Literature: history and criticism Books

Book SynopsisA twenty-first century version of Roger Fowlerâs 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels.With over forty newly commissioned entries, this essential reference book includes: an exhaustive range of entries, covering such topics as genre, form, cultural theory and literary technique new definitions of contemporary critical issues such as Cybercriticism and Globalization complete coverage of traditional and radical approaches to the study and production of literature thorough accounts of critical terminology and analyses of key academic debates full cross-referencing throughout and suggestions for further reading. Covering both long-established terminology as well as the specialist vocabular

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Book SynopsisA passionate celebrator of sexual difference, Luce Irigaray was never simply after the social equality that her generation so publicly demanded. She was seeking more fundamentally a society that celebrated the differences between the genders and their coming together in a union without hierarchy. As she formulates it in this compellingly readable introduction to her own thought, Irigaray is writing about how I and You become We. Exploring along the way women's experiences of motherhood, abortion, the AIDS crisis and the beauty industry, this book presents one of the most important thinkers of our day in her own words.Trade Review'These translations of Luce Irigaray's works will make a powerful contribution to feminist scholarship in philosophy, political theory, psycho-analysis, linguistics and poetics. Theorists of sexual difference will find a serious and subtle challenge in Irigaray's latest provocations.'- Judith Butler'Luce Irigaray is, arguably, one of the most original and provocative feminist theorists in contemporary French though.' - Elizabeth GroszTable of ContentsA Personal Note: Equal or Different 1. The Neglect of Female Genealogies 2. Religious and Civil Myths 3. Women's Discourse and Men's Discourse 4. On the Maternal Order 5. The Culture of Difference 6. Writing as a Woman 7. 'I Won't Get AIDS' 8. Linguistic Sexes and Genders 9. The Right to Life 10. Why Define Sexed Rights? 11. 'More Women than Men' 12. Your Health: What, or Who, is it? 13. How can we Create our Beauty? 14. How Old are You? 15. The Cost of Words 16. So When are we to Become Women?

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Book SynopsisThis enduringly popular book has become a classic in the expanding and increasingly popular field of Gothic Studies. This long awaited new edition contains a new chapter on Contemporary Gothic', an expanded section on American Gothic and more discussion of the gothic in women's film and writing throughout the book. It is also updated in relation to media and technology with further discussion of stage sensations and photography as well as engaging with all major texts and criticism since initial publication in 1995. With the added benefit of series features such as a glossary and annotated further reading section, this remains the ideal guide to the Gothic.Trade ReviewPraise for first edition:'Elegant and streamlined, a miracle of compression.' - Gothic Studies'An accessible and affordable book that will undoubtedly prove an indispensable addition to both Romantic and Victorian reading lists.' - TLS'A welcome addition to new historicist theory.' - Essays in Criticism'The returns on reading this book are enormous.' - In-between: Essays and Studies in Literary CriticismTable of Contents1. Introduction: Gothic Excess and Transgression 2. Gothic Origins 3. Gothic Forms 4. Gothic Writing in the 1790s 5. Gothic Transformations 6. Homely Gothic 7. Gothic Returns in the 1890s 8. Twentieth-Century Gothic Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHow to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed, language-focussed, contextually sensitive analyses of a wide range of texts â spoken, written and multimodal. The book constitutes a flexible resource which can be used in different ways across a range of courses and at different levels.This textbook includes: three parts covering research and study skills, language structure and use, and how texts operate in sociocultural contexts a wide range of international real-life texts, including items from South China Morning Post, artâotel Berlin and Metro Sweden, which cover digital and print media, advertising, recipes and much more objectives and skill review for each section, activities, commentaries, suggestions for independent assignments, and an analysis checklist for students to follow a combined glossTrade Review"Without a doubt the most practical and innovative textbook on text analysis on the market. Not only do Carter and Goddard provide clear explanation of theoretical concepts, but they also provide concrete advice about how to go about the practical work of collecting and analysing a range of different texts. A superb introduction to text analysis for beginning students and a useful resource book for more advanced students and researchers." Rodney H. Jones, City University of Hong Kong "This user-friendly book covers a wide range of carefully chosen text types and genres, and takes a modern approach to text analysis. How to Analyse Texts is a fantastic resource for students on undergraduate English Language courses." Mario Saraceni, University of Portsmouth, UK "This is a delightful coursebook marrying the study of a range of modern, multimodal, electronic, creative and ludic texts with the core tools of descriptive linguistics. It shows that multimodal texts can be taken seriously and that English grammar can be fun! The authors have put together a highly useful yet accessible introduction that will serve the next generation of students of media and modern English language very well."Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town, South Africa "How to Analyse Texts is an impresssive introductory textbook for Communication and Humanities students. It covers all aspects of language studies in an accessible and clear way, guiding students step by step in the intricate processes of understanding and interpreting texts. The latest developments in linguistic/semiotic analyses are extremely well presented and illustrated. Ron Carter and Angela Goddard’s toolkit book is, as they themselves say, ‘to be used’ in real situations and practices. I will certainly use it with my own students."Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil and University of Birmingham, UK "Without a doubt the most practical and innovative textbook on text analysis on the market. Not only do Carter and Goddard provide clear explanation of theoretical concepts, but they also provide concrete advice about how to go about the practical work of collecting and analysing a range of different texts. A superb introduction to text analysis for beginning students and a useful resource book for more advanced students and researchers." Rodney H. Jones, City University of Hong Kong "This user-friendly book covers a wide range of carefully chosen text types and genres, and takes a modern approach to text analysis. How to Analyse Texts is a fantastic resource for students on undergraduate English Language courses." Mario Saraceni, University of Portsmouth, UK "This is a delightful coursebook marrying the study of a range of modern, multimodal, electronic, creative and ludic texts with the core tools of descriptive linguistics. It shows that multimodal texts can be taken seriously and that English grammar can be fun! The authors have put together a highly useful yet accessible introduction that will serve the next generation of students of media and modern English language very well."Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town, South Africa "How to Analyse Texts is an impresssive introductory textbook for Communication and Humanities students. It covers all aspects of language studies in an accessible and clear way, guiding students step by step in the intricate processes of understanding and interpreting texts. The latest developments in linguistic/semiotic analyses are extremely well presented and illustrated. Ron Carter and Angela Goddard’s toolkit book is, as they themselves say, ‘to be used’ in real situations and practices. I will certainly use it with my own students."Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil and University of Birmingham, UK "How to Analyse Texts provides several reasons for deserving a place of its own among the existing body of literature, owing in particular to the practical nature of the book: more than providing a theoretical description of language use and how texts can be analysed, the book works as a toolkit that provides learners with the tools required to analyse texts, and furthermore shows them how to use those tools. The book therefore aims to encourage an active learning process, whereby practical applications and activities encourage the readers to acquire real analytical skills." Rui Sousa-Silva, Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto, Portugal Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of TextsPart I: Foundations: researching textsPart II: Drilling Down: how texts are structured Section 1: Graphological and Phonological levels Section 2: Lexical and Semantic level Section 3: Grammatical levelPart III: Building Up: Texts and ContextsA checklist for text analysisCorpus resources and projectsReferencesLinks Further readingGlossary and Index

