ELT & Literary Studies Books
Faber & Faber The Dolphin Letters 19701979
Book SynopsisThe illuminating letters of Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, including the dramatic breakup of their 21-year marriage and their extraordinary reconciliation.
£28.00
Faber & Faber Dream of Fair to Middling Women
Book SynopsisBeckett's first literary landmark' (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final relapse into Dublin' (New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.
£17.00
Faber & Faber A Sultry Month
Book SynopsisWine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read Monte Cristo ''One of the most illuminating and insufficiently praised books of the last 60 years.'' ObserverNever bettered.' Guardian''Brilliant.'' Julian BarnesWholly original.' Craig BrownA pathfinder.' Richard HolmesExtraordinary.' Penelope LivelyJune 1846. As London swelters in a heatwave sunstroke strikes, meat rots, ice is coveted a glamorous coterie of writers and artists spend their summer wining, dining and opining.With the ringletted face of an Egyptian cat goddess', Elizabeth Barrett is courted by her secret fiancé, the poet Robert Browning, who plots their elopement to Italy; Keats roams Hampstead Heath; Wordsworth visits the zoo; Dickens is intrigued by Tom Thumb; the Carlyles host parties for a visiting German novelist and suffer a marital crisis. But when the visionary painter Benjamin Robert Haydon commits suicide, they find their entwined lives spiralling around the tragedy . . .One of the first-ever group biographies, Alethea Hayter's glorious A Sultry Month is a lively mosaic of archival riches inspired by the collages of the Pop Artists. A groundbreaking feat of creative non-fiction in 1965, her portrait of Victorian London's literati is just as vivid, witty and enticing today.Elegant Hayter more or less invented the biographical form which is a close study of a brief period in the life of an individual or a group . . . A rigorous scholar [with] an artist's eye.' A. S. ByattHayter's clever, innovative book turned a searchlight on a time, a place, a circle of people; it has surely inspired the subsequent fashion for group biographies.' Penelope LivelyNothing I've ever read has flung me so immediately into those streets, that weather, that period. Hayter never forgets that people want stories, that lives are stories.' Margaret ForsterHayter could take a tiny chip of life [and] find within it the seeds of a whole existence.' Richard HolmesA pioneer . . . Beautifully written vignettes . . . Immaculate scholarship and intense readability.' Jonathan BateOutstanding . . . A small masterpiece.' Anthony Burgess''A brilliant recreation of London literary life in 1846, which is highly original in its form and narrative cross-cutting.'' Julian BarnesTrade Review'Hayter's clever, innovative book turned a searchlight on a time, a place, a circle of people; it has surely inspired the subsequent fashion for group biographies.' Penelope Lively'Nothing I've ever read has flung me so immediately into those streets, that weather, that period. Hayter never forgets that people want stories, that lives are stories.' Margaret Forster'Hayter could take a tiny chip of life [and] find within it the seeds of a whole existence.' Richard Holmes'A pioneer . . . Beautifully written vignettes . . . Immaculate scholarship and intense readability.' Jonathan Bate'Outstanding . . . A small masterpiece.' Anthony Burgess
£12.16
Samuel French Ltd One Man Two Guvnors
Book SynopsisRichard Bean''s English version of The Servant of Two Masters is set in Brighton in the 1960s. Centred on the bumbling Francis Henshall, a minder to both Roscoe Crabbe - a local gangster - and Stanley Stubbers - an upper-class criminal. But Roscoe is dead, killed by Stanley Stubbers and being impersonated by his sister Rachel, who is also Stanley''s girlfriend, and in Brighton to collect 6,000 from Roscoe''s fiancée''s dad.Chaos unfolds as Francis tries to stop the two ''guvnors'' from meeting and everyone else tries to hide their real identities. Richard Bean''s award-winning play is a glorious celebrationof British comedy: laugh-out-loud satire, songs, slapstick and glittering one-liners.One Man, Two Guvnors opened at the National Theatre in May 2011, before transferring to the West End and embarking on a successful UK tour. It won Best Play in the Evening StandardTheatre Awards 2011.
£13.49
Pearson Education Poetry of the First World War York Notes for GCSE
Book SynopsisHana Sambrook was educated at the Charles University in Prague and at the University of Edinburgh. She has worked for some years as an editor in Scottish educational publishing, and was later on the staff of the Edinburgh University Library. Now a freelance editor in London, she is the author of several York Notes.Table of Contents Part 1: Induction Part 2: Plot and Action Part 3: Characters Part 4: Key Contexts and Themes Part 5: Language and Structure Part 6: Grade Booster Literacy Terms
£7.49
Pearson Education English for Tourism Ready to Order Student Book
Book SynopsisThe Ready to Order course book presents and practices the relevant language and skills work in context by focusing on typical situations in a hotel restaurant.
£28.12
Pearson Education Limited English for Tourism Ready to Order Workbook
Book SynopsisThe series builds learner confidence in the professional skills needed for the tourist industry whilst developing their language awareness. Students practise these skills in realistic case studies that reflect topical tourism issues.
£17.30
Pearson Education The Odyssey York Notes Advanced everything you
Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.
