This Guide outlines the initial critical responses to the novels of one of the most popular contemporary authors and explores thekey critical positions that have developed.Matthew Beedham explores the themes which are central to Ishiguro's work, such as issues of narration, memory and ethnicity."
This Guide outlines the initial critical responses to the novels of one of the most popular contemporary authors and explores thekey critical position...
A stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide explores the main themes and interpretations and draws on a rich range of critical writings.
A stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key debates and developments, f...
Novelist and cultural commentator C.P. Snow was a large and controversial presence in his lifetime but his work has been largely neglected since his death in 1980. This is the first 21st-century book to offer a clear, informed and sympathetic survey of all his novels and major non-fiction books and to affirm their importance for the world today.
Novelist and cultural commentator C.P. Snow was a large and controversial presence in his lifetime but his work has been largely neglected since his d...
'One of the more earnest and interesting writers of his generation.' - "The Guardian" 'Readable to an almost hypnotic degree . . . absorbing and exciting.' - "Sphere" 'Some really good narrative . . . impressive.' - "New Statesman" As a child, the brilliant mathematical prodigy Hugh Greene's two major influences were his eccentric old uncles, Nick and Sam. From Uncle Nick, Hugh learned a love of mathematics, which came to represent clarity and order, and from Uncle Sam he acquired an overwhelming fear of violence. Now seventeen and unsure of what to do with his life and whether...
'One of the more earnest and interesting writers of his generation.' - "The Guardian" 'Readable to an almost hypnotic degree . . . absorbing and ...
David Copperfield and Great Expectations are among Charles Dickens's most famous novels. In both books, the hero tells the vivid and absorbing tale of his education by life, presents a rich range of characters and scenes, and tackles profound moral, social and psychological themes. Part I of this essential study: provides lucid and penetrating analyses of key passages discusses the crucial topics of patriarchy, class, obsession, eccentricity, death, breakdown and recovery summarizes the methods of analysis and offers suggestions for further work. Part II...
David Copperfield and Great Expectations are among Charles Dickens's most famous novels. In both books, the hero tells the vivid and abs...
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...
The centrepiece of Brooke-Roses Intercom Quartet, Xorandor and Verbivore explore the shifting language of technologies and their catastrophic potential. In Xorandor we meet Jip and Zab, two precocious teens who chance upon a stone claiming to have fallen from Mars, whose skill for absorbing language from multiple frequencies leads him to Shakespeares Lady Macbeth with potentially apocalyptic consequences. Verbivore meets Jip and Zab again as adults, taking on a new crisis: the worlds mega-computers, facing an overflow of information, rebel by eating up words and causing havoc among...
The centrepiece of Brooke-Roses Intercom Quartet, Xorandor and Verbivore explore the shifting language of technologies and their catastrophic potentia...
Veteran critic Nicolas Tredell has been conversing with fellow critics for over three decades. This revised and expanded volume contains twenty interviews with Britain's leading intellectuals, academics, and exploratory novelists and poets, covering the period between 1990-2004. From conversations ranging from the seismic shift in teaching attitudes in the universities from the sixties to the nineties, to the impact of French theorists and the Tel Quel set on literary theory, to the influence of the Catholic Church in relation to literature and culture, to the collapse of...
Veteran critic Nicolas Tredell has been conversing with fellow critics for over three decades. This revised and expanded volume contains twenty int...
