Literary Criticism Books

Continuum Shakespeare Dictionaries: Shakespeare s Medical Language: A Dictionary (Hardcover)

This is a guide to the ailments general medical concepts and cures and therapies in Shakespeare that includes recent critical work on the early modern body. Physicians readers and scholars have long been fascinated by Shakespeare s medical language and... more

The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett (Hardcover)

A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett s dramatic works this book has been arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels. more

Blackwell History of Literature: A History of Victorian Literature (Hardcover)

Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900 with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era s less... more

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture: A Companion to American Literary Studies (Hardcover)

A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions subjects and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers with the knowledge and conceptual tools for understanding American literary studies as it is practiced... more

Research in Text Theory: Semiotics and Linguistics in Alice s Worlds (Hardcover)

Semiotics and Linguistics in Alice s Worlds more

Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies: Life Death and Representation (Hardcover)

This volume presents a collection of essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh insights into a subject which is receiving increased interest in English-language scholarship with a new awareness of the... more

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture: A Companion to Medieval Poetry (Hardcover)

MEDIEVAL POETRY In a series of original essays from leading literary scholars this Companion offers a chronological sweep of medieval poetry from Old English to the great genres of romance narrative and alliterative poetry of the 15th century.... more

Disputatio: Mortality and Imagination : The Life of the Dead in Medieval English Literature (Series #12) (Hardcover)

There have been many books on the medieval culture of death but this book is the first devoted to the use and representation of the dead in English medieval writing. Mortality and Imagination is a history of the literary life of the dead-in their... more

Texte Und Kommentare: Quintilians Grammatik ( Inst. orat. 1 4-8) (Hardcover)

Quintilians Abriss der (téchne) grammaticé in seiner Institutio oratoria 1 4-8 um 95 n.Chr. ist die zeitlich früheste und zugleich inhaltlich und strukturell zuverlässigste Darstellung unter den erhaltenen Texten der römischen ars grammatica. Die... more

Trends in Medieval Philology: Lyrische Narrationen - narrative Lyrik (Hardcover)

In der europäischen Literatur des Mittelalters kommt einerseits die Lyrik immer wieder ins Erzählen andererseits können Erzählungen auf unterschiedliche Weise lyrische Qualitäten annehmen. Solche generischen Interferenzbeziehungen verweisen auf... more

The Cambridge History of the American Novel (Hardcover)

This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic multi-media culture of the present day. In a set of original essays by renowned scholars from... more

Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential: Eleanor Davies Writings 1641-1646: Printed Writings 1641-1700: Series II Part Four Volume 5 (Hardcover)

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies life took a dramatic turn when by her account in 1641 a Heavenly voice told her There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement and you as the meek Virgin . That same year she published her first treatise A... more

The Cambridge History of French Literature (Hardcover)

From Occitan poetry to Francophone writing produced in the Caribbean and North Africa from intellectual history to current films and from medieval manuscripts to bandes dessinées this History covers French literature from its beginnings to the present... more

Continuum Reception Studies: The International Reception of Emily Dickinson (Hardcover)

Emily Dickinson s poetry is known and read worldwide but to date there have been no studies of her reception and influence outside America. This collection of essays brings together international research on her reception abroad including translations... more

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture: A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West (Hardcover)

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America s western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural... more

Images of Women in Literature (Paperback) by Mary Ferguson Jean Carr

Images of Women in Literature Fifth Edition is an anthology of literature--short fiction poetry and drama--by a broad range of female and male writers depicting the roles of women in literature. more

The Cambridge History of English Poetry (Hardcover)

Poetry written in English is uniquely powerful and suggestive in its capacity to surprise unsettle shock console and move. The Cambridge History of English Poetry offers sparklingly fresh and dynamic readings of an extraordinary range of poets and... more

Routledge Contemporary South Asia Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English: Idea Nation State (Hardcover)

Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past convey the present and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a... more

Longman Annotated English Poets: The Poems of Shelley: Volume Three (Hardcover)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the third volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley which presents all... more

Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen s Bath to Ernest Hemingway s Key West - Paperback

National Geographic leads book-loving adventurers on a whirlwind tour of 500 literary landmarks and offers practical trip-planning advice for visiting in person. Peppered with great reading suggestions and little-known tales of literary gossip this... more

Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to African American Women s Literature (Hardcover)

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women s Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy... more

Harvest Book: Classics for Pleasure (Paperback)

This is not your father s list of classics. In these delightful essays Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world s most entertaining books. Writing with affection as well as authority Dirda covers masterpieces of fantasy... more

Renaissance Dramas and Dramatists Christopher Marlowe Renaissance Dramatist (Paperback)

This book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to all of the plays of Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe is a playwright whose work taps into the central concerns of his age many of which are still important to us - religious uncertainty the... more

Writers on Writers: Notes on Sontag (Hardcover)

Notes on Sontag is a frank witty and entertaining reflection on the work influence and personality of one of the foremost interpreters of . . . our recent contemporary moment. Adopting Sontag s favorite form a set of brief essays or notes that circle... more

Southern Literary Studies: Becoming Cajun Becoming American: The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke (Hardcover)

From antebellum times Louisiana s unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians Creoles and Creoles of Color. In Becoming Cajun Becoming American Maria Hebert-Leiter explores how American... more

Journal Spilling: Mixed-Media Techniques for Free Expression (Paperback)

Go ahead--make a mess! There are no lines to stay inside of here. You re free to quiet your inner critic and spill color (as well as your thoughts) all over the page. Author Diana Trout offers a double-dose of encouragement for you to try out new... more

The Scene of Harlem Cabaret : Race Sexuality Performance (Paperback)

Harlem s nightclubs in the 1920s and 30s were a crucible for testing society s racial and sexual limits. Normally tacit divisions were there made spectacularly public in the vibrant but often fraught relationship between performer and audience. The... more

Further on Nothing : Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre (Paperback)

Tadeusz Kantor was regarded as one of the masters of 20th century avant-garde theatre. In this work the author explores Kantor s theatre practice from the critical perspective of current debates about representation memory and history. Also included in... more

Hellenic Studies: Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince (Paperback)

As scholars have remarked the word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey alike refers to something more substantive and complex than fame or glory. Kleos distinctly supposes an oral narrative--principally an oral history a life story or ultimately an oral... more

WV MEDIEVEAL EUROPEAN STUDIES: PERSPECTIVES ON THE OLD SAXON HELIAND : INTRODUCTORY AND CRITICAL ESSAYS WITH AN EDITION OF THE LEIPZIG FRAGMENT (Paperback)

In Perspectives on the Old Saxon Heliand Valentine Pakis brings together recent scholarship that both addresses new turns in the field and engages with the relevant arguments of the past three decades. more

Cambridge Studies in American Literature Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe s Circle Book 144 (Paperback)

Edgar Allan Poe is frequently portrayed as an isolated idiosyncratic genius unwilling or unable to adapt himself to the cultural conditions of his time. Eliza Richards revises this portrayal through an exploration of his collaborations and rivalries... more

Doppelgsnger : Literature s Philosophy

Doppelgsnger : Literature s Philosophy more

Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature (Hardcover)

Since the birth of the nation we have turned to stories about the American South to narrate the rapid ascendency of the United States on the world stage. The idea of a cohesive South different from yet integral to the United States arose with the very... more

Reader s Guides: Dostoevsky s The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)

Fyodor Dostoevsky s The Brothers Karamazovis unquestionably one of the greatest works of world literature. With its dramatic portrayal of a Russian family in crisis and its intense investigation into the essential questions of human existence the novel... more

Thomas Hardy Sensationalism and the Melodramatic Mode (Hardcover)

The first full-length study of sensationalist and melodramatic elements in Hardy s novels uses six of his texts to demonstrate the ways in which Hardy uses the melodramatic mode to advance his critique of established Victorian cultural beliefs through... more

The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence 3 Volume Set: D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence (Paperback)

Originally published in 1998 the final volume of the Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence chronicles his progress from leaving Europe in 1922 to his death in Venice in 1930. Based on much previously unfamiliar material it describes his travels in... more

FlashPoints: Poetry in Pieces : César Vallejo and Lyric Modernity (Series #4) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892-1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two... more

Cambridge Companions to Culture The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture (Hardcover)

The cultural life of England over the long period from the Norman Conquest to the Reformation was rich and varied in ways that scholars are only now beginning to understand in detail. This Companion introduces a wide range of materials that constitute... more