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Tragedy (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Adrian Poole
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• Author(s): Adrian Poole • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: DramaAbout the Book To your local anchorperson, the word "tragedy" brings to mind an accidental fire at a low-income apartment ...
View full detailsShakespeare'S Comedies (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Bart Van Es
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• Author(s): Bart Van Es • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: ShakespeareFrom The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eight...
View full detailsComedy (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Matthew Bevis
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• Author(s): Matthew Bevis • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: HumorTo consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and...
View full detailsRussian Literature (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Catriona Kelly
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• Author(s): Catriona Kelly • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Russian & SovietThis book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literat...
View full detailsMary Shelley (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Charlotte Gordon
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• Author(s): Charlotte Gordon • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writin...
View full detailsModernism (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Christopher Butler
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• Author(s): Christopher Butler • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Movements - ModernismModernism ushered in some of the most exciting innovations in art and literature, from Fauvism, Cubi...
View full detailsJames Joyce (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Colin Maccabe
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• Author(s): Colin Maccabe • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man laid down the template ...
View full detailsAmerican Poetry (VSI): Very Short Introduction
David Caplan
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• Author(s): David Caplan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: PoetryA leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and engag...
View full detailsScience Fiction (VSI): Very Short Introduction
David Seed
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• Author(s): David Seed • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyScience Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination o...
View full detailsContemporary Fiction (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Robert Eaglestone
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• Author(s): Robert Eaglestone • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryIn this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the ...
View full detailsMedieval Literature (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Elaine Treharne
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• Author(s): Elaine Treharne • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: MedievalLooking at literature from Medieval Britain and Ireland, including Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman poetry, prose and dr...
View full detailsAlbert Camus (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Gloag Oliver
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• Author(s): Gloag Oliver • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Individual PhilosophersFew would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a...
View full detailsHomer (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Graziosi
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• Author(s): Graziosi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalAbout the Book Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely conside...
View full detailsDante (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Hainsworth & Robey, David Robey
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• Author(s): Hainsworth & Robey | David Robey • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: MedievalThis Very Short Introduction examines all the major aspects of Dante's work, emphasizing the fe...
View full detailsItalian Literature (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Peter Hainsworth, David Robey
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• Author(s): Peter Hainsworth | David Robey • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - ItalianIn this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literatu...
View full detailsCharles Dickens (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Jenny Hartley
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• Author(s): Jenny Hartley • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Literary FiguresCharles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely r...
View full detailsClassical Mythology (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Helen Morales
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• Author(s): Helen Morales • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyFrom Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exer...
View full detailsClassics (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Henderson
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• Author(s): Henderson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalWe are all classicists--we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medi...
View full detailsReading (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Belinda Jack
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• Author(s): Belinda Jack • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: LiteracyToday many people take reading for granted, but we remain some way off from attaining literacy for the global human population. And whilst we think W...
View full detailsSpanish Literature (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Jo Labanyi
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• Author(s): Jo Labanyi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - Spanish & PortugueseThis Very Short Introduction introduces the ways in which Spanish literature has been read, in...
View full detailsElizabeth Bishop (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Jonathan F. S. Post
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• Author(s): Jonathan F. S. Post • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: American - GeneralbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the...
View full detailsHorror (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Darryl Jones
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• Author(s): Darryl Jones • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Horror - GeneralVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and st...
View full detailsTolstoy (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Knapp
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• Author(s): Knapp • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyWar and peace and anna karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author Le...
View full detailsAutobiography (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Laura Marcus
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• Author(s): Laura Marcus • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ReferenceAutobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, indi...
View full detailsFairy Tale (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Marina Warner
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• Author(s): Marina Warner • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyFrom wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to gia...
View full detailsLinguistics (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Mathews
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• Author(s): Mathews • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLinguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries a...
View full detailsTranslation (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Matthew Reynolds
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• Author(s): Matthew Reynolds • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Translating & InterpretingTranslation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign...
View full detailsOvid (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Llewelyn Morgan
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• Author(s): Llewelyn Morgan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient, Classical & MedievalAbout the Book "Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I s...
View full detailsGerman Literature (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Nicholas Boyle
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• Author(s): Nicholas Boyle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GermanAbout the Book German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Günter Grass, have had a profou...
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Peter Singer
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• Author(s): Peter Singer • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernReading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kin...
View full detailsShakespeare'S Sonnets And Poems (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Jonathan F. S. Post
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• Author(s): Jonathan F. S. Post • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareNot for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have ...
View full detailsMartin Luther (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Scott H. Hendrix
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• Author(s): Scott H. Hendrix • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ReligiousAbout the Book When Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses (reputedly nailed to the door of the Castle Church...
View full detailsModern Drama (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Shepherd-Barr
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• Author(s): Shepherd-Barr • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThis Very Short Introduction explores the major developments of modern drama, covering two decades per chapte...
View full detailsThe English Language (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Simon Horobin
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• Author(s): Simon Horobin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThe English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. B...
View full detailsWilliam Shakespeare (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Stanley Wells
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• Author(s): Stanley Wells • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareIn this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to ...
View full detailsShakespeare'S Tragedies (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Stanley Wells
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• Author(s): Stanley Wells • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: ShakespeareTragedy, including grief, pain and suffering, is a common theme in Shakespeare's plays, often leading to the death of at least one character, if ...
View full detailsLanguages (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Stephen Anderson
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• Author(s): Stephen Anderson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralHow many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still b...
View full detailsSuperconductivity (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Stephen.J .Blundell
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• Author(s): Stephen.J .Blundell • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Superconductors & SuperconductivityReading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. Y...
View full detailsGeoffrey Chaucer (VSI): Very Short Introduction
David Wallace
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• Author(s): David Wallace • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: PoetryOriginally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translator...
View full detailsClassical Literature (VSI): Very Short Introduction
William Allan
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• Author(s): William Allan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralPresenting a range of material from both Greek and Latin literature, William Allan illustrates the variety and sophisti...
View full detailsGeorge Bernard Shaw (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Christopher Wixson
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• Author(s): Christopher Wixson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: DramaAbout the Book George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespe...
View full detailsNatural Disasters And Indian History Oxford India Short Introductions
Roy Tirthankar
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• Author(s): Roy Tirthankar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Economic HistoryIndians have lived with a high risk of suffering famines, floods, and earthquakes. What did they do to rebuil...
View full detailsThe Indian Constitution : Oxford India Short Introductions
Khosla Madhav
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• Author(s): Khosla Madhav • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsAbout the Book Giving identity to over a billion people, the Indian Constitution is one of the world's great political texts. Drafted ov...
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