Literary Criticism

Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts. The books' core...

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak's most engaging essays on works of literature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619028340Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstei and The Waste Land-all are celebrated "wonders" of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our...

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original...

A. T. Moore's thorough commentary on "Love's Sacrifice" is designed to be of use to all kinds of readers, from students of Early Modern drama to specialists in the field. The notes provide full explanations of obscure words and phrases, and offer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816610068Author Hans Robert JaussFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressWeight(grams)...

A cow looks out to sea, dreaming of a life that involves grass. Jan is also looking out to sea. He's in Goa, dreaming of the thief who stole his heart (and his passport) forty-six years ago. Back then, fate kept bringing them together, but lately it...

Culture/Metaculture is a stimulating introduction to the meanings of 'culture' in contemporary Western society. This essential survey examines:* culture as an antidote to 'mass' modernity, in the work of Thomas Mann, Julien Benda, Jose Ortega y Gasset,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449208397Author Erma BombeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 170mm * 109mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060777050Author Francine ProseFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women's writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major work of...

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), until recently remembered more as a flamboyant eccentric than as a serious writer, was in fact the most prolific, thought-provoking, and original woman writer of the Restoration. Cavendish is the...

When Hansel and Gretel try to eat the witch's gingerbread house in the woods, are they indulging their "uncontrolled cravings" and "destructive desires" or are they simply responding normally to the hunger pangs they feel after being abandoned by their...

How does the work of influential theorist Bruno Latour offer a fresh angle on the practices and purposes of the humanities?In recent years, defenses of the humanities have tended to argue along predictable lines: the humanities foster empathy, the...

"[It] will move you across the globe and back in time." - Library Journal Europa Compass series - new format and covers For the readers of Mary Beard and Bethany Hughes (Re)discover the timeless beauty of ancient literature The classics...

Worlds in one country is a compact, inclusive history of writing in South Africa from the nineteenth century to 1994 that crosses boundaries of language and colour, including prose, poetry and theatre. It is an accessible story rather than a theoretical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590702Author Odysseas ElytisFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

This collection brings together a selection of original, research-led essays on more than a dozen avant-garde British writers of the 1960s, revealing this to be a crucial and crucially overlooked period of British literary history.Book...

Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing-or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick...

The "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed to be a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and reading groups, as well as for literature students at school, college and university. The series aims to give readers...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926-1929, featuring many previously unpublished letters, follows a rising star as he emerges from the literary Left Bank of Paris and moves into the American mainstream. Maxwell Perkins, legendary editor at...

A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and "late" workJane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982050Author Kenneth W Faig, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119101376Author Richard DuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher Wiley-BlackwellWeight(grams) 508g

First published in 1981, this study sees Wordsworth's work as part of the continuous European struggle to come to terms with consciousness. The author pays particular attention to Wordsworth's style and investigates the unstated and unconscious...

Winner of the Stanislas Julien PrizeWinner of the Joseph Levenson Prize for Scholarship on Pre-1900 ChinaDreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert...

The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. A team of international experts from Ireland,...

Guroian illuminates the complex ways in which fairy tales and fantasies educate the moral imagination from earliest childhood. Examining a wide range of stories - from Pinocchio and The Little Mermaid to Charlotte's Web, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Wind in...

In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls "illiberal humanism" instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988395916Author Peter RushFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Real Deal PublicationsPublisher Real Deal PublicationsWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)...

A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks' contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a...

The first detailed introduction to the entirety of Seamus Heaney's work This study will enable readers to gain clearer understanding of the life and major works of Seamus Heaney. It considers literary influences on Heaney, ranging from English poets...

The spy novel has, over the past hundred years, become one of the most popular literary genres. The best exponents have become household names, as have their characters, heroes and villains alike. From Richard Hannay to James Bond and George Smiley, the...

Originally published in 1973, this was the second in a series of dialect studies planned and produced by the Princeton Chinese Linguistics Project. Professor Hashimoto, Director of the Project, describes the formation and distribution of the Hakka...

Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for...

'This oozing, bulging wealth of the English upper and upper-middle classes.' This was how George Orwell saw the Edwardian period. What images do we see when we think of that era? Ladies munching delicately on cucumber sandwiches? Gentlemen in straw...

This colourful evocation of Christmas in Cheshire will enliven many an evening around a blazing fire. Wonder at the Mayor of Chester's sumptuous banquet where the tables groan under the sheer weight of food; experience the joy of the newly-wed Reverend...

In James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, Catherine Flynn recovers the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce's imaginative consciousness. Beginning with Joyce's underexamined first exile in 1902-03, she shows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156011594Author Professor of Semiotics Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning,...