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries is an innovative multimedia course for advanced students of Chinese. Written by a team of highly experienced instructors, the book offers advanced learners the opportunity to consolidate their knowledge of Chinese through a wide range of activities designed to build up both excellent language skills and cultural literacy. Divided into four thematic units covering popular culture, social change, cultural traditions, and politics and history, with each unit presenting three individual lessons, the volume provides students with a structured course which efficiently supports the transition from an intermediate to an advanced level. The many different texts featured throughout the lessons present interesting and accurate information about contemporary China and introduce students to useful vocabulary, speech patterns, and idiosyncratic language usage.Key features include LiveTrade ReviewReviews for the First Edition "The authors have done an amazing job in presenting the cultures of contemporary China, integrating the skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing, providing extensive and various linguistic input, and consolidating learning through systematic review… this book is useful not only as an advanced textbook for achieving language competence but also as reading material for courses with a cultural emphasis …The most outstanding components within each lesson are the grammar explanations and the Chinese character analysis exercises. The grammar explanation component explains each sentence pattern in great detail and with extraordinary accuracy. More important, simple, focused, and clear exercises follow each detailed explanation of a sentence pattern, immediately enabling learners to digest and reinforce the mastery of a grammar point quickly. The Chinese character analysis exercises provide a systematic review of frequently occurring phonetic sets of Chinese characters, helping learners decipher Chinese characters and synthesize the Chinese characters they have learned. The unique feature of this book lies in its emphasis on the link between cultural literacy and language competence…The tremendous amount of online audio and visual supporting materials constitutes a second outstanding feature of the book, which provides learners with extensive and authentic exposure to the Chinese language and culture. Another valuable feature comes from the book’s emphasis on the transition from spoken language to written or formal language…In conclusion, this is an excellent textbook for advanced CSL/CFL learners...Due to its special emphasis on culture and formal language, this book could also be a good choice for Chinese courses designed for Chinese heritage learners."- The Modern Language Journal 97 (2013) Reviews for the Second Edition "The second edition of The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries is an excellent textbook for advanced learners of Chinese, which successfully integrates development of linguistic competence and cultural literacy. The online supporting materials accompanied with this book are impressively rich, practical, and innovative." Han Luo, Northwestern University, USA. "This textbook provides a rich resource for expanding advanced vocabulary, studying complex sentence patterns and learning about formal writing style. It is a dynamic textbook that generates great activities in class. While learning linguistic items, students gain an understanding of Chinese society, culture and history. My students enjoy the book very much." William Zhou, Yale University, USA. Table of Contents Preface in English. Preface in Chinese. List of Abbreviations and conventions. Unit One: Popular Culture Lesson 1 Online Dating Lesson 2 Name Brand Fever Lesson 3 Popular Culture as Seen from TV Serials Unit Two: Social Change Lesson 4 Yiwu in Zhejiang: A Miracle of Chinese Regional Economic Development Lesson 5 Floating Population Lesson 6 Changes in Marriage Customs Unit Three: Cultural Traditions Lesson 7 Chinese Food Culture Lesson 8 A Short Introduction to Confucian Thought Lesson 9 Chinese Architecture in Transition Unit Four: History & Politics Lesson 10 The Generation of ‘Educated Youth' Lesson 11 A Start for Democracy in China Lesson 12 Cross-Strait relations. Indices: Pinyin-English vocabulary. English-Pinyin vocabulary. Idioms of speech patterns.

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Book SynopsisThis new edition of Andrew Stottâs Comedy builds on themes presented in the first edition such as focusing on the significance of comic 'events' through study of various theoretical methodologies, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and gender theory, and provides case studies of a number of themes, ranging from the drag act to the simplicity of slipping on a banana skin. This new edition features: updates to reflect new research the field new chapters on Women in Comedy and Race and Ethnicity a broader range of literary and cultural examples. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book is ideal introduction to comedy for students studying literature and culture. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Comedy in the Academy 2: Comic Identity 3: The Body 4: Women in Comedy 5: Race and Ethnicity 6: Comedy, Queered 7: Politics and Satire 8. Laughter Conclusion Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisEmphasizes the astonishing innovations in diction and style, not to mention content, in Yosano Akiko’s work that transformed the tanka genre from a hidebound and conservative mode of verse to something much more daring and modern.Trade Review“This work brings together and builds on the extensive scholarship in Japan and the budding scholarship in the West on Yosano Akiko, her circle, and modern tanka. It manages to grapple with an enormous body of work and also bring the opinions of a variety of critics and critical approaches to bear. The translations are often the first of these poems into English, and they are extremely appealing.” —Laurel Rasplica Rodd, University of Colorado Boulder“The book gives a detailed exegesis of the poetry of the Myōjō school, whose key founders Yosano Hiroshi, Yosano Akiko, and Yamakawa Tomiko were leaders in the modernization of the tanka, whose importance to the history of Japanese literature cannot be overstated. Morton is clearly informed by and builds on an encyclopedic review of Japanese-language scholarship on the topic, providing an enormous service to the field.” —Julia Bullock, Emory UniversityTable of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Romantic Love in The Sun 1895-1905 Chapter 2: Romantic Love in The Woman’s Magazine 1897-1904 Chapter 3: The Birth of the Modern: Yosano Akiko and Tekkan’s Verse Revolution Chapter 4: Inventing Modernist Poetry: Yosano Akiko’s Rewriting of Tradition Chapter 5: Romantic Love in Myōjō Exchange Verse Chapter 6: Love as Literary Construct: Erotic Tropes in the Poetry of Yosano Akiko, Tekkan, and Yamakawa Tomiko Chapter 7: Rewriting Texts as Text: A Study of the “White Lily” Chapter of Tangled Hair Chapter 8: Yosano Akiko’s Tangled Hair, Modernity and Kansai Culture Chapter 9: The Poetics of Naturalism: Yosano Akiko and Motherhood Chapter 10: The Canonicity of Yosano Akiko’s Tangled Hair Reflections Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis'York Notes for GCSE' offers a useful approach to English Literature and aims to help readers achieve a better grade. Updated to reflect the needs of today's students, the new editions are filled with detailed summaries, commentaries on key themes, characters, language and style, illustrations, exam advice and much more.

