English Literature

About the Book Charles Dickens is without doubt a literary giant. The most widely read author of his own generation, his works remain incredibly po...

About the Book The Essential Halliday contains selected articles by M A K Halliday on the core areas of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Presenting...

About the Book 'The Comic Mode' is an introductory guide to comedy in English literature that systematically applies comic theory to a wide range o...

About the Book This work considers why summative assessment in English is difficult and explores viewing it as an arts subject rather than one whic...

About the Book This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up new and captivatin...

About the Book Sartre and Fiction offers a clear and accessible introduction to the extensive fictional writings of Jean-Paul Sartre. Providing com...

About the Book Medieval Romance in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to medieval English verse romantic texts and their wider...

About the Book Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American lit...

About the Book Jacques Derrida has argued about the difference between literature and theory that despite its institutional status, part of its 'in...

About the Book We use language everyday in every aspect of our lives, whether at school, work, or home, with friends, colleagues or family. The abi...

About the Book Franz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. Readers encountering texts like 'The Metamorpho...

About the Book George Orwell is acclaimed as one of Englishliterature's great essayists. Yet, while many are considered classics, as abody of work ...

About the Book The Continuum Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students and rese...

Provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics. This title demonstrates its application by presenting corpus stylistic analyses of litera...

This book investigates how the sexual element in Shakespeare's works in complicated and compromised by the impact of print. Whether the issue is on...