Literary studies: general

In one of his Independent pieces Miles Kington once referred to a volume of Edward Lear's limericks translated into French.

Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently?

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a wave of TV shows, first on premium cable channels like HBO and then basic cable networks like FX and AMC, dramatically stretched television's inventiveness, emotional resonance and ambition.

Goodnight and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Britain is a social history, a diary of a nation's changing culture, and an in-depth appraisal of one of our greatest broadcasters, a man who can legitimately be called the most influential figure in post-war British popular music.

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Ian Hamilton's last book, published posthumously in 2002, is a typically brilliant revisiting of the concept of Samuel Johnson's classic Lives of the English Poets, wherein Hamilton considers 45 deceased poets of the twentieth century, offering his personal estimation of what claims they will have on posterity and 'against oblivion.

WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC PRIZEA GUARDIAN MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2015Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's monument to the year that shaped the future of global pop cultural history.

A "e;witty, irresistible"e; account of Jane Austen's most zealously devoted fans and their lively literary community (Lan Samantha Chang, author of The Family Chao).

A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid.

A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experienceWords for the Heart is a captivating treasury of emotion terms drawn from some of India's earliest classical languages.

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Discover the fascinating world of Japanese rice wine in *"e;Sake: The Art of Japanese Rice Wine - The Culture of Japan's National Drink"e;*.

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This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference.

In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era.

The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion.

Reading the Novel in English 1950 2000; This is an excellent introductory study.

The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901.

This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age.

The Blackwell Companion to American Regional Literature is the most comprehensive resource yet published for study of this popular field.

A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them.

This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war.

This book introduces Mark Twain through close readings of his seven major works, including Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Connecticut Yankee and Pudd nhead Wilson.

A comprehensive guide to Dante s life and literature, with an emphasis on his Commedia.

This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.

The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642.

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Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry.

Written by eminent scholar David O.

These essays lively and learned give new new depth to the greatest gladiator film of all time.

This short introduction to Modernism analyses the movement from the perspective of English and American literature.

This compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire examines the development of the genre, focusing particularly on the literary and social functionality of satire.

This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form.

This concise and lively survey introduces students with no prior knowledge to Chaucer, and particularly to The Canterbury Tales.

This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the high Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance.

Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts.

From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature.

This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the author calls figures from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar.

This witty and accessible book traces the history of Arthurian romance from medieval to modern times, explaining its enduring appeal.

This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics.

This book introduces readers to the ancient rhetorical tradition by investigating key questions about the origins, nature and importance of rhetoric.

This accessible one-volume survey of the literature of Greece and Rome covers the period between Homer around 700 BC and Augustine around AD 410.

Exploiting the abundant primary sources available, this book examines the diverse ways in which war shaped the Hellenistic world.

The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II offers a transnational perspective on the age of King Ramesses II of Egypt during the centuries of 1500 to 1200 BC.

This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades.

Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979.

This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period.