Literary Criticism

The Beat Generation were a radical group of American writers whose relaxed, gritty and candid writing inspired generations. In his chronicle of the origins, adventures, and inner workings of the Beat movement, Christopher Gair reveals how it sparked one...

Studying Poetry is a fun, concise and helpful guide to understanding poetry which is divided into three parts, form and meaning, critical approaches and interpreting poetry, all of which help to illuminate the beauty and validity of poetry using a wide...

Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again...

The unconscious is a term which is central to the understanding of psychoanalysis, and, indeed everyday life. In this introductory guide, Antony Easthope provides a witty and accessible overview of the subject showing the reality of the unconscious with...

Hardy's second published novel, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), the first of his great series of Wessex novels, was originally published anonymously. As part of the Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575443Author Nina FreudenbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Random House USA Inc

The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process "Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883011451Author Wallace StevensFormat HardbackPage Count 1030Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

Key dimensions of Dostoevskii's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. While remaining accessible to an undergraduate and non-specialist readership, the essays as a whole seek to renegotiate the terms in which...

This is a lucid, authoritative and well-balanced account of Anglo-Saxon history. The third edition includes an introduction by Simon Keynes. Between the end of the Roman occupation and the coming of the Normans, England was settled by Germanic races; the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674333246Author James EngellFormat HardbackPage Count 435Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 785g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905512379Author Ken WorpoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996157087Author Sergei YeseninFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Sensitive Skin BooksPublisher Sensitive Skin BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)...

Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is the leading critical overview of and historical introduction to colonial and postcolonial literary studies. Highly praised from the time of its first publication for its lucidity, breadth, and insight, the book has...

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Government of state and self.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ...

Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017 Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer...

The authoritative text has been fully annotated and makes available a perennially popular novel, one that has often been mistaken for an actual eyewitness account of the last great plague in England. "Backgrounds" encourages comparison of 1665 documents...

A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers everywhere, commanding their love, earning their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946206483Author Jennifer AulieFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Wynstones PressPublisher Wynstones Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075835Author John HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

During the four centuries when printed paper was the only means by which texts could be carried across time and distance, everyone engaged in politics, education, religion, and literature believed that reading helped to shape the minds, opinions,...

In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the...

In 1918 a young Carl Schmitt published a short satirical fiction entitled The Buribunks. He imagined a future society of beings who consistently wrote and disseminated their personal diaries. Schmitt would go on to become the infamous philosopher of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255872Author Lissette Lopez SzwydkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Written over a period of twenty-five years, this first volume in a trilogy is intended to depict in the life and work of writers of different nationalities--Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky--the world-portraying novelist. Though these essays were composed...

"On the whole, the volume reads like a cohesive book ...and maintains a high standard of scholarship throughout. Investigators of Russian literary demonism in the future will surely want to consult this excellent work." * The Russian Review...

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a novel of self-realization greatly admired by the Romantics, has been called the first Bildungsroman and has had a tremendous influence on the history of the German novel. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man...

This marvellous selections of over 200 pieces by writers as diverse and entertaining as Charles Dickens, John Betjeman, Noel Coward, Joyce Grenfell, Ogden Nash and Oscar Wilde are poems and prose writings which work best when read aloud. Peter Barkworth,...

First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorJean-Paul Sartre, Walter RedfernBook InformationISBN 9780415039352Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint RoutledgePublisher...

In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no...

The function of literature and words changes dramatically over the centuries, particularly when dealing with medieval literature. The most common misconception among students and dated textbooks is that medieval French literature is merely a 'recording'...

More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its...

The identity of Shakespeare, the most important poet and dramatist in the English language, has been debated for centuries. This historical work investigates the role of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, establishing him as most likely the...

An authoritative, hands-on guide through the practical challenges involved in performing Shakespeare. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies offers practical advice to actors, directors and drama students...

The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see "difference." At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The...

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In the past, studies of the history of bookbinding were mainly concerned with the exterior decoration. This book focuses attention primarily on the physical aspects of the binding and its construction principles. It is an expanded version of a series...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187110Author Michael Patrick AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506481388Author Phyllis TribleFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g