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| Set a course for literary studies that led to Prague structuralism, French semiotics, and postmodern poetics. |
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| The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in |
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| 'Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind' The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they |
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| First published in 1983, Literary Theory: An Introduction is probably the best-selling work of literary criticism in the world today. It propelled its |
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| This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to |
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| Explores Chevalier Dupin - one of fiction's enduring characters, in all its many guises. This book is suitable for those who have ever been gripped by |
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| Richard Dawkins' "God Delusion" is the bestselling book. This suggests that its arguments are influencing popular culture, and are thus likely to be w |
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| In seven independent, but closely related chapters, the author presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as 'an art b |
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| Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work |
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| From the highly acclaimed novelist, comes a new collection of poetry. She is 'the quiet Mata Hari' of poetry - Micheal Ondatjee |
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| Intended for aspiring writers, this coursebook covers creative process and 'going public', as well as the popular genres of fiction, poetry, and life |
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| Amoral Certitudes |
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| Suitable for those who wish to understand the development and the state of literary theory, this book includes selections from non-western theory. |
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| Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, "Twelfth Night" is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. T |
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| Brings together a number of John Schad's very best essays, interleaved with a selection of autobiographical poems and a work that brings together both |
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| This sophisticated cross-disciplinary book will appeal not only to classicists, but also to scholars and students in the humanities more broadly, as w |
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| York Notes for GCSE offer an approach to English Literature that aims to help readers achieve a better grade. This series has been completely updated |
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| A survey of the schemes, patterns and forms of English verse. John Hollander illustrates each variation with a self-descriptive example. In this third |
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| This is Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year, with its various observances and festivals, written in elegiacs. Ovid's design was to study the ca |
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| This volume of poetry provides a collection of funeral poems, appropriate for reading at a funeral or memorial service. |
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| Presents an account of the author's life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, |
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| Provides an introduction to the ancient tragedy "Octavia". This volume places the "Octavia" in the context of Latin dramas of the early empire, both t |
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| Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the j |
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| Contains the complete English poems of John Donne. The detailed notes explain unfamiliar words, clarify obscure references, and refine grammatical com |
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| This volume contains all of Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. It was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. |
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| An introduction to, text of, and commentary on Callimachus' Aetia ('Causes'), an important and influential poem written in Alexandria in the third cen |
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| An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes. |
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| The ultimate guides for the very best grades |
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| A selection of Tony Harrison's poems, which includes sixty-three poems from his sonnet sequence "The School of Eloquence" and the long poem 'v', a med |
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| A selection of Roger McGough's finest, best-loved verse. This book represents the complete span of McGough's writing, from the 1960s to the new millen |
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| This Student Edition of Broken Glass is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers a comprehensive guide to the play. It features an exte |
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| Essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation |
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| Building on the formula of York Notes, this series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. This enbables s |
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| Philip Larkin, known to many through his poems, contrived to present to the world a picture of himself which kept many facets of his complicated perso |
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| With detailed analysis of the text, discussions on themes, historical backgrounds and author biographies, York Notes offers students the best insight |
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| A study of John Ruskin (1819-1900) from "The Stones of Venice" (1851-3) to "Praeterita" (1885-9). It examines Ruskin's understanding of what it meant |
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| After a two-year absence a husband returns to find his wife wearing the scarlet 'A' for Adulteress on her breast. Determined to find her lover, he emb |
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| Biography of one of the greatest of modern playwrights, Arthur Miller (1915-2005). |
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| Author shows how Rumi's work, while timeless and with enduring cross-cultural appeal, must finally be understood as part of a wider Islamic mystical t |
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| Existentialism meets the philosophy of the Absurd. They should have been a dream-team. It turned into a duel to the death |
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| Full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text |
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| An autobiography of Gertrude Stein and a roll-call of the painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. It is a definitive account by her in Par |
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| One of Shakespeare's last tragedies. Coriolanus is a proud General who does not hesitate to show his arrogant and outspoken contempt of the Roman rabb |
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| A.N. Wilson's brilliant biography shows how hard Lewis struggled for the wisdom he shared in his books--The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narni |
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| George Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Including interviews with friends and people who kn |
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| Focuses on Egdon Heath and the men and women who live on it. Set against the backdrop of the Heath and the impersonal and eternal forces, this title r |
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| A collection of commissioned essays on the contemporary Anglophone novel. It examines what the novel does and what kinds of truth the novel can tell. |
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| The Revenger's Tragedy is a famous Elizabethan tragedy set in a dissolute Renaissance court in Italy, a maelstrom of vice and intrigue. In this new ed |
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| A rich new seam of material on Jane Austen and her family, exploring a fascinating link between Regency England and the turbulent world of nineteenth- |
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| From the ruins of communism, this book emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its found |
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| Dunlaith Bird argues that vagabondage - a physical and textual elaboration of gender identity in motion - emerges as a totemic concept in European wom |
