Literary Theory

Author: James MilneBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head, 1976Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: significant tanning of internal pages and spine;...

The book titled The Forgotten by the author Elie Wiesel. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Strength of Tradition: Stories of the Immigrant Presence in by the author R.F. Holt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Shakespeare's potent use of garden imagery has captivated successive generations of readers and inspired the making of gardens across the globe. Laced with quotations and abounding with illustrations drawn from...

Lawrence L. Langer, perhaps the most important literary critic of the Holocaust, here explores the use of Holocaust themes in literature, memoirs, film, and painting. Among the authors he examines...

William Shakespeare and his contemporaries helped create not only a new kind of theatre but also a new form of language. In an age of religious and political warfare, they...

The book titled The Incredible Journey by the author Catherine Martin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Embassy to Constantinople by the author Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The landmark book that situates Blake's poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers. Since it was first published, Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry...

This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging examination of the place of AIDS in gay activism, literature, film, news reporting and culture. The contributors stress the connection between language and...

A topic with ever-increasing appeal and scope, Media Studies is attracting more and more higher education students as well as the thousands of practitioners within its various fields. Written by...

Author: John RuskinBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen, 1900Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Marked wear and tanning of external cover and...

Author: Robert HewisonBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames & Hudson., 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor tear to back of DJ,...

The book titled Greece: A Literary Companion by the author Martin Garrett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled La Mama Poetica by the author Mal Morgan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Picturesque (a set of theories, ideas, and conventions which grew up around the question of how we look at landscape) offers a valuable focus for new investigations into the...

In "The Viewer as Poet", Norman Land provides a comprehensive survey of ekphrasis in literature and art criticism from antiquity through the Renaissance. Land demonstrates that Renaissance art criticism assimilated...

Author: Drusilla ModjeskaBinding: HardbackPublished: Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1981Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsExiles At Home chronicles the significant literary contributions and complex lives of Australian women writers...

Author: Reginald BlomfieldBinding: HardbackPublished: George Bell and Sons, 1897Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Letter signed by the author...

Author: Harley GriffithsBinding: HardbackPublished: LOWDEN PUBLISHING CO., 1980Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsHarley Griffiths's The Literary Parasites Of Art presents a compelling academic critique, arguing...

Author: David BlameyBinding: PaperbackPublished: -Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling literary analysis uncovers the intricate layers of the infamous Ern Malley...

Author: Walter MurdochBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson Limited, 1931Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis collection of essays, Speaking Personally, presents the insightful...

Author: Roy A. MedvedevBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work presents a meticulous examination of the complex and often contentious literary biography...

As a young medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle studied under the vigilant eye of Dr Joseph Bell. He observed as Dr Bell identified a patient's...

With essays by Roger Clark, Nicholas Hewitt, Jon Kear, Tom Conley, Michael Sheringham, Alex Hughes, Adrian Rifkin, Belinda Jack, Verena Andermatt Conley and Marc Auge. Perhaps no world city has...

The book titled Cultural Atlas of the Renaissance by the author C.F. Black. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Riveting, tragic tale' New Yorker 'Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion' Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak...

Though he often wrote in matchless prose, Ruskin's thought developed slowly and sometimes repetitively. His ideas, if we come to them unprepared, can seem obscure, confused, and difficult to grasp....

Author: Herbert ReadBinding: HardbackPublished: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Spotting on external pages, yellowing and marking of external coverThis compelling collection of...

Sean O' Casey's Irish plays, among them "Juno and the Paycock", arguably place him amongst the great playwrights of the 20th century. This book explores the myth of O'Casey's slum...

One golden summer afternoon in 1862, on the banks of the River Thames, the young Oxford mathematics don Charles Dodgson shared a picnic with three little girls, who asked for...

Here is a poetry collection sure to delight and inspire the adventurous traveler and the armchair dreamer alike. As pilgrims, missionaries and explorers, as soldiers, diplomats, merchants and tourists, the...

Author: G. Wilson KnightBinding: HardbackPublished: FABER AND FABER LTD, 1964Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerG. Wilson Knight's Shakespearean Production presents a comprehensive analysis of the challenges...

Author: Ronald HingleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA New Life Of Anton Chekhov presents a comprehensive...

Bread and circuses were what the Romans demanded of their emperors, and for more than 500 years spectacular events in amphitheaters, circuses, and theaters were the most important leisure activities...

Frank Hardy is perhaps Australia's most famous Communist writer. In his literary biography on Frank Hardy, author Paul Adams traces the relationship between Hardy's writings, his political activism and the...

Author: Michael LeveyBinding: HardbackPublished: THAMES AND HUDSON, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work presents a compelling examination of the life and influence of Victorian critic Walter...

Author: Paul BarolskyBinding: HardbackPublished: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work presents a compelling re-evaluation of Walter Pater's seminal text, The Renaissance. It...

'At last I read her books, reminding myself to breathe, wondering if her characters could extricate themselves from her finely spun web of psychological torment. I seized my chance to...

Fervently acclaimed worldwide, Haruki Murakami'swildly imaginative work in many ways remains a mystery, its worlds withinworlds uncharted territory. Finally in The Forbidden Worlds of HarukiMurakami readers will find a map...

First published in 1980, Isherwood's overlooked last book is central to an understanding of his life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW In 1939, as Europe approaches...

Author: Benny GreenBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph., 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsP.G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography by Benny Green offers an insightful look into the life and comedic artistry...

After Aboriginal author Alexis Wright's novel, Carpentaria , won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007, it rapidly achieved the status of a classic. The novel is widely read and studied...

As a colour, black is a single hue. It comes in no other shades. It is pure darkness, absorber of all light. But despite its commonly accepted role as one...

A fascinating collection of memorial addresses on celebrated lives including WH Auden by Stephen Spender, Peter Cook by Alan Bennett, Kingsley Amis by Martin Amis, Stanley Matthews by Jimmy Armfield,...