ELT & Literary Studies Books

Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2nd edition, provides authoritative critical insight into Scott Fitzgerald's life and writings for both new readers and long-time fans. It features seven new essays and an updated list of suggested reading alongside updated versions of four essays from the first edition.Table of ContentsList of Figures; List of Contributors; Chronology; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: F. Scott Fitzgerald: 'A Writer Only' Michael Nowlin; 1. Youth, Maturation, and Adult Sexuality Kirk Curnutt; 2. The Beautiful and Damned and Literary Decadence Kirsten MacLeod; 3. The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald Bryant Mangum; 4. 'The Modern Old Master': Reading The Great Gatsby Again Sarah Churchwell; 5. 'I Was Gone Again': Disintegration, Fragmentation, and the Recovery of Nicole Warren Diver in Tender Is the Night Erin E. Templeton; 6. Fitzgerald's Expatriate Years and the European Stories J. Gerald Kennedy; 7. Legends of Zelda Anne Margaret Daniel; 8. Fitzgerald's Nonfiction Scott Donaldson; 9. Great Art, Small Art, and Modernist Cachet: Reading Himself and His Contemporaries Michael Nowlin; 10. Fitzgerald and Hollywood Tom Cerasulo; 11. Fitzgerald's Cultural and Critical Reputation in the Twenty-First Century Jackson R. Bryer; Select Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena.Trade Review“Overall, the essays in this collection deal with diverse topics and theoretical concerns of adaptation studies today. They throw light on both often researched and neglected or undervalued works.” (Poetics Today, 1 May 2015) “Well-written, suggestively arranged in a series of six sections, A Companion to Literature, Film and Adaptation provides an invaluable resource for anyone interested in debates about the past, present and future of adaptation studies, and why the discipline represents an important advance in the field of interdisciplinary learning … Cartmell’s collection covers just about every area imaginable within adaptation studies, whether historical, theoretical or otherwise … [It] is a far cry from those collections that simply compare source with target texts; it encompasses comic-books, songs, silent cinema as well as more canonical texts and their cinematic variants. There is something for everyone in this volume.” (Post Script, 2014) "Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 November 2013) "A Companion to Literature, Film and Adaptation is open to anybody interested in learning more about the process of translating the printed page into film. Many popular productions on the big and small screen are referenced, such as Anonymous (2011) and Emma (2009), so readers do not need to know Barthes from Bazin to find the Companion both informative and accessible." (Reference Reviews, 27 April 2013)Table of ContentsList of Contributors viii Acknowledgments xi Foreword: Kamilla Elliott xii 100 Years of Adaptations, or, Adaptation as the Art Form of Democracy 1 Deborah Cartmell Part I History and Contexts: From Image to Sound 15 1 Literary Adaptation in the Silent Era 17 Judith Buchanan 2 Writing on the Silent Screen 33 Gregory Robinson 3 Adaptation and Modernism 52 Richard J. Hand 4 Sound Adaptation: Sam Taylor’s The Taming of the Shrew 70 Deborah Cartmell Part II Approaches 85 5 Adaptation and Intertextuality, or, What isn’t an Adaptation, and What Does it Matter? 87 Thomas Leitch 6 Film Authorship and Adaptation 105 Shelley Cobb 7 The Business of Adaptation: Reading the Market 122 Simone Murray Part III Genre: Film, Television 141 8 Adapting the X-Men: Comic-Book Narratives in Film Franchises 143 Martin Zeller-Jacques 9 The Classic Novel on British Television 159 Richard Butt Part IV Authors and Periods 177 10 Screened Writers 179 Kamilla Elliott 11 Murdering Othello 198 Douglas M. Lanier 12 Hamlet’s Hauntographology: Film Philology, Facsimiles, and Textual Faux-rensics 216 Richard Burt 13 Shakespeare to Austen on Screen 241 Lisa Hopkins 14 Austen and Sterne: Beyond Heritage 256 Ariane Hudelet 15 Neo-Victorian Adaptations 272 Imelda Whelehan Part V Beyond Authors and Canonical Texts 293 16 Costume and Adaptation 295 Pamela Church Gibson and Tamar Jeffers McDonald 17 Music into Movies: The Film of the Song 312 Ian Inglis 18 Rambo on Page and Screen 330 Jeremy Strong Part VI Case Studies: Adaptable and Unadaptable Texts 343 19 Writing for the Movies: Writing and Screening Atonement (2007) 345 Yvonne Griggs 20 Foregrounding the Media: Atonement (2007) as an Adaptation 359 Christine Geraghty 21 Paratextual Adaptation: Heart of Darkness as Hearts of Darkness via Apocalypse Now 374 Jamie Sherry 22 Authorship, Commerce, and Harry Potter 391 James Russell 23 Adapting the Unadaptable – The Screenwriter’s Perspective 408 Diane Lake Index 416

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part 1 Overview 8 Getting Ready to Print 8 At the Press 16 Also at the Press 19 After Printing 20 The Economics of Printing 23 Part 2 Step-by-Step 26 Paper 26 Type 34 Format 42 Printing 55 Corrections and Changes 61 Illustrations 65 Binding 71 Part 3 On the Page 79 Advertisements 79 Alphabet and Abbreviations 80 Blanks 83 Dates 83 Imprint Statements 85 Edition, Impression, Issue, State, Copy 86 Initial Letters 88 Marginal Notes 90 Music 91 Pagination and Foliation 92 Preliminary Leaves 92 Press Figures 93 Printer's Devices 95 Printer's Ornaments 95 Privileges, Approbations, and Imprimaturs 96 Signature Marks 96 Title Pages 98 Volvelles and Movable Figures 100 Part 4 Looking at Books 102 Good Research Habits 103 Handling Books 104 Appearance 106 Contents 108 Page Features 111 Usage 113 Digitization 114 Part 5 The Afterlives of Books 118 Loss Rates 118 Catalog Records 120 Books in Hand 132 Books on Screen 139 Conclusion 149 Appendix 1: Further Reading 152 Appendix 2: Glossary 171 Index 180

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Book SynopsisTHE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GOTHIC Well written and interesting [it is] a testament to the breadth and depth of knowledge about its central subject among the more than 130 contributing writers, and also among the three editors, each of whom is a significant figure in the field of gothic studies A reference work that's firmly rooted in and actively devoted to expressing the current state of academic scholarship about its area. New York Journal of BooksA substantial achievement. Reference Reviews Comprehensive and wide-ranging, The Encyclopedia of the Gothic brings together over 200 newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars writing on all aspects of the Gothic as it is currently taught and researched, along with challenging insights into the development of the genre and its impact on contemporary culture. The A-Z entries provide comprehensive coverage of relevant authors, national traditions, critical developments, and notable texts that conTrade Review“The essays are well written and interesting, and many of them provide moments of real and pleasurable insight … [It is] a testament to the breadth and depth of knowledge about its central subject among the more than 130 contributing writers, and also among the three editors, each of whom is a significant figure in the field of gothic studies … A reference work that’s firmly rooted in and actively devoted to expressing the current state of academic scholarship about its area.” New York Journal of Books“It includes over 200 commissioned essays from experts in gothic studies …The entries are well written and vary in length from one to five thousand words. Recommended.” Choice“A substantial achievement ... An essential addition for humanities libraries, particularly those with researchers active in Gothic.” Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsAlphabetical List of Entries ix General Editors xiii Notes on Contributors xv Introduction xxxv The Gothic A–Z 1–757 Index 758

