English Literature

About the Book This dictionary provides a full and authoritative guide to the meanings of the terms, concepts, and theories employed in pragmatics,...

This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day. An extensive...

About the Book Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, sco...

About the Book Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the...

About the Book Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, whic...

About the Book With compelling selections by some of the world's most respected and critically acclaimed writers, The New World Reader encourages e...

About the Book Tariq Ali's latest play, The New Adventures of Don Quixote , can be read as an homage to German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht a...

The Narrative Art of the" Canterbury Tales" (Everyman's University Library) Book Description

The mountain of the moon is a story about taking a chance dare which, with its wings of imagination, leads you to the silver lining after a storm. ...

About the Book Approaching The Mill on the Floss from a variety of critical perspectives, Ashton reveals how George Eliot translated her unconventi...

Despite a consistent record of attracting appreciative audiences to the theater, The Merry Wives of Windsor has not received as much favorable crit...

The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money lender, Shylock. The...

About the Book Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practica...

About the Book This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge. John Taylor challenges the conventional noti...

About the Book The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200-90...

About the Book This book explores the complex ways in which authors, publishers, and readers contributed to the making of Restoration poetry. The e...

About the Book The book provides an original investigation of the double trope as a central area of Dicken's writings in their relation to Victoria...

About the Book This is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive pronouns and related phenomena. Pronominal resumption is the realization of t...

The little prince is a tender tale of friendship, love and loss by the French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Originally published as Le petit pr...

About the Book Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic politician, writer, and historian living during the twelfth century. He was a man of great politic...

About the Book 'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.'...

About the Book Praise for the previous edition "I am sorry it did not exist when I was a student... and I expect it to be a useful addition to ever...

About the Book Bloody was once a shocking word. It was used largely by the working classes and caused their betters to shudder with horror. But Blo...

About the Book Bad-ass, bee's knees, and bomb-diffity - slang rules Teachers, politicians, broadcasters, and parents complain of the slang-infested...

About the Book The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life ...

About the Book This book looks at how English words have been recorded, ordered, dissected, and displayed in dictionaries in Great Britain and the ...

About the Book The publication of Volumes VII and VIII completes this major edition of the letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, an edition comprising...

About the Book This study places the last three novels of Victor Hugo's maturity - Les Travailleurs de la mer (1866), L'Homme qui rit (1869), and Q...

About the Book When Keith Stapperpfennig and his family give their grandfather the trip of a lifetime--an all expenses paid holiday to any destinat...

The Kidnapping of Amir Hamza is an exciting tale from the Hamzanama, a Persian epic. It was a favourite of the great Mughal Emperor Akbar. In this ...

About the Book 'Because you're worth it', proclaims the classic cosmetics ad. 'Just do it ' implores the global sports retailer. Everywhere we turn...

Tell me worldlings, underneath the sun, if greater falsehood ever has been done'. The Jew of Malta, written around 1590, can present a challenge fo...

About the Book One of the foremost poets of the French Resistance, Ren Char has been hailed by Donald Revell as "the conscience of modern French po...

About the Book The Introspective Art of Mark Twain is a major new assessment of a towering American writer. Seeking to trace the development of Mar...

About the Book The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within this language ...

About the Book Giving identity to over a billion people, the Indian Constitution is one of the world's great political texts. Drafted over six deca...

About the Book This illustrated chronicle of the Sikhs written by one of India's best-loved writers - Khushwant Singh, comprehensively records the ...

The thirteen stories in this compilation are the truest representation of life by the Bard of Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore. These heart-warming shor...

Examines the historical background, critical reception, plot, characters, setting, themes, and structure of Hawthorne's novel

Calcutta is the central character in each of the three stories in this book. As all Bengalis will tell you, even when the city stands quietly in th...

About the Book Hungarian Imre Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the ...

About the Book The History of Early English provides an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the history of the English language from it...

About the Book The first handbook to explore the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in elementary and secondary education (K...

About the Book The Handbook of Speech Production is the first reference work to provide an overview of this burgeoning area of study. Twenty-four c...

A groundbreaking new work that sheds light on case studies of linguistic human rights around the world, raising much-needed awareness of the strugg...

About the Book The second edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory presents a comprehensive introduction to cutting-edge research in...