£7.99
Pearson Education Henry IV Part I everything you need to catch up
Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced have been written by acknowledged literature experts for the specific needs of advanced level and undergraduate students. They offer an accessible approach to the study of English literature. This text focuses on Shakespeare's "Henry IV Part I".Table of Contents Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes and techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical and literary background Modern and historical critical approaches Chronology Glossary of literary terms
£7.99
Pearson Education Limited The Diary of Anne Frank York Notes for GCSE
Book SynopsisKey features of this text: How to study the text Author and historical background General and detailed summaries Commentary on themes, structure, characters, language and style Glossaries Test questions and issues to consider Essay writing advice Cultural connections Literary terms Illustrations Colour design
£7.49
Pearson Education Frankenstein York Notes for GCSE
Book SynopsisTake Note for Exam Success! York Notes offer an exciting approach to English literature. This market leading series fully reflects student needs. They are packed with summaries, commentaries, exam advice, margin and textual features to offer a wider context to the text and encourage a critical analysis. York Notes, The Ultimate Literature Guides.Table of Contents Part 1: Induction Part 2: Plot and Action Part 3: Characters Part 4: Key Contexts and Themes Part 5: Language and Structure Part 6: Grade Booster Literacy Terms
£7.49
Pearson Education Limited The Great Gatsby York Notes Advanced everything
Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The text Part 3: Critical approachs Part 4: Critical history Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms
£7.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Praying with Jane Eyre
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£14.24
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Kristeva Reader
Book SynopsisJulia Kristeva is a theorist and has been acclaimed for her work in linguistics, psychoanalysis, literary and political theory. This is an introduction to her work in English, containing a range of essays from all phases of her career.Trade Review"Toril Moi, with her usual exegetical lucidity, makes sense for us of the immensely difficult and varied aspects of Julia Kristeva's intellectual project, characterized by Moi as an attempt to 'think the unthinkable'." London Review of Books "Excellently edited and introduced by Toril Moi." City LimitsTable of ContentsPreface vi Acknowledgements viii Introduction 1 I Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality 23 1 The System and the Speaking Subject 24 2 Word, Dialogue and Novel 34 3 From Symbol to Sign 62 4 Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science 74 5 Revolution in Poetic Language 89 II Women, Psychoanalysis. Politics 137 6 About Chinese Women 138 7 Stabat Mater 160 8 Women’s Time 187 9 The True-Real 214 10 Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents 238 11 Why the United States? 272 12 A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident 292 13 Psychoanalysis and the Polis 301 Index 321
£20.85
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reading Middle English Literature
Book SynopsisThis introduction provides the guidance that modern readers need to come to an informed appreciation of the writings of medieval England. An introduction to English literature written in the four centuries following the Norman Conquest. Written by the well-known medievalist, Thorlac Turville-Petre.Table of ContentsList of Plates. Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. The Use of English. Three Languages. The Choice of English. Social Register. 2. Texts and Manuscripts. Information from Manuscripts. Scribes and their Manuscripts. Audiences. Authors. 3. Literature and Society. Bond and Free. Social Tensions in the Reeve's Tale. Ploughing Piers' Half Acre. At the Court of King Arthur. In Criseyde's Palace. 4. History and Romance. Definitions. Monastic History. The History of St Erkenwald. Englishing Arthur. The Fairy World. 5. Piety. From Pecham to Arundel. Christ the Lover and God the Unknowable. Retelling Biblical Stories. The Death of a Child. 6. Love and Marriage. Marriage and Love - and Sex. A Lover's Confession. Love's Craft. 'All this Mean I by Love'. Bibliography. Index.
£29.40
Harvard University Press On Not Being Someone Else
Book SynopsisThe alternate self is a persistent theme of modern culture. From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, poets and novelists—and readers—are fascinated by paths not taken. In an elegant and provocative rumination, Andrew H. Miller lingers with other selves, listening to what they have to say about our stories and our lives.Trade ReviewAn expertly curated tour of regret and envy in literature…By approaching regret and envy from multiple angles, Miller’s insightful and moving book—both in his own discussion and in the tales he recounts—gently nudges us toward consolation. Yes, we might live only one among countless possible lives, and those we haven’t lived will haunt us. But, as Miller notes in conclusion, at least we have had the chance to live the one life that has been given to us. * Wall Street Journal *Counts the ways in which narratives of unlived lives can examine or come to terms with the present…Miller believes, in short, that stories of unled lives make real life livelier…[A] capacious book. -- Daisy Hildyard * Times Literary Supplement *Miller is charming company, both humanly and intellectually. He is onto something: the theme of unled lives, and the fascinating idea that fiction intensifies the sense of provisionality that attends all lives. An extremely attractive book. -- James WoodOn Not Being Someone Else reminds us just how alluring and confounding our singularity is and how, through literature, we make sense of being ourselves. To be someone—to be anyone—is about being someone and not being someone else. Miller’s amused and inspired book is utterly compelling about this, and about so much else. -- Adam Phillips, author of One Way and Another: New and Selected EssaysA compendium of expressions of wonder over what might have been…We have unled lives for all sorts of reasons: because we make choices; because society constrains us; because events force our hands; most of all, because we are singular individuals, becoming more so with time…Swept up in our real lives, we quickly forget about the unreal ones. Still, there will be moments when, for good or ill, we feel confronted by our unrealized possibilities. -- Joshua Rothman * New Yorker *I wish I had written this book—a wish that is surely the best response to reading it… Cosmic metaphysical speculation is combined with, and conveyed through, meticulous analysis of pictures, poems, novels and