A landmark of world literature, "The Divine Comedy" tells of the poet Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly Beatrice, he learns the meaning of evil, ... Zobraziť viac
In this volume, Mario Klarer provides the essential beginner's guide to English literary studies... Zobraziť viac
In Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence, Vincent Sherry reveals a new continuity in literary history. This volume encompasses a rich trajectory beginning with an exposition of the English Romantic poets and ending with a re-evaluation of major... Zobraziť viac
With this powerful and provocative book the authors of the classic The Madwoman in the Attic launch a landmark three-volume overview of modern literature in England and America, bringing feminist theory to bear on writings by men as well as women. In... Zobraziť viac
A wonderful 150th-anniversary edition of Lewis Carroll's timeless classic, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury in this beautiful award-winning interpretation... Zobraziť viac
"Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000" brings together key critical and theoretical texts from the twentieth century which have animated debates about modern poetry.Helps readers to think critically about the nature of modern poetry, and to engage... Zobraziť viac
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse... Zobraziť viac
For many thousands of readers, Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet is almost a way of life. Ironic, haunting, and melancholy, this completely unclassifiable work is the masterpiece of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic writers... Zobraziť viac
"The Novel Now" is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them with more recent authors, including David Mitchell, Ali... Zobraziť viac
This Cambridge History is the first major history of twentieth-century English literature to cover the full range of writing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland across the century. This new volume is a major event for anyone concerned with... Zobraziť viac
Contrary to perceptions built up over three millennia, ancient history is not all about men – and it's not only men's stories that deserve to be told. In Mythica Emily Hauser tells, for the first time, the extraordinary stories of the real women behind... Zobraziť viac
Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'.From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of... Zobraziť viac
Collected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal, a powerful examination of the horror and beauty of Dionysiac ecstasy; Herakles, translated by Tom Sleigh and... Zobraziť viac
"Prospective readers puzzled by the somewhat enigmatic title Backing into the Future may well come to the conclusion that it is a reference to the amusing film produced in 1985, called Back to the Future. But in fact the source of the title is much... Zobraziť viac
For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare\'s life and times and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original... Zobraziť viac
Literature provides us with insights into the ways emotions are produced, experienced and enacted in human social life. Hogan's study explores emotions in the context of current neurobiological, psychological and sociological research. In each case, he... Zobraziť viac
In der fachsprachlichen Phraseologie spielen kontrastive Untersuchungen eine sehr wichtige Rolle. Von vielen Sprachwissenschaftlern wurde des Öfteren betont, dass Sprache und Wirtschaft in sehr engem Zusammenhang zueinander stehen. In der bisherigen... Zobraziť viac
Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates the vexed question of Angela Carter's feminist politics through the dusty lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to some of her most contentious European literary forebears... Zobraziť viac