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Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An inspiring and entertaining collection of unforgettable true stories about finding unexpected beauty in life’s transitions—from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Elizabeth Gilbert, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and many more. “The Moth taught me how to be vulnerable, how to take my time, and how to listen to someone else’s story and share in their moments of triumph, laughter, or, yes, sometimes embarrassment with an open heart.”—Mike Birbiglia, from the Foreword An international rescue mission for Paddington Bear. A family matriarch running numbers in Detroit. An epic Lucha Libre showdown in Mexico City. A beach vacation spent looking for the Kennedys. Storytellers from around the world share times they found real beauty in the moments when their lives changed forever—for better or for worse. Carefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth and adapted to the p

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Book SynopsisA guidebook for all teachers of English and American literature in higher education. Drawing on 40 years of international teaching experience, author Elaine Showalter inspires instructors to make their classroom practice as intellectually exciting as their research.Trade Review"It is to Showalter's great credit that she has written a book that exemplifies many of the virtues she associates with literature: curiosity, empathy, compassion. It is also a deeply personal work. People say that reading literature does not make you a better person. True. But reading this book will make you a better teacher. And maybe make you think better of literature too." Times Higher Education Supplement "Grounded equally in narrative anecdotes and in published scholarship, Teaching Literature is admirably accessible and reader-friendly... I'd recommend it to anyone looking to enliven his or her classroom". Literature and HistoryTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. 1. The Anxiety of Teaching. 2. Theories of Teaching Literature. 3. Methods of Teaching Literature. 4. Teaching Poetry. 5. Teaching Drama. 6. Teaching Fiction. 7. Teaching Theory. 8. Teaching Teachers. 9. Teaching Dangerous Subjects. 10. Teaching Literature in Dark Times. Conclusion: The Joy of Teaching Literature. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066. Makes Anglo-Saxon literature accessible to modern readers Helps readers to overcome the linguistic, aesthetic and cultural barriers to understanding and appreciating Anglo-Saxon verse and prose Introduces readers to the language, politics, and religion of the Anglo-Saxon literary world Presents original readings of such works as Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Trade Review"(An) accessible, invaluable book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates." (Choice, 1 January 2014)Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xv Note on the Text xvii List of Abbreviations xix Part 1 Anglo-Saxon England: Backgrounds and Beginnings 1 Political History 3 Ecclesiastical History 11 Intellectual History 15 Linguistic History 20 Literary History 24 Traditions: Oral and Literate 27 A Note on Dating Anglo-Saxon Texts 30 Part 2 Anglo-Saxon Prose 33 The Writings of King Alfred the Great 35 Alfred’s Translation of Pope Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Care 36 Alfred’s Translation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy 42 Alfred’s Translation of St Augustine’s Soliloquies 47 Alfred’s Translations of the Prose Psalms of the Paris Psalter 51 Alfred’s Preface to Wærferth’s Translation of Pope Gregory’s Dialogues 54 The Vercelli Homilies 56 The Blickling Homilies 62 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 67 The Old English Orosius 72 Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People 78 Apollonius of Tyre 87 The Old English Martyrology 92 The Life of St Guthlac 96 The Wonders of the East, The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle, and The Life of St Christopher 99 Bald’s Leechbook and Leechbook III 105 The Writings of Wulfstan, Archbishop of York 109 The Writings of Ælfric of Eynsham 116 Catholic Homilies 122 Lives of Saints 126 Colloquy on the Occupations 127 Ælfric as Author 130 Part 3 Anglo-Saxon Poetry 135 The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Tradition 137 Cædmon’s Hymn 147 Bede’s Death Song 152 The Junius Manuscript 154 Genesis 155 Genesis A 156 Genesis B 157 Exodus 162 Daniel 167 Christ and Satan 170 The Poems of the Vercelli Book 176 Andreas 177 Fates of the Apostles 185 Soul and Body I (and II) 188 Homiletic Fragment I 192 The Dream of the Rood 192 Elene 197 The Exeter Book 202 The Advent Lyrics (Christ I) 203 The Ascension (Christ II) 206 Christ in Judgement (Christ III) 209 Life of St Guthlac 212 Guthlac A 213 Guthlac B 215 Azarias 219 The Phoenix 221 Juliana 225 The Wanderer 229 The Gifts of Men 233 Precepts 234 The Seafarer 235 Vainglory 237 Widsið 240 The Fortunes of Men 242 Maxims (I) 244 The Order of the World 246 The Rhyming Poem 247 The Panther, The Whale, The Partridge (The Old English Physiologus) 249 Soul and Body II (and I) 252 Deor 253 Wulf and Eadwacer 255 The Exeter Book Riddles 257 The Wife’s Lament 260 Judgement Day I 262 Resignation (A and B) 265 The Descent into Hell 267 Almsgiving 268 Pharaoh 269 The Lord’s Prayer I 270 Homiletic Fragment II 270 The Husband’s Message 271 The Ruin 273 The Poems of Cotton Vitellius A.xv 276 Beowulf 277 Judith 294 Poems from Various Manuscripts 300 The Metres of Boethius 300 The Metrical Psalms of the Paris Psalter 305 Solomon and Saturn I and II 307 The Menologium 311 The Rune Poem 313 The Poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 315 The Battle of Brunanburh 317 The Battle of Maldon 319 The Fight at Finnsburh 323 Waldere 326 Durham 329 Part 4 Critical Approaches 333 The Alterity of Anglo-Saxon Literature 335 Source Studies 339 Manuscript Studies 342 Grammatical and Syntactic Studies 343 Theoretical Perspectives 345 Part 5 Themes 361 Anglo-Saxon Thematics 363 Heroism 365 The End of the World 368 The Transitory Nature of Life 370 Fate 372 Wisdom 374 Otherness 376 Oral-Traditional Themes 378 Bibliography 381 Index 401 Index of Manuscripts 411