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Book SynopsisWhile the relationships between parents and children have long been a staple of critical inquiry, bonds between siblings have received far less attention among early modern scholars. Indeed, until now, no single volume has focused specifically on relations between brothers and sisters during the early modern period, nor do many essays or monographs address the topic. The essays in Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World focus attention on this neglected area, exploring the sibling dynamics that shaped family relations from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries in Italy, England, France, Spain, and Germany. Using an array of feminist and cultural studies approaches, prominent scholars consider sibling ties from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, including art history, musicology, literary studies, and social history. By articulating some of the underlying paradigms according to which sibling relations were constructed, the collection seeks to stimulate fTrade ReviewPrize: Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Award for a collaborative project published in 2006 'There is no biblical commandment to "love thy siblings" but there is rich and varied evidence-some of it newly brought to light in this valuable book-about how Renaissance women and men defined themselves in relation to those they called their sisters and brothers. Exploring a wide range of cultural documents, including manuscripts of uncensored letters from a Spanish nun to brothers helping her with her ambition to become a saint, crossing borders from Spain to Italy, France, Germany, and England, as well as dividing Protestants from Catholics, the essays collected in this well-edited interdisciplinary volume work together to create an original and complex picture of siblings interacting with each other. Love (including incest), competition, mutual support in activities from childbirth through musical performance to collaborative authorship: these are just a few of the topics analyzed and vividly illustrated in Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World.' Margaret Ferguson, Professor of English at the University of California-Davis ’Naomi Miller and Naomi Yavneh, already well-known for their volume on Maternal Measures (Ashgate, 2000), have once again assembled an interesting and stimulating cluster of essays by scholars from various disciplines... the authors have given voice to a wide spectrum of historical subjects and hence have allowed diverse forms of participation and expression to emerge. The editors should be commended for having historicized the relationships between siblings.’ Renaissance Quarterly'... an engaging book... a collection of thoughtful and thought-provoking essays... Ashgate's series, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World, contains some broad-reaching essay collections that expand our knowledge of gender in comparative contexts, to which this book is a welcome addition... this is an excellent book for scholars and their students.' Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Thicker than water: evaluating sibling relations in the early modern period, Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh. Divine Devotion: Making a Saint Out of a Sibling, Susan D. Laningham; Recusant sisters: English Catholic women and the bonds of learning, Kari Boyd McBride; Families, Convents, Music: The Power of Sisterhood, Craig A. Monson; 'Liebe Schwester...': Siblings, convents, and the Reformation, Merry Wiesner-Hanks. Ties That Bind: Resisting Henri IV: Catherine de Bourbon and her brother, Jane Couchman; Sister-subject/sister-queen: Elizabeth I among her siblings, Carole Levin; Mary Sidney's other brothers, Margaret P. Hannay. Drawing the Line: The Politics of Private Discourse: Familial Relations in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania, Sheila T. Cavanagh; When the Mirror Lies: Sisterhood Reconsidered in Moderata Fonte's Thirteen Cantos of Floridoro, Valeria Finucci; Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli: musicians and sororal relations in later 16th-century Venice, Rebecca Edwards; The shame of siblings in David and Bethsabe, Stephen Guy-Bray; Sibling bonds and bondage in (and beyond) Shakespeare's The Tempest, Naomi J. Miller. Hand in Hand: Playing the game: sisterly relations in Sofonisba Anguissola's The Chess Game, Naomi Yavneh; 'My deare sister': sainted sisterhood in early modern England, Kathryn R. McPherson; Sisterly feelings in Cavendish and Brackley's drama, Alison Findlay; 'Thy passionately loving sister and faithfull friend': Anne Dormer's letters to her sister Lady Trumbull, Sara Mendelson and Mary O'Connor; Siblings, publications, and the transmission of memory: Johann Albert Hinrich and Elise Reimarus, Almut Spalding; Thicker than blood: l'oltr'altra, Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural sciences but also for a synthetic approach bringing together insights from the various subdisciplines in the humanities and social sciences which have addressed themselves to ecological questions in the past. This book is an introduction to, and structured survey of, the attempts that have been made to take the measure of the Anthropocene, and explores some of the paradigmatic problems which it raises. The difficulties of an introduction to the Anthropocene lie not only in the disciplinary breadth of the subject, but also in the rapid pace at which the surrounding debates have been, and still are, unfolding. This introduction proposes a conceptual map which, however provisionally, charts these ongoing discussions across a variety of scientific and humanistic disciplines.This book willTrade Review"The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities provides an excellent survey of the debates surrounding the new geological ‘Age of Humans’ from the perspective of the humanities. It offers impressively precise and pointed summaries of essential arguments from philosophy, anthropology, history, politics, and the arts regarding human transformations of the global environment. Even the most complex ideas are presented in a clear and engaging fashion. A must-read for all readers with an interest in environmental issues!" — Ursula K. Heise, Marcia H. Howard Chair in Literary Studies at the Department of English and the Institute of Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, USA"Sometimes, timing is everything. Horn and Bergthaller intervene at an important moment in the debates about the Anthropocene. The idea that we are entering a new epoch of Earth time in which human beings are playing a key role is one that needs to be to be shaped and contested by the widest possible set of interlocutors. In order for that to happen, people beyond the ‘core set’ of those from various disciplines who have been debating the Anthropocene for the last two decades need to be given the tools to join this urgent collective task. This book, readable and clear without ducking the difficult questions, will help make that possible.The authors are both accomplished and perceptive thinkers, but like the most generous of hosts they do not make themselves the centre of attention – instead, that place goes to their guests, the readers. Horn and Bergthaller provide a very balanced introduction to the terrain; but then, rather than offering yet another magical solution to all the political and epistemological tensions in the Anthropocene concept, and thereby simply adding to the cacophony of interpretations, they then give us a 'cartography of faultlines', gently guiding us through the task of coming to our own sense-making of this turbulent time in both Earth processes and human thought." — Bronislaw Szerszynski, Reader in Sociology, Lancaster University, UK"Over the past decade, the Anthropocene has become the paradigmatic object of inquiry in the emergent environmental humanities, but nowhere has it been explored so comprehensively or incisively as Horn and Bergthaller do here. ‘Anthropocene’ is also a vigorously contested term, for which they examine both predecessors and competitors, whilst making a persuasive case for its continued deployment in a nuanced manner that integrates pertinent critiques. As well as revisiting earlier theoretical paradigms, such as Michel Foucault’s notion of ‘biopolitics’, through the lens of the Anthropocene, they also introduce Anglophone readers to less well-known perspectives from German environmental theory, such as Rolf Peter Sieferle’s eco-historical concept of the socio-metabolic regime. Underpinned by a careful consideration of the scientific research underlying the proposal that the planet has entered a new geological era marked by the largely ecologically disastrous impacts of globalising industrial society, Horn’s and Bergthaller’s brilliant analysis of the implications of this historically unprecedented, and extremely perilous, situation extends to questions of epistemology, religion, ethics, politics, aesthetics and poetics. Attending also to how the postulate of the Anthropocene is being taking up and reinterpreted in non-Western, especially Asian, contexts, this book has a valuably transnational as well as a profoundly transdisciplinary reach. As such, it is itself a fine exemplar of the project of the environmental humanities." — Kate Rigby, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Bath Spa University, UK and Adjunct Professor of Literary Studies, Monash University, Australia"The start of the Anthropocene marks a dangerous new phase in the life of the planet with profound and unsettling consequences to the human enterprise. For anyone in search of a lucid guide to these problems, Horn and Bergthaller have written an elegant and accessible survey, which introduces us to the intricacies of earth system science without ever losing sight of social and historical perspectives. In eleven succinct chapters, Horn and Bergthaller explore the key contributions of the Anthropocene framework to the humanities, including questions of agency, limits, justice, energy and scale. This is that rare kind of introductory text which will be of value to both newcomers and advanced students." — Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Associate Professor of British History, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, The University of Chicago, USA"The Anthropocene – a proposed name for a new and human-dominated geological epoch - is both a scientific and a popular term, mired in debates and controversies that have deeply influenced humanist thought of our times. Readers will find in Horn and Bergthaller’s book not only a lucid guide to these debates but also an intelligent and thoughtful framework through which to view them. A very welcome addition to the burgeoning literature in the humanities on the Anthropocene." — Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago, USA"The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities provides an excellent survey of the debates surrounding the new geological ‘Age of Humans’ from the perspective of the humanities. It offers impressively precise and pointed summaries of essential arguments from philosophy, anthropology, history, politics, and the arts regarding human transformations of the global environment. Even the most complex ideas are presented in a clear and engaging fashion. A must-read for all readers with an interest in environmental issues!" — Ursula K. Heise, Marcia H. Howard Chair in Literary Studies at the Department of English and the Institute of Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, USA"Sometimes, timing is everything. Horn and Bergthaller intervene at an important moment in the debates about the Anthropocene. The idea that we are entering a new epoch of Earth time in which human beings are playing a key role is one that needs to be to be shaped and contested by the widest possible set of interlocutors. In order for that to happen, people beyond the ‘core set’ of those from various disciplines who have been debating the Anthropocene for the last two decades need to be given the tools to join this urgent collective task. This book, readable and clear without ducking the difficult questions, will help make that possible.The authors are both accomplished and perceptive thinkers, but like the most generous of hosts they do not make themselves the centre of attention – instead, that place goes to their guests, the readers. Horn and Bergthaller provide a very balanced introduction to the terrain; but then, rather than offering yet another magical solution to all the political and epistemological tensions in the Anthropocene concept, and thereby simply adding to the cacophony of interpretations, they then give us a 'cartography of faultlines', gently guiding us through the task of coming to our own sense-making of this turbulent time in both Earth processes and human thought." — Bronislaw Szerszynski, Reader in Sociology, Lancaster University, UK"Over the past decade, the Anthropocene has become the paradigmatic object of inquiry in the emergent environmental humanities, but nowhere has it been explored so comprehensively or incisively as Horn and Bergthaller do here. ‘Anthropocene’ is also a vigorously contested term, for which they examine both predecessors and competitors, whilst making a persuasive case for its continued deployment in a nuanced manner that integrates pertinent critiques. As well as revisiting earlier theoretical paradigms, such as Michel Foucault’s notion of ‘biopolitics’, through the lens of the Anthropocene, they also introduce Anglophone readers to less well-known perspectives from German environmental theory, such as Rolf Peter Sieferle’s eco-historical concept of the socio-metabolic regime. Underpinned by a careful consideration of the scientific research underlying the proposal that the planet has entered a new geological era marked by the largely ecologically disastrous impacts of globalising industrial society, Horn’s and Bergthaller’s brilliant analysis of the implications of this historically unprecedented, and extremely perilous, situation extends to questions of epistemology, religion, ethics, politics, aesthetics and poetics. Attending also to how the postulate of the Anthropocene is being taking up and reinterpreted in non-Western, especially Asian, contexts, this book has a valuably transnational as well as a profoundly transdisciplinary reach. As such, it is itself a fine exemplar of the project of the environmental humanities." — Kate Rigby, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Bath Spa University, UK and Adjunct Professor of Literary Studies, Monash University, Australia"The start of the Anthropocene marks a dangerous new phase in the life of the planet with profound and unsettling consequences to the human enterprise. For anyone in search of a lucid guide to these problems, Horn and Bergthaller have written an elegant and accessible survey, which introduces us to the intricacies of earth system science without ever losing sight of social and historical perspectives. In eleven succinct chapters, Horn and Bergthaller explore the key contributions of the Anthropocene framework to the humanities, including questions of agency, limits, justice, energy and scale. This is that rare kind of introductory text which will be of value to both newcomers and advanced students." — Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Associate Professor of British History, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, The University of Chicago, USA"The Anthropocene – a proposed name for a new and human-dominated geological epoch - is both a scientific and a popular term, mired in debates and controversies that have deeply influenced humanist thought of our times. Readers will find in Horn and Bergthaller’s book not only a lucid guide to these debates but also an intelligent and thoughtful framework through which to view them. A very welcome addition to the burgeoning literature in the humanities on the Anthropocene." — Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago, USA"The volume exceeds expectations, especially given the scope of the task it undertakes. Offering some of the most exquisite interdisciplinary writing in the field, The Anthropoceneis a demanding and multifaceted introduction as well as a relevant work for those who wish to dig deeper." — Susanne Fuchs, Journal of EcohumanismTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Definitions 3. Genealogies 4. Nature and Culture 5. The Anthropos 6. Politics 7. Aesthetics 8. Biopolitics 9. Energy 10. Scales I: The Planetary 11. Scales II: Deep Time 12. Conclusion: How Western Is the Anthropocene?

