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Shakespeare
The Last Plays
Av Kiernan Ryan
Inbunden, 2016
2887 kr
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This is the first collection of criticism on Shakespeare's romances to register the impact of modern literary theory on interpretations of these plays. Kiernan Ryan brings together the most important recent essays on Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, the greatest of the `last …
John Milton
Häftad, 1992
995 kr
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This collection of selected writings represents the best of recent critical work on Milton. The essays cover all stages of his career, from the early poems through to the later poems of the Restoration period, especially Paradise Lost. Professor Patterson includes British and American critics such …
New Historicism and Renaissance Drama
Av Richard Wilson, Richard Dutton
Häftad, 1992
1079 kr
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New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama, providing an important collection both …
Romanticism
Häftad, 1993
995 kr
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The essays in this volume have all been carefully chosen by Cynthia Chase to exemplify the most important strands in contemporary critical thought on Romantic literature, in particular the best of recent feminist, deconstructive, and new historicist writing. They include contributions from critics …
Feminist Literary Criticism
Häftad, 1991
995 kr
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Looks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of discourse. It also provides an overview of the …
Renaissance Poetry
Häftad, 1998
945 kr
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This book, the first single volume to collate essays about sixteenth and seventeenth century poetry, explores the remarkable changes that have occurred in the interpretation of English Renaissance poetry in the last twenty years. In the introduction Cristina Malcolmson argues that recent critical …
Shakespearean Tragedy
Häftad, 1991
1062 kr
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Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifteen major contemporary essays on individual plays and the genre as a whole. Each piece has been carefully chosen as a key intervention in its own right and as a representative of an influential critical approach to the genre. The collection as a whole, …
Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism
Häftad, 1992
995 kr
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Marxism has had an enormous impact on literary and cultural studies, and all those interested in the field need to be aware of its achievements. This collection presents the very best of recent Marxist literary criticism in one single volume.An international group of contributors provide an …
Virginia Woolf
Häftad, 1992
995 kr
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Rachel Bowlby's anthology of articles conjures up the enormous richness and variety of recent work that returns to Woolf not so much for final answers as for insights into questions about writing, literary traditions and the differences of the sexes. The collection includes pieces by such …
T.S. Eliot
Av Harriet Davidson, Harriet Davidson
Häftad, 1998
661 kr
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One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot is generally regarded as a leading exponent of the literary movement which came to be known as Modernism. In this volume, Harriet Davidson collects key recent essays by such internationally renowned critics as Terry Eagleton, …
Modernism/Postmodernism
Av Peter Brooker, Peter Brooker
Häftad, 1992
945 kr
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The concepts of 'Modernism' and 'Postmodernism' constitute the single most dominant issue of twentieth-century literature and culture and are the cause of much debate. In this influential volume, Peter Brooker presents some of the key viewpoints from a variety of major critics and sets these …
Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
Av Maud Ellmann
Häftad, 1994
995 kr
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This collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed by recent developments in French psychoanalysis, particularly by the influence of Jacques Lacan. It explains how …
Shelley
Häftad, 1993
728 kr
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Attacked by T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis, Shelley's poetry has, over the last few decades, enjoyed a revival of critical interest. His radical politics and arrestingly original poetic strategies have been studied from a variety of perspectives - formalist, deconstructionist, new historicist, feminist …
English Novel, Vol I, The
1700 to Fielding
Häftad, 1998
795 kr
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The English Novel, Volume I:1700 to Fielding collects a series of previously-published essays on the early eighteenth-century novel in a single volume, reflecting the proliferation of theoretical approaches since the 1970s. The novel has been the object of some of the most exciting and important …
Contemporary Film Theory
Häftad, 1993
919 kr
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During the twentieth century, the medium of film has developed as a means of understanding the complexity of modern life. Since 1968, film theory has concentrated not so much on theme or content but on the deeper question of how the medium works on its viewer. Film theory has been profoundly …
English Novel, Vol II, The
Smollett to Austen
Häftad, 1998
995 kr