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| This book argues that Milton used innovative and cunning means to persuade readers in an age distrustful of traditional rhetoric. |
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| Names hidden by acrostic or anagram, pseudonyms, pen-names, nicknames, nameless characters, and lists of names are all explored in this erudite and fa |
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| Inspired by anthropological writing on reciprocity and kinship, this book applies the idea of gendered wealth to ancient Greek myth for the first time |
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| Gabriel Garcia Marquez was driving to Acapulco with his family when he slammed on the brakes, turned the car around, and insisted they abandon their t |
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| Presents a study of Zukofsky and two others in the Objectivist constellation, George Oppen and Lorine Niedecker, and elaborates the dialectic between |
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| An accurate and readable translation of an important work of ancient scepticism, with several interpretative aids for scholars and students. |
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| The ideas and inspiration behind Dickens's work - his incomparable novels, journalism and speeches |
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| A groundbreaking analysis of the operations to bodies and narratives that inform - and form - Francophone literature |
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| What "national pastime" novels tell us about Canada |
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| How gender shapes cultural production in Viet Nam and its diaspora. |
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| The Invention of Greek Ethnography offers a fresh approach to the origins and development of ethnographic thought, Greek identity, and narrative histo |
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| This book, now in paperback with a new preface, explores the false starts of Romantic writing in Britain - misfits and misfittings - as a constitutive |
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| Plunging into the enchanted and luminous worlds of Speak, Memory, Ada, or Ardor; and the infamous Lolita, this title seeks out the Nabokovian experien |
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| Essays exploring the ways in which Dickens' vision is both so much of its time, and yet has so much resonance for today. |
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| Reveals and analyzes the current strong emphasis in German literature on the role of houses and homes in our constructions of selfhood and belonging. |
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| Released for Charles Dickens' bicentenary, this guide to the famous author has been written by his great-great-great-granddaughter, who is also a patr |
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| This biography of Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), poet, fighter for the Cape Colony's settlers rights, and abolitionist, reveals for the first time the ro |
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| At the point of its creation in 1873, Budapest was intended to be a pleasant rallying point of orderliness, high culture and elevated social principle |
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| Dr Johnson is often thought of as a strident, overbearing conversationalist, a man who famously asserted that 'Women have all the liberty they should |
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| * Cixous is generally regarded as one of the leading French feminist writers. * This is a very revealing set of interviews with Cixous in which she di |
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| In this book, originally published in Japanese, Shiba intersperses her narration with excerpts from the actual travel diaries and sheds new light on w |
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| Presents a collection of essays that traces the shifting importance given to childhood in Dickens' criticism. This title considers a range of subjects |
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| A 2008 study assessing the treatment of women in the plays of Shakespeare, his predecessors and his contemporaries. |
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| A fascinating and highly orginal exploration of Shakespeare's great overlooked source, the Book of Common Prayer |
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| Reynolds takes a fascinating look at the cultural roots, political impact, and enduring legacy of Harriet Beecher Stowe's revolutionary bestseller. |
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| Offers a translation of one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome. This title recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before th |
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| Peter Childs offers accessible analyses of the work of twelve prominent contemporary British writers, including Hanif Kureishi, Pat Barker, Zadie Smit |
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| Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust. |
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| * A richly appreciative biographical and critical introduction to America's best-known woman poet * Written by a world-renowned critic on Emily Dicki |
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| Exploring the functions of space in the Iliad, Christos Tsagalis shows how active spatial representation in similes and descriptive passages influence |
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| Gustave Flaubert is famous for his determined pursuit of stylistic perfection. Drawing on his wide knowledge of nineteenth-century French painting and |
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| The fourth and final part of Helen Forrester's bestselling autobiography continues the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account |
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| This volume brings together 14 leading specilaists to pay tribute to Dr. Peter Beale, founding editor of English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700. |
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| This collection creatively and insightfully explains the nature, origins, dynamics, structure, and impact of a wide variety of war representations. |
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| An easy-to-navigate guide to Herman Melville's epic American novel, Dive Deeper consists of 135 brief chapters, along with Etymology, Extracts, and Ep |
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| An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries. Will appeal to cultural |
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| This is the first full-scale study of the political and religious radicalism of Iolo Morganwg, the greatest of the Welsh Romantics. |
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| For fans new and old, an enjoyable tour through the world of Dickens in the hands of a master critic |
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| At the Violet Hour offers a richly historicized, trenchant look at the interlocking of literature with violence in British and Irish modernist texts. |
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| In Four Cries of a Gibbon by the late-Ming dynasty playwright Xu Wei, characters move between life and death, and male and female, as they seek to art |
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| AQA English Literature B is the only set of resources to be exclusively endorsed by, AQA, making them the first choice to support the new AQA specific |
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| When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present su |
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| "Transformers" movie hit the big screen in 2007, and proved to be well worth the wait: a critical and commercial smash hit. Beginning with a concise h |
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| This first book-length critical study of Jeremy Irons. Through the analysis of some of the major screen roles in Irons's career, such as Brideshead Re |
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| Will Brooker provides a close analysis of 'Star Wars' as a film and argues that it represented a continuation rather than a departure from director Ge |
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| The Wizard of Oz shows that imagination can become reality, that there is no such place like home, or rather that the only home is the one we make for |
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| Laura Mulvey offers a fresh and original reading of one of the greatest films in all cinema. This new edition of Mulvey's study is published in the Fi |
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| Blade Runner has proved to be one of the most enduring and influential films of the 1980s. This new edition of Bukatman's study of Blade Runner is pub |
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| Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his b |
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