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Book SynopsisStyle plays a major role in the translation of literary as well as non-literary texts, and Translation and Style offers an updated survey of this highly interdisciplinary area of translation studies. Jean Boase-Beier examines a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches including stylistics, literary criticism, and narratology to investigate how we translate style. This revised and expanded edition of the 2006 book Stylistic Approaches to Translation offers new and accessible explanations on recent developments in the field, notably in the areas of Relevance Theory and cognitive stylistics.With many authentic examples to show how style affects translation, this book is an invaluable resource for both students and scholars working in translation studies and comparative literature.Trade Review"Boase-Beier’s excellent book reaches beyond the remit promised by its title, addressing theories of literature, language, translation and cognition, and their relevance to practice. Generously illustrated with examples, it remains an essential resource for anyone interested in style and stylistics, for their own sake and in relation to translation."Kirsten Malmkjær, University of Leicester, UK"The concept of style is central to the study of translation, but few translation scholars analyse it in depth. Jean Boase-Beier’s book covers this crucial gap. Its exceptionally firm but accessible base in both stylistics and translation studies makes it an invaluable volume for translation students and researchers alike. It is also a key compendium for analysing the wider relationship between writer, translator and target reader."Francis Jones, Newcastle University, UK"This is not only a comprehensive study of style in translation, but also an ambitious and thought-provoking attempt to demonstrate the translation of poetry from German into English. Considering the role of the translator as a reader who actively participates in the construction of meaning, the author demonstrates the power of style in translation."Hiroko Cockerill, University of Queensland, AustraliaTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Style and Translation 1 The Role of Style in Translation 2 Reading, Relevance and Communication 3 The Translator’s Choices 4 Translation and Cognitive Stylistics 5 Style and the Practice of Translation 6 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSlovene: A Comprehensive Grammar is the most complete reference guide to the contemporary language. Key features of this new edition include: updated examples reflecting current usage, expanded discussions of particular areas of difficulty, a brief history of the language, dialects and register, clear distinction between written and spoken usage, new tables and charts for quick reference.The Grammar provides a jargon-free and systematic description of all parts of speech promoting an in-depth understanding of the Slovene language. Slovene: A Comprehensive Grammar is a key resource for linguists and students of Slovene at intermediate and advanced levels.Table of Contents1 Phonology 2 Nouns 3 Adjectives 4 Pronouns 5 Numerals 6 Verbs 7 Adverbs 8 Prepositions 9 Conjunctions 10 Particles 11 Interjections 12 Word order 13 Word formation

