Author: Geoffrey Harvey Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415234917 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 244
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Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work.
Author: G. A. Rudd Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134632762 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 218
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So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a single critical approach. Geoffrey Chaucer offers: *basic information on an author's life, contexts and works *the major critical issues surrounding the author's works, from the time they were written to the present *explanations of the full range of different critical views and interpretations * guides to further reading in each area.
Author: Richard Bradford Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415202442 Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 236
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This volume is part of a series of comprehensive, user-friendly introductions which offer basic information on an author's life, contexts and works.
Author: James Loxley Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 0415222273 Category : Jonson Languages : en Pages : 236
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This volume offers the broadest range of information on Jonson and his works, from background on contexts to details of recent interpretations of his plays.
Author: David Pattie Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 0415202531 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 238
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This book is the first introduction to unite accessible accounts not only of Beckett's life and work, but of the key literary and theoretical concepts used in the study of his writing.
Author: Piero Boitani Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107494648 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 510
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The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer's time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology, and the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer.
Author: Geoffrey Harvey Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134565356 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 244
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Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. Author of Jude the Obscure and Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy reflected in his works the dynamics of social, intellectual and aesthetic change in nineteenth-century England. This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work, including: the major aspects of Hardy's life in the context of contemporary culture a detailed commentary on Hardy's most important work and a critical map of Hardy's complete writing an outline of the vast body of criticism that has built up around Hardy's work with examples of recent critical debate. Exposition and guide, this volume enables readers to form their own readings of one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century.
Author: Fiona Becket Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134632495 Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 203
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Annotation This guide moves beyond the controversy surrounding Lady Chatterley's Lover to examine the prolific output of poetry, novels and non-fiction that made Lawrence a central figure in the Modernist movement.
Author: James Loxley Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134596502 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 236
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Next to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson is perhaps the most widely studied Renaissance dramatist. Very few students of literature or drama would not encounter Volpone or Bartholomew Fair in the course of their studies, and there has been a recent resurgence of interest in Epicoene , or the Silent Women amongst gender theorists. This volume offers the broadest range of information on Jonson and his works, from background on contexts to details of recent interpretations of his plays. A must for students of the Renaissance.
Author: Stefan Hawlin Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113459643X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 208
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Accessibly written throughout, this guidebook covers biographical details, information on the historical and social contexts of Browning's work, an overview of the full range of his work and a survey of the major critical debates surrounding him and his work.
Author: Geoffrey Harvey
Author: G. A. Rudd
Author: Richard Bradford
Author: James Loxley
Author: David Pattie
Author: Piero Boitani
Author: Geoffrey Harvey
Author: Fiona Becket
Author: James Loxley
Author: Stefan Hawlin