Literary reference works

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.

Samuel Beckett''s Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett''s prose, drama and poetry.

A volume of early critical intervention into the features of contemporary Irish and Northern Irish authors, writing, and cultural practice.

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.

This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.

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.

This book illustrates how rigid ideas about gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States.

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.

This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.

Das gehäufte Zusammentreffen von Kulturen hat den Forschungsraum verändert.

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.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship on one of the major American novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Presents a full critical edition of The Sacred Fount, one of Henry James''s strangest and most ambiguous works of fiction.

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?

Shakespeare / Sex interrogates the relationship between Shakespeare and sex by challenging readers to consider Shakespeare's texts in light of the most recent theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality studies.

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.

Diese theoretisch fundierte empirische Studie untersucht die Probleme des Grammatiklernens und ­lehrens im universitären DaF­Unterricht Taiwans.

Wie rede ich?

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

This book covers the heterogeneity of Chilean literary production from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present.

First published in 1981.

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

Explores connections between the social and political upheavals of the interwar years and British literature in that period.

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.

Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of 'space' in and through Shakespeare's plays, as well as to the material, cognitive and virtual spaces in which they are enacted.

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

Ein erstmaliger Einblick in die vergessene Versepik der Weimarer Republik.

One method of American territory expansion in the U.