Malone Society edition of the 1604 text in 2018. This is one of the most celebrated of all...

Disintegration in Frames examines the ways in which national identity and interethnic relations are approached, evaluated, and critically dissected in films by directors such as Dusan Makavejev, Emir Kusturica, and Srdan Dragojevic; subcultural...

Focusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relation...

Jacqueline Rose is a world-renowned critic and one of the most influential and provocative scholars working in the humanities today. She is also among the most wide ranging, with books on Zionism, feminism, Sylvia Plath, children's fiction, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954528499Author Kenney W IrishFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Beyond the Fray PublishingPublisher Beyond the Fray PublishingWeight(grams)...

Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe it best, and indeed to symbolize the war’s tragic arc...

A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account-and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907676017Author Margaret BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Grace Note PublicationsPublisher Grace Note PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802883209Author David Lyle JeffreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint William B. Eerdmans Publishing CompanyPublisher William B. Eerdmans Publishing...

Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works,...

With its focus on gender, power, race, sexuality, and violence, Othello is an important site for new critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare's works. Both criticism and culture are represented in this collection of recent essays which provides...

One of the most popular contemporary authors, Kazuo Ishiguro has so far produced six highly regarded novels which have won him international acclaim and honours, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread Award and an OBE for Services to Literature.This...

With fascinating essays on artists from Louis Armstrong to Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud to Franz Kafka and Beatrix Potter to Marcel Proust, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic.'One...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820328072Author Steven WeisenburgerFormat PaperbackImprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 585g

Erudite, witty and often controversial, The London Review of Books informs and entertains its readers with a fortnightly dose of the best and liveliest of all things cultural.This anthology brings together some of the most memorable pieces from recent...

A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and...

Through detailed close readings alongside investigations into the history of print culture, Marta Fossati traces the development of the South African short story in English from the late 1920s to the first decade of the twenty-first century. She examines...

Textual Intercourse proposes that the language and practice of writing plays in early modern England was inextricably linked to languages and practices of eroticism, sexuality and reproduction. Jeffrey Masten reads a range of early modern materials -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375377980Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm)...

Plato is one of the key ancient authors studied by both classicists and philosophers. This volume contains the first eight of Plato's works in the traditional order which appears in most of the manuscripts. The first four, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, ahd...

This is the sixth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530594Author Professor Elias CanettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

T. S. Eliot enjoyed a profound relationship with Earth. Criticism of his work does not suggest that this exists in his poetic oeuvre. Writing into this gap, Etienne Terblanche demonstrates that Eliot presents Earth as a process in which humans immerse...

What makes Tony Soprano so likeable? Why would we rather leave the cannoli and take the gun? Do we truly want Scarface's Tony Montana to succeed? Is Michael Corleone a misunderstood hero or a despicable villain? In The Mafia: A Cultural History, now...

Literary Transvaluation: From Vergilian Epic to Shakespearean Tragicomedy is a meticulous exploration of literary influence, focusing on how Shakespeare's works, especially Antony and Cleopatra, engage in a profound reimagining of Vergil's Aeneid. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452261587Author William E. BlundellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)...

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) is William Blake's best-known work, containing such familiar poems as 'London', 'Sick Rose' and 'The Tyger'. Evolving over the author's lifetime, the collection was printed by Blake himself on his own press...

The Hermetica are a body of theological-philosophical texts written in late antiquity, but long believed to be much older. Their supposed author, Hermes Trismegistus, was thought to be a contemporary of Moses, and the Hermetic philosophy was regarded as...

The Ring and the Book, published serially in 1868-9, is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman, Guido Franceschini, for the murder of his wife Pompilia in Rome in 1698...

This reprint of Morgan's popular and well-respected 1952 modern English translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic captures a taut expression of the poem's themes of danger, voyaging, displacement, loyalty, and loss. Morgan provides a fluid, modern voice from...

The Everyman Complete Shakespeare will publish the History plays in two volumes. In volume I are contained Shakespeare's first five history plays: HENRY VI parts I, II and II; RICHARD III and KING JOHN. The text of the plays is accompainied by extensive...

E. P. Thompson's long-awaited book on William Blake was published shortly after the historian's death in August 1993. Acclaimed as one of his best and most deeply felt works, it appears now for the first time in paperback. Written with a vivid passion,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375388900Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm)...

Keats is celebrated as a writer in three forms: lyric verse, narrative verse and letters. All three are represented here in a volume which reprints all the famous odes, a selection os sonnets and other short poems, both versions of HYPERION, extentsive...

Kidnapped - Catriona - The Master of Ballantrae - Weir of HermistonThese four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson's imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship with his native country.Kidnapped, and its sequel Catriona, are renowned...

The Accrington Pals is a poignant and harrowing play set in the early years of the First World War, as the country's jingoistic optimism starts to wane and the true terror of warfare gradually becomes clear. The play looks at both the terrifying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540619396Author Silly WillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

Bringing together philologists, historians, and archaeologists, Rome, Empire of Plunder bridges disciplinary divides in pursuit of an interdisciplinary understanding of Roman cultural appropriation - approached not as a set of distinct practices but as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083236Author Gwynne DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingWeight(grams) 129g