films…Examining art’s capacity to transfix, multiply, and compress, this book is itself a work of art. -- Jane O’Grady * Times Higher Education *Excellent…For Miller, imagining who we might have been or once were, or who we might yet become, is anything but frivolous…In spirited and incisive close readings of texts like Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken,’ Carl Dennis’s ‘The God Who Loves You,’ and Ian McEwan’s Atonement (among many, many others), Miller pursues this slippery, elusive meaning and the many questions it leaves unanswered…The idea of unled lives could hardly be more resonant…How many literary scholars today write so engagingly? -- Morten Høi Jensen * Commonweal *Shows that the idea of lives unled is stitched into works of art across genres and across centuries, making clear that the stories we tell are often rooted in considering alternatives to the choices we’ve made. -- Linda Levitt * PopMatters *A book of admirable insight and sensitivity…Throughout this quiet, engrossing book, Miller aptly reveals the uncanny mesmerism of the unlived life, of the untaken road—our very modern preoccupation with who we are not…This is a text fresh and alive with the power and mystery of art, steeped in feeling, and, like life itself, resplendent with possibilities as yet unrealized, with knowledge not yet known. -- Alexandre Leskanich * Philosophy Now *Wonderfully lucid about murky questions of what might have been…Both literature specialists, who will appreciate Miller’s breadth of examples, and general readers, who can enjoy the universal topics he explores, will find much food for thought in this pleasant work. * Publishers Weekly *A strong, pleasing work that is as much about living as about reading and writing. * Kirkus Reviews *Fascinating. -- David Aaronovitch * The Times *What a provocative book! It is interesting and alive on every page, and entertaining the idea of a different life is a profound experience. -- Michael Gorra, author of Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceMiller’s book is a poetics of the unled life, a poetics of ‘what if…’ Through poems, novels, films, philosophy, and psychoanalysis—the texts of our modernity—Miller leads us to profound questions about the imagination, the self and identity, history, marriage, children, regret, atonement, storytelling, and the ethics of choice. Above all, he makes us feel the pressure and immediacy of possibility, the road not taken. -- Isobel Armstrong, author of Novel Politics: Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century FictionA one-of-a-kind book that is at once literary and personal, drawing us into a world of reflection about lives we have not lived. Why do we return to the past to understand who we are now? This is a profound question, and this book explores possible answers more acutely than anything I have seen on the subject. -- Garry L. Hagberg, author of Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical ConsciousnessA thoughtful, generous, amusing, tender, meandering, self-deprecating, wistful, even reverent style of thinking about our lives in relation to the stories we read. -- Matthew Rubery * Public Books *Blend[s] literary criticism and personal essay into a beguiling hybrid…Will remain widely compelling for a long time to come, not only because of [its] many discrete merits, but because of [its] readership’s new intimacy with the ‘unled lives’ of lockdown and quarantine. -- Elizabeth Brogden * Journal of Victorian Culture *Deeply reflective and at the same time uncommonly readable…Although no book of literary criticism can be accused of being a page turner, On Not Being Someone Else comes close. * Choice *[A] marvelous, melancholic, middle-aged meditation on the meaning of lives unled…Miller is a profoundly gifted close reader—someone whose company one would like to keep, and return to again and again. -- David LaRocca * Victorian Studies *
£16.10
Harvard University Press Philippics 16
Book SynopsisWe know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work conveys the turmoil of his time, and the part he played in a period that saw the rise and fall of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic.Trade ReviewIf I could make one Christmas wish, it would be that every MP receives these two volumes in their stocking next week, and is obliged to recite a passage of Cicero—in D. R. Shackleton Bailey’s crystalline translation—on Boxing Day morning, to understand how great speeches are made… The great advantage of the Loeb editions is that readers who are interested in the language of Rome but whose Latin is weak (a category in which I am emphatically included) can compare the original side by side with the translation. Thus one can get a sense of how Cicero’s words sounded, before glancing across and seeing them in English… This translation is throughout a joy to read. -- Robert Harris * Sunday Times *Table of Contents* List of Cicero's Works * Preface * Preface to the Original Edition * Introduction * Introduction to the Original Edition * Note on Manuscripts and Editions * Abbreviations * Bibliography * Chronology * Maps * Philippic 1 * Philippic 2 * Philippic 3 * Philippic 4 * Philippic 5 * Philippic 6
£23.70
Harvard University Press Philippics 714
Book SynopsisWe know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work conveys the turmoil of his time, and the part he played in a period that saw the rise and fall of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic.Trade ReviewIf I could make one Christmas wish, it would be that every MP receives these two volumes in their stocking next week, and is obliged to recite a passage of Cicero—in D. R. Shackleton Bailey’s crystalline translation—on Boxing Day morning, to understand how great speeches are made… The great advantage of the Loeb editions is that readers who are interested in the language of Rome but whose Latin is weak (a category in which I am emphatically included) can compare the original side by side with the translation. Thus one can get a sense of how Cicero’s words sounded, before glancing across and seeing them in English… This translation is throughout a joy to read. -- Robert Harris * Sunday Times *Table of Contents* List of Cicero's Works * Abbreviations * Philippic 7 * Philippic 8 * Philippic 9 * Philippic 10 * Philippic 11 * Philippic 12 * Philippic 13 * Philippic 14 * Fragments * Index
£23.70
Harvard University Press Amphitryon. The Comedy of Asses. The Pot of Gold.
Book SynopsisThe comedies of Plautus , who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205–184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molière to modern times. Twenty-one of his plays are extant.
£23.70
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Tamburlaine
Book SynopsisChristopher Marlowe's story of a Scythian shepherd who through using his brutality, lust for power and also his charm becomes a mighty conqueror and the King of Persia.
