Literary companions, book reviews and guides

A new collection of essays that offers exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.

First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange.

Historians have long understood that books were important to the British army in defining the duties of its officers, regulating tactics, developing the art of war, and recording the history of campaigns and commanders.

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions.

First published in 1980.

Borrowing its title from Oscar Wilde's essay "e;The Decay of Lying,"e; this study engages questions of fraudulent authorship in the literary afterlife of Oscar Wilde.

In this study, first published in 1951, the author examines the poetry of Yeats's last years, that poetry which reached and held to the 'intensity' which he had striven for all his life.

First published in 1954, this title is a companion to The Anatomy of Poetry as a literary guide for the student reader.

Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Zizek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Zizek to literary criticism and theory.

The basis of this critical examination of Eliot's work, first published in 1973, is the investigation of his transmutation of this and other philosophical, mythological and religious motives into the textures of his verse.

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy.

The Tempest: Critical Essays traces the history of Shakespeare's controversial late romance from its early reception (and adaptation) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present.

All autobiographers are unreliable narrators.

First published in 1991.

Comparing second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women's writing, Settling Down and Settling Up extends discourses of diaspora and postcolonialism by expanding recent theory on movement and border crossing.

Difficult Reading offers a new approach to formal experimentation in Caribbean literature.

This essay collection offers a lengthy introduction describing trends in criticism and theatrical interpretation of As You Like It.

Founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1919 to instigate a world revolution, the Comintern sought to advance not only the proletarian struggle but also a wide variety of radical causes, including fighting against imperialism and racism in settings as varied as Ireland, India, the United States, and China.

First published in 1969.

The fact that Eliot disapproved of Romanticism is clear from his critical essays, where he often appears to reject it absolutely.

During the economic depression of the 1890s and the speculative frenzy of the following decade, Wall Street, high finance, and market crises assumed unprecedented visibility in the United States.

Inspiring accounts from renowned contemporary working shamans about their first moments of spiritual epiphany *; With contributions by Sandra Ingerman, Hank Wesselman, John Perkins, Alberto Villoldo, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Tom Cowan, Lynn Andrews, Linda Star Wolf, and others *; Also includes shamanic awakening experiences from those with unique shamanic paths--teachers, mothers, social workers, academics, and even rappers How does one receive the ';call' to enter onto the shamanic path?

Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother-tongue.

An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period.

It has long been recognised that there is an apparently paradoxical relationship between the revolutionary poetic style developed by Yeats, Eliot and Pound in the period during and after the First World War, and the reactionary politics with which they were associated in the 1920s and 1930s.

Theodora, A Novel by Dorothea Du Bois, published in 1770, is an entertaining and frequently shocking tale of a young woman's efforts to regain her position in high society after her aristocratic father's abandonment of and denial of marriage to her mother.

This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism.

Various aspects of Milton are explored in this collection of essays by scholars whose reputations were, at the time of publication in 1960, perhaps largely based on their writings on more modern subjects.

A must-have for every fan of literature and Paris.

First published in 1981.

During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature.

French Ecocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in whicha contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment.

James Joyce: A Guide to Research, first published in 1982, is a selective annotated bibliography of works by and about James Joyce.

One method of American territory expansion in the U.

This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken.

Vital Issues presents an annotated scholarly edition of the weekly columns Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the most prominent American feminist intellectual during the early twentieth century, contributed in 1904 to the Boston Woman's Journal, the leading journal of the US woman's movement.

This volume, first published in 1968, draws attention to the special relationship between Joyce's life and his writing.

Reflections of Revolution, first published in 1993, demonstrates the interdisciplinarity that had been emerging from cultural and historical studies.

In "e;A Serpentine Gesture"e;: John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology Elisabeth W.

This Companion offers an in-depth overview of the Beat era, one of the most popular literary periods in America.

Guilty pleasures in one's reading habits are nothing new.

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With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson - Green Magic (1928), Silver Magic (1929), and Red Magic (1930) - offers a combination of classic fairy tales, alongside lesser-known, global and diverse tales.

Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period.

Biblical poetry, written between the fourth and eleventh centuries, is an eclectic body of literature that disseminated popular knowledge of the Bible across Europe.

Black-Arab political and cultural solidarity has had a long and rich history in the United States.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of independence inspired radical changes across the French-speaking world.

This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.