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Writings by leading critics survey the history of literary analysis from classical antiquityCategories: Literature & Fiction History & CriticismMove...

For this new edition, the text has been revised and corrected in accordance with the principles of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series. Frye's origi...

National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America. Foundational Fictions shows how 19th century patriotism and heterosexual passio...

Originally published in English in 1978, this full-scale examination of the philosophy of metaphor from Aristotle to the present, brings together and discus...

This edition is the first to reproduce John Addington Symonds's Memoirs in its entirety. It offers a panoramic view of middle-class Victorian life, shedding...

The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory is the most comprehensive collection of poetry from the period ever published. Included are g...

This book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology...

This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containi...

It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, di...

This is the only anthology to present a full history of Canadian poetry — from the early 1600s through the expansiveness of poetic activity during the 18t...

The last half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of literary theory as a new discipline. As with any body of scholarship, various schools of t...

From one of Canada's most respected and high-profile health professionals (and former federal Minister of Health), a timely, practical, ambitious, and deepl...

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to...

Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In this volume...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Hamlet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No ...

Creative Writing is a complete writing course that will jump-start your writing and guide you through your first steps towards publication. Suitable for u...

The Edda Poems Were Written Down In The Old Norse Language By Icelandic Scholars During The 11th To 13th Centuries Ad. They Contain A Poetical, Metaphorical...

In Belle Moral: A Natural History, we are steeped in a world on the cusp between magic and art, and science and madness. Set in 1899 just outside Edinburgh,...

Kafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary moder...

metaphor Is A Central Concept In Literary Studies, But It Is Also Prevalent In Everyday Language And Speech. Recent Literary Theories Such As Postmodernis...

Offering a user-friendly, beautifully illustrated guide to every play in the Shakespeare canon, as well as a portrait of the Bard's life and the world of El...

This edition of Hamlet is especially designed for students, with accessible on page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and r...

Long Anticipated And Hugely Welcome, Paul Holberton's A History Of Arcadia Is A Close And Thorough Examination Of A Great Number Of Original Texts Of Classi...

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Be...

Irwin Traces The Development Of The Stories Within Stories From Prehistoric India And Pharaonic Egypt To Modern Times, Explores Translations, Additions, Imi...

As a teenager during China’s Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People’s Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident...

Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English liter...

Communications, Philosophy, Film And Video, Digital Culture: Media Studies Straddles An Astounding Array Of Fields And Disciplines And Produces A Vocabulary...

Unrivaled In Its Scope And Depth, The Columbia History Of Twentieth-century French Thought Assesses The Intellectual Figures, Movements, And Publications Th...

set In The Magnificent Culture Of The Middle East More Than Four Thousand Years Ago, Lilah Is A Rich And Emotionally Resonant Story Of Faith, Love, And Co...

The Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious tome discovered in 1912 by the English book dealer Wilfrid Michael Voynich, has puzzled scholars for a century. A small...

When the Iberian Peninsula breaks free of Europe and begins to drift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together on the newly formed island-...

This Collection Of Essays Probes The Ways In Which Classic Children's Literature Tends To Undermine, Rather Than Support, Respectable Adult Values. Subversi...

Winner of the 2018 City of Vancouver Book AwardFrom Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about hom...

Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basi...

This Study Of Early Greek Lyric Provides Portraits Of Archilochus, Alcaeus And Sappho And Their Poetry. It Looks At Their Social Setting, And Their Purposes...

One of the hallmarks of FIELD magazine has always been its attention to what poets have to say about poetry. Many of these essays—by William Stafford, Den...

The Moral Compass, The Inspiring And Instructive Companion Volume To The Book Of Virtues, Offers Many More Examples Of Good And Bad, Right And Wrong, In Gre...

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Stephen Greenblatt Has Been At The Center Of A Major Shift In Literary Interpretation Toward A Critical Method That Situates Cultural Creation In History. S...

Narratology Has Been Conceived From Its Earliest Days As A Project That Transcends Disciplines And Media. The Essays Gathered Here Address The Question Of H...

Stuart Gilbert's Friendship With James Joyce Began In Paris In 1927 After Gilbert Read Several Pages From A Forthcoming French Translation Of Ulysses In The...

The Goal Of The Middle English Texts Series Is To Make Available To Teachers And Students Texts Which Occupy An Important Place In The Literary And Cultural...

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world, neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, effecting even those who don...

James M. Lellard uses Lacan's psychoanalytic theories to provide interpretations of lierary works including The Scarlet Letter, to The Lighthouse, and other...

Barbara Herrnstein Smith. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesPhilosophy

This anthology offers a lively introduction to the study of fiction, poetry, and drama, and is appropriate for introduction to literature courses as well as...

The Work of Poetry is organized into three parts. "Poetic Substance" explores the nature of poetry and the poet, with essays that cover the poet "being-and...