Literary Criticism

Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary - such as book/theatre, source/adaptation, text/paratext,...

This sourcebook of texts in modern translation makes accessible key anti-feminist works, together with a surprising range of early texts championing women. This book is intended for all post sixth-form levels of scholarship studying English and European...

Starting with fourteen-year-old Woolf's first palm-sized leather diary, Becoming Virginia Woolf illuminates how her private and public writing was shaped by the diaries of other writers including Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, the French Goncourt brothers,...

Ancient Rome's original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, especially his staunch opposition to Carthage; his modest way...

Precious snippets of ancient song.Bacchylides, nephew of Simonides and rival of Pindar, wrote choral poetry of many types. We have a number of his victory odes-poems celebrating victories in athletic contests-as well as dithyrambs and other hymns. He was...

We believe we know our bodies intimately--that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however,...

Hayden White is widely considered to be the most influential historical theorist of the twentieth century. The Ethics of Narrative brings together nearly all of White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, revealing a lesser-known...

Now in its seventh edition, Studying the Novel is an authoritative introduction to the study of the novel at undergraduate level. Updated throughout to reflect the profound impact of e-reading and digital resources on the contemporary study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140044362Author Ruth SawyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and...

Ancient Greek Gods and Mythology Explored Like Never Before#1 Bestseller in Ancient & Classical LiteratureDiscover six classic stories of Greek mythology in this exciting retelling that paints both famous and lesser-known Greek gods in a whole new light...

'Strategic thinking for a writer articulates itself as dislike and as allegiance.' In this wonderfully rich and diverse collection of essays, Amit Chaudhuri explores the way in which writers understand and promote their own work in antithesis to writers...

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...

J.B. Priestley is considered by many to be an old-fashioned playwright whose work is locked in a pre-war world of provincialism and whose ideas are way past their sell-by date. In Time and the Rose Garden, internationally recognised author Anthony Peake...

Those who love and live by art, tell us that it is the most exalted expression of civilized life. In this provocative new book Jonathan Dollimore argues that, far from confirming humane values, literature more often than not violates them. He begins with...

This volume of essays brings together critical analysis and commentary on the literary work of Michel Tournier.About the AuthorMichael Worton is Vice-Provost and Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature at University College London.Book...

Many people throughout the world "inhabit" fantastic imaginary worlds in a communal fashion, enthusiastically discussing the fine points of The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, and Harry Potter, or banding together in online virtual worlds such as World of...

This book explains how the brain interacts with the social world-and why stories matter.How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive...

The age of gene-centrism and mechanism is slowly passing. In its place, the biological sciences increasingly recognise that life isn't simply a genetically determined programme but is centrally a matter of information and communication systems nested in...

This is a collection of uplifting musings from the tender and sentimental young Moomintroll, providing some deceptively wise insights from the beloved Moomin stories. Moomintroll is innocent and sincere, with a sharp eye for the small beautiful things...

H. Rochester Sneath no longer exists. And if you wished to put your son's name on the waiting list for Selhurst School, near Petworth, Sussex, you might have a little difficulty. It doesn't exist either. But, as this collection of Sneath's letters, and...

In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered-the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, who had...

Primo Levi (1919-87) was the author of a rich body of work, including memoirs and reflections on Auschwitz, poetry, science fiction, historical fiction and essays. In particular, his lucid and direct accounts of his time at Auschwitz, begun immediately...

Oil, like other fossil fuels, permeates every aspect of human existence. Yet it has been largely ignored by cultural critics, especially in the context of the Global South. Seeking to make visible not only the pervasiveness of oil in society and culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956971968Author John R. GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Team Angelica PublishingPublisher Team Angelica Publishing

Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of conceptualizing capitalist societies, Scott's theories...

It is the only guide to the subject written specifically for undergraduates.. The authors draw upon many years of teaching experience in this field.. The coverage is systematic, and the writing accessible.About the AuthorJohn A. Walker is Reader in Art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310840Author Ian CutlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Activists and politicians have long recognized the power of a good story to move people to action. In early 1960, four black college students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave. Within a month,...

Combining theoretical and practical approaches, this collection of essays explores classic detective fiction from a variety of contemporary viewpoints. Among the diverse perspectives are those which interrogate the way the genre reflects important social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250121028Author Scaachi KoulFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450370Author Flannery O'ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 1300Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and foremost determined by one's culture. As Lacan said,...

Mae astudiaethau niferus wedi archwilio delweddaeth beirdd drwy ac mewn iaith, hynny yw, y modd y defnyddiant iaith i greu delweddau, ond nid felly'r ddelweddaeth am iaith ei hunan. Nod y llyfr hwn yw craffu ar sut y mae casgliad o feirdd o bob cwr o'r...

First published in 1988. Postmodernism is a word much used and misused in a variety of disciplines, including literature, visual arts, film, architecture, literary theory, history, and philosophy. A Poetics of Postmodernism is neither a defense nor a...

Final thoughts on an ideal constitution.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is...

Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our...

A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times. The obvious humanity of books would seem to make literature and human rights natural allies. But what is the real connection between literature and...

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, more widely known as the First Folio, contains thirty-six of the thirty-eight plays attributed in whole or in part to Shakespeare. Published in 1623, it has been the object of continued scholarly...

The modernist period was an era of world war and violent revolution. Covering a wide range of authors from Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy at the beginning of the period to Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett at the end, this book situates modernism's...