Literary Theory

Author: D. H. LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublisher: William Heinemann, -Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: some tanning of spineA seminal work...

This remarkable work by Ronald D. LeBlanc is the first study to appraise the representation of food and sexuality in the nineteenth-century Russian novel. Meticulously researched and elegantly and accessibly...

Lolita: on the cusp between fashion and cinema, childhood and adolescence, capriciousness and sensuality... The figure of the 'Lolita' embodies one of the most fascinating, but at the same time...

The first to indicate that Du Maurier had bi sexual tendencies, this book depicts a woman far removed fro m the ''Queen of Romance'' described in the tabloid obituaries ....

Michael Hattaway's Introduction to this bestselling edition of As You Like It accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. This third edition includes a new section...

How did a single genre of text have the power to standardise the English language across time and region, rival the Bible in notions of authority, and challenge our understanding...

Geoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against the vices and absurdities of his age....

For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account of recent productions and reinterpretations of the play, with particular emphasis on...

Christine de Pizan attracted an international audience of admirers her during her lifetime, including many readers in England. The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes (1521) is the earliest English...

A comparative study of the representation of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modernity, The Tears of Sovereignty argues that the great playwrights of the period-William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega,...

The Roman Self in Late Antiquity for the first time situates Prudentius within a broad intellectual, political, and literary context of fourth-century Rome. As Marc Mastrangelo convincingly demonstrates, the late-fourth-century...

The book titled Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life by the author Robert Fulghum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

This edition presents Medea, the most famous play of the Athenian tragedian Euripides, in ancient Greek, with commentary designed for university Greek classes, from second-year Greek upward. It helps students...

Henri Peyre (1901-1988), a giant figure in French studies, did more to introduce Americans to the modern literature and culture of French than any other person. Sterling Professor and chair...

Jacob Gordin was the first major playwright of the "Golden Age" of New York's Yiddish theater, which was not just entertainment but also a public forum, a force for education...

In 1829, three women and three men were paraded through Osaka and crucified. Placards set up at the execution ground proclaimed their crime: they were devotees of the "pernicious creed"...

In recent decades, theologians and philosophers of religion have engaged in a vigorous debate concerning the status and nature of ecclesiology. Throughout this debate, they have found resources for their...

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box This curated collection offers eighteen varied narratives at a practical price point. Readers will find a comprehensive selection of acclaimed literary works from established...

Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks is an entertaining and fast-paced exploration of crime fiction. Written by Cathy Cole, a published crime author, it addresses the reasons why readers of crime...

Simultaneously a literary movement, ultra-hip subculture and burgeoning cottage industry, Steampunk is the most influential new genre to emerge from the late twentieth century. Spinning tales populated with clockwork Leviathans,...

Author: W.W. RobsonBinding: PaperbackPublished: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA Prologue To English Literature presents a foundational overview of...

Author: Osbert SitwellBinding: HardbackPublished: Duckworth, 1932Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn and stained boards, internally sound. Winters...

Michael Hattaway's Introduction to this bestselling edition of As You Like It accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. This third edition includes a new section...

Author: A. R. D. BallBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1928Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous Owner inscription front end...

Author: Ronald HaymanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsRonald Hayman's Artaud And After presents a compelling biographical and critical examination of Antonin...

Author: Harry BlamiresBinding: PaperbackPublished: Macmillan, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis comprehensive literary history Twentieth-Century English Literature chronicles the dynamic evolution of...

Author: D.H LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublished: Kensington. Times House Publishing, 1984Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSet against the vibrant backdrop of 1920s Australia, D. H. Lawrence's Kangaroo plunges into the psychological landscape...

The man who invented medical techno-horror takes you on a startling and chilling odyssey into the origins of life--and death. When an eminent biomolecular geneticist dies violently before his eyes,...

The hijacking of a jumbo jet off the Seychelles galvanises anti-terrorist chief Peter Stride into the action for which he has spent a lifetime training. But even in the hail...

Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the...

A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest...

Colin Wilson is the bete-noir of the Oxbridge literary establishment. He never went to university, let alone Oxbridge, yet wrote The Outsider, a brilliant account of the pain of being...

Author: R. R. BolgarBinding: PaperbackPublished: Cambridge University Press., 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTanned edges, sun-fading to cover.This scholarly work...

Author: TLSBinding: HardbackPublished: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling collection presents a curated selection of essays and reviews originally published...

One of the great mysteries in the life of E. M. Forster (1879-1970) is why, after the publication of A Passage to India in 1924, he never published another novel...

Author: Maurice SendakBinding: HardbackPublished: Reinhardt Books in association with Viking, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection of essays presents Maurice Sendak's profound insights into the art of...

Author: William HazlittBinding: HardbackPublished: Chelsea House Publishers., 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markings-

Author: MarinettiBinding: HardbackPublished: Farrar, Straus and Giroux., 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerMarinetti: Selected Writings presents a foundational collection from the incendiary mind of F.T. Marinetti, the...

Author: Cyril ConnollyBinding: HardbackPublished: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich., 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn The Evening Colonnade, Cyril Connolly presents a compelling collection of essays...

Author: Ann ChartersBinding: PaperbackPublished: St. Martin's Press, 1983Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis comprehensive anthology presents a curated collection of short fiction...

Author: William Shakespeare; Illus by Salvador DaliBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1953Condition:Book: FairJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn and foxed boards. Internally sound with beautiful decor...

The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial...

This is a critical edition of a classic beloved of children and adults since 1868. The introduction provides a fascinating history of the Alcotts, and of Louisa Alcott's own struggles...

Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) has justly attracted great respect and attention for its account of Western perceptions and representations of the Orient, but the English-speaking world has for too long...

With his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus: an examination of more than two millennia of Western culture, staking out his claim...

The Tablet, Best Books of the Year Open Magazine's Best Books of 2020 A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and...

The book titled A Woman of No Character by the author Fidelis Morgan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.