ELT & Literary Studies Books
WW Norton & Co As I Lay Dying
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£15.99
WW Norton & Co The Picture of Dorian Gray
Book Synopsis“This edition is of the utmost importance to those interested in Wilde and literary modernism. It seems certain to become the standard edition of Dorian Gray.” —Ned Lukacher, University of Illinois at Chicago
£14.64
WW Norton & Co The Metamorphosis
Book Synopsis“This fine version, with David Cronenberg’s inspired introduction and the new translator’s beguiling afterword, is, I suspect, the most disturbing though the most comforting of all so far; others will follow, but don’t hesitate: this is the transforming tTrade Review"Bernofsky’s vibrant new translation preserves the comedy as well as the tragedy of Kafka’s text; it convinces both on its own and when read with the original in mind." -- The Times Literary Supplement
£16.40
WW Norton & Co Gullivers Travels A Norton Critical Edition
Book SynopsisAs featured on PBS’s The Great American Read This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726 text—the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative.
£14.64
WW Norton & Co English Renaissance Drama A Norton Anthology
Book SynopsisThe most extensive new collection in this field published in more than three decades, English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology surveys the astonishing, and astonishingly varied, dramatic works written and performed in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
£43.99
WW Norton & Co Miltons Selected Poetry and Prose
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£17.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Three Sisters
Book SynopsisThe play tells the story of three sisters and their brother who live in a provincial Russian town. Michael Frayn has successfully recreated the naturalness of the original text in this translation and included are notes, commentary and questions for students.
£12.28
Taylor & Francis CultureMetaculture The New Critical Idiom
Book SynopsisA stimulating, interdisciplinary survey of the conceptual and political issues involved in the notion of twentieth-century culture. This accessible study introduces important theorists including Freud, Woolf, Orwell, and Sartre.Trade Review'This book is both informative and illuminating in the ways in which it explores the changing definitions of 'culture'.' - Angela Werndly, Years Work in Critical Cultural TheoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Against Mass Civilization 2. In the Wars 3. Welfare? 4. A Reckoning
£80.74
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Before Writing Rethinking the Paths to Literacy
Book SynopsisGunther Kress argues for a radical reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice. Through close attention to the variety of objects which children constantly produce (drawings, cuttings-out, 'writings' and collages), Kress suggests a set of principles which reveal the underlying coherence of children's actions; actions which allow us to connect them with attempts to make meaning before they acquire language and writing.This book provides fundamental challenges to commonly held assumptions about both language and literacy, thought and action. It places these challenges within the context of speculation about the abilities and dispositions essential for children as young adults, and calls for the radical decentring of language in educational theory and practice.Trade Review'A call for a fundamental change in education. Provocatively, he defines school as a place where teachers insist the world can only be known through the abstractions of written language. His book shows the fascinating ways in which children express and exchange meaning on their progress to literacy.' - New Scientist'Before Writing has radical implications both for linguistic theory and for educational practice. It calls into question the accepted focus on written language as a privileged system of representation.' - Journal of SociolinguisticsTable of ContentsList of colour plates, List of figures, Preface, 1 Literacy, identity and futures, 2 ‘My Gawd, I made it like Australia’:making meaning in many media, 3 Making sense of the world:‘The seagulls are reading the newspaper’, 4 Drawing letters and writing dinosaurs:children’s early engagement with print, 5 ‘You made it like a crocodile’:a theory of children’s meaning-making, 7 Teaching literacy, learning literacy, 8 Futures, Sources and contexts, Bibliography, Index
£43.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) William Shakespeares Macbeth A Routledge Study
Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeareâs Macbeth is a timeless tale of love, greed and power, which has given rise to heated debates around such issues as the representation of gender roles, political violence and the dramatisation of evil.Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeareâs play presents: extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and performance of the text, from publication to present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Macbeth and seeking not only a guide to the play, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Shakespeareâs text.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Contexts, Introduction, Chronology, Source Part 2: Interpretations, Critical History, Early Critical Reception Part 3: Key Passages Part 4: Further Reading Recommended Editions of Macbeth. Contexts. The Play in Performance. Film Versions. Criticism
£29.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Friedrich Nietzsche
Book SynopsisIt is difficult to imagine a world without common sense, the distinction between truth and falsehood, the belief in some form of morality or an agreement that we are all human. But Friedrich Nietzsche did imagine such a world, and his work has become a crucial point of departure for contemporary critical theory and debate. This volume introduces this key thinker to students of literary and cultural studies, offering a lucid account of Nietzsche''s thought on:* anti-humanism* good and evil* the Overman* nihilism* the Will to Power.Lee Spinks prepares readers for their first encounter with Nietzsche''s most influential texts, enabling them to begin to apply his thought in studies of literature, art and contemporary culture.Table of ContentsWhy Nietzsche? Key Ideas 1. Tragedy 2. Metaphor. Genealogy 4. Beyond Good and Evil 5. The Overman 6. Will to Power After Nietzsche Further Reading Works Cited
£26.96
Taylor & Francis Charles Dickenss David Copperfield
Book SynopsisThis guidebook offers the ideal introduction to one of the most enduringly popular works of the nineteenth century. Richard J. Dunn first places David Copperfield in its social, biographical and literary contexts, touching upon such fascinating issues as autobiography and Victorian social conditions, before offering a handy chronology and reprinted documents from the period. In a second section, ''Interpretations'', he traces responses to the novel from the first reviews to modern criticism and reprints extracts from key critical works. The overview and extracts together offer insight into a remarkable range of issues, from the novel''s humour to its reflections of class and gender structures. The section also considers the long history of stage and screen interpretations of Dickens''s highly dramatic text. The third major section pulls together text and context by reprinting key passages of the novel, carefully cross-referenced to materials in the previous sections. The links
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Theorists of the Modernist Novel
Book SynopsisTracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between their theories, Parsons pays particular attention to their work on: forms of realism characters and consciousness gender and the novel time and history. An understanding of these three thinkers is fundamental to a grasp on modernism, making this an indispensable guide for students of modernist thought. It is also essential reading for those who wish to understand debates about the genre of the novel or the nature of literary expression, which were given a new impetus by the pioneering figures of Joyce, Richardson and Woolf.Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007"A clear, concise introduction to modernist views of the novel"J. W. Moffett, Kentucky Wesleyan College, for CHOICE magazine, Sep 2007, vol 45, no. 01, p. 374. "This one does an amazing job precisely because it manages to prepare readers without taking the sense of discovery away. Parsons is the kind of guide you want for an introduction of this sort: clear, focused, balanced, learned, and attuned to her audience's needs."--James Joyce QuarterlyTable of ContentsWhy Joyce, Woolf and Richardson? Key Ideas 1. A New Realism. Realism and Reality. Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism. 2. Character and Consciousness 3. Gender and the Novel 4. Time and History After Joyce Further Reading. Works Cited
£26.96
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) British Folk Tales and Legends A Sampler
Book SynopsisAn extravaganza of beautiful princesses and stout stable boys, sour-faced witches and king with hearts of gold. Each tale is a masterpiece of storytelling from the hilarious Three Sillies to the delightfully macabre Sammles ghost.Trade Review'Katharine Briggs has done a wonderful job of bringing these old stories together.' - Daily Telegraph'Katharine Briggs is the magic mirror on the wall. Ask her what you will...' - Richard Adams' ... this is a delightful collection ... it is indeed a classic.' - Journal for the Academic Study of Magic'Katharine Briggs is the magic mirror on the wall. Ask her what you will.' - Richard Adams
£14.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Transforming Texts
Book SynopsisTransforming Texts: considers why language changes, and how we transform it covers the key factors we need to take into account when transforming texts, including audience, register, mode, historical period, source and genre explores a wide variety of texts from a range of genres and periods, from Macbeth and Sense and Sensibility to Fever Pitch and The Bill offers a step-by-step guide to re-writing text; can be used as both a course text and a revision tool. Written by an experienced teacher, author and AS and A2 examiner, Transforming Texts is an essential resource for all students of AS and A2 level English Language and English Language and Literature.Trade Review'Shaun O'Toole's text is a gift ... this should be a comfort to teachers everywhere.' - EnglishDramaMediaTable of ContentsPreface 1. Language the Social Chameleon 2. Transforming Texts for Different Audiences and Purposes 3. Changing Modes: Transforming Speech and Writing 4. Transforming texts from Different Times 5. Transforming Literary Genre 6. Using Sources and Combining Texts Suggested Answers to Exercises. Glossary
£28.94
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) William Shakespeares Twelfth Night A Routledge
Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c.1600) is one of his most captivating plays. A comedy of mistaken identities, it has given rise to thought-provoking debates around such issues as gender identity and role-playing, manipulation and deception.Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare's spirited play offers: extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and performance of the text, from publication to the present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Twelfth Night and seeking not only a guide to the play, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Shakespeare's text.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Contexts 2. Interpretations 3. Key Passages 4. Further Reading Index
£44.78
Taylor & Francis Richard Wrights Native Son
Book SynopsisRichard Wrightâs Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world. This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Son a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of reprinted critical essays on Native Son, by James Baldwin, Hazel Rowley, Antony Dawahare, Claire Eby and James Smethurst, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section a chronology to help place the novel in its historical context suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge GuidTrade Review'What emerges clearly... is the extent to which the Routledge guides demonstrate the value of historicised readings, without burdening the first-time reader with too great an emphasis on the material reality with which the featured authors engage.'- Rod Mengham, The Times Higher Educational Supplement Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Texts and Contexts Richard Wright: A Brief Biography. The Voices of Native Son. The Dostoevskian Voice. The Transplantation of the Blues. Bigger’s Vernacular Voice. Social Determinism: An Anti-American Accent? Bigger: Silenced by Whiteness? Chronology Part 2: Critical History First Responses: James Baldwin. First Responses: Ralph Ellison and Irving Howe. Feminist Readings. The Black Atlantic and Beyond Part 3: Critical Readings Many Thousands Gone James Baldwin (1951) The Shadow of the White Woman: Richard Wright and the Book-of-the-Month Club Hazel Rowley(1999) From No Man's Land to Mother-Land: Emasculation and Nationalism in Richard Wright's Depression Era Urban Novels Anthony Dawahare (1999) Slouching toward Beastliness: Richard Wright's Anatomy of Thomas Dixon Clare Eby (2001) Invented by Horror: The Gothic and African American Literary Ideology in Native Son James Smethurst (2001) Part 4: Web Resources and Further Reading
£43.79
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Lyrical Ballads Routledge Classics
Book SynopsisWhen it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the poems in their original contexts as they appeared to Coleridgeâs and Wordsworthâs contemporaries, and includes some of their most famous poems, including Coleridgeâs Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.Trade Review'Must have come on like punk rock to a public groaning under the weight of over-cooked Augustanisms.' - The GuardianTable of ContentsLyrical Ballads. Preface to the Routledge Classics edition by Nicholas Roe. Foreword. Foreword to the 1991 Edition. A Selected Bibliography and List of Abbreviations. Introduction. Lyrical Ballads, 1798. Advertisement. Poems. Lyrical Ballads, 1800. Love. Poems, Volume II. Preface 1800 Version (with 1802 Variants). Notes to the Poems. Appendix A: Text of Lewti; or, the Circassian Love-Chant. Appendix B: Wordsworth’s Appendix on Poetic Diction from 1802 edition of Lyrical Ballads. Appendix C: Some Contemporary Criticism of Lyrical Ballads. Index of Titles. Index of First Lines.
