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The Novel Now
Richard Bradford
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9781405113861
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, ...
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The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory
Gregory Castle
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9780631232735
This student-friendly text introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, as well as showing them how to perform literary analysis. Designed to be used alongside primary theoretical texts as an introduction to theory or alongside ...
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Shakespeare
David Bevington
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9781405127530
The extended second edition of this inspiring introduction to Shakespeare offers readers more insights into what makes Shakespeare great, and why we still read and perform his works. A highly innovative introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon ...
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Uses of Literature
Rita Felski
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9781405147231
Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for ...
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Shakespeare’s Ideas
David Bevington
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9781405167956
An in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of the philosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind".
Written by a leading Shakespearean scholar
Discusses an array of topics, including sex and gender, ...
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Ancient Epic
Katherine Callen King
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9781405159470
Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics – Homer's Iliad and Odyssey , Vergil's Aeneid , Ovid's Metamorphoses , and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica . Provides an accessible ...
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Whither Quo Vadis
Ruth Scodel
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Anja Bettenworth
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9781405183857
Whither Quo Vadis? offers an engaging account of how the Roman world and its history are represented in film and the way in which the different adaptations reflect the shifting historical situations and ideological concerns of their own times. ...
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William Faulkner
John T. Matthews
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9781405124812
This succinct, yet comprehensive account of William Faulkner’s literary career, novels, and key short stories offers an imaginative topography of his efforts to reckon with his Southern past, to acknowledge its modernization, and to develop ...
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A History of Victorian Literature
James Eli Adams
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9780631220824
Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's ...
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