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Book SynopsisVictorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is a fully annotated and illustrated collection of Victorian poetry. Features a generous selection of work by all the major figures of the age, including Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Oscar Wilde Presents several long poems in their entirety, such as Arnold's Empedocles on Etna', Clough's Amours de Voyage, Meredith's Modern Love and Tennyson's In Memoriam AHH Each poet is introduced by a biographical headnote Each poem is introduced by a headnote giving publication details, biographical facts, contextual material, and other information The poems themselves are all fully annotated Extensive introductory material enables readers to read across the volume chronologically, thematically, or by individual author Features twelve black and white illustrations of images referred to in or relevant toTrade Review"This is an excellent guide to the poetry of the period, and a teaching tool of obvious integrity, offering both help where it is needed and the kind of challenges that are essential to a meaningful learning experience." Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsSuggested Contents by Theme and Genre. Alphabetical List of Authors. List of Plates. Abbreviations. Chronology. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Poetry included (short titles). Thomas Macaulay (1800-59). ‘Horatius: A Lay made about the Year of the City CCCLX’. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61). ‘Bertha in the Lane’. ‘The Cry of the Children’. ‘Rime of the Duchess May’. ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point’. ‘Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave’. Sonnets from the Portuguese (selection):. ‘I thought once how Theocritus had sung’. ‘I never gave a lock of hair away’. ‘If I leave all for thee’. ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’. ‘Beloved, thou has brought me many flowers’. ‘Lord Walter’s Wife’. ‘A Musical Instrument’. ‘Amy’s Cruelty’. Alfred Tennyson (1809-92). ‘The Dying Swan’. ‘Mariana’. ‘The Lotos-Eaters’. ‘The Lady of Shalott’. ‘The Epic/Morte d’Arthur’. ‘Ulysses’. ‘Now sleeps the crimson petal’. In Memoriam A.H.H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’. ‘To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava’. ‘Crossing the Bar’. Robert Browning (1812-89). ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. ‘My Last Duchess’. ‘The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church’. ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’. ‘Andrea del Sarto’. ‘“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”’. ‘A Toccata of Galuppi’s’. ‘Two in the Campagna’. ‘Caliban upon Setebos’. ‘Eurydice to Orpheus: A Picture by Leighton’. ‘Inapprehensiveness’. Emily Brontë (1818-48). ‘High waving heather’. ‘The Night-Wind. ‘Shall earth no more inspire thee[?]’. ‘To Imagination’. ‘Remembrance’. ‘The Prisoner: A Fragment’. ‘No coward soul is mine’. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61). ‘Say not the struggle nought availeth’. Amours de Voyage. ‘The Latest Decalogue’. Matthew Arnold (1822-88). ‘A Summer Night’. ‘To Marguerite – Continued’. ‘Empedocles on Etna’. ‘The Buried Life’. ‘The Scholar-Gipsy’. ‘Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse’. ‘Dover Beach’. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-64). ‘Philip and Mildred’. ‘A Legend of Provence’. George Meredith (1828-1909). Modern Love. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82). ‘The Burden of Nineveh’. ‘Sestina. Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni’. ‘Jenny’. ‘Nuptial Sleep’. ‘Song 8: The Woodspurge’. Christina G. Rossetti (1830-94). ‘In an Artist’s Studio’. ‘An Apple-Gathering’. ‘A Birthday’. ‘Goblin Market’. ‘Song: When I am dead, my dearest’. ‘Winter: My Secret’. ‘The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860’. ‘Shut Out’. ‘The World’. ‘A Christmas Carol: In the bleak mid-winter’. ‘In life our absent friend’. ‘Resurgam’. ‘Babylon the Great’. James Thomson, ‘B. V.’ (1834-82). The City of Dreadful Night. William Morris (1834-96). ‘The Haystack in the Floods’. ‘The Defence of Guenevere’. ‘Concerning Geffray Teste Noire’. ‘Iceland First Seen’. Alfred Austin (1835-1913). ‘Henry Bartle Edward Frere’. Augusta Webster (1837-94). ‘Circe’. ‘A Castaway’. ‘Faded’. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). ‘Hymn to Proserpine’. ‘Anactoria’. ‘Laus Veneris’. ‘Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire’. ‘A Forsaken Garden’. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). ‘Hap’. ‘Drummer Hodge’. ‘The Darkling Thrush’. ‘In the Old Theatre, Fiesole’. ‘The Ruined Maid’. ‘The Self-Unseeing’. ‘In Tenebris I’. ‘Shelley’s Skylark’. ‘Lausanne: In Gibbon’s Old Garden’. ‘The Revisitation’. Gerard M[anley] Hopkins (1844-89). ‘Spring and Fall’. ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’. ‘As kingfishers catch fire’. ‘God’s Grandeur’. ‘Pied Beauty’. ‘The Windhover’. ‘Inversnaid’. ‘That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection’. ‘Harry Ploughman’. ‘Binsey Poplars’. ‘No worst, there is none’. ‘My own heart let me more have pity on’. Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845-1907). ‘The New Medusa’. Imaginary Sonnets: ‘Laura to Petrarch’. ‘Carmagnola to the Republic of Venice’. ‘Fallopius to his Dissecting Knife’. ‘Charles Edward to his Last Friend’. Michael Field (Katherine Bradley [1846-1914] and Edith Cooper [1862-1913]). ‘Maids, not to you my mind doth change’. ‘La Gioconda’. ‘A Portrait: Bartolommeo Veneto’. ‘A Girl’. ‘Cyclamens’. ‘Sometimes I do despatch my heart’. ‘It was deep April’. ‘Nests in Elms’. Four Victorian Hymns. ‘The day thou gavest’ (Ellerton). ‘Take my life and let it be’ (Havergal). ‘Onward Christian soldiers’ (Baring-Gould). ‘My God how wonderful thou art’ (Faber). W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley (1849-1903). In Hospital. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). ‘Fantaisies Décoratives: II. Les Ballons’. ‘Symphony in Yellow’. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. John Davidson (1857-1909). ‘Thirty Bob a Week’. ‘A Woman and her Son’. ‘Snow’. ‘The Crystal Palace’. May Kendall (1861-?1943). ‘Lay of the Trilobite’. Amy Levy (1861-89). ‘Xantippe: A Fragment’. ‘A Minor Poet’. ‘A Ballad of Religion and Marriage’. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy’. ‘Gunga Din’. ‘Tommy’. ‘Recessional, A Victorian Ode’. ‘The White Man’s Burden’. ‘If – ’. ‘The Way through the Woods’. Arthur Symons (1865-1945). ‘From Théophile Gautier: Posthumous Coquetry’. ‘The Absinthe Drinker’. ‘Javanese Dancers’. ‘Prologue’. ‘Paris’. ‘Hands’. ‘White Heliotrope’. ‘Stella Maris’. Ernest Dowson (1867-1900). ‘Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration’. ‘Extreme Unction’. ‘Nun Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae’. ‘Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam’. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902). ‘Oxford’. ‘By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross’. ‘The Dark Angel’. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928). ‘The Forest Road’. ‘Madeleine in Church’. ‘The Trees are Down’. Select Bibliography. Index of titles. Index of First Lines

