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• Author(s): Sarah Dillon • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryDrawing together diverse literary, critical and theoretical texts in which the palimpsest has appeared since its inauguration by Thomas...

• Author(s): William Leahy • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: ShakespeareThe Shakespeare Authorship question - the question of who wrote Shakespeare's plays and who the man we know as Shakespeare was - is a subject whi...

• Author(s): Robert Rowland Smith • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryAll too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a tale of two sides. While 'Lit crit' pored over ...

• Author(s): Ben Knights • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: GeneralThe subject of this book is the crossover between critical study and creative writing. 'Active reading' is a structured process of writing activities u...

• Author(s): Eamonn Dunne • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryJ. Hillis Miller is undoubtedly one of the most important literary critics of the past century. For well over five decades his work has...

• Author(s): Julian Wolfreys • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryAbout the Book Jacques Derrida has argued about the difference between literature and theory that desp...

• Author(s): Pramod K. Nayar • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryPostcolonialism as a critical approach and pedagogic practice has informed literary and cultural studies since the late 1980s. The t...

• Author(s): Eamonn Dunne • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryJ. Hillis Miller is undoubtedly one of the most important literary critics of the past century. For well over five decades his work has...

• Author(s): Fiona Hughes • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: AestheticsKant's Critique of Judgment is one of the most important works in the history of philosophy. It is a classic text, in which Kant elucidates his aes...

• Author(s): Mark Hewson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryBlanchot's writings on literature have imposed themselves in the canon of modern literary theory and yet have remained a mysterious pres...

• Author(s): Michael Mack • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryThe capacity of the arts and the humanities, and of literature in particular, to have a meaningful societal impact has been increasingl...

• Author(s): A. Leslie Willson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: European - GermanIncludes: Schleiermacher's "On the Different Methods of Translation;" Jean Paul's "School for Aesthetics;" Novalis's "Aphorisms and Fra...

• Author(s): Russell Smith • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAt first glance, Samuel Beckett's writing-where scenes of violence and cruelty often provide the occasion for an unremittingl...

• Author(s): Julian Wolfreys • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryJacques Derrida has argued about the difference between literature and theory that despite its institutional status, part of its 'in...

• Author(s): Neema Parvini • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryIn the thirty years since thepublication of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioningoverthrew traditional modes of Shakespeare...

• Author(s): David Larocca • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: American - GeneralRalph Waldo Emerson is internationally renowned as helping to define American identity as we know it. What is less known is the degree to ...

• Author(s): Cary Dipietro • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: ShakespeareA comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare'...

• Author(s): Sonya Andermahr • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: GeneralJeanette Winterson: A contemporary critical guide is a comprehensive introduction to Winterson's writing. It brings together new essays by leading ...

• Author(s): Barbara Hardy • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: GeneralNot for publication: 'promises to present the distilled understanding and insight of Professor Hardy's lifetime engagement with George Eliot...streng...

• Author(s): Sarah Churchwell • Publisher: MIXIUK • Publisher Imprint: MIXIUK • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: American - GeneralWhat is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books remain popular for centu...

• Author(s): Stephen J. Finn • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: GeneralThe Philosophy Skills Book will help you to master the core skills you need to succeed in your study of Philosophy. Taking you through a series of ...

• Author(s): Sonia Baelo-Allue • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: American - GeneralBoth literary author and celebrity, Bret Easton Ellis represents a type of contemporary writer who draws from both high and the low cu...

• Author(s): Leslie Hill • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - FrenchWriting in fragments is often held to be one of the most distinctive signature effects of Romantic, modern, a...

• Author(s): Lisa Hopkins • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: DramaJohn Ford's tragedy 'Tis Pity She's A Whore was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidde...

• Author(s): Regina Buccola • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: DramaA Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most widely studied comedies. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and perform...

• Author(s): Ian Gregson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: GeneralThis monograph analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. Close analysis of some of the best known...

• Author(s): Peter Marks • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book George Orwell is acclaimed as one of Englishliterature's great essayists. Yet, while many are considered c...

• Author(s): Daniel T. Kline • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: MedievalAbout the Book Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and auth...

• Author(s): Murray Roston • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAbout the Book 'The Comic Mode' is an introductory guide to comedy in English literature that s...

• Author(s): Peter Childs • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: GeneralThis book considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide both with the rise of literary Modernism and imperi...

• Author(s): Clayton Koelb • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: European - GeneralFranz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. Readers encountering texts like 'The Metamorphosis' a...

• Author(s): Ian Gregson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: GeneralThis monograph analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. Close analysis of some of the best known...

• Author(s): Eugene Eoyang • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryThe Promise and Premise of Creativity considers literature in the larger context of globalization and "the clash of cultures." Refutin...

• Author(s): Stefano Evangelista • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshOscar Wilde (1854-1900) is now widely recognised not only as one of the most representative figures of the British fin ...

• Author(s): Graham Allen • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Gothic & RomanceMary Shelley's classic gothic novel, Frankenstein, is one of the most widely studied novels in English Literature. Due to its key positio...

• Author(s): Simon Barker • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryLiterature as History presents a selection of specially commissioned essays by a range of key contemporary thinkers on the interdiscipl...