Literary Theory

In a series of readings of Sophocles, Holderlin, Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Benjamin, Rainer Nagele investigates the extraordinary territory that lies not merely between texts but also between languages - in...

This Student Edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as...

Author: Peter FryerBinding: HardbackPublished: DENNIS DOBSON, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis academic work presents a rigorous examination of English poetry, offering incisive analyses of various literary movements...

Author: Mrs. JamesonBinding: HardbackPublished: J.M. Dent & Co.; E.P. Dutton & Co., 1905Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis insightful literary analysis,...

Author: David DaichesBinding: HardbackPublished: HUTCHINSON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, 1957Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsDavid Daiches's Milton presents a comprehensive biographical and critical examination of the renowned English poet, John...

Author: Donald DavieBinding: HardbackPublished: HEINEMANN, 1958Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe collection The Late Augustans: Longer Poems Of The Later Eighteenth Century presents a critical examination of significant...

Author: Eleanor DarkBinding: HardbackPublished: Times House, Sydney, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis sweeping historical novel The Timeless Land chronicles the dramatic early years of European settlement in...

Author: Sir Leslie StephenBinding: HardbackPublished: Clarendon Press Oxford, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis work presents a poignant collection of personal reflections and biographical sketches from a distinguished...

Author: Michael StevensBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography V. Sackville-West chronicles the extraordinary life and literary contributions of...

Author: C. P. SnowBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsC.P. Snow's The Realists presents a compelling collection of literary essays, offering incisive portraits of...

Author: Clement SemmlerBinding: HardbackPublished: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: DJ creased within mylarThe Abc - Aunt Sally And Sacred Cow presents a compelling...

Author: Katharine Susannah PrichardBinding: HardbackPublished: TIMES HOUSE, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis poignant Australian novel chronicles the complex relationship between a white station owner and an Aboriginal...

Author: Kit DentonBinding: HardbackPublished: TIMES HOUSE, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsBold, relentless and charged with the wild spirit of empire, The Breaker plunges into the life of...

Author: John GrishamBinding: HardbackPublished: TIMES HOUSE, 1953Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCaddie is a powerful and unflinching memoir that charts the life of a working-class woman in Sydney...

Author: Louis StoneBinding: HardbackPublished: TIMES HOUSE, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsLouis Stone's Jonah is a seminal work of Australian social realism that chronicles the compelling rise of...

Author: Steele RuddBinding: HardbackPublished: Times House, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents two beloved narratives from the iconic Dad and Dave series, Sandy's Selection and Back...

Author: Steele RuddBinding: HardbackPublished: Times House, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsUnknown

Author: A. B. PatersonBinding: HardbackPublished: TIMES HOUSE, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsUnknown

Author: Henry LawsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Times House, 2025Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsUnknown

Author: Alexander SchmidtBinding: PaperbackPublished: Dover Publications, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageShakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary presents a monumental two-volume reference work...

Includes the plays No, Jeppe of the Hill and The Scatterbrain Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791-1860) and Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) were two of the very few dramatists for whom Henrik Ibsen...

A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance provides a state-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field of Shakespeare performance studies. Redraws the boundaries of Shakespeare performance studies. Considers performance in a...

Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries...

This book tells the stories of some of Australia's largely forgotten playwrights -- women who wrote drama that was performed on the nation's stages and broadcast across the airwaves from...

In 1991, Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Infused with the intensity of political conscience and commitment, her writings are invaluable illuminations of life in South Africa,...

This study investigates the importance of theatre in the works of Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, William Dean Howells, Louisa May Alcott and Henry James. Whether as critics, playwrights, actors or...

While Carlo Collodi's internationally revered Pinocchio may not have been the single source of the modernist fascination with puppets and marionettes, the book's appearance on the threshold of the modernist...

This book examines the salient ideas and practices that have shaped Surrealism as a protean intellectual and cultural concept that fundamentally shifted our understanding of the nexus between art, culture,...

This comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary, and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of British...

In the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress comes an earthy, wildly imaginative and tragi-comic love story set in a remote mountain village in northwestern China. Xiezi (meaning...

Written in defiance of Jeremy Collier and the budding fashion for sentimental drama, this late Restoration comedy exposes the reformed rake Loveless to the temptations of London and the charms...

This dazzling anthology, edited and introduced by Dermot Bolger, is a splendidly comprehensive and up-to-the-minute collection of the finest recent fiction from a nation of master storytellers. This collection of...

Nadine Gordimer began her writing life at a relatively young age. In 1991, that life received the ultimate recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In this...

Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of rhyme and the dance of rhythm, and these 'nonsenses' are full of...

This volume contains all of Beckett's less-than-full length works (or 'Dramaticules') for the stage, radio and television. Arranged in chronological order of composition, these shorter plays demonstrate the absurd humour,...

When you have been forcibly displaced from your home, the revolutionary dream of what should have happened ... stays alive as a utopian beacon of happiness that will (possibly) never...

Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906 examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions during the critical period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of...

This is the first full production history of Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene O'Neill, one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century. It provides a detailed...

This is an illustrated history of the performance and reception of Shakespeare's plays on the German stage from the English Comedians in the late sixteenth century to the First World...

This is a new edition of Andrew Gurr's classic account of the people for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays. Gurr assembles all the evidence from the writings of the time...

Arthur Miller is regarded as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century. His work is performed and studied around the world and this Companion provides an introduction...