This Guide surveys existing criticism and theory and enables students to understand the key critical debates, paradigms and predominant themes and issues in relation to a wide variety of Irish poets, playwrights and novelists. It helps the reader to relate Irish literature and criticism to debates surrounding such issues as national identity and nationalism, modernity and the Revival period, armed stuggle, gender and sexuality, postcolonialism and the development of Irish studies.
This Guide surveys existing criticism and theory and enables students to understand the key critical debates, paradigms and predominant themes and iss...
This Readers' Guide traces the history of Hamlet criticism from the seventeenth century to the present in a way that is accessible to students and general readers. Providing the reader with substantial excerpts from all the key critical readings of the play, Huw Griffiths brings them together with editorial material to form a narrative illustrating the development of Hamlet criticism. Griffiths also includes accounts of the interaction between the film versions and critical readings of the play.
This Readers' Guide traces the history of Hamlet criticism from the seventeenth century to the present in a way that is accessible to students and gen...
This Guide follows the often heated critical debates on who Yeats was and what kind of poetry he wrote. To what culture and what tradition did he belong? Was Yeats a revivalist, a modernist or a nationalist? Michael Faherty offers selections from the leading voices in these debates, setting them in the context of Irish cultural and political history.
This Guide follows the often heated critical debates on who Yeats was and what kind of poetry he wrote. To what culture and what tradition did he belo...
This book introduces students to a range of critical approaches to McEwan's fiction. Criticism is drawn from selections in academic essays and articles, and reviews in newspapers, journals, magazines and websites, with editorial comment providing context, drawing attention to key points and identifying differences in critical perspectives. The book also includes selections from published interviews with Ian McEwan.
This book introduces students to a range of critical approaches to McEwan's fiction. Criticism is drawn from selections in academic essays and article...
Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most established, and controversial, writers. This book introduces students to a range of critical approaches to McEwan's fiction.
Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most established, and controversial, writers. This book introduces students to a range of critical approaches to McEwan...
This Readers' Guide assembles some of the most important critical writings about Walt Whitman in order to demonstrate how critical debate about him has reflected changing perceptions of America itself. Starting with early reviews, the guide moves through essays that elevate Whitman to America's spokesman, its 'good gray poet', and closes with essays that discuss Whitman in the light of postmodern, cultural materialist, and 'queer' reading practices. Nick Selby offers an overview of how the poet's critics have dealt with his work and its cultural legacy.
This Readers' Guide assembles some of the most important critical writings about Walt Whitman in order to demonstrate how critical debate abo...
This Reader's Guide focuses upon Gothic fiction produced predominantly in the Romantic era (1780-1820). Angela Wright assembles some of the most important critical writings about Romantic Gothic literature since its inception to the present day. The Guide begins by charting the moral and political panic provoked by Gothic's increasing popularity in the 1790s, and then examines the genre's recuperation as a serious area of literary study through aesthetic, political, psychoanalytic and gender criticism.
This Reader's Guide focuses upon Gothic fiction produced predominantly in the Romantic era (1780-1820). Angela Wright assembles some of the most impor...
This Readers' Guide traces the history of Hamlet criticism from the seventeenth century to the present in a way that is accessible to students and general readers. Providing the reader with substantial excerpts from all the key critical readings of the play, Huw Griffiths brings them together with editorial material to form a narrative illustrating the development of Hamlet criticism. Griffiths also includes accounts of the interaction between the film versions and critical readings of the play.
This Readers' Guide traces the history of Hamlet criticism from the seventeenth century to the present in a way that is accessible to students and gen...
This Guide follows the often heated critical debates on who Yeats was and what kind of poetry he wrote. To what culture and what tradition did he belong? Was Yeats a revivalist, a modernist or a nationalist? Michael Faherty offers selections from the leading voices in these debates, setting them in the context of Irish cultural and political history.
This Guide follows the often heated critical debates on who Yeats was and what kind of poetry he wrote. To what culture and what tradition did he belo...
Chinua Achebe has acquired a virtually unchallenged reputation as the 'Godfather' of modern African writing. This Reader's Guide enables students to navigate the bewildering field of Achebe criticism, setting out the key areas of critical debate, the most influential alternative approaches to his work and the controversies that have so often surrounded it. The Guide examines Achebe's key novels - with the main focus on Things Fall Apart - and also discusses his less well-known short fiction.
Chinua Achebe has acquired a virtually unchallenged reputation as the 'Godfather' of modern African writing. This Reader's Guide enables students to n...
