From his early "Curtain Raiser" to the late Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot took an interest in all the arts, drawing on them for poetic inspiration and for analysis in his prose. T. S. Eliot and the Arts provides extensive, high quality research about his many-sided engagement with painting, sculpture, museum artefacts, architecture, music, drama, music hall, opera and dance, as well as the emerging media of recorded sound, film and radio. Building on the newly published editions of Eliot's prose and poetry, this contemporary research collection opens avenues for understanding Eliot both in his...

The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies. What new questions and modes of research need come into play if we are to seriously acknowledge our entanglements with other animals? World-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, such as Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Art, Biosemiotics, Ethology and Geography, set the agenda for Animal Studies today. Rather than a narrow specialism, this book shows how we think of other animals to...

This collection of 27 newly commissioned and authoritative essays by international scholars explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Ranging across writing from Britain, Ireland, North America, India, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and the Caribbean, it studies the form in its many guises and venues of publication. Divided into five distinct sections - Defining the Short Story; Publishing the Short Story; The Forms of the Short Story; Place and the Short Story; and Identity and the Short Story, each with its own...

Thirty New Essays Redefine Narrative Theory for a Multi-Media Culture

The first collection of essays on this subject, this 'Edinburgh Companion' assembles some of the world's foremost postcolonialists to explore the critical, theoretical and disciplinary possibilities that inquiry into this region opens for postcolonial studies.

By bringing together leading Victorianists with a wide range of interests, this innovative collection of essays involves the reader in new approaches to Trollope's work.

Showcases the wide spectrum of Pound's engagement with the arts throughout his career.