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Book SynopsisThis user-friendly student guide is the essential resource for all those engaged in studying systemic functional linguistics (SFL).Assuming no prior knowledge, this guide is divided into nine chapters which can be read independently of one another and used for purposes of reference. The reading section maps out and mediates the key SFL literature. The application guides show how SFL has been and can be applied to various domains, from translation to healthcare communication. The term guides demystify the core terminology and the vocabulary guides aid readers in dealing with the most commonly used terms in text analysis.Systemic Functional Linguistics is an invaluable guidebook for all those studying functional grammar and SFL within linguistics, applied linguistics and related courses.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsBrief Contents Glossary Inside Front Cover Dialect Map of American English, Consonant Phonemes of American English, Vowel Phonemes of American English Inside Back Cover Brief Timeline for the History of the English Language Detailed Contents List of Symbols, Linguistic Conventions, and Common Abbreviations What’s New to This Edition Preface to Instructors Letter to Students Chapter 1 A Language like English Chapter 2 Language and Authority Chapter 3 English Phonology Chapter 4 English Morphology Chapter 5 English Syntax: The Grammar of Words Chapter 6 English Syntax: Phrases, Clauses, and Sentences Chapter 7 Semantics Chapter 8 Spoken Discourse Chapter 9 Stylistics Chapter 10 Language Acquisition Chapter 11 Language Variation Chapter 12 American Dialects Chapter 13 History of English: Old to Early Modern English Chapter 14 History of English: Modern and Future English Bibliography Credits Index Detailed Table of Contents Glossary Inside Front Cover Consonant Phonemes of English, Vowel Phonemes of English, Phonetic Alphabet for American English Inside Back Cover Brief Timeline for the History of the English Language List of Symbols, Linguistic Conventions, and Common Abbreviations xviii What’s New to This Edition Preface to Instructors Letter to Students Chapter 1 A Language Like English The Story of Aks Language, Language Everywhere The Power of Language Name Calling Judging by Ear A Question to Discuss: What Makes Us Hear an Accent? The System of Language Arbitrariness and Systematicity A Scholar to Know: Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) Creativity Grammar Linguistics Human Language versus Animal Communication Birds and Bees Chimps and Bonobos Distinctive Characteristics of Human Language The Process of Language Change Language Genealogies A Question to Discuss: Can Your Language Peeves Be Rethought? Mechanics of Language Change Progress or Decay? Special Focus: Attitudes about Language Change Summary Suggested Reading Exercises Chapter 2 Language and Authority Who Is in Control? Language Academies Language Mavens A Question to Discuss: Does the SAT Know Good Grammar from Bad? Defining Standard English Descriptive versus Prescriptive Grammar Rules Case Study One: Multiple Negatives Case Study Two: Ain’t Case Study Three: Who and Whom<

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Book SynopsisFind everything you need to achieve your full potential with York Notes for GCSE Study Guides, now updated for GCSE (9-1).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

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Book Synopsis Test your knowledge, practise your skills and feel ready for 2021 assessments and 2022 exams. Test and build your knowledge of every part of the text with a huge range of questions, activities and exercises. Find out what you really know about key characters, themes, contexts and quotations before tests and assessments. Perfect your responses, practise writing great answers and find out how to score the best grades you can. Learn to apply what you''ve learned and get vital experience of test and assessment-style questions. York Notes are the long-established experts in English Literature, and we take your success seriously. So whether you''re studying The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare for GCSE at home, online or in the classroom, York Notes is your best bet for the best grades.   The biggest and most in-depth available, this The Merchant of Venice Work

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Book SynopsisThis Companion takes a unique approach, exploring manga and anime as two distinct but interrelated forms. Firmly based in Japanese sources, it offers a lively and accessible introduction, exploring the local contexts of production and reception in Japan, as well as the global influence and impact of these versatile media.

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Book SynopsisThe definitive work on the late Byzantine romances, the dozen or so works of imaginative fiction from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries which narrate the trials of aristocratic young lovers. Demonstrates the cultural value of these works and their centrality to the European and Mediterranean literary traditions.Trade Review'The volume offers a remarkable plurality of learned and sharp views and opinions on the Byzantine romances that should be taken into consideration by anyone working on medieval fiction, storytelling, and translation (in any language).' Foteini Spingou, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval StudiesTable of Contents1. An introduction to the Palaiologan romance: narrating the vernacular Adam J. Goldwin and Ingela Nilsson; 2. The categories of 'originals' and 'adaptations' in late Byzantine romance: a reassessment Kostas Yiavis; 3. Intercultural encounters in the late Byzantine vernacular romance Carolina Cupane; 4. Dreams and female initiation in Livistros and Rhodamne and Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Efthymia Priki; 5. The acculturation of the French romance Pierre De Provence et La Belle Maguelonne in the Byzantine Imperios and Margarona Romina Luzi; 6. Chronotopes between East and West in Apollonios of Tyre Francesca Rizzo Nervo; 7. Linguistic contacts in the late Byzantine romances: where cultural influence meets language interference Theodore Markopoulos; 8. From Herakles to Erkoulios, or the place of the war of Troy in the late Byzantine romance movement Elizabeth Jeffreys; 9. Troy in Byzantine romances: Homeric reception in Digenis Akritis, the Tale of Achilles and the Tale of Troy Adam J. Goldwyn and Ingela Nilsson; 10. Herodotean material in a late version of the Alexander romance Corinne Jouanno; 11. The Palaiologan hagiographies: saints without romance Charis Messis; 12. Homosocial desire in the War of Troy: between (wo)men Stavroula Constantinou; 13. Literary landscapes in the Palaiologan romances: an ecocritical approach Kirsty Stewart; 14. The affective community of romance: love, privilege and the erotics of death in the Mediterranean Megan Moore; 15. The bookseller's parrot: a fictional afterword Panagiotis A. Agapitos.

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Book SynopsisFor this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account of recent productions and reinterpretations of the play, with particular emphasis on its afterlife in global performance and adaptation. The edition retains the Textual Analysis of the previous editor, Jay L. Halio, shortened and with a new preface by Brian Gibbons. Professor Halio, accepting that we have two versions of equal authority, the one derived from Shakespeare''s rough drafts, the other from a manuscript used in the playhouses during the seventeenth century, chooses the Folio as the text for this edition. He explains the differences between the two versions and alerts the reader to the rival claims of the quarto by means of a sampling of parallel passages in the Introduction and by an appendix which contains annotated passages unique to the quarto.Trade Review'Only Lois Potter is capable of writing an introduction like this: she combines her vast experience of performance history with her unparalleled ability to read plays dramaturgically. As a result the introduction is as penetratingly astute on theme and structure as it is stimulating and eye-opening about theatre. No mere performance history, the introduction uses moments from production choices across the centuries to illustrate precise critical points, from the play's tragic crises to its general tone, from individual character to political atmosphere. Using her encyclopaedic knowledge of drama in performance, Lois Potter provides a brilliant hands-on guide to the play and an effortless introduction to theatre history.' Professor Laurie Maguire, University of Oxford'Lois Potter combines her unparalleled knowledge of Shakespeare in theatrical performance and her scrupulously scholarly attention to detail in the NCS King Lear. Her new introduction provides up-to-the-minute accounts of the play in performance while also offering a clear historical perspective. Potter describes the way productions of King Lear have changed over the course of the centuries and especially how current efforts to create more diverse theatrical casts have valuably added further dimension to the key issues of the play. Invaluably too, she provides an account of recent developments both critical, imaginative, and political, including eco-criticism and feminist criticism, re-writings of Shakespeare, as well as Lear in the global context. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the play.' Dympna C. Callaghan, University Professor and William L. Safire Professor in Modern Letters, Syracuse University'The updated New Cambridge critical edition of The Tragedy of King Lear provides a sensitive analysis of the afterlife of the play in a brand-new Introduction written by Lois Potter. There is … plenty in this Introduction to inspire new work on Lear … Potter's Introduction brings the edition and the play into the twenty-first century, and Gibbons' preface to Halio's 'Textual Analysis' helps to translate an edition ideal for graduate students and scholars of the play into an edition that will also appeal to readers approaching textual criticism for the first time.' Emma Depledge, Shakespeare SurveyTable of ContentsIntroduction; Textual Analysis; Preface by Brian Gibbons; Textual Analysis, Part 1; A Note on the Text; List of Characters; The Play; Textual Analysis, Part 2; Appendix: Passages Unique to the First Quarto; Reading List.