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Book SynopsisYvonne Lewis is Assistant National Curator for Libraries at the National Trust. She specialises in library history and architecture, the reading experience, practical book-production techniques and book ownership from the medieval to modern periods, with particular expertise in the 16th to 18th centuries. She has published and lectured on various aspects of library history and provenance and is a council member of the Bibliographical Society. Tim Pye is National Curator for Libraries at the National Trust. He is interested in all aspects of the history of books, specialising in 18th-century British book ownership and literature. He writes and gives talks on the history of book collecting and has curated major exhibitions on the Gothic and William Shakespeare. He has previously worked at the British Library, Cambridge University Library and Lambeth Palace Library. Nicola Thwaite is Assistant National Curator for Libraries at the National Trust. She hTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. 100 BOOKS3. Glossary of terms 4. Gazetteer of National Trust Libraries 5. Index 6. Acknowledgements7. Picture credits

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Book SynopsisPoems by both men and women from the 1600s to the present day are beautifully illustrated with images from the unrivalled collection of Japanese paintings and prints in the British Museum.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In A Thoroughly Mischievous Person, Alan Kennedy shows how Ransome's magical Swallows and Amazons novels are far more than stories of holiday adventure. Full of allusion to myth, fairy tale and the difficulties of his own family, and largely ignored by his biographers, they are in fact a hidden autobiography and set out to resolve the psychological tensions in his own conflicted life." Julian Lovelock, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham and author of Swallows, Amazons and Coots. "Alan Kennedy presents a multi-layered psychological analysis of Ransome's literary genius. Experimental research is combined with psychoanalytic insights to show how individual characters, objects, and events capture the reader because they are pointers to deeper universal experiences. The book also offers a fascinating perspective on Ransome's complex personality, and on his use of fiction to reach a child that he could not reach in real life." Albrecht Inhoff, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Binghamton University "Sharing lodgings at different times with the nature poet Edward Thomas and the Bolshevik agent Karl Radek, Arthur Ransome moved with apparent ease through many different worlds. Alan Kennedy brings both a lifetime's admiration and psychological interpretation to bear upon this fascinating and enigmatic character, exploring his life and character in the light of a psychoanalytic reading of his novels that opens up some of the darkest places of the man and the century." Stan Smith, Emeritus Professor of English, Nottingham Trent University and author of Edward Thomas "The best piece of writing on Ransome to have come out in years." Peter Willis, Signals, p38, August 2021

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Book SynopsisPerspectives on the perils and pitfalls of ageing, viewed through the lens of novels, plays and poems from across history.Trade Review'Among the many joys of this inspiringly high-spirited heart-to-heart with the literature of ageing, is the zest with which it seizes the opportunity of age to read again for pleasure, the better to enjoy what's left of life, or the better to endure it. If getting old has consolations, David Ellis's engrossing conversations with works we are strangers to, or thought we knew but didn't, is one of them.' - Howard Jacobson, novelist and essayist 'Blasted With Antiquity is a full-throated celebration of the literary imagination, and of how books and reading - those cherished, old-fashioned tools - provide us with rich aids to thought about age and aging.' - Professor Andrea Charise, University of Toronto, author of The Aesthetics of Senescence: Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel 'Witty, insightful, and ambitious, Blasted with Antiquity reflects on ageing and old age across the Western literary canon. Organized around themes such as retirement, nostalgia and self-consciousness and sex, Ellis's book is a delight to read - a significant publication for scholars in literary age studies and an accessible volume for anyone interested in literary representations of growing older.' - Dr Jacob Jewusiak, Newcastle University, author of Aging, Duration, and the English Novel 'David Ellis's wit, honesty, humanity, learning lightly worn, and relish for dark humour make Blasted with Antiquity a pleasure to read. His approach to aspects of old age such as the loss of power and position, nostalgia for the past, the experience of physical weakness and the will to control, through well written and accessible discussions of Shakespeare, Stendhal, Chaucer, Austen, Philip Larkin, James Joyce and Alan Bennett and many others, make this book highly enjoyable and even exhilarating. Ellis has written a new classic.' - Professor Janet Montefiore, University of KentTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Note on Referencing 1. Introduction 2. Retirement 3. Ageing, Decrepitude and the Wisdom of the Elders 4. Self-­consciousness and Sex 5. ­Family ­Matters 6. Leaving One's Mark 7. ­Will Power 8. Nostalgia 9. Taking Stock 10. Doctoring and ­Dying 11. Ending Up 12. Postscript: On 'the Stages of Life' List of Works Cited Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisThe "revenge" play became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. This example by Thomas Kyd, who was one of the originators of the genre, brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically juxtaposing romantic passion with violent death.

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Book SynopsisThis classic text is the tale of a woman who becomes involved in murder without realizing the terrible price she will pay for it. This edition includes an introduction which analyzes the play in detail, and a commentary illuminating difficulties in the play for the modern reader.