£16.99
Taylor & Francis On Translation
Book SynopsisPaul Ricoeur turns to a topic at the heart of much of his work: What is translation and why is it so important? Drawing on interesting examples he reflects not only on the challenges of translating one language into another but how one community speaks to another.Trade Review'One of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of his generation' - The Daily Telegraph'Accessible and peppered with beautiful phrases, Ricoeur's is the kind of philosophical writing that provides an encounter with a feeling of transcendence and the sublime sometimes at odds with the philosophy it advocates' - M/C Reviews'As should be evident from the foregoing, this slim volume packs an enormous quantity of important reflection on the process of translation and its two fundamnetal approaches: the translation of words and phrases or the interpretation of meaningful wholes' - Corrado Federici, Figures of Translation'One of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of his generation.' - The Daily TelegraphTable of ContentsIntroduction: Ricoeur’s philosophy of translation, 1. Translation as challenge and source of happiness, 2. The paradigm of translation, 3. A ‘passage’: translating the untranslatable, Notes, Index
£23.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Hannah Arendt
Book SynopsisStudying one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century, this new and welcome addition to the Routledge Critical Thinkers series examines the theories from Arendt’s three main works, offers explanations to the main claims of the works, and presents a guide to her philosophical, literary and cultural context.Table of ContentsWhy Arendt? 1 Biography, Theory and Politics2 Thinking and Society3 Acting4 Labour, Work and Modernism5 Judging: From Kant to Eichmann6 Anti-Semitism7 Imperialism, Racism and Nation8 TotalitarianismCoda: EvilAfter Arendt
£24.32
Taylor & Francis Basic Chinese
Book SynopsisVery well structured and clearly explained' Dr Kan Qian, The Open University, UKBasic Chinese introduces the essentials of Chinese syntax. Each of the 25 units deals with a particular grammatical point and provides associated exercises. Features include: a clear, accessible format many useful language examples jargon-free explanations of grammar ample drills and exercises a full key to exercises. All Chinese entries are presented in both Pinyin romanization and Chinese characters, and are accompanied, in most cases, by English translations to facilitate self-tuition as well as classroom teaching in both spoken and written Chinese.Basic Chinese is designed for students new to the language. Together with its sister volume, Intermediate Chinese, it forms a compendium of the essentials of Chinese syntax.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition:‘Very well structured and clearly explained’ Dr Qian Kan, Open University
£41.79
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) HansGeorg Gadamer Routledge Critical Thinkers
Book SynopsisHans-Georg Gadamer’s theory of hermeneutics is one of the most important modern theories of reading, offering both a framework for understanding the practice and a method for its interpretation.Table of ContentsWhy Gadamer? Key Ideas. 1. Hermeneutics in Theory: From Schleiermacher to Heidegger 2. The Greeks (1): Plato and Dialogue 3. The Greeks (2): Aristotle and Phronēsis 4. Situation and Horizon, Prejudice and Tradition, Language and Play 5. Hermeneutics in Practice: Reading Texts After Gadamer Further Reading
£25.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Martin Heidegger Routledge Critical Thinkers
Book SynopsisSince the publication of his mammoth work, Being and Time, Martin Heidegger has remained one of the most influential figures in contemporary thought, and is a key influence for modern literary and cultural theory. This guidebook provides an ideal entry-point for readers new to Heidegger, outlining such issues and concepts as: the limits of 'theory' the history of being the origin of the work of art language the literary work poetry and the political Heidegger's involvement with Nazism. Fully updated throughout and featuring a new section on enviromental thought and ecocriticism, this guidebook clearly and concisely introduces Heidegger's crucial work relating to art, language and poetry, and outlines his continuing influence on critical theory.Trade Review' ... a useful, focused introduction to Heidegger, well-indexed, and with a helpful list of further reading, much to be recommended.' -- Literature & TheoryTable of ContentsWhy Heidegger? 1. The Limits of the Theoretical 2. Deep History (Geschichte) 3. ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’ 4. The Death of Art? 5. Language, Tradition and the Craft of Thinking Interlude: The Hut at Todtnauberg 6. Heidegger and the Poetic 7. Nazism, Poetry and the Political 8. Heidegger, Environmentalism and Ecocriticism After Heidegger
£24.32
Taylor & Francis Basic Portuguese
Book SynopsisBasic Portuguese: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume.Twenty units cover the core material which students can expect to encounter in their first year of learning Portuguese. Grammar points are followed by examples and exercises which allow students to reinforce and consolidate their learning.Clearly presented and user-friendly, Basic Portuguese provides readers with a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of Portuguese grammar.Table of Contents1. Nouns 2.Articles 3. Numbers, times and dates 4. Subject pronouns and regular verbs 5. Present tense: irregular verbs 6. Interrogatives 7. Negatives 8. Ser and Estar 9. Demonstratives 10. Adjectives and adverbs 11. Comparatives and superlatives 12. Direct object pronouns 13. Indirect object pronouns 14. Reflexive pronouns and verbs 15. Possessive pronouns and adjectives 16. Present perfect tense 17. The preterite tense 18. The imperfect tense 19. The preterite tense vs the imperfect tense 20. The past perfect and the pluperfect tense Key to exercises Bibliography Glossary of grammatical terms Index
