Literary Theory

Part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times...

From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified...

Provides illuminating answers to many questions: why did Sophocles develop character-drawing? How and why does it differ from that of Aeschylus? Why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and...

Sir John Falstaff is, without doubt, a rogue. True, he is fat, jolly, and in a way lovable, but he is still a rogue. His men rob and plunder the...

Offering a political critique of Shakespeare's writings and the uses they are put to, these essays suggest that the activity of criticism is itself a site for political intervention.

In both feminist theory and Shakespearean criticism, questions of sexuality have consistently been conflated with questions of gender. This book refuses this all too common approach by detailing instead the...

This third book in a new series of magazine-style reviews of the performing arts, presents an introduction to the writers who are helping to shape the future of the British...

A portrait of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov, fighting for his work and his life in a society riven with fear of Stalin's tyranny Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev in...

This text focuses on the cross-cultural experience, arguing that Shakespeare reinterprets, refashions, and reinscribes stage aliens such as Jews, Moors, Amazons, and gypsies and thus interrogates a Eurocentric perspective and...

This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting...

What can the printed texts of plays from Shakespeare's time say about performance? How have printed plays been read and interpreted? This collection of essays considers the evidence of early...

Marguerite Yourcenar was born Marguerite de Crayencour in Brussels in 1903. She lost her mother at birth, her native Belgium at the age of six, and was forced to flee...

Stephen Greenblatt has been at the centre of a major shift in literary interpretation towards a critical method that places cultural creation in history. In this book - a sustained...

A gripping narrative history of Spain's most brilliant and troubled literary family--a tale about the making of art, myth, and legacy--set against the upheaval of the Spanish Civil War and...

Now a mother herself, Harrison has written a memoir about the ties that bind mothers to their children - and the forces that can drive them apart. She reveals the...

This biography illuminates and explores the complexities and contradictions of Burns's character and personality, untangling the myth from the legend. Based on new evidence from 700 letters Burns wrote during...

In his own lifetime, Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was scarcely published. A quarter of a century after his death, his novel, "The Master and the Margarita", has become...

Containing many paintings, and a collection of his words on love, this title is aimed at lovers of Shakespeare and to also people in love.

Author: Kenneth MuirBinding: HardbackPublished: Clarendon Press Oxford, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some yellowing on blockThis compelling Shakespearean drama, Troilus And Cressida, presents a cynical and...

Towards the end of his life, Tolstoy, author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", said of the daily records that he had kept all his life: "the diaries are...

Author: August Wilhelm SchlegelBinding: HardbackPublished: George Bell & Sons, 1889Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Reading copy with markingsThis seminal work...

Author: J. O. BaileyBinding: HardbackPublished: THE ODYSSEY PRESS INC NEW YORKCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Foxing on block, binding fadedBritish Plays Of The Nineteenth Century: An Anthology To...

Author: Frederick A. PottleBinding: HardbackPublished: WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD, 1952Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Library markingsThis biographical work chronicles James Boswell's formative year in Holland between...

Author: Jack Bedson And Julian CroftBinding: PaperbackPublished: Centre For Australian Language and Literary Studies, University of New England, Armidale, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as...

Author: Jan Needle And Peter ThomsonBinding: HardbackPublished: The University of Chicago Press, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Folding on back of dust jacketThis insightful volume presents a...

Author: Edited By Dick Riley And Pam Mcallister; Introduction By Julian SymonsBinding: PaperbackPublished: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., New York, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as...

"Exciting, original, and convincing. . . . This book is essential reading for all concerned with who really wrote the works of Shakespeare. A thrilling journey of discovery." -Sir Derek...

Author: Mordecai GorelikBinding: HardbackPublished: Samuel French, 1947Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Clear cover over DJ. Wear and fading to DJ. Light chipping...

Author: James SutherlandBinding: PaperbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageJames Sutherland's Restoration Tragedies presents a scholarly examination of the...

Author: Paul Raabe And J. M. RitchieBinding: PaperbackPublished: John Calder, Riverrun Press, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Theatre Of Bertolt Brecht:...

Author: F. R. LeavisBinding: PaperbackPublished: Cambridge at the University Press, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis collection presents a rigorous examination of...

Author: V. J. ScattergoodBinding: PaperbackPublished: Blandford Press, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly work uncovers the intricate connections between the political...

Author: Brigitte GrothumBinding: PaperbackPublished: Blandford, London, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerUnknown

Author: Harold Bloom (Editor)Binding: HardbackPublished: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis academic collection presents a comprehensive overview of critical perspectives on the...

Author: Virginia WoolfBinding: HardbackPublished: The Hogarth Press, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn and discoloured DJ with chipping and some...

Author: James Branch CabellBinding: HardbackPublished: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1925Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Yellowed on block, faded along spineBeyond Life by James Branch Cabell presents...

Author: John WillettBinding: PaperbackPublished: METHUEN, LONDON, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Theatre Of Bertolt Brecht: A Study From Eight Aspects presents...

Author: Clive JamesBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton , 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsVisions Before Midnight presents a collection of incisive and often humorous essays on television...

Author: Isaac AsimovBinding: HardbackPublished: Granada, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor nick/tear on fep. This insightful collection presents Isaac Asimov's unparalleled perspectives on the...

Author: P.K. ElkinBinding: PaperbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, London, 1978Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis academic volume presents a comprehensive anthology of...

How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the...

Author: Yvonne RousseauBinding: PaperbackPublished: -Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis analytical work uncovers the enduring mystery surrounding the disappearance of...

Author: Eugene O'NeillBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1932Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis powerful dramatic work, Mourning Becomes Electra: A Trilogy, presents a searing reinterpretation of classical Greek tragedy...

Author: F. W. J. HemmingsBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1953Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly work chronicles the life and literary contributions of the influential French novelist...

Author: Nigel KrauthBinding: PaperbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNew Guinea Images In Australian Literature presents a compelling...

Author: Robert WeimannBinding: PaperbackPublished: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image'Shakespeare And The Popular Tradition In The Theater:...