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Book SynopsisA first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from 'Frankenstein' to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition. -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Queering the Gothic - William Hughes and Andrew Smith1. ‘Love in a Convent’: Or, Gothic and the Perverse Father of Queer Enjoyment - Dale Townshend2. ‘Do You Share My Madness?’: Frankenstein’s Queer Gothic - Mair Rigby3. Daniel Deronda’s Jewish Panic - Royce Mahawatte4. ‘That mighty love which maddens one to crime’: Medicine Masculinity, Same-Sex Desire and the Gothic in Teleny - Diane Mason5. Gothic Landscapes, Imperial Collapse, and the Queering of Adela Quested in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India - Ardel Thomas6. Antonia White’s Frost in May: Gothic Mansions, Ghosts and Particular Friendships - Paulina Palmer7. Devouring Desires: Lesbian Gothic Horror - Gina Wisker8. ‘The taste of blood meant the end of aloneness’.Vampires and Gay Men in Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls - William Hughes9. Michael Jackson’s Queer Funk - Steven Bruhm10. Death, Art, and Bodies: Queering the Queer Gothic in Will Self’s Dorian - Andrew SmithNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisFirst collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in their field on one of the most controversial and influential dramatists who emerged during the In-Yer Face' generation of British dramatists in the 1990s. Essential, wide-ranging, European guide to Kane for students and scholars of Theatre Studies or English Literature. -- .Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction(Laurens De Vos and Graham Saunders)Part I: Surrounding Voices1. Reviewing the fabric of Blasted(Elaine Aston)2. Sarah Kane before Blasted: the monologues(Dan Rebellato)3. ‘Looks like there’s a war on’: Sarah Kane’s Blasted, political theatre and the Muslim Other(Aleks Sierz)4. Staging Power: the politics of sex and death in Seneca’s Phaedra and Kane’s Phaedra’s Love(Zina Giannopoulou)5. The Beckettian world of Sarah Kane(Graham Saunders)6. Cruelty, violence and rituals in Sarah Kane’s plays(Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier)7. Sarah Kane, experiential theatre and the revenant avant-garde(Clare Wallace)Part II: Subjectivity, Responsibility and Representation8. The voice of Kane(Ehren Fordyce)9. ‘I love you now’: time and desire in the plays of Sarah Kane(Robert I. Lublin)10. Sarah Kane and Antonin Artaud: cruelty towards the subjectile(Laurens De Vos)11. Posthumanist identities in Sarah Kane(Julie Waddington)12. Neither here nor there: theatrical space in Kane’s work(Annette Pankratz)13.‘Victim. Perpetrator. Bystander’: critical distance in Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Cruelty(Hillary Chute)14. Sarah Kane’s Phaedra's Love: staging the implacable(Peter A. Campbell)15. Under the surface of things. Sarah Kane’s Skin and the medium of theatre(Mateusz Borowski) 16. ‘We are anathema’ – Sarah Kane’s plays as postdramatic theatre v. the ‘Dreary and repugnant tale of sense’(Eckart Voigts-Virchow)Epilogue‘The mark of Kane’(Edward Bond)References List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis accessible critical introduction, written by a leading expert, highlights W.G. Sebald’s double role as writer and academic.Trade Review'Schütte’s book is now the place to start with one’s study of Sebald... It seems so simple, doesn’t it—summarize an author’s life, books, and impact in 130 pages? Schütte makes this look easy, which is a credit to the clarity of his writing and critical thinking.'VertigoTable of ContentsList of Illustrations viAcknowledgements viBiographical Outline ixAbbreviations and References xiii1 W. G. Sebald: Emigrant and Academic 12 After Nature (1988) 303 Vertigo (1990) 424 The Emigrants (1992) 575 The Rings of Saturn (1995) 726 Austerlitz (2001) 887 The Cult of Sebald 107Postscript 116Notes 117Primary Bibliography 123Select Bibliography 124Index 127

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Book SynopsisFor the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analogous to the death of God one hundred years previously. In this now classic study, Seán Burke both provides the first detailed explanation of anti-authorialism and shows how, even taken on its own terms, the attempt to abolish the author is philosophically untenable. Rather than developing a traditionally humanist defence, Burke effectively out-theorises theory through rigorous readings which demonstrate that the concept of the author remained profoundly active even and especially as its disappearance was being articulated. The question of the author, he argues, is not a question within theory but the question of theory.Building on a substantially revised second edition, Burke further explores the challenges faced by an authorial theory that is ''still to come''. Prompted by the responses to the passing of Jacques Derrida in 2004, he revisits the enigmatic borderlines between life and work, life and (authorial) death.Trade ReviewThanks largely to Burke, 'Author Studies' is now legitimate in literary academia...truly brilliant. Writing in Education Thanks largely to Burke, 'Author Studies' is now legitimate in literary academia...truly brilliant.Table of ContentsPreface to Third Edition: The 'Life Death' of the Author; Preface to the Second Edition; Prologue: The Deaths of Paul de Man; Introduction: A Prehistory of the Death of the Author; 1. The Birth of the Reader: Authorship and Apotheosis; From Work to Life; The 'Founders of Languages'; Mimesis and the Author; Autobiographies; 2. The Author and the Death of Man: Cogito and the Birth of Man; The Founder of Futurity; What (and Who) is an Author?; Allegories of Misreading; Transcendental Lures: LAcan and the Mastery of Language; Subjectivities; 3. Misread Intentions: Authors of Absence; Hors-Texte; A History of Silence; Doubling the Text: Intention and its Other; The Myth of Writing; Reading and (Self-) Writing; Conclusion: Critic and Author: Critic and Author?; Misreceptions: Phenomenology into Deconstruction; The Ghost in the Machine: Authorial Inscription and the Limits of Theory; Epilogue: Technology and the Politics of Reading; 'Half Dust, Half Deity': The Middle Way of Situated Authorship; Appendix 1: The Biographical Imperative; Appendix 2: The Author as Reader; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisA guide to the galaxy of invented languages – perfect for language lovers or any fan of Star Trek, Star Wars, Game of Thrones and many moreTrade Review'Wahlgren has written a wonderful book: ... A tribute to the collective creativity. When you have read it you just want more!' -- Fredrik Kylberg, Östgöta Corren Swedish-language newspaper

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Book SynopsisFor film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 52 cinema classics and the literary works that served as their inspiration. I love that movie!But have you read the book?Within these pages, Turner Classic Movies offers an endlessly fascinating look at 52 beloved screen adaptations and the great reads that inspired them. Some films, like Clueless-Amy Heckerling''s interpretation of Jane Austen''s Emma-diverge wildly from the original source material, while others, like One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest, shift the point of view to craft a different experience within the same story. Author Kristen Lopez explores just what makes these works classics of both the page and screen, and why each made for an exceptional adaptation-whether faithful to the book or exemplifying cinematic creative license. Other featured works include:Children of Men The Color Purple

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Book SynopsisA Thessalonians expert and experienced teacher offers a substantive evangelical commentary on 1 and 2 Thessalonians in the award-winning BECNT series.

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Book SynopsisThis accessible, Christian introduction to Dante also serves as a primer to the Divine Comedy, helping readers appreciate the complexity and layers of meaning in Dante's spiritual masterpiece.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Dante as Poet, Prophet, and ExilePart 1: INFERNO1. Zooming In and Zooming Out: How to Read Inferno (Inferno 1-2)2. The Fear of Hell and the Fear of God (Inferno 3-9)3. The Graveyard of the Heretics and the Wasteland of the Violent (Inferno 10-17)4. White-Collar Criminals and Sins against Words (Inferno 18-26)5. Icy Hearts and Frozen Souls: The Lowest Portion of Hell (Inferno 27-34)Part 2: PURGATORIO6. Waiting for God: An Introduction to Purgatorio7. The People outside the Gate: Freedom, Responsibility, and Vulnerability (Purgatorio 1-9)8. In Search of Deep Cleansing: The Middle Canti (Purgatorio 10-24)9. Returning to Humanity's First Home: Epic and Lyric in the Garden of Eden (Purgatorio 25-28)10. "As the Heavens Are Higher Than the Earth": Dante's Apocalyptic Vision (Purgatorio 29-33)Part 3: PARADISO11. "Great Fires Come from Tiny Sparks": An Introduction to Paradiso (Paradiso 1-2)12. "In His Will Is Our Peace": Individuality and Polyphony in Paradiso (Paradiso 3-20)13. Intellectual Fasting and the Test of Love: Saturn, Stars, and the Crystalline Sphere (Paradiso 21-29)14. The Canti of Surprise: Garden, Book, and Rose (Paradiso 30-33)Conclusion: The Wonder of the ComedyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then, however, they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory. Included here are four essays representing key points in the formalists' short history.Trade Review“Some of the most important literary theory of this century.”—College EnglishTable of ContentsIntroduction by Gary Saul MorsonIntroductionVICTOR SHKLOVSKY Art as Technique Sterne's Tristram Shandy: Stylistic CommentaryBORIS TOMASHEVSKY ThematicsBORIS EICHENBAUM The Theory of the "Formal Method"Index

