English Literature

A powerful selection of essays by one of the most important critics in postcolonial studies, arguing for practices of reading and criticism fully a...

Pope to Burney, 1714-1779, Scriblerians to Bluestocking by Moyra Haslett, 113761207X, 9781137612076, Palgr Mac

Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, Phenomenology of Perception is Merleau-Ponty's most famous work. Impressive in both scope and imaginati...

Percy Bysshe Shelley by Paul Hamilton, 8126912936, 9788126912933, Atl-NorthH

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This c...

Oscar Wilde by Alexandra Warwick, 812691291X, 9788126912919, Atl-NorthH

Beginning with the nature of literature, this also asks the questions of why we should read literature and why literature has such authority over u...

With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considers deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and...

This comprehensive, accessible guidebook traces the ways in which human beings have used narrative to make sense of time, space and identity over t...

This short introduction to Modernism analyses the movement from the perspective of English and American literature. Provides a critical overview of...

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...