£11.67
Duckworth Books Beyond the Secret Garden The Life of Frances
Book SynopsisThe definitive and revealing life story of the author of The Secret Garden, Ann Thwaite creates a sympathetic but balanced and eye-opening biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett who enchanted numerous generations of children.Trade Review‘A fascinating and valuable book’ Sunday Times'Ann Thwaite has admirably mapped out the complex and peripatetic story, attacking its problems with insight and diligence' Times Literary Supplement'Intelligent, moderate, thoughtful, well documented, well organised, and well written… a model of a literary biography' New York Review of Books
£9.49
James Clarke & Co Ltd Why Was Billy Bunter Never Really Expelled
Book SynopsisAfter the success of How Did Long John Silver Lose His Leg?, Dennis Butts and Peter Hunt take their forensic lenses to more mysteries that have troubled readers of children''s books over the centuries. Their questions range from the historical to the philosophical, some of which are puzzling, some of which are controversial:- Why does it seem there are no Nursery Rhymes before 1744?- Why did God start to die in children''s books long before Nietzsche noticed it?- Why are the schoolgirls at Enid Blyton''s St Clare''s so horrible?- Why are there so many dead parents littering children''s books?- Why does C.S. Lewis annoy so many people?The book also explains why an elephant captures Adolph Hitler, who was Biggles''s great love, and whose side G.A. Henty was on in the American civil war, and delivers a plethora of erudite, entertaining answers to questions that you may not have thought of asking. And notably, of course, it reveals why William George Bunter, the Fat Owl of the Remove, was Trade Review"Once again Dennis and Peter take us on an often unexpected but entertaining journey through the world of children's authors, books, stories, and rhymes that we all know and love, but with their unique line of questioning and analysis. This long-awaited sequel is an essential gem of a publication for anyone with an interest in children's literature or who, like me, had a bookish childhood." Nigel Gossop, founder of The Westerman Yarns There is much to enjoy in this varied and stimulating little book, much to ponder, and much to argue about. -Robert Kirkpatrick,Childrens books History Society, Newsletter N1235 December2019 This Book is a provocative and fun way to think about children's books: Dennis Butts and Peter Hunt's new book, "Why Was Billy Bunter Never Really Expelled" Published by #lutterworthbooks -@MichaelRosenYes Michael Rosen Twitter Butts and Hunt provide succint and entertaining responses to a series of questions related to children's literature. Mark I. West, Children's Literature Association, pp80-81, 2020 The authors' wit and passion for the play of thought in these extemporaneous essays do not compromise their scholarly merit. They are captivaing to read, a true firework of erudition - instruction and delight at their best Jutta Reusch, BookBird Journal, Vol 28 no.2, 2020 Why Was Bill Bunter Never Really Expelled is a readable, thought-provoking, enlightening, valuable and learned collection without a wiff of theory. Jean Webb, International Research Society for Children's LiteratureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Should Children Read Fairy Tales? / Dennis Butts 2. What Makes a Children's Classic? / Peter Hunt 3. Why Were there no Nursery Rhymes before 1744? / Dennis Butts 4. Who Wrote Little Goody Two-Shoes? / Dennis Butts 5. What (and Where) Are the Secret, Lost Books of Childhood - and Why Do They Matter? / Peter Hunt 6. The Curious History of Three Bears . . . and a Lamb / Dennis Butts 7. Charles Kingsley: Christian Socialist, Evangelical Storyteller, or Sexual Sadist? / Dennis Butts 8. Who Was the Real William Brighty Rands? / Dennis Butts 9. Why Are there so many Dead Parents in Children's Books? / Peter Hunt 10. Was Lorna Doone really Married? / Dennis Butts 11. Whatever Happened to God in Children's Books? / Peter Hunt 12. Whose Side Was Henty really on in the American Civil War? / Dennis Butts 13. What Do Children's Books Do about Christmas? / Peter Hunt 14. Is Little Lord Fauntleroy a Children's Story - and Does the Subplot Work? / Dennis Butts 15. Why Was Billy Bunter never really Expelled from Greyfriars School? / Dennis Butts 16. Why on Earth Are there Children's Books about War? / Peter Hunt 17. Biggles: Tough Guy or Romantic Hero? / Dennis Butts 18. Why Is there Nobody Nice at St Clare's? / Peter Hunt 19. Were there Two Flutes? Time Present and Time Past at Green Knowe / Dennis Butts 20. Why Does C.S. Lewis Annoy so many People? / Peter Hunt 21. What Happened Next? The Problem of Sequels / Dennis Butts 22. To See Ourselves ... What Image of the British Do Children's Books Give the World? / Peter Hunt 23. Why Is there no such Thing as Children's Poetry? / Peter Hunt 24. Which Are the Best 100 Children's Books? / Dennis Butts 25. And Which Is the Best? The Carnegie Medal and other Awards / Peter Hunt 26. A Mystery Solved: How Adults Read Children's Books / Peter Hunt Notes Index
£21.38
James Clarke & Co Ltd A Time and a Place
Book SynopsisThe influence of Aldeburgh and the Suffolk Coast on the poet behind 'Peter Grimes'.Trade ReviewIt is fascinating to rediscover Crabbe - then and now. Beautifully researched, A Time and a Place takes us into the intimacy of Crabbe's life as he lived it and re-establishes him into the everyday life of all of us who love, live and work here. A triumph! Maggi Hambling, artist An insightful account of the life and psyche of George Crabbe, whose poetry inspired Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes and whose career was defined by a love-hate relationship with Aldeburgh. Anyone interested in the history of the town, or Suffolk generally, will find it fascinating. Blake Morrison, Poet, Novelist and Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths University Frances Gibb has vividly rolled back the centuries in the Suffolk landscape, bringing George Crabbe to life in the same hard streets, mud banks and sea slime that so inspired England's great pioneer poet of the poor. Peter Stothard, author of Alexandria and former editor of the Times Literary Supplement For at its heart A Time and a Place is an exercise in psychogeography, a study of Crabbe's poems that not only tethers them to the place in which they were written but emphasises the centrality of the location to their achievement. DJ Taylor, The Times, May 2022 A Time and a Place benefits greatly from Gibb's knowledge of and feeling for Aldeburgh, to which her family first came in the 1960s...Gibb's book evokes both the literal and psychological landscapes of the poet's life and work, notably those places of 'moral reckoning' to which his characters are brought...Gibb recognises that Britten has 'the bigger name, the louder voice', but her book is a useful reminder that it was Crabbe who had first claim on Aldeburgh, and that his poems provide an unsettling and enduring portrait of a time and a place and its people. Peter Parker, The Spectator, June 2022 Place is at the heart of the book, as it is central to Crabbe's poetry, and the author offers a perceptive account of his relationship to a region that both attracted him and repelled him...One is left with the impression of a complex man: a canny and sometimes ruthless operator, but someone who was also courteous, engaging and popular...her lucid, sympathetic and well-orchestrated account of Crabbe's life, which keeps looping back to Suffolk as his vital source of inspiration, will give her readers many reasons to seek him out for themselves. Susan Owens, Literary Review, Issue 510, August 2022Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Chronology Introduction A Local Habitation and a Name 1. George Crabbe's Aldeburgh California: Crabbe recalled Aldeburgh: A wild amphibious race Crabbes in East Anglia: Too obscure to possess a history Aldeburgh: That boy must be a fool Wickhambrook and Woodbridge: La! Here's our new 'prentice! Aldeburgh: The Leech Pond 2. Growing to Manhood: Love, London and Literary Success Parham: A young lady that would just suit you London: I have parted with my money, sold my wardrobe London: The hand that rescued him Aldeburgh revisited: A prophet is not without honour . 