£43.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis
Book SynopsisMarking the 50th anniversary of Lewis death, The Intellectual World of C.S. Lewis sees leading Christian thinker Alister McGrath offering a fresh approach to understanding the key themes at the centre of Lewis theological work and intellectual development.Trade Review“I have read many of Lewis's works repeatedly over the years and have read much of the secondary literature on him. The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewisdoes a good job in placing him in the intellectual context of his time.” (Modern-day Pilgrim, 8 April 2014) “McGrath’s volume is useful to both Lewis scholars and lay readers interested in Lewis or the themes with which he engaged.” (The Way, 1 April 2014) “There are acute and stimulating observations on Surprised by Joy as autobiography cast in a Christian mould, and its reliability as a source for historians. There are two particularly fine chapters showing the long-range influence on Lewis of the tradition of classical, medieval and early modern literature.” (Peter Webster's Blog, 22 January 2014) “Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty.” (Choice, 1 December 2013) “Many will also be grateful for these two books by Alister McGrath. Both reflect his thorough research, careful weighing of evidence, wide reading, and clarity of expression. . . The book contains useful studies on different aspects of Lewis as a Christian thinker; and I particularly enjoyed the slightly mischievous chapter in which McGrath argues that Lewis should be seen as a “real” theologian, not just the amateur one that he himself claimed to be.” (Church Times, 22 November 2013) “There is more to be said about Lewis as apologist and theologian but McGrath has written what will long be regarded as the essential guide.” (The Church of England Newspaper, 23 June 2013) “McGrath is ingenious and persuasive in searching Lewis’s writings for clues to his private life … [A] devoted and meticulous biography.” (The Times Literary Supplement, 21 June 2013) “Alister McGrath's biography of C.S. Lewis was an incredible exploration of one of the greatest minds in the history of Christian thought. I've always enjoyed reading Lewis because of the way he explains concepts in a way that is refreshing and inspiring. I found McGrath to have that kind of way with words in his exploration of Lewis' life. He takes the exploration a step further in a new companion book to the Lewis biography, THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD OF C.S. LEWIS.” (Tom Farr Reviews, 1 June 2013)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii A Brief Biography of C. S. Lewis ix Introduction 1 1. The Enigma of Autobiography: Critical Reflections on Surprised by Joy 7 2. The "New Look": Lewis's Philosophical Context at Oxford in the 1920s 31 3. A Gleam of Divine Truth: The Concept of Myth in Lewis's Thought 55 4. The Privileging of Vision: Lewis's Metaphors of Light, Sun, and Sight 83 5. Arrows of Joy: Lewis's Argument from Desire 105 6. Reason, Experience, and Imagination: Lewis's Apologetic Method 129 7. A "Mere Christian": Anglicanism and Lewis's Religious Identity 147 8. Outside the "Inner Ring": Lewis as a Theologian 163 Works by Lewis Cited 185 Index 187
£20.85
Dover Publications Inc. The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories
Book SynopsisThe enduring appeal of the Christmas story relies on heartfelt tradition and often moral quandaries both magical and mundane, all wrapped in the lore and practice of this cherished holiday. This anthology collects ten classic tales from some of literature's greatest writers. Stories included in this collection are The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, The Elves and the Shoemaker by the Bros. Grimm, A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens, The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather, A Letter From Santa by Mark Twain, A Country Christmas by Louisa May Alcott, Where Love Is, There God Is Also by Leo Tolstoy, The Christmas Banquet by Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, and Christmas; or the Good Fairy by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
£10.44
Dover Publications Inc. Frankenstein
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£15.29
Dover Publications Inc. Scarlet Letter
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University of California Press Emerson The Mind on Fire
Book SynopsisRalph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. This work gives us a portrait of the whole man.Trade Review"Richardson’s 671-page biography of Emerson is a page turner. The adventures are the adventures of a reader. And, of course, a thinker, a writer." * Los Angeles Times *"A worthy addition to the library of books on one of America's foremost thinkers." * New York Times *"Richardson balances the often chilling puritanism of Emerson's writing with a portrait of the man as hungry for friendship, maintaining close relationships with Carlisle, Thoreau, Bronson Alcott and Margaret Fuller; and whose icy doctrine of individualism reflects the loneliness caused by the premature deaths of his beloved first wife, his two younger brothers and numerous friends." * Publishers Weekly *"A captivating account of the originality, creativity, and genius of the American Coleridge." * Library Journal *“An electrifying work . . . a phenomenal