Literary Theory

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...

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...

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: 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: 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...

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...

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

This critical biography analyzes Tennyson's poetic development and his place in literature. It describes his influences, both classical and personal, and illuminates his working methods, for example: a constant revision...

Shortly before his death in 1978, Paul Scott won the Booker Prize for Fiction. In this biography, the author explores Scott's family background in North London, his war years in...

One of the most prolific letter writers of this century, Tolkien wrote to his publishers, to members of his family, to friends and to fans of his books, a mass...

Author: Robert ChambersBinding: HardbackPublished: WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, 1844Condition:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Rare first edition in...

Author: D. H. LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublished: HERON BOOKSCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA seminal work of modernist literature, The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family, tracing...

Author: selected by H. P. Heseltine and S. TickBinding: HardbackPublished: F. W. Cheshire, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: cellotape residue on inside front and back covers; plastic...

Author: John LehmannBinding: HardbackPublished: John Lehmann, London, 1949Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis literary collection, Orpheus: A Symposium Of The Arts 2, presents a...

Author: Sir H. Idris Bell, Gay Boas, Osbert Lancaster, C. S. Lewis, V. De Sola Pinto, G. Rastrner Hamilton, H. V. Routh, Laurence E. Tanser, S. C. Roberts, Reginald W....

Author: Margaret HomansBinding: PaperbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Minor creasing on cover, internally sound. Clean and bright...

Author: UCLA Department of EnglishBinding: PaperbackPublished: Department of English, UCLA, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis reference guide outlines the standards, conventions,...

Author: Vera BrittainBinding: HardbackPublished: A Femina Book, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling work of literary history chronicles the infamous obscenity trial surrounding...

The book titled Quest for Wonders: Myths and Legends in the Classroom: Myths and by the author John Tingay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Barthes and the Empire of Signs follows him in exploring the nature of 'representation' itself. Is it possible to reconcile appearance and reality? Or imaginative recreation and fact? How do...

A true detective story from the age of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers- the literary crime that fooled the world - and the daring young booksellers who uncovered it...

In The Ruling Passion , Christopher Lane examines the relationship between masculinity, homosexual desire, and empire in British colonialist and imperialist fictions at the turn of the twentieth century. Questioning...

The editors of "Brick" celebrated the new century by asking contributors to the journal for essays about their favourite "lost classics": books they treasured that are now forgotten. The next...

A guide to English literature from 1500 to 1660. It combines a series of critical essays on understanding Renaissance literature, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Renaissance poetry and the contemporary historical...

A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served...

Queen Victoria's central importance to the era defined by her reign is self-evident, and yet it has been surprisingly overlooked in the study of Victorian culture. This collection of essays...

Derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, the present volume is an A-Z reference work containing over 4,200 entries covering the full range of literature in English...

Acting, direction, stagecraft, theatre architecture and design, above all the whole extraordinary evolution of dramatic literature - here is a history of theatre, worldwide in scope and ranging from its...

A compelling, inspiring and moving collection of Barbara Holborow's stories of hope, loss and apathy from behind the Bench as Children's Magistrate A compelling, inspiring and moving collection of Barbara...

A Free Mind at Work 1990 - 2015 'Opinions and Reflections' is an edited selection of the work of a public intellectual with a distinctive independence of mind and a...

The book titled Divine Landscapes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists Born into the English landed gentry, the heir to a substantial country estate, Christopher Isherwood ended up in California,...

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Stories for Today , a special summer fiction edition, presents a fresh and candid reinterpretation of the Australian character, with stories from the writers who are making an impact at...

From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on the secret genius of irrational behavior. Have you ever been pissed because you're not...

From one of India's most acclaimed writers--a radiant novel, now available in paperback.

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022 A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEAR A...

An absolutely joyous, gasp-out-loud achievement. - Stephen Fry Shakespeare's flame is infectious. An olympic torch, for us all, to be enlightened, words which share the shadow and light of humanity's...

Modern scholarship tends to focus on the social, political and economic information that can be gleaned from Pindar's treatment of the subject of his victory odes - the athlete who...

The 13th century was the golden age of French verse hagiography, and more than half of the 200 extant French saint's lives date from this period. Among the saints exalted...

This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings in late medieval Britain. Rather...

Includes new writing by Sian Prior, Mark Mordue, Carolyn Fraser, Ben Eltham, Georgia Blain, and more. In the September edition of Meanjin Mike Pottenger asks whether Robin Hood was a...