3. Domesticity and Botanising: Crabbe's Middle Years Belvoir and Stathern: Th e very happiest years in his life Parham and Glemham: A family walk through the green lanes Rendham: The final Suffolk years 4. Religion and Politics Crabbe and religion: Without a little Latin, we should have made nothing of you Crabbe and opium: His long and generally healthy life Crabbe and politics: We can do no good, or we would be among them 5. Character and Creation Aldeburgh: I hear those voices that will not be drowned Aldeburgh: Grimes on the beach Aldeburgh: Untouched by pity, unstung by remorse Crabbe and writing: What I thought I could best describe, that I have attempted Leaving Suffolk: The seat of joy, the source of pain 6. Endings and Beginnings Bath and London: I am something of a novelty Crabbe and women: Oh! For some Made-on-purpose-Creature Trowbridge: A few Sundays more Postscript Bibliography Index
£18.29
James Clarke & Co Ltd A Grundtvig Anthology
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£27.00
Manchester University Press Doctor Faustus A and B Texts 1604 Christopher
Book SynopsisThis volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and staging/performance assessments.Table of ContentsIntroduction to "Dr Faustus"; date; sources and background; "Dr Faustus" - the orthodox framework; "Dr Faustus" and humanist inspiration; "Dr Faustus" - magic and poetry; genre and structure; style and imagery; staging and themes in the 1616 quarto; "Dr Faustus" in performance; the texts of "Dr Faustus" - "Dr Faustus", A-text (1604), "Dr Faustus", B-text (1616).
£12.99
Andrews UK Limited One Stop Notes for GCSE on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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£11.69
Edinburgh University Press Our Nazis
Book SynopsisWhy has a fascination with fascism re-emerged after the Cold War? What is its cultural function now, in an era of commemoration? Focusing particularly on the British context, this study offers an analysis of contemporary popular and literary fiction, film, TV and art exhibitions about Nazis and Nazism.
£81.00
The History Press Ltd J.R.R. Tolkien Inspiring Lives
Book SynopsisThe complete guide to the inspiration that is J.R.R. Tolkien
£9.49
Taylor & Francis Ltd Max Weber International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought
Book SynopsisThis volume contains key writings, mainly recent, that define the current debate concerning our understanding of the nature of Max Weber''s social and political thought. Topics covered include the interpretation of his central concepts; problems of method; meaning and value; liberalism, nationalism and democracy; and the fate of politics in a disenchanted world. Supplemented by a detailed and thoughtful introduction, this collection will be essential for libraries in social sciences and all scholars and students of Weber.Trade Review'...provides a useful handbook of some scholarly issues of contention in the interpretation of his [Weber's} work....As a supplement to reading Weber himself this volume will be an important resource...a fine volume.' Heythrop JournalTable of ContentsContents: Introduction. Max Weber: Central Themes: The problem of thematic unity in the work of Max Weber, Friedrich Tenbruck; Max Weber's 'central question', Wilhelm Hennis; Leo Strauss's confrontation with Max Weber: a search for genuine social science, Nasser Behnegar; Industrialization and capitalism, Herbert Marcuse; Max Weber: legitimation, method, and the politics of theory, Sheldon S. Wolin. Problems of Method: The problem of reference in Max Weber's theory of causal explanation, Gerhard Wagner and Heinz Zipprian; Weber on action, Stephen P. Turner Max Weber's idea of 'Puritanism': a case study in the empirical construction of the Protestant work ethic, P. Ghosh; Weber's The Protestant Ethic as hypothetical narrative of original accumulation, Peter Breiner; The meaning of 'wertfreiheit': on the background and motives of Max Weber's 'Postulate', Wilhelm Hennis. Meaning and Value: Methodological ambivalence: the case of Max Weber, Guy Oakes; Bad conscience for a Nietzschean age: Weber's calling for science, Robert Eden; What have we to do with morals? Nietzsche and Weber on history and ethics, Tracy B. Strong; Max Weber's reconceptualization of freedom, Kari Palonen; Max Weber on value rationality and value spheres, Guy Oakes); The incongruity between destiny and merit: Max Weber on meaningful existence and modernity, Gershon Shafir. Liberalism, Nationalism and Democracy: Max Weber's politics and political education, Lawrence A. Scaff; Doing without liberalism: Weber's regime politics, Robert Eden; The antinomian structure of Max Weber's political thought, Wolfgang J. Mommsen; Max Weber's liberalism for a Nietzschean world, Mark Warren; Max Weber and the liberal political tradition, David Beethem; Was Max Weber a 'nationalist'? a study in the rhetoric of conceptual change, Kari Palonen; Max Weber's liberal nationalism, Sung Ho Kim. Politics in a Disenchanted World: Max Weber: integrity, disenchantment, and the illusion of politics, Dana R. Villa; The political logic of economics and the economic logic of modernity in Max Weber, Peter Breiner; Max Weber and the rights of citizens, Duncan Kelly; Max Weber's missing definition of 'political action' and his 'basic sociological concepts': simultaneously a commentary on some aspects of Kari Palonen's writings on Max Weber, Michael Th. Greven; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A History of the Tajiks
Book SynopsisRichard Foltz is Professor of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University, Canada.Trade Review‘This engagingly written, excellent new history of the Tajik people is an outstanding achievement’. * Rustam Shukurov, Professor of History, Moscow State University, Russia *"an informative introduction to an important subject that has been ill-served both in history and in scholarship" * Daniel Beben, Central Asian Survey *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Preface to the second edition Acknowledgments Historical Timeline A Note on Transliteration Introduction: Who are the Tajiks? 1 The Prehistory of Central Asia 2 Sogdians and Bactrians 3 The Samanid Empire and the New Persian Renaissance 4 Tajiks and Turks 5 The Soviet Period 6 The Republic of Tajikistan 7 Tajiks in Uzbekistan Excursus: Afghanistan at a Stone’s Throw Conclusion: Differing Contexts, Manifold Challenges Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Academic Exploring the Quran
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£20.89
Northwestern University Press Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of
Book SynopsisArgues that Shakespeare's plays present secularization not only as a historical narrative of progress but also as a hermeneutic process that unleashes complex and often problematic transactions between sacred and secular. These transactions shape ideas about everything from pastoral government to wonder and the spatial imagination.
£33.71
The Catholic University of America Press Reading Flannery OConnor in Spain From Andalusia
Book SynopsisPlaces Flannery O'Connor's work in constructive and collaborative dialogue with Spanish literature and literary aesthetics. Contributors explore the ways in which O'Connor's literary and religious vision continues to work in the imaginations of both American and European - mostly Spanish - authors.
£35.16
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Fellow Travelers How Road Stories Shaped the
Book SynopsisExamining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas - the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the frontier, and the Cold War - John Ochoa pursues literary travellers across landscapes and centuries.Trade ReviewA witty, erudite, and original contribution to hemispheric American studies. " - Lois Parkinson Zamora, University of Houston
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Wesleyan University Press Letters from Amherst
Book SynopsisAlong with commentary on his own work and the work of other writers, he ponders the state of America, discusses friends who are facing AIDS and other ailments, and comments on the politics of working in academia.
£12.82
Duke University Press New Materialisms
Book SynopsisLeading cultural and political theorists argue that any account of experience, agency, and political action demands attention to the urgent issues of our own material existence and environment.Trade Review“Overall, the volume makes a convincing case for the renewal of materialism, in terms of both its theoretical purchase and its radical political potential. It shows, in ways that are often exemplary, that there are rich, and sometimes surprising, resources in the philosophical tradition for renewing materialisms.” - Keith Ansell Pearson, Radical Philosophy“New materialisms offer democratic theory an important opportunity toregard its own parameters and function – what can be hoped for and why.And Coole and Frost’s volume offers a new view of the human (and thething) that are well worth regarding. . . .” - Andrew Poe, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy“New Materialisms is an extraordinary and in fact interdisciplinary collection in its own right. . . . [T]he work coming out of the material turn is mind-blowing work, both in scholarly and in artistic research, and in art”. - Iris van der Tuin, Women’s Studies International Forum“The essays collected here—authored by leading political theorists and feminist and cultural critics—examine the ‘choreographies of becoming’ and move beyond constructivism and humanism to track processes of de- and re-materialization. The effect is to scramble habitual categories of thought—active versus passive, inert versus animate, political versus ontological, causality versus spontaneity—and force us to think materiality. As the editors put it, ‘materiality is always something more than “mere” matter: an excess, force, vitality, relationality, or difference that renders matter active, self-creative, productive, unpredictable.’”—Bonnie Honig, author of Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy“This is a strong and timely collection, one that could very well direct future discussions of the ‘new materialisms’ toward an experimental, process-oriented, and politically-engaged ‘new ontology.’”—Ellen Rooney, Brown University“New Materialisms is an extraordinary and in fact interdisciplinary collection in its own right. . . . [T]he work coming out of the material turn is mind-blowing work, both in scholarly and in artistic research, and in art”. -- Iris van der Tuin * Women's Studies International Forum *“New materialisms offer democratic theory an important opportunity toregard its own parameters and function – what can be hoped for and why.And Coole and Frost’s volume offers a new view of the human (and thething) that are well worth regarding. . . .” -- Andrew Poe * Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy *“Overall, the volume makes a convincing case for the renewal of materialism, in terms of both its theoretical purchase and its radical political potential. It shows, in ways that are often exemplary, that there are rich, and sometimes surprising, resources in the philosophical tradition for renewing materialisms.” -- Keith Ansell Pearson * Radical Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introducing the New Materialisms / Diana Coole and Samantha Frost 1 The Force of Materiality A Vitalist Stopover on the Way to a New Materialism / Jane Bennett 47 Nondialectical Materialism / Pheng Cheah 70 The Inertia of Matter and the Generativity of Flesh / Diana Coole 92 Impersonal Matter / Melissa A. Orlie 116 Political Matters Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom / Elizabeth Grosz 139 Fear and the Illusion of Autonomy / Samantha Frost 158 Materialities of Experience / William E. Connolly 178 The Politics of "Life Itself" and New Ways of Dying / Rosi Braidotti 201 Economies of Disruption The Elusive Material: What the Dog Doesn't Understand / Rey Chow 221 Orientations Matter / Sara Ahmed 234 Simon de Beauvoir: Engaging Discrepant Materialisms / Sonia Kruks 258 The Materialism of Historical Materialism / Jason Edwards 281 Bibliography 299 Contributors 319 Index 323
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University of Pittsburgh Press Imaginative Possibilities
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Fordham University Press Class Acts
Book SynopsisClass Acts examines two often neglected aspects of Jacques Derrida's work as a philosopher, his public presentations at lectures and conferences and his teaching, along with the question of the speech act that links them. What, Michael Naas asks, is one doing when one speaks in public in these ways?The book follows Derrida's itinerary with regard to speech act theory across three public lectures, from 1971 to 1997, all given, for reasons the book seeks to explain, in Montreal. In these lectures, Derrida elaborated his critique of J. L. Austin and his own subsequent redefinition of speech act theory. The book then gives an overview of Derrida's teaching career and his famous seminar presentations, along with his own explicit reflections on pedagogy and educational institutions beginning in the mid-1970s. Naas then shows through a reading of three recently published seminarson life death, theory and practice, and forgivenessjust how Derrida the teacher interrogatedTable of ContentsAbbreviations of Works Cited | xi Introduction: The Program | 1 Part I: Derrida in Montreal (A Play in Three Speech Acts ) Argument and Dramatis Personae | 13 Act 1. The Context (1971) | 15 Intermission 1: Glyph 1 | 41 Act 2. The Signature (1979) | 45 Intermission 2: Glyph 2 | 55 Act 3. The Event (1997) | 59 Encore: Cocoon | 69 Part II: The Open Seminar The Counter-Program (Syllabus) | 75 Class 1. Agrégations: The Chance of Life Death (1975–76) | 93 Class 2. Education in Theory and Practice (1976–77) | 111 Class 3. Grace and the Machine: Perjury and Pardon (1997–98) | 127 Conclusion: Actes de naissance | 149 Acknowledgments | 157 Notes | 159 Index | 183
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Vanderbilt University Press Subjunctive Aesthetics
