English Literature

Book Summary of A History The Book Has A Vide Coverage And Critically Surveys The World Famous Authors In English Literature Spread Over A Long Per...

This Student Edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of...

Th e troubled reign of a fourteenth-century sultan of Delhi helps dramatize the crisis of secular nationhood in post-Independence India. A twelft h...

The Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his Shakespeare's shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599–1606, and is thought to ha...

This edition contains all the 154 sonnets of Shakespeare with a critical appreciation of each for the benefit of all the University and College stu...

One of the best loved of Shakespeare’s ‘middle comedies’, As You Like It has rarely been out of the theatrical repertoire. Centring on the cross-dr...

This is a lucid introduction to a great poet of the 20th century from an internationally recognised Aude n expert. Smith''s text offers the reader ...

In line with a major tendency in post-colonial criticism, this study assumes the value of cultural and historical studies but also makes use of not...

This is a completely updated and expanded second edition of the wide-ranging and accessible Routledge History of Literature in English. It covers t...

Key Features Updated historical information presents the findings of recent scholarship. Revised prose style uses more contemporary, accessible lan...

This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form. A jar...

Simon Glendinning provides a clear picture of the current state of the contemporary philosophical culture by tracing the origins and development of...

The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history,...

Presupposing no prior knowledge of linguistics, The Handbook of Linguistics is the ideal resource for people who want to learn about the subject an...

The reading, study and criticism of books has always been popular and never more so than now, with the rise of reading groups and the success of TV...

The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of lite...

A concise introduction to a core and popular area of literary studies. Provides extended case studies which survey and summarise key critical debat...

Teaching Literature is an inspirational guidebook for all teachers of English and American literature in higher education. Written by leading acad...

Designed to accompany students throughout the whole of their English degree, this is a one-stop reference for all the information they need, both o...

A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Hélène Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaim...

The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory is an indispensable aid for anyone approaching this exciting field of study for the first time. By explo...

Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and Am...

Introducing students to a range of key thinkers who have sought to question the contemporary situation, this guidebook enables readers to begin to ...

Literature today is a very different concept from that of only a generation ago, and this difference is attributed usually to 'postmodernism'. Most...

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

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

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 ...