piece of portraiture” * New York Newsday *"Emerson: The Mind on Fire is an unusually intelligent and involving book. Richardson himself writes with grace, vigor, acuity, and imagination. No other recent critic of Emerson . . . has written so well. This book is equal to the best American literary biographies we have and is arguably the best single book on Emerson ever written." * Journal of American History *"What Richardson has produced . . . a valuable, perhaps indispensable, paean to the intellectual life: we emerge from a reading of it fairly staggered by Emerson's sustained energy-even through his moments of doubt-and by the uncompromising honesty of Emerson's engagements with himself, with literature, nature, and society." * American Literature *"The Mind on Fire integrates heart and head without ever confusing the two; it presents exciting readings of Emerson's major works; it reveals a productive emotional vitality in ways never before shown; it is learned, accurate, judicious, and comprehensive, crisp in its conclusions, poetic in its language, too respectful of its subject ever to make him stodgy. The book is aptly titled, with its allusion to Emerson's volcanic metaphor for the creative mind, for Richardson's book truly fires the imagination." * New England Quarterly *"One of the great achievements in contemporary American literary studies. . . . Aside from his learning, which is prodigious, Richardson writes a wonderfully fluent, agile prose; he has a poet's sense of nuance and a novelist's grasp of dramatic rhythm; he also displays a positive genius for apt quotation." -- John Banville, * New York Review of Books *
£26.10
University of California Press The Argonautika
Book SynopsisA retelling of the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, one of the oldest extant Greek myth.Table of Contents LIST OF MAPS PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction THE ARGONAUTIKA Commentary ABBREVIATIONS SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY MAPS INDEX
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Cambridge University Press Test Your English Vocabulary in Use Elementary
Book SynopsisTest Your English Vocabulary in Use Elementary 2nd edition can be used on its own or with the companion volume English Vocabulary in Use Elementary 2nd edition. It is a handy book of tests covering the vocabulary practised in English Vocabulary in Use Elementary 2nd edition.
£19.60
Cambridge University Press King Richard III
Book SynopsisThis second edition of King Richard III features a new introductory section by Janis Lull, which focuses on contemporary stage and film productions as well as recent scholarly criticism. Lull stresses the importance of women in the play but shows how female roles are often side-lined on stage and screen.Table of ContentsIntroduction: History and meaning in Richard III; Richard III and Macbeth; Plot and language in Richard III; Richard III in performance; The audience in Richard III; Recent stage, film, and critical interpretations; Note on the text; List of characters; THE PLAY; Textual analysis; Appendix 1. The Q-only 'clock' passage; Appendix 2. The Plantagenet family tree; Reading list.
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Ebury Publishing In Search Of Shakespeare
Book SynopsisMichael Wood was born in Manchester and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Oriel College, Oxford, where he did post-graduate research in Anglo-Saxon history. A broadcaster and film-maker, he is the author of several highly praised books on English history, including In Search of the Dark Ages, Domesday and recently In Search of England. He has over eight documentary films to his name, including Art of the Western World, Legacy, In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great and the highly acclaimed Conquistadors. The writer behind three BBC films about Shakespeare's early history plays, he was a contributor to Shakespearean Perspective (1985). Michael Wood is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.Trade ReviewWood's is an honest, well-organised account that will serve the reader well. * Independent on Sunday *Thanks to the author's gifts of story-teller, populariser and interpreter, Shakespeare's world is brought to life more vividly than in any other biography of him I have read. All the latest professional scholarship on the question on Shakespeare and Catholicism is effectively incorporated in the book, but where Wood has made genuine finds of his own is in the area of the dramatist's day-to-day life. * Sunday Telegraph *In this enthralling book Michael Wood evokes the physical and intellectual environment in which Shakespeare lived and worked with vivid and original immediacy. -- Professor Stanley Wells, Editor of The Oxford ShakespeareWood is a perceptive, entertaining and enthusiastic companion. * Sunday Times *Shakespeare emerges from the book as the master general he must have been. -- Clive James * Times Literary Supplement *
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Faber & Faber Required Writing Miscellaneous Pieces 19551982
Book SynopsisThe appearance of Philip Larkin''s second prose collection - reviews and critical assessments of writers and writing; pieces on jazz, mostly uncollected; some long, revealing and often highly entertaining interviews given on various occasions - was a considerable literary event. Stamped by wit, originality and intelligence, it was vintage Larkin throughout:''Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.''''I see life more as an affair of solitude diversified by company than as an affair of company diversified by solitude.''Q. ''How did you arrive upon the image of a toad for work or labour?''A. ''Sheer genius.''
