Movements & Periods

Cracking Shakespeare serves to demystify the process of speaking Shakespeare's language, offering hands-on techniques for drama students, young actors and d...

The Second Volume In The Life Of Literary Giant Saul Bellow, Vividly Capturing A Personal Life That Was Always Tumultuous And Career That Never Ceased Being...

This thoroughly readable collection of Malory's famous stories of King Arthur includes the familiar legends, plots, exploits, and characters which have be...

In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightf...

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

In 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or "rubáiyát") of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayyám. If not a true tra...

In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound ...

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...

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,...

Having Engineered The Marriage Of The Governess, Emma Now Turns Her Attention Towards Making A Match For Mr. Elton, The Local Vicar. Emma's One Voice Of Rea...

Jeffrey Burton Russell. Includes Index.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies Theology ChristianAngelology & Demonology

The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of cinema; art and revolution in Russia and in Mexico; the avant...

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...

Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'...

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...

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...

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...

New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux will capture your heart with signature classic novel, a time-travel romance featuring a present-day heroine...

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence—which is loosely based on the not...

A Dialogue Between Two Shepards, Uttered In A Pastoral Show -- Two Songs For An Accession Day Tilt -- Philisides, The Shepard Good And True -- Sing, Neighbo...

In A Sweeping Portrayal Of German Life From World War I To The Early 1970's, Böll, Tells The Story Of The Widow Leni Pfeiffer And Her Son Lev Who Have Beco...

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 ...

This study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of spolia, an imaginati...

Full-color maps and illustrations from every reach of Middle-earth make this an essential guide to exploring Tolkien’s world. Full-color maps and illustra...

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

The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after d...

General Editor, Michael Dobson ; Associate General Editor, Stanley Wells. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 537-539).Categories: Literature & Fict...

In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, one man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of political power. T...

In the years following World War II a group of gay writers established themselves as major cultural figures in American life. Truman Capote, the enfant ter...

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...

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...

In this marvelous book, acclaimed around the world, Alberto Manguel takes us on a fascinating exploration of what it means to be a reader of books. A Histor...

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

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

Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, w...

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

Sophocles' Ajax Is One Of The Most Disturbing And Powerful Surviving Ancient Tragedies. But It Is Also Difficult To Understand And Interpret. What Are We To...