This guide surveys the truly essential criticism of the play over the last four centuries, from 16th-century responses to the present day. Discussing key areas of debate, and a wide range of scholarship, Gillian Woods provides an invaluable introduction to the vast array of criticism surrounding one of Shakespeare's most popular plays.
This guide surveys the truly essential criticism of the play over the last four centuries, from 16th-century responses to the present day. Discussing ...
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) are major plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America's most significant dramatists. They both received landmark productions and are widely-studied and performed around the world. The plays have also inspired popular screen adaptations and have generated a body of important and lasting scholarship. In this indispensable Reader's Guide, Thomas P. Adler: charts the development of the criticism surrounding both works, from the mid-twentieth century through to the present day provides a readable...
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) are major plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America's most signif...
Pat Barker is one of the most important authors of her time. Her fiction has won many awards including the Booker Prize for The Ghost Road, the last novel in her celebrated Regeneration trilogy and has attracted much critical attention. This stimulating Guide examines the key critical responses to the full range of Barker's fiction, from newspaper reviews and journal articles to revealing interviews and book-length scholarship. Merritt Moseley also explores the central themes which run through Barker's novels and the criticism, such as the issues of gender, class, social...
Pat Barker is one of the most important authors of her time. Her fiction has won many awards including the Booker Prize for The Ghost Road, the...
Pat Barker is one of the most important authors of her time. Her fiction has won many awards including the Booker Prize for The Ghost Road, the last novel in her celebrated Regeneration trilogy and has attracted much critical attention. This stimulating Guide examines the key critical responses to the full range of Barker's fiction, from newspaper reviews and journal articles to revealing interviews and book-length scholarship. Merritt Moseley also explores the central themes which run through Barker's novels and the criticism, such as the issues of gender, class, social...
Pat Barker is one of the most important authors of her time. Her fiction has won many awards including the Booker Prize for The Ghost Road, the...
This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement. Sandie Byrne explores the criticism relating to key issues such as nature, myth, the Laureateship, and Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath.
This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tribu...
This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and introduces key critical texts and major critics.
This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to ...
Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation from leading creative and critical minds. This Reader's Guide offers a comprehensive survey of the key criticism on the tragedies, from the seventeenth century through to the present day. In this book, Nicolas Tredell: - introduces essential concepts, themes and debates - relates Shakespeare's tragedies to fi elds of study including psychoanalysis, gender, race, ecology and philosophy - summarises major critical texts from Dryden and Dr Johnson to...
Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation from leading creat...
Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation from leading creative and critical minds. This Reader's Guide offers a comprehensive survey of the key criticism on the tragedies, from the seventeenth century through to the present day. In this book, Nicolas Tredell: - introduces essential concepts, themes and debates - relates Shakespeare's tragedies to fi elds of study including psychoanalysis, gender, race, ecology and philosophy - summarises major critical texts from Dryden and Dr Johnson to...
Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation from leading creat...
This Readers Guide offers a stimulating and accessible introduction to the key criticism which surrounds the diverse range of literatures of the modernist period. Sarah Davison explores a variety of critical works, from initial pronouncements to recent studies which have shaped the way that Anglo-American modernism is understood and theorized today.
This Readers Guide offers a stimulating and accessible introduction to the key criticism which surrounds the diverse range of literatures of the moder...
This Guide introduces literature and science as a vibrant field of critical study that is increasingly influencing both university curricula and future areas of investigation. Martin Willis explores the development of the genre and its surrounding criticism from the early modern period to the present day, focusing on key texts, topics and debates.
This Guide introduces literature and science as a vibrant field of critical study that is increasingly influencing both university curricula and futur...
