The early Twentieth Century produced some of the most exhilarating literature in the English language. Writers from Britain, America and Ireland challenged literary conventions as their perspectives evolved in a dynamic but newly unsettling world. Social pressures, urbanization, new technologies, and political activism from women's groups and others within the British Empire, all raised the awareness of writers and prompted them to rethink and reshape their work. In addition, intellectual and literary debates from the late nineteenth century lingered into the next century and World War...
The early Twentieth Century produced some of the most exhilarating literature in the English language. Writers from Britain, America and Ireland ch...
This Sourcebook provides a substantial anthology of documents for contextualising texts from the Modernist period of Anglo-American literature. The documents are supported by substantial editorial, including an authoritative introduction which outlines key historical events, movements, and literary and cultural issues of the time.
This Sourcebook provides a substantial anthology of documents for contextualising texts from the Modernist period of Anglo-American literature. The do...
This book is a wide-ranging collection of the key contextual documents which inform the Romantic period. It includes material on fiercely debated areas such as the French Revolution, women, the slave trade, science and religion. Documents are supported by substantial editorial material, drawing connections to the major Romantic texts.
This book is a wide-ranging collection of the key contextual documents which inform the Romantic period. It includes material on fiercely debated area...
This collection of rare and classic documents provides student with rich source material and context for studying the literature of Shakespeare's age. The documents are supported by substantial editorial matter, including an authoritative introduction which outlines key historical events, movements, and literary and cultural issues of the time.
This collection of rare and classic documents provides student with rich source material and context for studying the literature of Shakespeare's age....
This text provides a complete reference guide to Cantonese as spoken by native speakers in Hong Kong. It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in current Cantonese. This makes it the ideal reference source for all learners and users of Cantonese.
This text provides a complete reference guide to Cantonese as spoken by native speakers in Hong Kong. It presents a fresh and accessible description o...
Carolyn Collette Harold Garrett-Goodyear Steven Matthews
More than a hundred primary documents offer students of later medieval English literature, society, and history intriguing original perspectives through which to understand the literary texts of the period 1350-1500 as well as the culture which created and received them. Complete with a substantial introduction, annotations and a timeline.
More than a hundred primary documents offer students of later medieval English literature, society, and history intriguing original perspectives throu...
T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature, for the first time, considers the full imaginative and moral engagement of one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, T.S. Eliot, with the Early Modern period of literature in English (1580-1630). This engagement haunted Eliot's poetry and critical writing across his career, and would have a profound impact on subsequent poetry across the world, as well as upon academic literary criticism, and wider cultural perceptions. To this end, the book elucidates and contextualizes several facets of Eliot's thinking and its impact: through...
T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature, for the first time, considers the full imaginative and moral engagement of one of the most influential poets o...
A thought-provoking presentation of the" living truth" about the natural state of human sexuality. Giving hope to others to freely express themselves with no judgment, no censorship, and most importantly NO LABELS An opportunity for individual discovery that will open your mind to a paradigm shift in self-awareness of sexual orientation and behavior; and, result in both self- and societal understanding and acceptance of the sexual continuum phenomenon. Gain a "greater understanding" of the nature of human sexuality and its inherent capability to develop emotional and physical expression...
A thought-provoking presentation of the" living truth" about the natural state of human sexuality. Giving hope to others to freely express themselves ...
Through a series of poetic responses and critical reflections, Ceaseless Music explores the afterlives of Wordsworth's landmark autobiographical poem The Prelude in literature, philosophy and life writing, together with the insights it can offer into the writing of poetry today.
Beginning with an exploration of the poem's genesis, from draft versions found in Wordsworth's notebooks onwards, the book goes on to sound out The Prelude's radical versions of selfhood through its attention to the 'musics' of place and of experience. The scope of the book ranges from...
Through a series of poetic responses and critical reflections, Ceaseless Music explores the afterlives of Wordsworth's landmark autobiograph...
Second collection from established poet and critic who has been a regular reviewer of poetry for London Magazine, Poetry Review and the TLS as well as poetry editor for Dublin Quarterly Magazine. This collection is a 'sustained meditation on magnetism in all its senses' (Bernard O'Donoghue).
Second collection from established poet and critic who has been a regular reviewer of poetry for London Magazine, Poetry Review and the TLS as well as...