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Book SynopsisNow available in paperback, Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry. Bringing together some of the most prominent critics working at the intersection of Shakespeare criticism and queer theory, this collection demonstrates the vibrancy of queer Shakespeare studies. Taken together, these essays explore embodiment, desire, sexuality and gender as key objects of analyses, producing concepts and ideas that draw critical energy from focused studies of time, language and nature. The Afterword extends these inquiries by linking the Anthropocene and queer ecology with Shakespeare criticism. Works from Shakespeare's entire canon feature in essays which explore topics like glass, love, antitheatrical homophobia, size, narrative, sound, female same-sex desire and Petrarchism, weather, usury and sodomy, male femininity and male-to-female crossdressing, cTrade ReviewQueer Shakespeare engages with crucial yet subversive queerness throughout Shakespearean poetry and performance. Unifying past scholarship with vital queer theory, Stanivukovic’s collection reveals necessary insights into our evolving relationship with Shakespeare. -- Peter Kuling, University of Ottawa, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction: ‘Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality’, by Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada 1.‘Which is worthiest love’ in Two Gentlemen of Verona?, by David L. Orvis, Appalachan State University, USA 2. ‘Glass: The Sonnets’ Desiring Object’, by John Garrison, Carroll University USA 3. ‘The Sport of Asses: A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, by Kirk Quinsland, Fordham University, USA 4. ‘As You Like It or What You Will: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Beccadelli’s Hermaphroditus’, by Ian F. Moulton, Arizona State University, USA 5. ‘The Queer Language of Size in Love’s Labour’s Lost’, by Valerie Billing, Knox College, USA 6. ‘Locating Queerness in Cymbeline’, by Stephen Guy-Bray, University of British Columbia, Canada 7. ‘Desiring H: Much Ado About Nothing and the Sound of Women’s Desire’, by Holly Dugan, George Washington University, USA 8. ‘“Two lips, indifferent red:’ Queer Styles in Twelfth Night’, by Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada 9. ‘Queer Nature, or the Weather in Macbeth’, by Christine Varnado, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA 10. ‘Strange Insertions in The Merchant of Venice’, by Eliza Greenstadt, Portland State University, USA 11. ‘Male Femininity and Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Shakespeare’s Plays and Poems,’ by Simone Chess, Wayne State University, USA 12. ‘Held in Common: Romeo and Juliet and The Promiscuous Seductions of Plague’, by Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt University, USA 13. ‘Antisocial Procreation in Measure for Measure’, by Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania, USA Afterword by Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia, Canada

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Book SynopsisBlack Nikki doesn't think her dad is a racist He just cares deeply about his community But when a Zimbabwean family move in over the road, the dog won't stop barking The local kids start lobbing stones And her dad starts laying down the law.Black is a hard-hitting play about racial tensions in the UK todayShe''s Leaving HomeAt 15, Kelsey has her whole life in front of her and feels that she has everything she wants: good mates, a supportive family and big ambitions. But as the years roll by she slowly realises that leaving home to fulfill her dreams isn't as easy as she first imagined.She's Leaving Home was commissioned by Culture Liverpool as part of the 50th Anniversary of the Beatles seminal album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.With bracing insight into the worlds of two young women with very different struggles, Keith Saha's Black and She's Leaving Home force the issues of modern Britain to take centre stage. This edition was pubTrade Review[She's Leaving Home] prises open cracks in the ordinary...The terraced house in which we sit transforms into a magical realist world, sensitively realised under Julia Samuels’s direction. Keith Saha’s script catches the cadences of teenage speech, flecked with poetry...The setting beautifully amplifies the intimacy of our immersion in this life, but this production would succeed equally in other spaces. It certainly deserves a life beyond the festival. * Clare Brennan on She's Leaving Home, Guardian, 2017 *“RARELY IS A PLAY SO FRESH SEEN ON THE LIVERPOOL STAGE. AN ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH. 10/10.” * Marc Waddington on Ghost Boy, Liverpool Echo *There is an attitude, a lyricism and a sharp observational humour in Saha's writing that you don't get to see and hear every day, and this play's ability to make you laugh one minute and be on the verge of tears the next is the mark of great theatre. * Marc Waddington on Melody Loses her Mojo, Liverpool Echo, 2013 *

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Book SynopsisAs You Like It: Language and Writing explores one of Shakespeare's best-known comedies. It considers the literary and theatrical contexts in which Shakespeare was writing; examines, in detail, the different forms of language used in the play and considers ways in which language and meaning have changed over time, and are affected by performance. Each chapter contains a ''Writing matters'' section which provides suggestions for activities that can further enhance a student's understanding of the play. This informative guide to Shakespeare''s popular comedy equips students with the critical skills to analyze its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich their own responses to the play.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION DATING THE PLAY THE FIRST FOLIO AND ITS COPY THE ELIZABETHAN THEATRE BLANK VERSE DRAMA THE CONVENTIONS OF PROSE A CLASSICAL EDUCATION 1) LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT GENRE FESTIVE COMEDY PASTORAL SOURCE AND SETTING CHARACTERS METATHEATRE MASQUE WRITING MATTERS 2) LANGUAGE: FORMS AND USES VERSE AND PROSE PERSONAL PRONOUNS ASIDES AND SOLILOQUIES RHETORIC WRITING MATTERS 3 LANGUAGE OVER TIME ISSUES OF INTERPRETATION CONTEMPORARY REFERENCES, CHANGING MEANINGS AND ARCHAIC LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION OF LANGUAGE ON THE MODERN STAGE AS YOU LIKE IT ON FILM: WHERE PICTURES DO THE WORK WRITING MATTERS 4) PERFORMING THE LANGUAGE PERFORMING METRE PERFORMING RHETORIC PERFORMING ‘YOU’ AND ‘THOU’ WRITING MATTERS Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThere is no Shakespeare without text. Yet readers often do not realize that the words in the book they hold, like the dialogue they hear from the stage, has been revised, augmented and emended since Shakespeare's lifetime. An essential resource for the history of Shakespeare on the page, Shakespeare and Textual Theory traces the explanatory underpinnings of these changes through the centuries. After providing an introduction to early modern printing practices, Suzanne Gossett describes the original quartos and folios as well as the first collected editions. Subsequent sections summarize the work of the New Bibliographers' and the radical challenge to their technical analysis posed by poststructuralist theory, which undermined the presumed stability of author and text. Shakespeare and Textual Theory presents a balanced view of the current theoretical debates, which include the nature of the surviving texts we call Shakespeare's; the relationship of the author ShTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Textual Studies Before ‘Theory’ 1 Shakespeare’s Texts From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century The progress of an early modern play The First Folio Successive Folios Early editions Part Two: Twentieth-Century Theories 2 The New Bibliography 3 The Advent of Poststructuralism 4 Textual and Other Theories Part Three: Current Debates 5 Authorship, Agency, and Intentionality 6 Attribution and Collaboration External evidence Internal evidence Enlarging the canon Theoretical implications 7 The (In)Stability of the Text What if the printer went to lunch? Why are some texts bad? Why – and how and when – do some texts change? 8 Editing and Unediting Editing Shakespeare Editing collaborations Unediting Shakespeare Deciding on intervention 9 Book History and the Text Shakespeare as literary dramatist The creation of ‘Shakespeare’ through books Readers, commonplacers and collectors Women and Shakespeare books Two material texts 10 Performance and the Text Traces of early performance Editing for performance 11 Textual Theories and Difficult Cases: Hamlet and Pericles Shakespeare’s texts and early editions Enter the New Bibliography The challenge of post-structuralism, or authorship, authority, and intention Textual and other theories Attribution and collaboration Printing unstable texts Editing and unediting Book history and the text Performance and the text Coda: The Immaterial Text 12 Textual Studies After the Digital Turn References Index

