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This volume provides multi-faceted perspectives on Virginia Woolf as observed and remembered by relatives, close friends, acquaintances and fellow writers.
In this chronology Gordon Campbell brings his unique command of manuscripts associated with John Milton to the first synthesis of the Milton documents attempted in forty years.
These are some of the questions addressed by Figuring Madness , a study which employs the insights of current post-structuralist psychoanalysis and... Læs mere
These books emphasise the need to have a set of social and personal values in order to be free from a sense of dislocation and alienation in a highly technologised society and in order to satisfy the sense of 'hiraeth' or longing for a place where one truly belongs.
This book of essays is the first to probe Anais Nin's achievements as a literary artist. With an introduction by the editor, Suzanne Nalbantian, the collection examines the literary strategies of Nin in their psychoanalytical and stylistic dimensions.
It shows how actors, directors and playgoers have responded to the demands of 'historical' constraints (and unexpected freedoms) to provide valuable new insights into the dynamics of Elizabethan theatre.
In Virginia Woolf's life, writing was the activity that mattered more than anything else: she would not have survived without it. John Mepham argues that she never settled on one way of writing because she never settled on one view of life.
Poets, novelists and critics committed to creative thinking join together in this collection of essays to say what serious reading really means to them as individuals. The collection is divided into four sections: George Steiner and George Craig on the act of reading in general;
The novelist Meredith is renowned for his radical portrayal of social and personal relations, especially of gender. This work examines Meredith's novels in the light of 20th-century literary theory, especially the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
Renaissance Configurations is a ground-breaking collection of essays on the structures and strategies of Early Modern culture - as embodied in issues of gender, sexuality and politics - by a group of critics from the new generation of Early Modern specialists.
Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama is an accessible, informed survey of Peter Shaffer's work to date. Suitable for readers ranging from 'A' level to undergraduate and... Læs mere
This volume examines a wide variety of the ways in which the fantastic has impacted upon contemporary women's fiction. The study is based upon the work of fifteen writers and includes novels by Allende, Atwood, Carter, Head, Morrison, Weldon, Winterson and Wittig.