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Shakespeare among the courtesans Shakespeare among the courtesans Duncan Salkeld This book presents a series of studies on the topic of prostitution in early modern drama, viewed in both English and Italian contexts. Drawing on a variety of documentary sources, it provides new hi… OL16572610W
Temporalities Temporalities Russell West-Pavlov "Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art… OL16607498W
After Poststructuralism After Poststructuralism Colin Davis This is a brilliantly argued account of the past and present fortunes of theory. It also maps out a way forward for the humanities in which theory will play a crucial part. OL16940644W
Contemporary literary criticism Contemporary literary criticism James P. Draper,Christopher Giroux Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, … OL19796551W
Literary theory Literary theory Johannes Willem Bertens This third edition of Hans Bertens' bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist… OL20030606W
Epistemology of the closet Epistemology of the closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Working from classic texts of European and American writers―including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde―Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientati… OL2007273W
Short story criticism Short story criticism Lawrence J. Trudeau,Thomas J. Schoenberg Presents literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines,… OL20443551W
Short story criticism Short story criticism Jenny Cromie Presents literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines,… OL28166863W
Horizon cinéma Horizon cinéma Jean-Michel Frodon Propose une redéfinition de la place qu'occupe l'art cinématographique dans le nouveau rapport au monde instauré par le numérique et la globalisation. OL28767050W
Contemporary literary criticism Contemporary literary criticism Jeffrey W. Hunter Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, … OL28774869W
Nineteenth-Century literature criticism Nineteenth-Century literature criticism Denise Evans Presents literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines… OL28948656W
Contemporary literary criticism Contemporary literary criticism Deborah A. Stanley Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, … OL28949796W
Boss ladies, watch out! Boss ladies, watch out! Terry Castle "Boss Ladies, Watch Out! brings together in a convenient format Terry Castle's most scintillating recent essays on literary criticism, women's writing and sexuality. Readers of Castle's many books an… OL3275589W
To write like a woman To write like a woman Joanna Russ From the back cover: Joanna Russ has written -- as novelist, short-story writer, and critic -- on science fiction, fantasy, and feminism. These essays reflect the breadth of Russ's critical work,… OL3332547W
Literary Darwinism Literary Darwinism Joseph Carroll In Literary Darwinism, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays. The essays and rev… OL3384916W
Language and control in children's literature Language and control in children's literature Murray Knowles Children's literature has in the past received little serious linguistic analysis despite its widely acknowledged influence on the development and socialisation of young people. In this important and… OL3747947W
Poetics before Plato Poetics before Plato Grace M. Ledbetter "Combining literary and philosophical analysis, this study defends an utterly innovative reading of the early history of poetics. It is the first to argue that there is a distinctively Socratic view … OL5955715W
Interviews with Northrop Frye (Collected Works of Northrop Frye) Interviews with Northrop Frye (Collected Works of Northrop Frye) Jean O'Grady "Although Northrop Frye's first book, Fearful Symmetry (1947), elevated the reputation of William Blake from the status of a minor eccentric to that of a major Romantic poet, Frye in fact saw Blake a… OL5995098W
The Living Prism The Living Prism Eva Kushner "To play in important role in the human sciences, comparative literature first had to free itself of a number of restrictive habits, such as an insufficiently critical literary history. To do this, s… OL6003100W
Victorian Poetry Victorian Poetry Mrs I Armstrong In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as 'a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths it… OL8093200W
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