From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatraone of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female charactersin ';a masterfully perceptive reading of this seductive play's endless wonders' (Kirkus Reviews).
Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
From the bestselling author of 'Elizabeth and Mary', the remarkable love story of Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, set against the turbulence and romance of 17th-century England.
A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England's greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, 'Brideshead Revisited'.
This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England's last great visionary and the first modern.
Das Bemerkenswerte an Eagletons sehr erfolgreichem Buch besteht in der kritischen Souveränität, mit der es vor allem den Studierenden die Scheu vor der Auseinandersetzung mit oft als schwierig und unübersehbar empfundenen theoretischen Sachverhalten der Literaturbetrachtung nimmt.
Der vorliegende Band weit die Bedeutung der Psychoanalyse für die Grundfragen der Literaturforschung nach und die Probleme der psychoanalytischen Textbetrachtung in ihrem heutigen Forschungsstand.
This, for my money, is the most spectacular non-fiction work that Wilson ever penned, breathtakingly adventurous in both its content and its strikingly experimental form.
Ein kritischer Überblick über die Entwicklung der feministischen Literaturtheorie, der die divergierenden Richtungen in Zusammenhang darstellt: die ideologiekritische Auseinandersetzung, die Frauenliteraturgeschichte und die unterschiedlichen poststrukturalistischen Lektüren.
Publicado como primera sección del libro titulado "Faux pas" (1943), "De la angustia al lenguaje" reúne a su vez una serie de pequeños ensayos centrados en torno a la literatura y la lengua —y sus aporías— a partir del diálogo, crítico y creativo, que Maurice Blanchot, de una forma singular y con su inconfundible estilo, establece con autores tan diferentes como son su gran amigo Bataille y el Maestro Eckhart, Racine y Blake, Kierkegaard y Proust, Paulhan y Giraudoux, sin olvidar tampoco a Leonardo da Vinci o el pensamiento hindú.