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Book SynopsisAt last, a compact, powerful overview of one of America’s most beloved and radical poets—spanning more than six decades of workTrade Review"He has a gift for helping you hear what needs to be said... His high points are the poems that you wish you could listen to in a car, on a long coastal highway with the windows rolled down." -- Jeff Gordinier - The New York Times"A brave man and a brave poet." -- Bob Dylan"Ferlinghetti is a national treasure, and his voice has become part of our collective conscience. Ferlinghetti is the foremost chronicler of our times, continually in the front lines." -- Library Journal"Lawrence gets you laughing, then hits you with the truth." -- Francis Ford Coppola"Combining a Whitmanesque celebration of the earthy with a nod to the surrealist tradition, Ferlinghetti blasted his way into public consciousness with the 1958 publication of A Coney Island of the Mind, marking him as one of the Beat poets, though his more refined poetic sensibility showed just how different he was from what ‘Beat’ came to mean." -- Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisThe first US publication by the legendary tanka master of love, homoerotic desire and destruction

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Book SynopsisA collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis, examining the novels of his mature period: "American Psycho" (1991), "Glamorama" (1999), and "Lunar Park" (2005). It also examines the alchemy of acclaim and disdain that accrues to Ellis, and reviews the literary and artistic significance of his work.Trade Review"Naomi Mandel's exceedingly well edited collection of essays on Bret Easton Ellis's three major novels—American Psycho, Glamorama, and Lunar Park—provides us with the first, long overdue, book-length account of one of the most controversial and reviled of all American authors. A brave undertaking that goes against the received wisdom of much academic and middle-brow literary criticism, this volume offers many surprising insights through close, lucid, frequently ingenious, and always astute encounters with Ellis's work. Despite—or perhaps better because of—the broad scope of approaches featured, this volume presents readers with a remarkably coherent critical conversation; no doubt to the chagrin of the author's many detractors, this collection of essays ultimately puts forth a convincing counter-canonical argument by positioning Bret Easton Ellis as one of the major American writers of the last thirty years. As such, Bret Easton Ellis proves to be not only an indispensable, and immensely teachable, resource for anyone interested in Ellis's work but also provocative for the study of contemporary literary culture in general." -- Marco Abel, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Nebraska, USA"If Ellis's fiction is notoriously said to be about "surface, surface, surface", this collection of essays duly traces the terrestrial details and faultlines of his prose, to interpret how he diagnoses, reveals and often anticipates the most acute contemporary anxieties, from psychological consequences of materialism through the injunction between politics and media to current questions of literary authorship. What is more, the volume offers, probably for the first time, an overview of Ellis's later career as a novelist from American Psycho to Lunar Park. A must for any scholar and, indeed, with the editor's introduction, for any student or reader of contemporary American literature." -- László B. Sári, Lecturer in the Department of Literatures and Cultures in English, University of Pécs, HungaryThis collection of essays on Bret Easton Ellis's "mature work" (American Psycho, 1991; Glamorama, 1999, LunarPark, 2005) is long overdue. Part of the literary "brat pack" of the 1980s (together with Janowitz and McInerney), Ellis has long stepped outside the genre fiction of his early works, becoming one of the most acknowledged critics of U.S. American lifestyle. The main targets of Ellis's biting critiques - postmodern consumer culture, the "celebrity discourse," and the omnipresence of violence are examined in this anthology in ten persuasive essays. With good reason, the book concentrates on three central novels, which are representative of both thewide range of topicsnegotiated in Ellis's works and the "brand Ellis" (that is, the writer's self-construction in his writings). The anthology is equipped with an excellent introduction on the "value and values of Bret Easton Ellis" as well as introductory articles to each of the three discussed texts. This anthology is not only a wonderful overview of Ellis's oeuvre. It also offers a number of witty and theoretically challenging accounts of the author's most provocative texts. All in all, this book represents an important look at the work of this still active author, covering a basic void in previous criticismof Ellis. This anthology is an indispensable study book for academic discussions of postmodern American literature. -- Stefan L. Brandt, Free University Berlin, Germany ‘Mandel's collection fills a glaring lacuna in contemporary criticism. Ellis's work deserves a book-length study and this collection largely succeeds in providing sober discussion that is necessarily contextual but free of the hysteria occasioned by the extremity of the source material.' -- The Gothic Imagination... readers should appreciate the series' clear purpose and excellent essays. The series is a welcome addition to scholarship. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction group review in CHOICETable of ContentsSeries Preface; Introduction; Part I: American Psycho (1991); Introduction; 1. Violence, Ethics, and the Rhetoric of Decorum in American Psycho, Michael P. Clark (University of California, Irvine, USA); 2. American Psycho, Hamlet, and Existential Psychosis, Alex E. Blazer (Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, USA); 3. 'The Soul of this Man is His Clothes': Violence and Fashion in American Psycho, Elana Gomel (Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel); Part II: Glamorama (1999); Introduction; 4. "'It's Really Me': Intermediality and Constructed Identities in Glamorama", Sonia Baelo-Allue (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain); 5. The Unusual Suspects: Celebrity, Conspiracy, and Objective Violence in Glamorama, David Schmid (University at Buffalo, USA); 6. "Merely Political": Glam Terrorism and Celebrity Politics in Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama, Arthur Redding (York University, Toronto, Canada); Part III: Lunar Park (2005); Introduction; 7. "An awfully good impression": truth and testimony in Lunar Park, Jeff Karnicky (Drake University, Des Moines, USA); 8. What's in a name? Double exposures in Lunar Park, Henrik Skov Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark); 9. Brand Ellis: celebrity authorship in Lunar Park, James Annesley (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK); Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed as a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and literature students at school, college and university. It aims to give readers informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years.Trade Review"A brilliant idea--short, perceptive books which tell you what you need to know about some of the most vibrant and challenging writing around today--a bit like having a reading group in your pocket."--Ian Rankin"The series comes as near to squaring various circles - popular / academic, 'good read' / 'classic Lit', novel / film of the book as any I know. And at best it goes a fair way towards reshuffling those categories and redrawing the boundaries. With the first volume, I was relieved. After two or three, I was hooked. The books are invaluable for gathering out-of-the-way or ephemeral comment from TV and radio interviews and the web as well as from literary reviews. Refreshingly upfront and up-to-date... Given the space, there are remarkably balanced film/novel comparisons of the most well-known examples... An important feature is the fully referenced bibliographies, including reviews and copious website addresses - the latter ranging from fanzines and authors' and publishers' own sites to academic discussion lists and online journals. In method as in subject matter, these guides move freely on the interface between print culture and multimedia. Highly finished and pleasantly handleable as books in their own right, they gesture accommodatingly to both words and worlds beyond. Taking the series as a whole, it also confirms two things: that narrative nowadays is generically highly hybrid and increasingly cross-media; and that an understanding of the processes of writing and reading 'contemporary classic' (or at least 'currently famous') fiction cannot be separated - yet must be distinguished - from the processes of making and marketing books and films."-- The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 31, 2002"...Pat Wheeler's book is short and accessible and is targeted at student's of A-level English Literature. It is presented in five chapters: The Novelist, The Novel, The Novel's Reception, The Novel's Performance, Further Reading, and Discussion Questions. This adds up to a very comprehensive treatment. This particular study will...be a source of information and ideas to lecturers and teachers; it will also undoubtedly be of advantage to the able student who will use it selectively and judiciously." -E. F. Finlayson, School Library Association

