Literary Criticism

In Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect...

'This book convincingly challenges both the extremely short historical memory of most postcolonial work and the all-too-insularly English world still conjured by period specialists. Hogarthian whores and Grub Street hacks, coffee houses and fashionable...

The most familiar fairy tales call to mind certain images: Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty. Yet these visions often merely reflect illustrations encountered in classic tellings of the tales. The...

The dozen essays brought together here, alongside a newly-written introduction, contextualise and exemplify the recent "empirical turn" in Beckett studies. Characterised, above all, by recourse to manuscript materials in constructing revisionist...

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68...

The early years of the twenty-first century saw several losses for the American theatre but also marked the emergence of a new generation of exciting playwrights. In this book, Christopher Bigsby explores the work of nine of these developing talents, and...

Nortrop Frye differed from other theorists of myth in tracing all of the major literary genres--romance, comedy, satire, not just tragedy--to myth and ritual. This volume is the most thorough presentation of his thinking on the subject.Reviews"...this...

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) remains a book of the moment. This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel's reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was...

An eye-opening exploration of the toxic masculinity and sexism that pervades the superhero genre.Superheroes have been exciting and inspirational cultural icons for decades, dating back to the debut of Superman in the 1930s. The earliest tales have been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024095Author KangxiFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &...

How does theatre shape the body and perceptions of it? How do bodies on stage challenge audience assumptions about material evidence and the truth? Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies responds to these questions by examining how theatre participates in...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757580345Author John P EliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

This Companion is both an alphabetically arranged reference work and, in its sum, a history, a map of modern poetry in English. From the last decade of the century, it offers a survey of the terrain, from 1900 to the present, and from Britain and America...

This study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif, and thematic trope on the early modern stage considers an important and popular performance convention in its cultural and religious contexts. Through close examination of a number of...

Speculative fiction - both science fiction and fantasy - reflects, among other things, the fears of the culture that created it, contributing (perhaps unconsciously) to our efforts to prevent our fears from coming true. While the names and media change...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425778309Author Olatunde AdepojuFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393754534Author Laura GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Drowlgon PressPublisher Drowlgon PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977475421Author Carl McMurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Spiritbuilding.comPublisher Spiritbuilding.comWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783903535Author Anni LlynFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Canolfan PeniarthPublisher Canolfan PeniarthWeight(grams) 297g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988168616Author Brigette DePapeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint At Bay PressPublisher At Bay PressWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629378299Author Jake RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 0g

In this richly imagined fantasy novel, young Lucas has the power to save two medieval kingdoms from destruction . . . but will he discover this ultimate secret before it's too late? Ten-year-old Lucas has been raised as a blacksmith's son; an outsider...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989754146Author Jay BulckaertFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Renegade Arts Canmore LtdPublisher Renegade Arts Canmore Ltd

Salome, the haunting one-act tragedy that marks Wilde's first great success in the theatre, retells the Biblical story in which the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas demands the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter as a reward for her...

The world has a way of getting into you; these poems document the process of prying it out. Whether that be from an ash tree's trunk or a rabbit's warren, or behind an abandoned shipping container on the way to work, or in a dusty noiseshow basement,...

The proposed activities are inspired by the studies of Daniel Goleman on emotional development and concern child's reflection on the characteristics of emotions, on one's own and others' emotional states and on the association of physical characteristics...

Bedtime is, for children, a very important moment of the day: which is why this rich illustrated collection of fairy tales and popular stories from "the wild" is the perfect way to help children fall asleep. The 70 stories featured in the book, all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781214879Author Nancy DickmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Brown Bear Books LtdPublisher Brown Bear Books LtdWeight(grams) 203g

In The Value Gap, Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen addresses the distinction between what is finally good and what is finally good-for, two value notions that are central to ethics and practical deliberation. The first part of the book argues against views that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913724108Author SakiFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Renard Press LtdPublisher Renard Press LtdWeight(grams) 128g

How eighteenth-century writers stretched systems designed to explain social relations to their breaking point, showing the flaws in their design.The Enlightenment has long been understood-and often understood itself-as an age of systems. In 1759, Jean Le...

Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre and traces the development of journalism from the 1690s to the...

In the first full-length study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, Coppelia Kahn brings to these texts a startling, critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies lurking behind 'Roman virtue'. Plays featured include: * Titus Andronicus * Julius...

One of the greatest Marxist theorists of his generation, Georg Lukacs was a prolific writer of remarkably catholic, if moralistic, tastes. In The Lukacs Reader , his biographer Arpad Kadarkay represents the great range and variety of Lukacs's output...

This is the first volume of a critical edition of the last of John Trevisa's major translations (previously unavailable in print). The De regimine principum, a Latin treatise on the education of princes, was composed originally for the French King Philip...

How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth century? Srividhya Swaminathan examines books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes...