Literary Theory

Author: Paul B. ArmstrongBinding: HardbackPublished: Cornell University Press, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsPaul B. Armstrong's The Challenge Of Bewilderment presents a compelling analysis of literary...

The story of Thomas Mann's Pacific Palisades home-in-exile, in text and pictures Writer Francis Nenik narrates the history of the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades neighborhood, and...

Author: Andrew BirkinBinding: HardbackPublished: CONSTABLE/LONDON, 1979Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography chronicles the intricate life of J.M. Barrie, the celebrated creator of Peter Pan. It uncovers the...

Author: Charles H. NilonBinding: PaperbackPublished: The Citadel Press, 1111Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Worn and creased cover. Internally sound, clean text....

Author: Jean Franco; Bradbury, Malcolm; Eric Mottram; David DaichesBinding: HardbackPublished: McGraw-Hill Book Company,Inc., New York, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. The Penguin...

Author: David MeakinBinding: HardbackPublished: Methuen, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly work examines the profound interplay between human labor and the cultural landscape...

What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it compare with its counterparts in other European countries? These are some of the difficult questions addressed by John Osborne...

He made his debut in late 1940 in Captain America Comics No. 1, fighting Nazis at every turn. Twenty years after World War II, he was found frozen in ice....

German-speaking playwrights have exercised a considerable if subtle influence on Australian theatre history. Presenting a range of paradigmatic case studies, this book offers a detailed account of Australian productions of...

A genre-bending meditation on sickness, spirituality, creativity, and the redemptive powers of writing A genre-bending meditation on sickness, spirituality, creativity, and the redemptive powers of writing.Notes Made While Falling is...

A biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the writer of "The School for Scandal" and "The Rivals". The text argues that Sheridan's Irishness was a crucial factor in his drive for...

Poet, cavalry officer, celebrity - Mikhail Lermontov moved in an atmosphere of political intrigue and personal recklessness, producing poetry considered second only to Pushkin's in Russian literature and a career...

Edited with an introduction by Ronald Hayman This collection of essays and theatre criticism by playwright John Whiting first emerged during the most exciting and eventful decade in post-war twentieth-century...

This volume contains speeches from great works of European drama that have either been translated or adapted by Robert David MacDonald, awarded the Goethe Medal for Services to German literature'

An off-Broadway comedy presents scenes from the bible told from a flamboyantly gay perspective and begins with the story of banished Adam and Eve, who meet Jane and Mabel, the...

The life of RussiaAIs greatest dramatist and storyteller examined within the context of the evolution of his art. A fine biography...a very well-written, intelligent account of ChekhovAIs remarkable literary career...

This collection brings together a group of distinguished and original theatre historians engaged in rethinking the nature of early modern theatre history as a discipline. Whether focusing on the relation...

Eugene O'Neill is considered one of America's greatest playwrights. O'Neill biographers, literary scholars, and theatrical practitioners acknowledge the importance of O'Neill's maritime background and experience to his work, but this...

Jake Callahan, exhalting in his great fortune at finding the story of "the most beautiful murderess," precisely characterizes Watkins's satirical take on murder and its aftermath--a view she formed while...

A OBIE award-winning play by Europe's leading experimental playwright, thematically explores the perisistence of memory and the relationship between the living and the dead, as well as the contradictory nature...

This book provides a comprehensive account of the cutlural history of English drama. Drawing upon new empirical research and the latest theoretical models, Shepherd and Womack show how the character...

Stage Directions covers half a lifetime and the whole range of Frayn's theatrical writing, right up to a new piece about his latest play, Afterlife. It is also a reflection...

A remarkable insight into the birth of a writer, and the moving discovery of family secrets.When Hanif Kureishi discovers an abandoned manuscript of his father's his understanding of the family...

Provocative and compelling, After the Celebration captures the key themes and issues in Australian fiction- where we have been and what we have become. After the Celebration explores Australian fiction...

This rich and varied portrait of the drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres, situating them in the social and political culture...

When it was published this was the full, post-glasnost critical biography of Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), a great comic writer whose works are regarded as modern classics. This account of Bulgakov's...

"Broadway" has been the stuff of theatrical legends for generations. In this fascinating and affectionate account of a unique theatrical phenomenon, Andrew Harris takes a look at both the reality...

Access to large corpuses of English have allowed historians of English to assess the minutiae of linguistic change in far more precise detail than before and there is much new...

This is an investigation of Yeats's experiments with the media of language and dance in his plays. He was allied to other artists of the 1890s in his fascination with...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki has lived a colourful and picaresque life. Born in 1920 of Polish Jewish parents, he spent his youth in Berlin until the Nazis came to power. In 1938...

J. M Synge was born in 1871 into a strictly Protestant upper-middle-class Irish family. He spent his short life in a variety of situations; with his widowed evangelical mother, in...

A revised one-volume encyclopedia with over 10,000 informative entries, covering biographies of poets, playwrights, novelists and essayists from Aristophanes, to Toni Morrison, from Chuang Tzu to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. There...

`[Ann Oakley's] writings are witty and sharp; she is enormously well read, and...very versatile...[she] writes in a straightforward way.' Tribune In this impressive collection of essays and poems, Ann Oakley,...

The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon during his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Rather than individual and discrete...

Literature is recognized as having significantly influenced the development of modern psychoanalytic thought. In recent years, psychoanalysis has drawn increasingly on the literary and artistic traditions of Western culture, and...

The most trusted anthology for complete works, balanced selections, and helpful editorial apparatus. The Norton Anthology of American Literature , Shorter Eighth Edition, features a diverse and balanced variety of...

The most trusted anthology for complete works, balanced selections, and helpful editorial apparatus. The Norton Anthology of American Literature , Shorter Eighth Edition, features a diverse and balanced variety of...

Much Ado About Nothing, as part of the Macmillan Modern Shakespeare Series, is a large-format illustrated text which is an ideal and easy introduction to Shakespeares plays. Comprehensive notes appear...

The first ever biography of Lady Elizabeth Russell, the woman who waged battle against Shakespeare In November 1596 a woman signed a document which would nearly destroy the career of...

A brilliant study guide to this stunning novel, written by Mark Haddon, for senior secondary English students.

This book is a Christian introduction to Shakespeare for high school students and includes analysis, questions, and reviw for six of Shakespeare's most meaningful (and enjoyable) plays. "Shakespeare was, as...