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  • And Jesus Danced (Twice)

    The true story of the milltown brothers

    by Nigel Wood ...
    The True Story of the Milltown Brothers tells the story of a good band that got very lucky and then got very unlucky. It describes their meteoric rise and 'much ignored demise' and demonstrates the role luck plays in all our lives, however much we like to think we're in control.The Milltown Brothers from Burnley were discovered by Steve Lamacq playing their fifth gig at the Bull & Gate in London ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Reception Theory

    by Nigel Wood, Dr Evelyn Gajowski ...
    Series series Shakespeare and Theory
    Arden Shakespeare and Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical developments that have dominated Shakespeare studies in recent years, as well as those that are emerging at the present moment. Each volume provides:· a clear definition of a particular theory;· a survey of its major theorists and critics;· an analysis of its significance in Shakespeare studies;· a summary of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Jonathan Swift

    by Nigel Wood ...
    Series series Longman Critical Readers
    This collection of critical thinking situates the satire of Jonathan Swift within both its eighteenth-century contexts and our modern anxieties about personal identity and communication. Augustan satire at its most provocative is not simply concerned with the public matters of politics or religion, but also offers a precise medium in which to express the paradox of ironic detachment amidst deep ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Modern Criticism and Theory

    A Reader

    by Nigel Wood, David Lodge ...
    This third edition of Modern Criticism and Theory represents a major expansion on its previous incarnations with some twenty five new pieces or essays included. This expansion has two principal purposes. Firstly, in keeping with the collection’s aim to reflect contemporary preoccupations, the reader has expanded forward to include such newly emergent considerations as ecocriticism and post-theory ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Is Poetry a Sport?

    by Nigel Wood ...
    The story of a modern luxury. Self-indulgent. Trivial. What we are. Is Poetry A Sport? is written in a uniquely engaging way, combining the usual lorry load of prose with several handfuls of poems (dont worry theyre mostly very short). Read it. Have a think about life. Then maybe do something about yours. Stick or twist. But more important, make sure you appreciate it. Tom Gardners 42. He hasnt ... Read more

    $4.00 USD

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  • A Future for Criticism

    by Catherine Belsey ...
    A Future for Criticism considers why fiction gives so much pleasure, and the neglect of this issue in contemporary criticism.Offers a brief, lively, and accessible account of a new direction for critical practice, from one of Britain's most prominent literary theorists and criticsProposes a new path for future criticism, more open to reflecting on the pleasures of fictionWritten in a clear, jargon ... Read more

    $81.00 USD

  • The Translator's Invisibility

    A History of Translation

    by Lawrence Venuti ...
    Series series Routledge Translation Classics
    Since publication over twenty years ago, The Translator’s Invisibility has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account of the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day, Venuti shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literatures in English ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Tennyson

    by Rebecca Stott ...
    Series series Longman Critical Readers
    Alternative approaches have emerged which have radically altered our understanding of Tennyson's poetry and his relationship to the Victorian age. This text covers the most significant areas of new work on Tennyson, effectively linking feminist and gender studies with deconstructive, psychoanalytic and linguistic attention. The Introduction discusses ways in which orthodox critical approaches have ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Critical Path and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1963-1975

    by Alvin A. Lee ...
    This volume, which collects Northrop Frye's writings on the theory of literary criticism from the middle period of his career, includes one of Frye's own favourites, The Critical Path (1971). A highly important marker of Frye's career, The Critical Path openly addresses topics that he had previously been reluctant to discuss as fully, including the importance of literature to society, the ... Read more

    $92.99 USD

  • Writing and Fantasy

    by Ceri Sullivan, Barbara White ...
    Series series Crosscurrents
    Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves on from two conventional fields of discussion: the psychoanalytic, where phantasies are produced by the emergence of the consciousness, and the social, where fantasies are the production of nineteenth-century individualism. Chapters run from ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

    Lethe's Legacy

    Edited by Christopher Ivic, Grant Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a critical paradigm devoted to the "art of memory." This volume recovers the crucial role of forgetting in producing early modernity's subjective and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

    $31.99 USD