English Literature

About the Book Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s equips readers with a fresh assessment of the theatre and principle playwrights and plays from...

About the Book Essential for students of Theatre Studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and reassessment of the the...

About the Book Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive sur...

Mission to Kabul is a story of passion, trust, betrayal, love, political intrigue, and espionage, set against an authentic historical canvas accura...

About the Book An essential guide for pre-service and in-service English language teachers. There are countless theories and approaches to language...

Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching provides a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging guide to the much-debated notions of ‘method’, ‘metho...

Melody of a tear takes imagination to the next level. Zara, the suicide-prone protagonist of ambiguous gender, is raised as a son by her father. Sh...

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 This volume brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval literature by leading a...

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

Often described as one of Shakespeare's 'problem plays', Measure for Measure explores issues of mercy and justice in corrupt Vienna. The Duke makes...

About the Book When Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses (reputedly nailed to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg), he unwittingly l...

About the Book One of the greatest American authors, Mark Twain holds a special position not only as a distinctly American cultural icon but also a...

In this classic play Tagore dramatised the concept that the religion of man is much higher than the religion of rituals and scriptures. The conflic...

Editorial Reviews - Mahachaitra, the Great Spring, and Other Plays

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied tragedies. This major new Arden edition offers students detailed on-page commentary note...

About the Book Annemarie schwarzenbach—journalist, novelist, antifascist, archaeologist, and travellers become a European cult figure for bohemia...

A tale of dramatic experiences in far away places and of the ongoing fight between the primitive and the civilized, Lord Jim (1900) is one of Josep...

About the Book An unprecedented anthology of contemporary Polish drama , Loose Screws brings together nine previously un-translated plays by promin...

About the Book Highly regarded today as one of the greatest novels in English literature, Little Dorrit presents both a scathing indictment of mid-...

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 Critics hailed the first edition of The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts ...

About the Book Critics hailed The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts of Scottish life and ...

About the Book This timely volume presents a rich and absorbing selection of extracts from over two hundred leading literary critics of the last se...

About the Book Selected from the pages of Le monde, the interviews conducted by Florence Noiville are unequalled in literary journalism. In literar...

About the Book Donald Davidson is probably the most eminent living analytic philosopher, and his writings in philosophy of language and philosophy ...

About the Book Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range ...

About the Book This textbook proposes a theoretical approach to linguistics in relation to teaching English. Combining research with practical clas...

About the Book Letters to Madeleine collects for the first time in English the remarkable letters and poems sent by French poet Guillaume Apollinai...

The violence that explodes in Aditi’s life one sultry afternoon in a town where nothing ever happens, has unexpected and spiralling consequences. L...

About the Book Offers a refreshing and unique approach to the techniques of teaching 'listening and speaking English' to non-native speakers of the...

About the Book This is the fullest account ever published of Latin suffixes in English. It explores the rich variety of English words formed by the...

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...

Language History of the Kamta and Cooch Behar Region

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Osnabrück, language...

About the Book The fifty-one essays compiled in this book were written over a forty-year period by India's leading independent filmmaker. They prov...

About the Book Rich and multilayered, with elements of both memoir and fiction, Dominique Edde's "Kite" defies categorization. Beginning in the 196...

Richard III is one of the great Shakespearean characters and roles. James R Siemon examines the attraction of this villain to audiences and focuses...

By far the best edition of King Lear - in respect of both textual and other matters - that we now have.'John Lyon, English Language Notes'This volu...

About the Book King John had a distinguished life on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century stage, and this edition presents the fullest account of...

About the Book Over the past three decades, carotid artery stenting has evolved to become a promising and viable alternative to carotid endarterect...

About the Book A jargon-free guide to the key terms, concepts, and theoretical approaches to contemporary popular fiction Key Concepts in Contempor...

About the Book In 1992 when a Dalit woman left the convent and wrote her autobiography, the Tamil publishing industry found her language unacceptab...

Savitri Ammal's stories are about women like herself living in upper-caste households in Madras in the early part of the twentieth century. Publish...

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 Franz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil serva...

About the Book This is a basic, short guide that helps students make the transition to writing at college or university as simple as possible, prov...