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Book SynopsisExamining how economic change influences religion, and the way literature mediates that influence, this book provides a thorough reassessment of modern American culture. Focusing on the period 1840-1940, the author shows how the development of capitalism reshaped American Protestantism and addresses the necessary role of literature in that process. Arguing that the spirit of capitalism was not fostered by traditional Puritanism, Ball explores the ways that Christianity was transformed by the market and industrial revolutions. This book refutes the long-held secularization thesis by showing that modernity was a time when new forms of the sacred proliferated, and that this religious flourishing was essential to the production of American culture. Ball draws from the work of Émile Durkheim and cultural sociology to interpret modern social upheavals like religious awakenings, revivalism, and the labor movement. Examining work from writers like Rebecca Harding Davis, Jack London, and CoTable of ContentsIntroduction: A New Theory of the Sacred Chapter 1 The Boiled-Over District: Effervescence and Adaptation During the Market Revolution Chapter 2 The Salvific Power of Affect: Sentimentalism in the Labor Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Chapter 3 The American Fetish: Religious Economics in the Novels of William Dean Howells Chapter 4 Mistaking “Shadows for Gods”: Class and the Christ Novel in the Progressive Era Chapter 5 “Christianity Incorporated”: Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American Protestantism Chapter 6 Gastonia Revisited: Religion, Literature, and the Loray Mill Strike of 1929 Chapter 7 “The blackness of God”: Race and Religion in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance List of Figures Acknowledgements

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Book Synopsis25 February 1964: 22-year-old Cassius Clay, soon to be Muhammad Ali, has just won the world heavyweight boxing title. Instead of hitting the town, he chooses to celebrate in a Miami hotel room with three close friends - activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke and American football star Jim Brown.This fictional account of a real night imagines what might have happened in that tiny hotel room. As the Civil Rights movement stirs outside, and the melody of ''A Change is Gonna Come'' hangs in the air, four men will emerge from that one night ready to define a new world.Kemp Powers'' award-winning debut play One Night in Miami... deftly combines the personal and the political at a pivotal moment in history; it received the Ted Schmitt Award 2013 for its world premiere, and went on to be adapted into a critically acclaimed film directed by Regina King in 2020. It is published here in Methuen Drama''s Modern Classics series with a brand new introduction by Matthew Xia.Trade ReviewCrackling good dialogue and timely themes … Powers weaves together multiple strains of plot and character with a seasoned pro’s skill. His mission to present a believable slice-of-life with contemporary resonance is, like Clay’s, achieved in a decisive knockout. * Variety *An astounding debut for playwright Kemp Powers … Superb across the board … breathtakingly good. There just aren’t enough superlatives. Powerful, funny, exhilarating — what a play. * ArtsBeatLA *In less than ninety minutes, a long, difficult chapter of American history seems to sweep by. The mind keeps flashing back and forward, even as the play grips us with the immediacy of the hotel room. Great theater hits you hard and in many places. That’s exactly what you get from the powers of this play. * Baltimore Sun *

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Book SynopsisGood evening, I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shockThe original version of the global hit play created by Mischief.After benefiting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s murder mystery. Hilarious disaster ensues and the cast start to crack under the pressure. Can they get the production back on track before the final curtain falls?This one-act version of Mischief's world famous The Play That Goes Wrong originally premiered at the Old Red LionTheatre in London in 2012. Since then, the expanded two-act version has taken the world by storm and has been performed in over 35 countries across 5 continents, winning multiple awards including the WhatsOnStage and Olivier Award for Best New Comedy plus a Tony and Drama Desk Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play.This edition featureTrade ReviewA gut busting hit * New York Times *It's as though The Mousetrap has been taken over by 'Monty Python' * WhatsOnStage *A masterpiece of malfunction * Times of London *

