Arts, Literature and Humanities

Modernism (The New Critical Idiom) analyses and discusses one of the most important literary movements of the late 19th and early 20th century. Thi...

Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History is the most comprehensive account of modern criticism and theory available in the English language....

Poetry criticism is a subject central to the study of literature. However, it is laden with technical terms that, to the beginning student, can be ...

Materials and Methods in ELT , Second Edition offers a comprehensive and practical introduction to central themes in the principles and practice of...

First published in 1983, Literary Theory: An Introduction is probably the best-selling work of literary criticism in the world today. It propelled ...

Literary Theory: An Anthology is a unique combination of the classic statements in criticism and the new theories that have revolutionized literary...

Beginning in the 1920s, the book looks at the impact of the periods preceding the 'theory movement' and reintroduces this movement from a contempor...

Michael Ryan′s Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition introduces students to the full range of contemporary approaches to the st...

In clear, concise, and elegant prose, the acclaimed literary scholar M. A. R. Habib introduces major critical movements, figures, and texts, while ...

The new series of writers and their work continues a tradition of innovative critical studies introducing writers and their contexts to a wide rang...

Tolstoy’s art as represented in his greatest novels: War and Peace and Anna Karenina continues to absorb, fascinate and delight modern readers desp...

Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from wh...

Key Features Shorter text-Chapter 12,"Writing," moved to the website. Per reviewers, teachers don't have time to teach this chapter but it's very v...

This book is a splendid profile of an extraordinary man, and a radically new interpretation of one of the most controversial figures in history. Ca...

The new series of writers and their work continues a tradition of innovative critical studies introducing writers and their contexts to a wide rang...

Locating Conrad’s work in the context of the writer’s life and cultural milieu, Professor Watts’s study examines the main phase in Conrad’s literar...

This book presents an evaluative critical account of all of keats’s important poetry. The arrangement is chronological, and the development of keat...

Dr Davies’ stimulating study covers the full range of Donne’s poetry, from the early satires and elegies to the Songs and Sonnets and Divine Poems,...

This reader-friendly introduction makes Joyce asscessible by combining the excitement of reading his words with the excitement of interpreting them.

A clear, concise guide to the history and structure of irony from Socrates to the Derrida and Deleuze. Explores the philosophical, literary and pol...

Definitions of humanism have evolved throughout the centuries as the term has been adopted for a variety of purposes – literary, cultural and polit...

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, an...

Instead of approaching cultural theory as a set of pronouncements to be learnt, this book considers why lecturers, students and cultural producers ...

Barbara Hardy has concentrated on the late period from 1900 to 1916, observing language and theme in close readings of The Ambassadors, The Wings o...

Harold Pinter by Mark Taylor-Batty, 8126913053, 9788126913053, Atl-NorthH

Genre is a key means by which we categorize the many forms of literature and culture. But it is also much more than that: in talk and writing, in m...

This is an exploration of Kafka’s work in the context both of his own complicated world - that of a Czech Jew writing in German within a crumbling ...