Book SynopsisArgues for the importance of ecocritical approaches within the field of Mexican Studies. This book engages with established and up-and-coming Latin American ecocritical scholars who argue that Latin America offers an important corrective to Anglocentric approaches to the Anthropocene by foregrounding colonialism and empire.Trade ReviewCarolyn Fornoff’s insightful and clearly written Subjunctive Aesthetics draws inspiration from a grammatical mood expressing uncertainty and emotion to offer a new interpretation of twenty-first-century Mexican cultural production addressing ecological catastrophe. An innovative contribution to Latin American Environmental Humanities research, Subjunctive Aesthetics stakes an eloquent claim for the capacity of literature, visual arts, and film to imagine the possibilities of a post-extractivist world." —Charlotte Rogers, author of Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics"Brilliant and wide-ranging, Subjunctive Aesthetics shows how, instead of merely translated into cultural responses based on a straightforward rendering of factual evidence, the inescapable reality of the current ecological crisis has been reimagined by writers, visual artists, and filmmakers in alternative, hypothetical, and speculative ways. This book is fundamental for anyone interested in contemporary Mexican culture and new directions in the Environmental Humanities."—Victoria Saramago, author of Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America “Subjunctive Aesthetics is an original, innovative, and sweeping study of the narrative strategies deployed in Mexican cultural production of the 21st century in response to the climate crisis. It proposes that the subjunctive mood operates as an artistic expression to contest the definitiveness of foreclosure. In a moment of great despair towards a grim future, Subjunctive Aesthetics opens the possibilities to disrupt such closeness by mobilizing desire, emotion, and the imagination. Through innovative theories that illuminate and deepen our understanding of the climate crisis, Fornoff’s marvelous work allows us to reconsider our place in Earth while it reassures that the seed for transformations nests in potentiality.”—Gisela Heffes, author of Visualizing Loss in Latin America: Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment"This is a fantastic and timely project. The impressive depth of Fornoff’s contextual research is well matched by the nuance in her analyses."—Brian Gollnick, author of Reinventing the LacandÓn: Subaltern Representations in the Rain Forest of ChiapasTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Environmental Rewriting 2. Land Defense and Counterfactual Mourning 3. Extinction Poetics 4. The Rural Resilience Film 5. Greening Mexican Cinema Conclusion Bibliography Index
£28.45
Vanderbilt University Press We the Barbarians
Book SynopsisWe the Barbarians embarks on a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction: Yuri Herrera, Fernanda Melchor, and Valeria Luiselli. Originally published in Mexico in December of 2021, the work is divided into three parts that correspond to the analysis of each author's narrative production. The book analyzes all the literary works published by Herrera, Melchor, and Luiselli from the beginning of their writing careers until 2021, allowing for a diachronic interpretation of their respective narrative projects as well as for comparative approaches to their aesthetic and ideological contours. Characterized by the fragmentation of civil society and the decomposition of the myths that accompanied the consolidation of the modern nation, Mexican visual and literary arts have been exploring a myriad of representational avenues to approach the phenomena of violence, institutional decay, and political instability. We the Barbarians
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Carcanet Press Ltd Beyond the Walls Selected Poems
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£15.29
Liverpool University Press Symposium Classical Texts Aris Phillips
Book SynopsisXenophon’s Symposium is a work as useful for its Greek as it is precious for its content, a document of prime importance for the study of classical Greek society. This edition offers an unprecedented amount of help with the language, a large vocabulary and notes on the content. Greek text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.Table of ContentsPreface Map IntroductionBibliographyNote on the Text and TranslationSYMPOSIUM: Parallel Greek Text and English TranslationCommentaryVocabulary of Greek WordsIndexes
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Quercus Publishing Bookshops
Book SynopsisA lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carrión has gone and visited them all. We can''t travel right now, but we can travel in books. MARGARET ATWOODWhy do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie des Colonnes in Tangier, the Strand Book Store in New York and provoke encounters with thinkers, poets, dreamers, revolutionaries and readers. Bookshops is the travelogue of a lucid and curious observer, filled with anecdotes and stories from the universe of writing, publishing and selling books. A bookshop in Carrion''s eyes never just a place for material transaction; it is a meeting place for people and their ideas, a setting for world changing en
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McNidder & Grace The Life of Mark Akenside
Book SynopsisMark Akenside (1721-1770) was a medical doctor and literary man whose influence on the history of ideas was profound. The author recognises that there is a need to explore, re-evaluate and recognise the importance of Mark Akenside''s contribution to cultural history, in his own time and from a current perspective. Born the son of a butcher in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1721 Mark Akenside was awarded a degree in medicine from Edinburgh and Leyden Universities. He settled in London in 1743 where he was successful both as a doctor and in medical research. Above all, he was the author of The Pleasures of Imagination 1744, an epic length poem in blank verse which broke many conventions of the time, exploring ideas about human perception and the natural world. Akenside had a European reputation and became a national celebrity. He was a major influence on first- and second-generaTable of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction Chapter One: Newcastle Scholar Chapter Two: A Radical Student and Satirist Chapter Three: Akenside the Lover and Medical Man Chapter Four: A Prometheus Unbound Chapter Five: Interlude I: A Collection of Odes Chapter Six: Towards Relativity and Subjectivity Chapter Seven: Musing and Conversations Chapter Eight: Poetic Colour Chapter Nine: Interlude II: The Inscriptions Chapter Ten: A Valediction and Conclusion Select Bibliography Index
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Three Rimbauds
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefaceThe Three RimbaudsTranslator’s Notes
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Book of Sleep
Book SynopsisNow in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states-metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence-be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves we understand ourselves to be? Written in the spring of 2013, as the Egyptian government of President Mohammed Morsi was unraveling in the face of widespread protests, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. Drawing on the devices and forms of poetry, philosophical reflection, political analysis, and storytelling, this genre-defying work presents us with an assemblage of fragments that combine and recombine, circling around their central theme but refusing to fall into its gravity. My concern was not to create a literary product in the conventional sense, but to try and use literature as a methodology for thinking, El Wardany explains. In this volume, sleep shapes sentences and distorts conventions. Its protean instability throws out memoir and memory, dreams and hallucinatory reverie, Sufi fables and capitalist parables, in the quest to shape a question. The Book of Sleep is a generous and generative attempt to reimagine possibility and hope in a world of stifling dualities and constrictions.