£11.69
Faber & Faber Philip Larkin Selected Letters
Book SynopsisThe enormous popular appeal of Philip Larkin''s poetry has long been established; but oddly little is known to his admiring public about the personality behind the work.The Selected Letters will change this, throwing light on a more complex, and in many ways more remarkable, figure than most readers will be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends - who included Barbara Pym, Kingsley Amis and John Betjeman - or those less prominently placed, Larkin shows himself to have been one of the frankest and most generously entertaining letter-writers of the century.Confessions, jokes, advice, scurrilities, pronouncements on literature and jazz, impromptu verses published here for the first time, gossip and wisdom abound in these pages. They give an astonishing view of a great poet''s progress from brash youth to rueful age, and, in complementing the poems, provide a biographical document that no serious reader can afford to ignore.
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Faber & Faber Selected Essays
Book SynopsisIn this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote: ''For myself this book is a kind of historical record of my interests and opinions.'' The text includes some of his most important criticism, especially parts of The Sacred Wood, Homage to John Dryden, the essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, For Lancelot Andrewes and Essays Ancient and Modern.
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Faber & Faber Samuel Beckett Faber Critical Guide Waiting for
Book SynopsisDo you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach Beckett and need a reliable guide to his plays? A Faber Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett''s major work gives all this and more:An introduction to the distinctive features of the playwright''s workThe significance of the playwright in the context of modern theatreA detailed analysis of each of the classic plays: language, structure and characterfeatures of performanceselect bibliographyCompiled by experts in their field, for use in classroom, college or at home, Faber Critical Guides are the essential companions to the work of all leading dramatists.Also in this series: Faber Critical Guides to the major works of Sean O''Casey, Brian Friel, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.
£9.49
Faber & Faber About Kane
Book SynopsisIn About Kane, Graham Saunders offers an important study of one of the most controversial and talented playwrights of recent times. His survey includes a concise biography, in-depth analysis of Sarah Kane''s work, and interviews with Kane and those who helped to put her work on stage. With Kane''s reputation still growing, this book is an essential guide for the student and theatregoer.
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Faber & Faber Edwin Muir Selected Poems
Book SynopsisBorn on the Orkney island of Wyre in 1887, Edwin Muir settled in various parts of Europe during the first half of the twentieth century - from Glasgow, to Austria and Czechoslovakia throughout to 1920s, 1930s and again after the war. Muir''s poetry bears oblique witness to the most traumatic years and events of this century, and is haunted by the symbolic ''fable'' which he longed to find beneath the surface ''story'' of mere events, as he came to terms with his own nature amidst the terror and confusion of the European maelstrom. As Seamus Heaney has written: ''Muir''s poetic strength revealed itself in being able to co-ordinate the nightmare of history with that place in himself where he had trembled with anticipation . . . His simultaneous at-homeness and abroadness is exemplary.''
£13.49
Faber & Faber William Blake
Book SynopsisIn this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.
