Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism – serie
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Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Häftad, 2010
416 kr
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Since its publication in 1982, The Color Purple has polarized critics and generated controversy while delighting many readers around the world. Rachel Lister offers a clear, stimulating and wide-ranging exploration of the critical history of Alice Walker's best-selling novel, from contemporary …
Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge / Jude the Obscure
Av Simon Avery
Inbunden, 2008
1397 kr
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This Reader's Guide analyses the critical history of two of Hardy's major tragic novels, from the time of their publication to the present. Simon Avery traces the changing critical fortunes of the texts and explores the diverse range of interpretations produced by different theoretical approaches.
Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge / Jude the Obscure
Av Simon Avery
Häftad, 2008
449 kr
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This Reader's Guide analyses the critical history of two of Hardy's major tragic novels, from the time of their publication to the present. Simon Avery traces the changing critical fortunes of the texts and explores the diverse range of interpretations produced by different theoretical approaches.
Jacobean Drama
Häftad, 2010
465 kr
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The plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are increasingly popular thanks to a spate of recent stage and screen productions and to courses that set Shakespeare's plays in context. This Reader's Guide introduces students to the criticism and debates that are specific to the drama of playwrights such …
Shakespeare's Late Plays
Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest
Inbunden, 2009
1397 kr
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Shakespeare's late plays are a 'mixed bag' with a common theme: from the fiendishly jealous Leontes to the saintly Pericles; from the ineffectual Cymbeline to the omnipotent Propspero; from the 'sprites and goblins' of The Tempest to the famous bear of The Winter's Tale, the characters have excited …
Shakespeare's Late Plays
Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest
Häftad, 2009
433 kr
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Shakespeare's late plays are a 'mixed bag' with a common theme: from the fiendishly jealous Leontes to the saintly Pericles; from the ineffectual Cymbeline to the omnipotent Propspero; from the 'sprites and goblins' of The Tempest to the famous bear of The Winter's Tale, the characters have excited …
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Inbunden, 2010
1315 kr
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Since its publication in 1982, The Color Purple has polarized critics and generated controversy while delighting many readers around the world. Rachel Lister offers a clear, stimulating and wide-ranging exploration of the critical history of Alice Walker's best-selling novel, from contemporary …
Macbeth
E-bok, 2006
401 kr
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This guide provides a survey of the wide range of responses to Macbeth , as well as the key debates and developments from the 17th century to the present day. Chronologically structured, the guide summarizes and assesses key interpretations, sets them in context and supplies extracts from criticism …
Antony and Cleopatra
Av J. Turner
E-bok, 2017
414 kr
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This Guide provides a critical survey of the responses to this popular play. Chronologically arranged, the book draws on a rich range of critical writings, including Dr Johnson, Coleridge, Bradley and Leavis. This material is linked to more general issues regarding Shakespearean criticism and …
Twentieth-Century War Poetry
E-bok, 2004
520 kr
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Poets have written about wars throughout the 20th century - questioning, protesting and, sometimes, celebrating the nature and purpose of conflict. Attracting an enthusiastic popular readership, war poetry has often been seen as a way of remembering and re-imagining wars. Today, war poems are not …
Jane Austen-Mansfield Park
Av Sandie Byrne
E-bok, 2004
466 kr
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The first novel of the author''s maturity, Mansfield Park is complex, highly wrought, and experimental. It marks a transitional stage between the first two published novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice , and Jane Austen''s greatest achievements, Emma and Persuasion . It has been …
Shakespeare - Hamlet
E-bok, 2004
448 kr
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Hamlet is one of the best known works of English literature throughout the world, and its central character one of Shakespeare''s most recognisable and enduring creations. Hamlet ''s first critics in the 17th century were, however, concerned with the play''s apparent lack of decorum, whilst the …
Fiction of Ian McEwan
Av M. Hutton
E-bok, 2005
466 kr
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Ian McEwan is one of Britain''s most established, and controversial, writers. This book introduces students to a range of critical approaches to McEwan''s fiction. Criticism is drawn from selections in academic essays and articles, and reviews in newspapers, journals, magazines and websites, with …
William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Häftad, 2013
433 kr