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Book Synopsis''The most compelling, original, charismatic and poetic guide to poetry that I can remember. A handbook written from the heart by one of the true modern masters of the craft.'' Simon ArmitageA collection of short essays and reflections on poetry from the acclaimed British poet Glyn Maxwell. These essays illustrate Maxwell's poetic philosophy, that the greatest verse arises from a harmony of mind and body, and that poetic forms originate in human necessities breath, heartbeat, footstep, posture. He speaks of his inspirations, his models, and takes us inside the strange world of the Creative Writing Class, where four young hopefuls grapple with love, sex, cheap wine and hard work. With examples from canonical poets, this is a beautiful, accessible guide to the most ancient and sublime of the realms of literature.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre. Since its inception, theatre has staged the fall of empires, floods, doomsdays, shipwrecks, earthquakes, plagues, environmental degradations, warfare, nuclear annihilation, and the catastrophic effects of climate change. Using a wide range of plays alongside contemporary thinkers, this study helps guide and galvanize the reader in grappling with the climate crisis. Kulick divides this litany of theatrical cataclysms into four distinct historical phases: the Ancients, including Euripides and Bhasa, the legendary Sanskrit dramatist; the Age of Belief, with the anonymous authors of the medieval mystery cycles, Shakespeare, and Pushkin; the Moderns, with Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, Beckett, and Bond; and, finally, the way the world might end now, encompassing Caryl Churchill, Tony Kushner, and Anne Washburn. In tandem with the insights gleaned from these playwrights, the book draws upon the work Trade ReviewIt's odd to call a book about the apocalypse delightful. It's odd to encounter a book about plays, a work of literary and philosophical inquiry, that has the urgency and force of a political tract, that's unashamedly, and persuasively, a call to action. It's almost as odd to encounter a rigorous scholarly work of extraordinary erudition that's also grippingly, compellingly readable. Staging The End Of The World is all these things; I've never read anything like it. Jonathan Schell, Amitav Ghosh, Hannah Arendt, Asja Lacis, Arne Naess, Thich Nhat Hanh, Davids Benatar and Graeber, Kant and Levinas are just a few among the legions assembled by the author to engage with, expand upon and illuminate the works of a host of playwrights, from Aeschylus to Anne Washburn, for a deeply serious exploration of the most serious subject imaginable. These pages are often heartbreaking, frightening, disturbing, and they contain passages of dark despair, but they're suffused with generosity, clarity and a strange, original spirit of grief-stricken determination and joy. Brian Kulick, a great theater artist who's also a glorious thinker and writer, has written a book that's an important contribution to our understanding of how plays work on us and what they can tell us about ourselves and our overwhelming, imperiled world; and more than that, he's offered magnificent proof of the necessity of playfulness, even in the face of the direst circumstances, if we hope to discover paths forward and to create change. * Tony Kushner *Brian Kulick’s latest book is a marvel and a delight. Staging the End of the World uses theatre to examine humanity's most chilling fears and deepest hopes. Kulick’s brilliant mind refuses to accept traditional intellectual boundaries. This is a wonderful book about the theatre which is also a mesmerizing philosophical study and an urgent response to climate change. Kulick is the most incisive and widely learned mind in the American theatre, and he has written an indispensable book. * Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, Public Theater, New York City, USA *A thought-provoking and timely analysis of theatre’s preoccupation with the end of the world and eco-catastrophe from antiquity to the present. * Chris Megson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: On Transforming Our Social Imaginary PART ONE: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS IN ANCIENT TIMES 1. Lessons Amongst the Ruins; Or, What Survives and Why: How the Cultural Detritus of the Ancients Can Become a Kind of First Philosophy 2. Slouching Toward Kurukshetra: A Brief Look at the Mahabharatas of Bhasa, Bharati, and Brook 3. Diasporas Old and New: What Euripides' Children of Herakles Can Tell Us About the Coming Climate Wars and Resulting Refugee Crisis PART TWO: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS IN THE AGE OF FAITH 4. Noahs, Arks, and Floods: Why Medieval Mystery Plays Still Have Something to Say About Our Modern Day “End of Days” 5. Shipwrecks, Recursion, and the Necessity of Deep Ecology: Surviving Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the Breaking of Our Anthropocene Ways 6. On Earthquakes and Metaphors: Bouilly’s Disaster of Lisbon and the Fukushima Variation PART THREE: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS IN MODERN TIMES 7. Plague’s Threat to Our Immune and Belief Systems: A Look at Pushkin’s A Feast in the Time of Plague 8. A Canary in the Bourgeois Coal Mine, Part One: Pollution and Direct Critique in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People 9. A Canary in the Bourgeois Coal Mine, Part Two: Denial and Indirect Critique in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard PART FOUR: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS NOW 10. Ethics During Dark Times: Brecht’s He Who Says Yes and He Who Says No 11. On the Other Side of the Apocalypse: The Broken Worlds of Beckett and Bond 12. Nostalgia for the Future: The Fraught Tomorrows of Rivera, Churchill, Washburn, and Kushner Coda: And in the End Notes Index

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Book SynopsisQueer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world. From classical homoerotic texts to contemporary boys' love fan fiction, this book showcases the richness and diversity of queer Chinese literature across the full spectrum of genres, styles, topics and cultural politics. The book features authors and literary works from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and the global Chinese diaspora. Featuring chapters by leading scholars from around the world, this book rewrites literature, history and culture from a queer lens in China and globally.

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Book SynopsisThe city is sweet and summered and partly asleep. The city is angry. And tonight: one of us is going to die.On the eve of the biggest deal of her career, Saskia, an uber-successful property developer runs from the meeting, all the way home down the Grand Union Canal. Plagued by phone calls and ghosts, she meets a myriad of characters looking to make or break her. She realises, as her shiny life unravels, that she doesn't know herself anymore or the city she once loved. Can she still save a little piece of it?From the award-winning, Offie-nominated writer of Rainer, Max Wilkinson''s Union is a wildly hilarious odyssey through London, in all its brilliant, booze-soaked yuppified but still punk glory. Just as Saskia fears she is losing her own soul to greed, it's about the fear that London is losing that same battle but is still defined by a beautiful beating heart and the people who live in it. Born from creative workshops led for several years by Max with local comm

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Book Synopsis''She's like no one I've ever met... She's like fire and water all at once.''Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family.As William moves to London to discover his place in the world of theatre, Agnes stays at home to raise their three children but she is the constant presence and purpose of his life.When the plague steals 11-year-old Hamnet from his loving parents, they must each confront their loss alone. And yet, out of the greatest suffering, something of extraordinary wonder is born.This new play based on Maggie O''Farrell''s best-selling novel and adapted by award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti (Life of Pi, Red Velvet, Hymn), pulls back a curtain on the imagined family life of the greatest writer in the English language. Hamnet is a love letter to passion, birth, grief and the magic of nature.

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Book SynopsisWhether watching Studio Ghibli adaptations of British children's books, visiting Harry Potter sites in Britain or eating at Alice in Wonderland-themed restaurants in Tokyo, the Japanese have a close and multifaceted relationship with British children's literature. In this, the first comprehensive study to explore this engagement, Catherine Butler considers its many manifestations in print, on the screen, in tourist locations and throughout Japanese popular culture. Taking stock of the influence of literary works such as Gulliver's Travels, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Tom's Midnight Garden, and the Harry Potter series, this lively account draws on literary criticism, translation, film and tourist studies to explore how British children's books have been selected, translated, understood, adapted and reworked into Japanese commercial, touristic and imaginative culture. Using theoretically informed case studies this book will consider both individual texts a

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Book SynopsisBringing together a diverse array of new and established scholars and creative writers in the rapidly expanding field of memory studies, this collection creatively delves into the multiple aspects of this wide-ranging field. Contributors explore race-ing memory; environmental studies and memory; digital memory; monuments, memorials, and museums; and memory and trauma. Organised around 7 sections, this book examines memory in a global context, from Kashmir and Chile to the US and UK. Featuring contributions on topics such as the Black Lives Matter movement; the AIDS crisis; and memory and the anthropocene, this book traces and consolidates the field while analysing and charting some of the most current and cutting-edge work, as well as new directions that could be taken.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the fascinating history of Kentâs remarkable literary heritage as well as being a guide to the locations where that heritage can still be found.Trade Review'Kent’s Literary Heritage takes an extensive look at the lives of those who were born, grew up, lived or were simply inspired by repeated visits to the county.' -- Kent Online, October 2023

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the fascinating history of East Angliaâs remarkable literary heritage as well as being a guide to the locations where that heritage can still be found.

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'Cruz once again offers a fresh glimpse of immigration, womanhood, aspiration and gentrification . . . told in Cara's unfailingly frank, sometimes hilarious, voice' Washington PostWrite this down: Cara Romero wants to work.When Cara left the Dominican Republic for America, she thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when the Great Recession hits, she is left unemployed and struggling with the rising rent. To survive, Cara must start again. Set up with a job counsellor, Cara's future is to be determined through forms and questionnaires. But answer boxes can't contain her indomitable personality and tempestuous past, and over the course of twelve sessions we learn of her scandals and struggles, hopes and heartbreaks, why she came to America and what really happened to her son. When everything is lost, sometimes the only way forward is to go back to the start.

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Book SynopsisAn introductory guide to King Lear in performance offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, a sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading.