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Faber & Faber Allen Ginsberg Poet to Poet
Book SynopsisAllen Ginsberg (1926-97) was born in Newark, New Jersey, to a poet-teacher father and Russian emigre mother. When Howl and Other Poems was impounded by San Francisco customs in 1956, the subsequent trial for obscenity catapulted Ginsberg and his publisher City Lights to national fame and helped to define the Beat Generation.Trade Review"'Faber has a poetry list worth bragging about. What other publisher could conjure up a series like this?' The Times"
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Faber & Faber Stepping Stones
Book SynopsisWidely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet''s steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and his post-Nobel life. It is supplemented with a large number of photographs, many from the Heaney family album and published here for the first time. In response to firm but subtle questioning from Dennis O''Driscoll, Seamus Heaney sheds a personal light on his work (poems, essays, translations, plays) and on the artistic and ethical challenges he faced, providing an original, diverting and absorbing store of reflections, opinions and recollections.
£15.29
Faber & Faber West End Final
Book SynopsisHugo Williams''s new collection summons the poet''s past selves in order of appearance, as in an autobiography, showing in poems as clear as rock pools that the plain truth is only as plain as the props and make-up needed to stage it. Childhood and school time offer up the amateur theatricals of themselves, in poems of vertiginous retrospect; other poems itemize the professional selves of the poet''s actor-father Hugh Williams (by now as familiar and frequently depicted as Cezanne''s mountain), while the narrator - ''waiting to step into my father''s shoes as myself'' - teases out the paradoxes of identity and inheritance After this searching portraiture of the poet''s parents, the chronology opens onto the broad secular thoroughfares of adulthood, including a limpid arrangement of pillow poems which tell the same erotic bedtime story in twelve different ways. Other poems strike out decisively along roads not taken: meticulous misremembering, sinister and fecklessly
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Faber & Faber The Testament of Cresseid Seven Fables
Book SynopsisThe greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer''s vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of the literature of these islands, is the narrative Testament of Cresseid, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, which completes the story of Chaucer''s Troilus and Criseyde, offering a grim and tragic account of its faithless heroine''s rejection by her lover Diomede, and her decline into prostitution and leprosy. A work of unreconciled Shakespearean intensity, the Testament has been translated by Seamus Heaney into a confident and yet faithful modern English idiom which honours the poem''s unique blend of detachment and compassion.A master of narrative, Henryson was also a comic master of the verse fable; his burlesques of human weakness in the guise of animal wisd
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Faber & Faber Ian Hamilton Collected Poems
Book SynopsisEdited by Alan Jenkins, this authoritative Collected Poems contains all of the poetry that Ian Hamilton chose to publish, together with a small number of uncollected and unpublished poems; it also supplies an illuminating introduction, and succinctly helpful apparatus. The result is an edition whose thoroughness and tact are themselves a moving tribute, restoring to view one of the most distinctive bodies of work in twentieth-century English poetry.
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Faber & Faber Philip Larkin A Writers Life
Book SynopsisPhilip Larkin: A Writer''s Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as ''an exemplary biography of its kind'' (The Times). With a new introduction written by the author, this edition offers an engrossing portrait of one of the twentieth century''s most popular, and most private, poets. ''There will be other lives of Larkin, but Motion''s, like Forster''s of Dickens, will always have a special place.'' John Carey, Sunday Times''Larkin lived a quietly noble and exemplary version of the writer''s life; Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man''s frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry - has written an equally exemplary ''Life'' of him.'' Peter Conrad, Observer''Honest but not prurient, critical but also compassionate, Motion''s book could not be bettered.'' Alan Bennett, London Review of Books
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems of Christopher Logue
Book SynopsisHe published his poems in many forms, including - again his own invention - New Numbers, a constantly changing collage, which appears here in its final form. since Pope's' (New York Review of Books) - and it illustrates Logue's belief in the power of poetry as a social force - dissident, sensual and humorous.
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Faber & Faber Little Boy
Book SynopsisA brave man and a brave poet.' Bob DylanUtterly extraordinary.' GuardianA torrent of textual splendor.' Los Angeles TimesFrom growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D-Day landings in Normandy, to a vagabond life drinking in Parisian cafes, to befriending America's greatest counter-cultural writers, Little Boy has seen it all. This is the story of one man's extraordinary life a story steeped in the exhilarating energy of the Beats. It is a novel serving as the literary last will and testament of the iconic publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti: a meditation on his one hundred years on the planet, rich in wisdom, emotion and memories.
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