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by Una Ellis-Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
First published in 1980.
This collection of essays by the first General Editor of the New Arden Shakespeare brings together the best of Ellis-Fermor's Shespearean criticism, in addition to outstanding essays on Coriolanus and Troilus and Cressida.
Collected and edited by Kenneth Muir, the book is prefaced by an appreciation of Ellis-Fermor's work.
Screen Tests
Stories and Other Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
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A new work equal parts observational micro-fiction and cultural criticism reflecting on the dailiness of life as a woman and writer, on fame and failure, aging and art, from the acclaimed author of Heroines, Green...
The Americas of Asian American Literature
Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1999
Drawing on a wide array of literary, historical, and theoretical sources, Rachel Lee addresses current debates on the relationship among Asian American ethnic identity, national belonging, globalization, and gender. Lee argues that scholars have traditionally placed undue emphasis on ethnic-based...
The Rhetoric of Certitude
C.S. Lewis's Nonfiction Prose
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
While numerous studies on C. S. Lewis’s literary achievements have been published in the past several years, The Rhetoric of Certitude brings much-needed attention to Lewis’s nonfiction prose, identifying his unique style and explaining why his writing has remained popular while that of so many...
The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit
Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Chick lit is the marketing label attributed to a surge of books published in the wake of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City (1997). Branded by their pink or pastel-coloured book covers, chick-lit novels have been a highly successful and ubiquitous...
Thinking Through Blake
Essays in Literary Contrariety
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
A seminal figure in Romantic poetry and visual arts, William Blake continues to influence modern literary criticism. In this book, Blake scholar Hazard Adams presents a selection of essays that span his long career exploring the work and thought of the groundbreaking artist. Topics range from the...
Women's Poetry and Poetics in Late Imperial China
A Dialogic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
This literary study examines women-authored poetry and poetic criticism in late imperial China. It provides close readings of original texts to explore the poetic forms and devices women poets employed, to place their work into the context of the wider literary history of the period, and to analyze...
Harmony Garden
The Life, Literary Criticism, and Poetry of Yuan Mei (1716-1798)
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This is the first complete study of China's most popular eighteenth-century poet in any Western language. The work consists of a detailed biography, a study of Yuan's revolutionary reinterpretation of Chinese literary theory, and an analysis of his many contributions to the more original genres of...
by Donald E. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2004
Explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. Donald E. Hall:
* examines all of the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,...
Poetry's Afterlife
Verse in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
"The great pleasure of this book is the writing itself. Not only is it free of academic and ‘lit-crit' jargon, it is lively prose, often deliciously witty or humorous, and utterly contemporary. Poetry's Afterlife has terrific classroom potential, from elementary school teachers seeking to inspire...
Reading and Writing Experimental Texts
Critical Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This collection of essays offers twelve innovative approaches to contemporary literary criticism. The contributors, women scholars who range from undergraduate students to contingent faculty to endowed chairs, stage a critical dialogue that raises vital questions about the aims and forms of criticism—...
Shakespeare Relocated
Studies in Historical Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
In Shakespeare Relocated, Hugh Macrae Richmond uses his previously published essays to illustrate the development of modern attitudes towards religion, politics, and sexuality. He traces the complex evolution from classical and medieval sources to Reformation and Renaissance ones by reviewing literary...
Literary Studies
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Literary Studies: A Practical Guide provides a comprehensive foundation for the study of English, American, and world literatures, giving students the critical skills they need to best develop and apply their knowledge. Designed for use in a range of literature courses, it begins by outlining the...
Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
A Children's Classic at 100
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
In 1908, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows was published to surprisingly little critical fanfare. But readers championed its cause, and Grahame's novel of a riverbank life soon proved both a commercial_and ultimately critical_success. One hundred years after its first publication, Grahame's...