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  • af Sarah Lawson Welsh
    372,95 kr.

    This first full-length study of Grace Nichols's work argues that, rather than exploring the tension between its 'Caribbeaness' and 'Britishness', it is more productively read in terms of a series of border crossings.

  • af Anne Janowitz
    453,95 - 1.353,95 kr.

    A study of the lives of and works of Anna Barbauld and Mary Robinson.

  • af Susan Bassnett
    453,95 kr.

    This study explores Hughes' lifelong concern for language and his use of mythology and history, while examining his poetic achievements, together with his writing for children and his experiments with forms of theatre.

  • af John Lucas
    453,95 kr.

    John Lucas's unique volume reveals a knowing and articulate poet writing as an essentially oral artist.

  • af Kelvin Everest
    148,95 kr.

    This book offers the intelligent new reader a critically evaluative guide to Keats's major poems and letters.

  • af Marion Wynne-Davies
    369,95 kr.

    This book offers a comprehensive overview of Margaret Atwood's poetry, novels, shorter fiction, children's books, criticism and experimental multi-genre work.

  • af S.J. Wiseman
    453,95 kr.

    This is a fascinating critical study of the work of Aphra Behn, probably the most inventive and original woman writer of the 17th century.

  • af Kenneth K. Brandt
    497,95 - 648,95 kr.

    This study explores how Jack London's Northland odyssey - along with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a hardscrabble youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, and an acute craving for social justice - launched the literary career of one of America's most dynamic 20th-century writers.

  • af Kathryn Burlinson
    368,95 kr.

    This study builds upon the radical reinterpretations of Christina Rossetti that have emerged in the last two decades.

  • af Carolyn Burdett
    453,95 kr.

    This study discusses the range of Olive Schreiner's work, including her novels, The Story of an African Farm, Undine, and From Man to Man; her feminist tract Woman and Labour and short fictions and allegories about the position of women; and her diverse writings about South Africa, her country of birth.

  • af Ken Parker
    370,95 kr.

    Kenneth Parker gives a historical and critical exposition of commentaries of the play. of 'Rome' as the measure by which it, as well as 'Egypt' should be read) are not simply questioned, but instead, close reading of the text of the play providesa comprehensive set of alternative readings based upon mostly postcolonial and feminist theories.

  • af Alison Mark
    238,95 kr.

    This study provides the first sustained consideration of Forrest-Thomson's poetry, and of the relationships between her work and that of the language writers.

  • af Elizabeth Maslen
    618,95 kr.

    This concise and accessible book offers both perceptive critical insights and a valuable up-to-date bibliography of Doris Lessing's work.

  • af Anne Rowe
    383,95 - 1.018,95 kr.

    This study provides an accessible introduction to the whole range of Iris Murdoch's fiction, exploring philosophical, theological, political, social and biographical influences and her experimentations with the novel form.

  • af Matthew Pateman
    368,95 - 1.328,95 kr.

    This study provides an overview of Barnes' career and then offers a discussion of each of the novels written in his own name.

  • af Marion Shaw & Lyssa Randolph
    448,95 kr.

    This book is concerned with the fiction and drama of the period, the poetry having been the subject of a separate book in the Writers and their Work series.

  • af Sasha Roberts
    618,95 kr.

    This study argues that Romeo and Juliet, perhaps Shakespeare's most popularly-known play, repays thorough investigation - read afresh, the play is an extraordinary exploration of domestic conflict, social relations and linguistic practice.

  • af Paul Hamilton
    238,95 kr.

    This book is both a general introduction to and a particular interpretation of Shelley's thought and major writings.

  • af Brean S. Hammond
    370,95 kr.

    This study critically explores satire's dominant literary forms and examines the work of its outstanding practitioners.

  • af Elisabeth Bronfen
    238,95 kr.

    Elisabeth Bronfen examines Sylvia Plath's poetry, her novel The Bell Jar, her shorter fiction as well as her autobiographical texts, in the context of the resilient Plath-Legend that has grown since her suicide in 1963.

  • af Laurence Lerner
    240,95 kr.

    Lerner's study relates poetry to Larkin's life, and to the literary and social environment of post-war Britain; discusses the Larkin persona, and Larkin's relation to literary criticism; and above all seeks to guide readers to a full appreciation of the power and subtlety of Larkin's best poems.

  • af Laurel Brake
    453,95 kr.

    This critical study of a key figure in Victorian literary society examines Walter Pater's work on art history, literature and Greek studies, as well as analysing the roles of gender and journalism in shaping his writing.

  • af James Williams
    683,95 - 1.388,95 kr.

    James Williams's account, the first book-length critical study of the poet since the 1980s, sets out to re-introduce Lear and to accord him his proper place: as a major Victorian figure of continuing appeal and relevance, and especially as a poet of beauty, comedy, and profound ingenuity.

  • - From Poe to the Present
    af Martin Priestman
    367,95 kr.

    This book examines why the form of the detective 'whodunnit' narrative has proved so tenacious, and plots a course through the thousands of crime novels and stories which have appeared since the narrative was established.

  • af Elaine Aston
    374,95 kr.

    This volume traces the scope and development of Caryl Churchill's theatre from her early writing for radio and television, through her stage career of the 1970s and 1980s to her recent major success Far Away (2000).

  • af Deryn (University of Liverpool) Rees-Jones
    453,95 kr.

    This study looks at Duffy's work from her early development and involvement with the Liverpool poets in the 1970s, through to her most recent collection.

  • af Bernard Bergonzi
    453,95 kr.

    This study examines David Lodge's work from The Picturegoers (1960) to Therapy (1995).

  • af Janet Beer
    618,95 kr.

    Professor Beer's study provides an introduction to the whole range of Edith Wharton's work in the novel, short story, novella, travel writing, criticism and autobiography.

  • af Prof. Steven Connor
    368,95 kr.

    Steven Connor's book is an animated, accessible critique to the whole range of Joyce's work, from Dubliners through to Finnegans Wake. It contains a revised bibliography and critical evaluation, taking account of the ever-rowing corpus of literary criticism of Joyce and his work.

  • - from Chartism to Trainspotting
    af Ian Haywood
    238,95 kr.

    A comprehensive introduction to working-class literature over the last 150 years.