Literary Theory

One hundred of today's most prominent literary and cultural icons talk about the books that hold a special place in their hearts-that made them who they are today. One hundred...

The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and...

The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and...

'Rich, authoritative, and highly readable ... [a] tour de force' David KynastonChairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving...

'Everything a reader could desire: wit, passion, mystery, brilliant detective work, a love of rare books, a deep dive into literary history and, best of all, the restoration of reputation...

Celebrate the genius, passion, and poetry of William Shakespeare with this beautifully bound deluxe edition, featuring his complete plays and poems in one timeless collector's volume. No writer has shaped...

This literary biography looks at the life of Thomas Mann. Vignettes enable us to enter Mann's life and work from different angles. We meet the difficult, even unsavoury private man:...

'Fascinating reminiscences of her past.A wonderfully vivid evocation of a lower-middle-class childhood of oil lamps and gas mantles, water heated up in a coke boiler for the weekly bath, liberty...

This title explores the enchanting world of children and make-believe in this entertaining collection of classic British and American poetry.

'Delightful' Steven Pinker 'A joy to read' David Crystal Swamp or bog? Guilt or shame? Poisonous or venomous? We pick from a wealth of words to express ourselves each day,...

'Delightful' Steven Pinker 'A joy to read' David Crystal Swamp or bog? Guilt or shame? Poisonous or venomous? We pick from a wealth of words to express ourselves each day,...

Long neglected by critics and theorists, thought not by readers, autobiography is now beginning to receive the critical attention it deserves. Diverse tendencies in recent critical and cultural theory, from...

The book titled The Writing of One Novel by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Dada Painters and Poets offers the authentic answer to the question "What is Dada?" This incomparable collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations was prepared by Robert Motherwell with the...

This Guide aims to consolidate and epitomise the re-reading of women's writing that has gone on in the last twenty-five years. This is an opportunity for stock-taking - a timely...

This selection of 18 masques offers a fascinating insight into the culture and politics of the early 17th century.

A startling discovery. The originality and beguiling alchemy of the writing generate a plethora of profound insights into one's self that usually take years of expensive therapy to unlock -...

Leopardi, widely considered to be the greatest Italian poet since Dante, was a scholar and philospher whose outstanding scholarly and philosophical works and superb poetry place him in the pantheon...

**Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2025, Biography** ** BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2024** Seventy-five years after 1984 first published, George Orwell is back. Progressives denounce 'Orwellian'...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES , GUARDIAN , INDEPENDENT , IRISH TIMES , SPECTATOR , TLS , NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK...

Bernard Shaw fashioned public images of himself that belied the nature and depth of his emotional experiences and the complexity of his intellectual outlook. In this absorbing biography, noted Shavian...

Written by a renowned scholar and broadcaster, this account of Wilmot''s work strives to place it in its socio-political context and describe the way the poet & his work were...

This is a biography of de Beauvoir and Sartre that draws strongly on newly available journals and letters written by the couple, as well as on long-established sources. By carefully...

This entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures, and hard to find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twentieth century reader...

The early eighteenth century saw a far-reaching financial revolution in England. In this original study, Colin Nicholson reads familiar texts such as Gulliver's Travels, The Beggar's Opera and The Dunciad...

The book titled Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King by the author Tim Underwood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In his books-the memoir of the Second World War, the two large volumes on the presidency, the incomplete autobiography written near the end of his life-Eisenhower related the course of...

This study of Shaw is an attempt to provide a record of the impact Shaw made on his contemporaries and of the way in which he presented himself and his...

A collection of pieces of memoir by contemporary international writers. Edited by the author of 'IF THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU'.

Literature in the Modern World offers a unique combination of English, European, feminist and `new writing', or `Commonwealth', perspectives on literary studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is...

From the advent of Fauvism to the development of Dada, the early part of this century saw a series of avant-garde movements in European literature, music, and painting, which fundamentally...

Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His...

This book should be of interest to critical readers of Australian poetry and literature.

James McAuley brings the work of this poet and critic face to face with a range of deconstructive and feminist readings. It is a contentious work, not at home with...

This is a revised edition of an Australian reference book. Giving an account of Australian writing from 1788 to 1993, each entry has been reconsidered and, if necessary, updated.

A.D. Hope has long been Australia's most internationally renowned poet. This study seeks to read Hope's poetry and criticism in terms of several overlapping contexts: critical debate about Australian poetry;...

Under the headings of 'poetics', 'ethics', 'politics', 'teleology', and 'sociology',"Germaine" Greer examines the plays in detail, showing how Shakespeare dramatized moral and intellectual issues in such a way that his...

The book titled Ben Jonson: Selected Works by the author Ben Jonson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023 * * THE FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS...

'Lives that Never Grow Old' is a wonderful series- edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still...

As early modernists with an interest in the literary culture of Shakespeare's time, we work in a field that contains many significant losses: of texts, of contextual information, of other...

There are many issues raised when talking about Australia's literature. The main criterion for inclusion in these essays is not the canonical status of authors but their fruitful engagment ewith...

The Edward Said Reader presents key selections from Said's works, from his groundbreaking 1966 study of Joseph Conrad and the extraordinarily influential Orientalism, through Culture and Imperialism, Peace and its...

'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era...

A thoughtful, nuanced look at Thomas Keneally's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by award-winning journalist Stan Grant, which considers race, representation and Australian history. Stan Grant is drawn to Thomas...

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is the companion book to the celebrated film of the same name about world-renowned linguist and social theorist Noam Chomsky. Winner of 15...