This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines its appeal and its significance, and finds it one of the most rewarding and powerful of Dickens’s texts.
Jeremy Tambling offers students a concise history and critical commentary on ‘allegory’ from its prominence in Medieval and Renaissance literature through to the Romantic era and up to the present day.
This book argues that Paradiso – Dante’s vision of Heaven – is not simply affirmative. The book highlights and addresses a... Læs mere
This book presents an interesting approach to Dante's Divine Comedy, drawing on medieval theories of reading and understanding a text, and comparing them with modern critical theories of hermeneutics and approaches to the text associated with the work of Derrida.