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Book Synopsis* A critical summary of the emerging discipline of ecocriticism. * Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism. * Traces the history of the ecocritical movement from its roots in the 1970s through to its diversification and proliferation today.Trade Review"Where did ecocriticism spring from? What directions has it taken on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond? What have been its key debates? What are its most radical strands that should take environmentally aware literary criticism into the future? Economically and elegantly, Lawrence Buell develops an astutely judged overview of a richly diverse but crucially important movement in literary studies. A leading practitioner in the field, Buell reveals how his own work has been influenced by the key debates and identifies the challenges for us all, writers and readers, local neighbours and global species, in facing the future our literary culture mediates and influences." Terry Gifford, author of Pastoral (1999) and The Unreliable Mushrooms (poetry, 2003). "A much needed overview of a vital new field, The Future of Environmental Criticism captures the ecocritical movement’s present state of dynamic metamorphosis as it opens into post-humanism and ecofeminism, engages poststructural theory and environmental justice, and tests out alliances with various scientific fields and critical science studies in an increasingly international context. Nobody could accomplish this task better than Lawrence Buell, whose earlier books The Environmental Imagination and Writing for an Endangered World have become defining works for the environmental turn in literary scholarship. The previous works were primarily American in focus, while the new one begins in an Anglo-American context and broadens to a global literary scope. This latest volume completes an indispensable trilogy." Louise Westling, University of Oregon “Buell (Harvard) is one of the US’s major voices on environmental criticism-.-a fairly recent area of literary and cultural studies known as “ecocriticism.” Several recent works have offered suggestions about how this movement or approach can be defined, but none addresses the subject so broadly, so authoritatively, and in such precise and carefully considered terms as this one does- Buell helped establish the terms for humanistic environmental writing with The Environmental Imagination (CR, Sep’95, 33-0121) and Writing for an Endangered World (CH, Nov01., 39-1386), and he perceives the present study as a “roadmap of trends, emphases, and controversies within green literary studies more generally.’ Comprising five brief chapters, all accessible and extraordinarily well informed, the book starts with a history of environmental criticism and writing; moves to a consideration of the relevant major writers involved in complicating its issues; considers its impact in terms of ethics and gender and of the judiciary and politics; and finally looks at its future, The glossary, full notes, and extended bibliography make it clear that the book’s main thrust is definitional, though Buell sees the study as more ‘essayistic” than definitive, Summing Up: Essential: All academic libraries.” T. Loe, SUNY Oswego “Buell’s survey, framed by chapters about the emergence and possible future development of ecocriticism, organizes its material through a focus on issues of literary realism and representation in their relation to nature (chapter 2); the central role of place, space, and imagination for ecocritical thought (chapter 3); and a discussion of politics and ethics in ecocriticism that ranges from deep ecology to ecofeminism and environmental justice (chapter 4). These broad but well chosen categories allow Buell to cover an enormous range of creative and theoretical material that he discusses with the encompassing mastery and insight that readers of his two earlier works on ecocriticism … have come to expect.” Contemporary Literature "This is an important beginning that shows how the future of the book lies in the past." Travis V. Mason, Canadian Literature 191 “An extremely methodical, accessible, and timely introduction to the field of environmental criticism for specialists and non-specialists alike, a teasing insight into ecocriticism at work, and an excellent exposition of the development and evolution of the discipline in its most recent manifestations.” Ruth Glynn, University of Bristol, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. 1 The Emergence of Environmental Criticism. 2 The World, the Text, and the Ecocritic. 3 Space, Place, and Imagination from Local to Global. 4 The Ethics and Politics of Environmental Criticism. 5 Environmental Criticism’s Future. Glossary of Selected Terms. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today.Trade Review?This is a good guide to Greek tragedy. It makes agreeable reading during which one can learn a lot from the various aspects of this genre.? (SHT Reviews, October 2009) "This book is an impressive achievement, and will be of permanent value to everyone interested in Greek drama. The editor has done an excellent job in finding exactly the right scholar for each topic, including many leading experts from all over the world. Every chapter is lucid and informative, and each has a valuable guide to further reading." Michael Lloyd, University College Dublin ?This book should earn itself a place as a principal reference tool for a wide range of courses in Greek tragedy; it offers a solid synthesis for specialist and nonspecialist alike of the many and vexed issues the subject presents.? Choice "This new volume, like others in the excellent Blackwell's 'Companion' series, stands apart from the crowd. It is not just a boring re-hash of well-known material but a superb, lively, genuinely stimulating collection of essays which make the plays come alive. Reading this book is rather like listening to a series of cracking lectures by some of the best scholars in the business ... This Companion will surely become required reading for university students who want an accessible but learned introduction to the texts. The essays are (without exception) so well written and entertaining that they can also be recommended to actors, producers, audience members, and general readers. It is well edited and attractively produced." Bryn Mawr Classical Review "There is no lack of good reference works on Greek tragedy. None the less, Gregory?s Blackwell companion is a very welcome addition ? There can be no doubt that the volume will establish itself as extremely useful for many students of Greek Tragedy. Most school and university libraries will want a copy." Journal of Classics Teaching "This is a substancial and well-planned collection ... most chapters are heavily referenced, and so provide a good point of entry to the scholarly literature." Greece and Rome "The Companion is obviously intended as a reference work and will be a very valuable addition to library shelves of universities with students of Classical Civilisation. In fact, several contributions are truly excellent and will undoubtedly serve as introductory reference points for a long time" Scholia ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations x Note on Contributors xi Preface and Acknowledgments xvi Abbreviations and Editions xvii Part I Contexts 1 1 Fifth-Century Athenian History and Tragedy 3Paula Debnar 2 Tragedy and Religion: The Problem of Origins 23Scott Scullion 3 Dithyramb, Comedy, and Satyr-Play 38Bernd Seidensticker 4 Tragedy’s Teaching 55Neil Croally 5 Tragedy and the Early Greek Philosophical Tradition 71William Allan 6 Tragedy, Rhetoric, and Performance Culture 83Christopher Pelling 7 Pictures of Tragedy? 103Jocelyn Penny Small Part II Elements 119 8 Myth 121Michael J. Anderson 9 Beginnings and Endings 136Deborah H. Roberts 10 Lyric 149Luigi Battezzato 11 Episodes 167Michael R. Halleran 12 Music 183Peter Wilson 13 Theatrical Production 194John Davidson Part III Approaches 213 14 Aeschylean Tragedy 215Suzanne Saïd 15 Sophoclean Tragedy 233Ruth Scodel 16 Euripidean Tragedy 251Justina Gregory 17 Lost Tragedies: A Survey 271Martin Cropp 18 Tragedy and Anthropology 293Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood 19 Values 305Douglas Cairns 20 The Gods 321Donald Mastronarde 21 Authority Figures 333Mark Griffith 22 Women’s Voices 352Judith Mossman 23 Marginal Figures 366Mary Ebbott Part IV Reception 377 24 Text and Transmission 379David Kovacs 25 Learning from Suffering: Ancient Responses to Tragedy 394Stephen Halliwell 26 Polis and Empire: Greek Tragedy in Rome 413Vassiliki Panoussi 27 Italian Reception of Greek Tragedy 428Salvatore Di Maria 28 Nietzsche on Greek Tragedy and the Tragic 444Albert Henrichs 29 Greek Tragedy and Western Perceptions of Actors and Acting 459Ismene Lada-Richards 30 The Theater of Innumerable Faces 472Herman Altena 31 Justice in Translation: Rendering Ancient Greek Tragedy 490Paul Woodruff Bibliography 505 Index 541 Contents ix

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Book SynopsisFor more than 25 years, York Notes have been helping students throughout the UK to get the inside track on the written word.   Firmly established as the nation's favourite and most comprehensive range of literature study guides, each and every York Note has been carefully researched and written by experts to make sure that you get the most wide-ranging critical analysis, the most detailed commentary and the most helpful key points and checklists.   York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. Written by established literature experts, they introduce students to a more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

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