Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Martin Amis to Ian Mcewan, Nick Hornby to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guide ...more on ebook "Contemporary British Novelists..."
This pioneering study examines the extraordinary proliferation of polyphonic or "multi-voiced" texts in the three centuries following the first contact between europeans and indigenous pe ...more on ebook "Colonial Encounters in New World Wr..."
Conrad in the Twenty-First Century is a collection of original essays by leading Conrad scholars that rereads Conrad in light of his representations of post-colonialism, of empire, ...more on ebook "Conrad in the Twenty-First Century..."
In Child Language, Jean Stilwell Peccei outlines the major areas of linguistic analysis involved in the study of children's language. Building on the established strengths of the f ...more on ebook "Child Language..."
When critical theory met literary studies in the 1970s and '80s, some of the most radical and exciting theoretical work took as its subject the long mythologized, quasi-sacred figure of S ...more on ebook "Alternative Shakespeares..."
French author and diplomat Alain Chartier (c. 1385-1440) is recognised as one of the few medieval poets to have maintained a successful reputation well into the Renaissance and beyond. Hi ...more on ebook "Alain Chartier and The Quarrel of t..."
Hazel Conway introduces the student new to the subject to different areas of design history and shows some of the ways in which it can be studied and some of its delights and difficulties ...more on ebook "Design History: A Students’ Handb..."
As well as a fascinating chronology of Marlowe's life and works and extensive notes on the text, this edition includes a substantial and authoritative historical introduction to the play. ...more on ebook "Doctor Faustus..."
The only French-english dictionary to offer comprehensive, unexpurgated coverage of French slang, with three levels of english translation, ranging from slang through to standard english. ...more on ebook "Dictionary of Modern Colloquial Fre..."
Beowulf is the oldest and most complete epic poem in any non-Classical european language. This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of critical commentary from the vast body o ...more on ebook "Beowulf..."
Next to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson is perhaps the most widely studied Renaissance dramatist. Very few students of literature or drama would not encounter Volpone or Bartholomew Fa ...more on ebook "Ben Jonson..."
Antonio Gramsci examines the influential work of the great Italian thinker. Renate Holub seeks to reclaim Gramsci from classical Marxism, and instead places him in t ...more on ebook "Antonio Gramsci: Beyond Marxism and..."
A Handbook to Literary Research is a vital, one of a kind student resource, which has been written specifically for those embarking on a Masters degree in Literature. It provides a ...more on ebook "A Handbook to Literary Research..."
This book starts from three observations. First, the use of humour is a complex, puzzling, and idiosyncratically human form of behaviour (and hence is of scientific interest). Second, the ...more on ebook "Analysis of Jokes..."
