Literary Theory

Written close to the end of the great writer's life, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story The Dream of a Ridiculous Man tells of a transformation of the heart and a journey...

Explore the style and technique of the world's greatest writers in this compendium to be treasured by literature lovers. From Katherine Mansfield to Toni Morrison, discover 50 celebrated writers and...

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This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using...

An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets - from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara - and how they can teach us to better understand...

The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets...

Marlene thinks the eighties are going to be stupendous. Her sister Joyce has her doubts. Her daughter Angie is just frightened. Since its premiere in 1982, Top Girls has become...

Wiradjuri woman, Anita Heiss, is arguably one of the first Aboriginal Australian authors of popular fiction. A focus on the political characterises her chick lit; and her identity as an...

In this book, Bill Gladhill studies one of the most versatile concepts in Roman society, the ritual event that concluded an alliance, a foedus (ritual alliance). Foedus signifies the bonds...

The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage...

Poets and astronomers often ask the same questions. Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Throughout human history, poetry has provided stories about what...

Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame - and scandal - before...

The book titled William Butler Yeats by the author Denis Donoghue. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Australian Contemporary Drama by the author Dennis Carroll. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Novelists Before Jane Austen by the author Dale Spender. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Rapp begins with a question posed by the poet Theodore Roethke: "Should we say that the self, once perceived, becomes a soul?" Through her examination of Plato's Phaedrus and her...

The book titled Decolonizing the Subject: Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography by the author Sidonie Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The sea is omnipresent in Greek life. Visible from nearly everywhere, the sea represents the life and livelihood of many who dwell on the islands and coastal areas of the...

From the Jazz Age through the Kennedy administration, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. A champion of the young Ernest Hemingway, a loyal friend...

In recent decades, Latin love poetry has become a significant site for feminist and other literary critics studying conceptions of gender and sexuality in ancient Roman culture. This new volume,...

To what extent is it possible to know the past or to know other cultures? Can one describe the past without imposing one's own cultural, political, social, or personal preconceptions?...

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The book titled The War Poets: Lives and Writings of the 1914-18 War Poets by the author Robert Giddings. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Noah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and flood myths survive in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the...

Using a variety of unpublished and little-known sources, Taylor paints a portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray as an endearing, exasperating and paradoxical individual. This biography sets out to redefine Thackeray...

A selection reflecting the varied enthusiasms of A.S. Byatt, this work sweeps from the Romantics and Victorians to modern British writers, from the art of Van Gogh to the poems...

Reissued with a new afterword Leonard Cohen is back! With a #1 bestselling poetry collection, The Book of Longing , flying off bookshelves; Lian Lunson's acclaimed documentary, Leonard Cohen: I'm...

A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects-anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics,...

This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and God's Locusts.

In a virtuoso collection of essays, Adam Phillips sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature.

Dr Victoria Stewart considers the social and political situation into which O'Casey was born and traces the path which led him to an association with theatre in the early 1920s...

This is an examination of T.S. Eliot's poetry in which the author considers the works against a background of the social and political problems of prejudice. Eliot was writing at...

These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman,...

Philip Larkin, known to many through his poems, contrived to present a picture of himself to the world which kept many facets of his complicated personality hidden. In this biography...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 4, spanning April 1929 through 1931, featuring many previously unpublished letters, records the establishment of Ernest Hemingway as an author of international renown following...

With the first publication, in this edition, of all the surviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), readers will for the first time be able to follow the thoughts, ideas and...

Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey...

This volume of specially-commissioned essays provides accessible introductions to all aspects of George Eliot's writing by some of the most distinguished new and established scholars and critics of Victorian literature....

Vladimir Nabokov held the unique distinction of being one of the most important writers of the twentieth century in two separate languages, Russian and English. Known for his verbal mastery...

Images of Australian identity, and of Australian nationhood, are social and cultural constructs. There are several dominant themes and elements, one of the most pervasive being the Australian bushman confronting...

Conrad's great novel is a rich study not only of a typical South American country, but of the politics of any underdeveloped country, and for this reason it is permanently...

MY ANTONIA(1918) is the wistful tale of an immigrant girl from Bohemia,who has settled in Nebraska.Narrated by Antonia's childhood friend Jim Burden,the novel draws heavily upon Willa Cather's own formative...

Robert Frost is one of the most popular American poets of the twentieth century. Born in 1874, he came to England in 1912, where he met Rupert Brooke, Lascelles Abercrombie,...

Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice. The Post-Colonial Critic brings together a selection...

The gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions. Desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war, Creon refuses to...

Edited by scholars and teachers whose interests range from the history of poetics to postmodernism, from classical rhetoric to eriture feminine, and from the social construction of gender to the...