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Set Me On Fire
Book Synopsis''Broad in scope, generous in spirit and wittily accompanied by Risbridger''s commentary''Sarah Perry, author of The Essex SerpentSet Me On Fire is an anthology for a new moment in poetry: a collection of fresh, vibrant voices from poets all over the globe, both living and dead. With an intuitive, accessible, feelings-first format, these are poems for the moments when you really need to know that someone else has been there too.These are poems about eating and kissing and having too many feelings, about being outside and inside and loving someone so much you think you might die. They are about break-ups and getting back together and oh-god-it''s-complicated-don''t-ask-me moments. They are about wanting and waiting and having, about grieving and life after death and the end of the world. They are, in other words, about being alive.Trade ReviewI credit Ella Risbridger with curing me of a deep and lasting suspicion of poetry in general, and contemporary poetry in particular. Readers of a similar disposition should be warned that this collection – broad in scope, generous in spirit and wittily accompanied by Risbridger's commentary – will likely offer a similar cure, while those already in love with the form have new and startling pleasures in store. * Sarah Perry, author of 'The Essex Serpent' *A new anthology with fortifying intentions . . . offered as an antidote to those who recoil from poetry. To my relief, it is only loosely organised by feelings and brims with familiar and unfamiliar voices: a lucky dip of the best sort. * The Guardian *I found her enthusiastic explanations and recommendations as fun and refreshing as party-popped fizz. If I wanted to introduce young people to poetry I'd give them this book, which reinforced my conviction that helpful notes offer poetry as a generous gift rather than leaving it on a chilly pedestal. * Daily Mail *A gorgeous anthology, cleverly curated to convert the cynics, delight the poetically inclined and soothe everyone in between. * Lauren Bravo, author of 'What Would the Spice Girls Do?' *Whatever your mood – be it hunger, anger or an end of the world kind of despair, Ella has a poem to soothe you. From the greats like Philip Larkin and Sylvia Plath to obscure poets, new poets and all shades of poets in between, to poems about peanut butter and mix-tape, this anthology is as satisfying as a box of Quality Street * Red *
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University of Exeter Press Performing GrandGuignol Playing the Theatre of
Book SynopsisFrom the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London’s Grand Guignol - also published by UEP – this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English language. Trade Review From reviews of Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (UEP, 2002) ‘Richard J. Hand and Michael Wilson . . . manage in a number of telling ways to make the subject their own. . . . Hand and Wilson’s main interest in Grand Guignol is . . . that of present-day theatre practitioners seeking to understand how these pieces might be able to work for fresh audiences. . . . they also prove themselves to be highly astute when it comes to examining these works in the light of contemporary (especially post-Freudian) critical theory. . . . performance practice is continually interrogated by critical and historical insight.’ (Gothic Studies, August 2003) ‘… the genre has left more of a mark on British and American culture than we may imagine.’ (Gothic Studies, May 2004) From reviews of London’s Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror (UEP, 2007) ‘...Richard J. Hand and Michael Wilson, who have previously written on the French Grand Guignol for this excellent series from the University of Exeter Press, now turn to the English variant...’ ‘...London’s Grand Guignol is a fine introduction to a neglected corner of the twentieth-century arts world.’ (Times Literary Supplement, 18 April 2008) ‘...London’s Grand Guignol allows Hand and Wilson to make a persuasive case for Grand Guignol’s place not only in modern theatre history, but also in the film history of thrillers and horror films. This book will be useful as a hands-on theatre history and practice text for programs where one might imagine offering students an opportunity to apply their creativity to the same challenges Jose Levy faced.’ (Theatre Survey, Vol. 50/2, November 2009) Table of ContentsPreface A note on the scripts Section I: A Brief History of the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol Section II: The Grand-Guignol Laboratory Section III: Prefaces and Plays First Programme The Haunted House (La Maison hantée) by Marc Bonis-Charancle The Kama Sutra or Never Play with Fire… (Kama Soutra, ou Il ne faut pas joer avec le feu) by Régis Gignoux Blind Man’s Buff by Charles Hellem and Pol d’Estoc The Light in the Tomb (Gott mit uns! (La Lumière dans la tombeau))by René Berton Second Programme Progress by St. John Ervine A Silk Dress (Une Robe de Soie) by Henriette Charasson The Great Terror (La Grande épouvante) by André de Lorde and Henri Bauche Third Programme The Wax Museum (Figures de Cire) by André de Lorde and Georges Montignac The Lovers (Les Amants) by Octave Mirbeau The Man Who Met the Devil (L’homme qui a vu le diable) by Gaston Leroux The Man Who Killed Death (L’homme qui a tué la mort) by René Berton
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