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Book SynopsisJ G Ballard is one of the most significant British writers of the contemporary period. This guide includes critical perspectives on Ballard's major novels as well as his short stories and journalistic writing covering issues of form, narrative and experimentation.Trade ReviewThere are substantial and scholarly essays on the influence of surrealism on Ballard, his relation to Baudrillard, his cinematic imagination, the representations of London and other landscapes and the role of violence in his work. A timeline of Ballard's life and an extensive bibliography complete this stimulating volume... Students will find the summaries at the beginning of each chapter a big help. -- The Times Higher Education"The extraordinary fictions of J. G. Ballard, so long overlooked by the academy, are finally beginning to get the academic criticism they deserve. This collection offers a host of incisive essays, sandwiched between Toby Litt's meditations on Ballard's work and an interview with Ballard himself, who cheerfully announces the arrival of a new Dark Age -- by fax, weirdly enough. In between, diverse critical voices cover Ballard's fiction from the sixties to the noughties, from SF to crime, from future apocalypse to domestic memoir. A very worthy addition to the scholarship of one of the post-war era's most important writers."- Professor Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck College, University of London."J. G. Ballard: Contemporary Critical Perspectives may be the most critically capacious and insightful volume yet devoted to this sui generis author whose work spans the past half-century. It is the ideal companion for scholars and teachers of Ballard's endlessly intriguing, evolving, challenging, controversial fictions.'- Professor Brian W. Shaffer, Rhodes College, USA... brings together a wonderful range of critical perspectives on Ballard. -- Routledge ABESTable of ContentsGeneral Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Chronology or a Version of J. G. Ballard's Life; Foreword by Toby Litt; Introduction: J. G. Ballard and the Contemporary, Jeannette Baxter (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge); 1. The Geometry of the Space Age: J. G. Ballard's short fiction and science fiction of the 1960s, Brian Baker (Lancaster University); 2. Disquieting Features: An Introductory Tour to The Atrocity Exhibition, Jake Huntley (University of East Anglia); 3. The Gothic, the Body, and the Failed Homeopathy Argument: Reading Crash, Victor Sage (University of East Anglia); 4. Death at Work: The Cinematic Imagination of J. G. Ballard, Corin Depper (Kingston University); 5. Mind is the Battlefield: Reading Ballard's 'Life Trilogy' as War Literature, Umberto Rossi (Rome); 6. From Shanghai to Shepperton: Crises of Representation in J. G. Ballard's Londons, Sebastian Groes (Liverpool Hope University); 7. Visions of Europe in Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes, Jeannette Baxter (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge); 8. The Possibilities of Sacrifice, the Certainties of Trauma: J. G. Ballard's Postmillenial Fiction, Philip Tew (Brunel University); Afterword by Toby Litt; Interview with J.G. Ballard by Jeannette Baxter; Further Reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisAn informed, engaging and accessible introduction to the Christie phenomenon, examining all her novels and short stories. This edition has been updated to include new material on all recent film, TV and literary adaptations....Trade ReviewMark Campbell on Agatha Christie's Dartmoor * Independent on Saturday *everything you ever wanted to know about Christie's stories in incredible detail * Glasgow Evening Times *I am getting more impressed by the Pocket Essentials with each one I see -- Alex McLintock * Diverse Books *one of the most useful books I've come across in the vast array of titles available to Christie fans -- Heidi Scott * Mostly Harmless *"an impressively complete guide to Agatha Christie's work" * Investigating Poirot *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Menza ... was a guru, a giant. He was a supernova. He was the only brilliant person I have ever met. I took his course by accident, and it changed my life. He had all these acolytes who would hang on his every word, and he knew it, so one day he came into class and he started in on something, and we were taking down everything, and he stopped and said: 'Put your pens down. What I am saying is important.'"--Peter Mose in I Remember My Teacher by David ShribmanTable of Contents1. Psychic Bolt-Holes2. Visitation3. I Never Saw Harvey4. What Is a Symbol 5. Down the Philosophical Rabbit-Hole; or, “GAVAGAI!”6. The Rabbit Evangels: Joel Chandler Harris and Beatrix Potter7. Obliterature8. How Children Get Cheated Out of Their Humanity9. The Rabbit between Us Came from Slavery10. Aubade with Brer Rabbit11. The Rabbit Dances

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1.A New Mystic2.Aminadab or the Fantastic Considered as a Language

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Book SynopsisHaving children is one of the biggest decisions you'll make in your life. Increasingly, we aren't making it at all.

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Book SynopsisThis book frames transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts to travel without money. It explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around 'the hobo' and 'the tramp'. It provides new ways for scholars to think about the activity and representation of US transiency.

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Book SynopsisYosefa Raz reveals surprising entanglements between scholarly and poetic traditions in the project of reinventing prophecy. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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