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The English Novel, Volume II: Smollett to Austen collects a series of previously-published essays on the early eighteenth-century novel in a single volume, reflecting the proliferation of theoretical approaches since the 1970s. The novel has been the object of some of the most exciting and …
Tragedy
Av John Drakakis, Naomi Conn Liebler
Häftad, 1998
1062 kr
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This wide-ranging and unique collection of documents on one of the most enduring of literary genres, Tragedy , offers a radical revaluation of its significance in the light of the critical attention that it has received during the past one-hundred and fifty years. With growing interest in the areas …
Charles Dickens
Häftad, 1996
995 kr
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Dickens is second only to Shakespeare in the range and intensity of critical discussion which his work has provoked. His writing is central to literature and culture across the English-speaking world. In this important new anthology, Steven Connor gathers together representative examples of the …
Readers and Reading
Häftad, 1995
995 kr
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Much literary criticism focuses on literary producers and their products, but an important part of such work considers the end-user, the reader. It asks such questions as: how far can the author condition the response of the reader, and how much does the reader create the meaning of a text? Dr …
Metafiction
Av Mark Currie
Häftad, 1995
995 kr
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Metafiction is one of the most distinctive features of postwar fiction, appearing in the work of novelists as varied as Eco, Borges, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes. It comprises two elements: firstly cause, the increasing interpenetration of professional literary criticism and the practice of …
Ben Jonson
Häftad, 1999
945 kr
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Interest in Ben Jonson is higher today than at any time since his death. This new collection offers detailed readings of all the major plays - Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair - and the poems. It also provides significant insights into the court masques and the later plays which …
Andrew Marvell
Av Thomas Healy
Häftad, 1998
945 kr
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Andrew Marvell brings together ten recent and critically informed essays by leading scholars on one of the most challenging and important seventeenth-century poets. The essays examine Marvell's poems, from lyrics, such as 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn', …
Jonathan Swift
Av Nigel Wood
Häftad, 1999
1230 kr
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This collection of critical thinking situates the satire of Jonathan Swift within both its eighteenth-century contexts and our modern anxieties about personal identity and communication. Augustan satire at its most provocative is not simply concerned with the public matters of politics or religion, …
Contemporary American Women Writers
Gender, Class, Ethnicity
Häftad, 1998
627 kr
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This collection brings together critical essays that examine questions of identity and community in the fiction of contemporary American women writers among them Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisnernos. The essays consider how identities and societies are dramatized in particular works of …
Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions
Av Lyn Pykett
Häftad, 1996
995 kr
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The fin de siècle, the period 1880-1914, long associated with decadence and with the literary movements of aestheticism and symbolism, has received renewed critical interest recently. The essays in this volume form a valuable introduction to fin de siècle cultural studies and provide a commentary …
Christopher Marlowe
Häftad, 1999
919 kr
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Christopher Marlowe has provoked some of the most radical criticism of recent years. There is an elective affinity, it seems, between this pre-modern dramatist and the post-modern critics whose best work has been inspired by his plays. The reason suggested by this collection of essays is that …
William Blake
Av John Lucas
Häftad, 1998
995 kr
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The collection of essays presented in this volume represents some of the best recent critical work on William Blake as poet, prophet, visual artist, and social and political critic of his time.The critical range that is represented includes examples of Marxist, New Historicist, Feminist and …
Tennyson
Häftad, 1996
995 kr
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Alternative approaches have emerged which have radically altered our understanding of Tennyson's poetry and his relationship to the Victorian age. This text covers the most significant areas of new work on Tennyson, effectively linking feminist and gender studies with deconstructive, psychoanalytic …
Ideology
Häftad, 1994
1079 kr
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This collection of readings on the concept of ideology is brought together by the Marxist critic, Terry Eagleton. His introduction traces the historical evolution of ideology and examines in a more theoretical style the various meanings of the word and their significance. The readings begin with …
Postcolonial Criticism
Av Bart Moore-Gilbert, Gareth Stanton m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
1364 kr
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Post-colonial theory is a relatively new area in critical contemporary studies, having its foundations more Postcolonial Criticism brings together some of the most important critical writings in the field, and aims to present a clear overview of, and introduction to, one of the most exciting and …
