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Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist and... Læs mere
An exploration of a writer's search for her voice.
The biblical story of the destruction of Sodom has elicited writing from Milton, Sade, Proust, Dostoevsky and Tournier, amongst others. This work contains an anthology of Sodom texts spanning several centuries. Paul Hallam has also provided his own reading of these texts.
A study of American popular fiction and working-class culture, combining Marxist literary theory with American labour history. The text explores what happened when, in the 19th century, working people began to read cheap novels and the "fiction question" became a class question.
Working "in the shadow of Eduard Norden" in the author’s own words, Nicholas Horsfall has written his own monumental commentary on Aeneid 6. This is Horsfall’s fifth... Læs mere
"Tess and Grant are tour leaders for a group walking holiday in France. And they don't get on at all. Tess is an artist and a dreamer, whose father owns the tour company. Grant is... Læs mere
Jameson's classic study of German playwright Bertolt Brecht
This study situates the works of Jonathan Swift in relation to the ideological and political currents of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It aims to contribute to the understanding of a seminal figure in English literature.
In this work, the authors explore the growing tensions and contradictions between Matthew Arnold's enduring ideal (that human beings "must be compelled to relish the sublime") and the contemporary world of work, pleasure and consumption.
Andrew Ford here addresses, in a manner both engaging and richly informed, the perennial questions of what poetry is, how it came to be, and what it is for...