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) is William Blake's best-known work, containing such familiar poems as 'London', 'Sick Rose' and 'The Tyger'. Evolving over the author's lifetime, the collection was printed by Blake himself on his own press.This Reader's Guide:- Explains the unique …
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Häftad, 2012
415 kr
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This guide surveys the truly essential criticism of the play over the last four centuries, from 16th-century responses to the present day. Discussing key areas of debate, and a wide range of scholarship, Gillian Woods provides an invaluable introduction to the vast array of criticism surrounding …
Science Fiction
Av Brian Baker
Inbunden, 2014
1478 kr
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This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and …
Science Fiction
Av Brian Baker
Häftad, 2014
465 kr
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This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and …
Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire/Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Av Thomas Adler
Inbunden, 2012
1315 kr
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) are major plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America's most significant dramatists. They both received landmark productions and are widely-studied and performed around the world. The plays have also inspired popular screen …
Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire/Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Av Thomas Adler
Häftad, 2012
416 kr
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) are major plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America's most significant dramatists. They both received landmark productions and are widely-studied and performed around the world. The plays have also inspired popular screen …
Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Inbunden, 2010
1315 kr
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A stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide explores the main themes and interpretations …
Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Häftad, 2010
415 kr
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A stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide explores the main themes and interpretations …
Rise of the Novel
Inbunden, 2012
1479 kr
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Why have scholars located the emergence of the novel in eighteenth-century England? What historical forces and stylistic developments helped to turn a disreputable type of writing into an eminent literary form?This Reader's Guide explores the key critical debates and theories about the rising …
Rise of the Novel
Häftad, 2012
465 kr
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Why have scholars located the emergence of the novel in eighteenth-century England? What historical forces and stylistic developments helped to turn a disreputable type of writing into an eminent literary form?This Reader's Guide explores the key critical debates and theories about the rising …
Poetry of Robert Browning
Inbunden, 2016
1397 kr
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Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon. He is the main practitioner of the period's most important poetic genre, the dramatic monologue, while his engagement with many aspects of nineteenth-century culture makes …
Poetry of Robert Browning
Häftad, 2016
449 kr
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Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon. He is the main practitioner of the period's most important poetic genre, the dramatic monologue, while his engagement with many aspects of nineteenth-century culture makes …
Modernist Literatures
Inbunden, 2014
1479 kr
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This Readers Guide offers a stimulating and accessible introduction to the key criticism which surrounds the diverse range of literatures of the modernist period. Sarah Davison explores a variety of critical works, from initial pronouncements to recent studies which have shaped the way that …
Modernist Literatures
Häftad, 2014
465 kr
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This Readers Guide offers a stimulating and accessible introduction to the key criticism which surrounds the diverse range of literatures of the modernist period. Sarah Davison explores a variety of critical works, from initial pronouncements to recent studies which have shaped the way that …
Fiction of Pat Barker
Inbunden, 2014
1479 kr
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Pat Barker is one of the most important authors of her time. Her fiction has won many awards – including the Booker Prize for The Ghost Road, the last novel in her celebrated Regeneration trilogy – and has attracted much critical attention.This stimulating Guide examines the key critical responses …
Fiction of Pat Barker
Häftad, 2014
465 kr
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Pat Barker is one of the most important authors of her time. Her fiction has won many awards – including the Booker Prize for The Ghost Road, the last novel in her celebrated Regeneration trilogy – and has attracted much critical attention.This stimulating Guide examines the key critical responses …
Literature and Science
Inbunden, 2014
1560 kr
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This Guide introduces literature and science as a vibrant field of critical study that is increasingly influencing both university curricula and future areas of investigation. Martin Willis explores the development of the genre and its surrounding criticism from the early modern period to the …
