The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese and Modern Peruvian Literature

By Rebecca Tsurumi(Paperback / softback)

In her book, The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature, Rebecca Riger Tsurumi captures the remarkable story behind the changing human landscape in Peru at the end of the nineteenth century when Japanese immigrants established what would become the second largest Japanese community in South America. She analyzes how non-Japanese Peruvian narrators unlock the unspoken attitudes....

Demands of the Dead: Executions, Storytelling, and Activism in the United States

(Paperback / softback)

The first work to combine literary criticism with other forms of death penalty-abolitionist writing, " Demands of the Dead "demonstrates the active importance of literature and literary criticism to the struggle for greater justice in the United States. Gathering personal essays, scholarly articles, and creative writings on the death penalty in American culture, this striking collection brings human voices and....

The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction

By Elizabeth Roberts Baer(Paperback / softback)

Traces the history of the golem legend and its appropriations in German texts and film as well as in post-Holocaust Jewish-American fiction, film, graphic novels, and television.

Modernist Cultural Studies

By Professor Catherine Driscoll(Paperback / softback)

Tirso De Molina: Marta the Divine

By Harley Erdman(Paperback)

Tells the story of an ingenious young woman who fakes religious piety in order to avoid an arranged marriage imposed upon her by her father. This title presents a picture of an imperial capital plagued by avarice and hypocrisy.

City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry

(Paperback / softback)

Chicago has served as touchstone and muse to generations of writers and artists defined by their relationship to the city's history, lore, inhabitants, landmarks, joys and sorrows, pride and shame. The poetic conversations inspired by Chicago have long been a vital part of America's literary landscape, from Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks to experimental writers and today's slam poets.....

The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

By Jude Morgan(Hardback)

For fans of David Mitchell and The Children's Book, or of the blockbusting biographies of great writers, or just anyone who loves books and wants an intelligent, utterly compelling, brilliant read, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare brings the past unforgettably to life

Utopian Moments: Reading Utopian Texts

(Paperback)

Utopian Moments is a collection of short essays designed to guide readers to informed engagement with the key works of the modern western utopian tradition. It offers a fresh and original perspective on utopian writings and their interpretation.

The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

By Jude Morgan(Paperback)

For fans of David Mitchell and The Children's Book, or of the blockbusting biographies of great writers, or just anyone who loves books and wants an intelligent, utterly compelling, brilliant read, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare brings the past unforgettably to life

Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary

By Don Paterson(Paperback)

Shakespeare's Sonnets are as important today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. In this guide, the author offers a fresh and direct approach to the Sonnets, asking what they can still mean to the twenty-first century reader. It also discusses the meaning, technique, hidden structure and feverish narrative of the Sonnets.

Marx and Freud: Great Shakespeareans

(Hardback)

Focuses on Shakespeare's reception by the modern intellectuals. This title offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.

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$233.60NZD

Shakespeare and the Staging of English History

By Janette Dillon(Paperback)

This new study of Shakespeare's English history plays looks at the plays through the lens of early modern staging, focusing on the recurrence of particular stage pictures and 'units of action', and seeking to show how these units function in particular and characteristic ways within the history plays.

The Two Noble Kinsmen

By William Shakespeare(Paperback)

Presenting a fresh approach to this once marginalized play, this edition addresses issues including collaboration, performance history, craftsmanship and sources.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

By William Shakespeare(Paperback)

An updated edition of Shakespeare's early comedy, featuring a new introductory section on recent stage and critical interpretations.

The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton

(Hardback)

The 37 new essays in the Handbook discuss Middleton's comedies, tragedies, history plays, masques, pageants, pamphlets, and poetry through a range of critical approaches such as feminism, ecocriticism, and performance studies. Reinterpretations of canonical plays like The Changeling mingle with explorations of recently-identified works.

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French Literature: A Beginner's Guide

(Paperback / softback)

Boasting one of Western culture s oldest and richest literary traditions, French literature has long been a pioneer of style and innovation. From the farcical comedies of Moliere to the torment of Baudelaire s verse, it has inspired writers and artists everywhere throughout the ages. This comprehensive Beginner s Guide explores how the literary styles of different periods took shape....

The Works of Graham Greene: A Reader's Bibliography and Guide

(Hardback)

A guide to the published writings of Graham Greene, from his literary writings to published letters and interviews. It surveys not only Greene's literary work - including his fiction, poetry and drama - but also his other published writings.

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Romantic Marginality: Nation and Empire on the Borders of the Page

By Alex Watson(Hardback)

This is the first critical study of Romantic-era annotation or marginalia - footnotes, endnotes, glossaries - which formed a vital site of literary interaction.

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$110.30NZD

Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century

(Paperback / softback)

What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information-- a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, "originality" begins to take a back seat to what can be done with other people's words--framing, citing, recycling, and otherwise mediating available words....

Listening Up, Writing Down & Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, & Visual

By Susan Gingell(Hardback)

An interdisciplinary collection that gathers the work of scholars and performance practitioners who together explore questions about the oral, written, and visual. It addresses the politics and ethics of the utterance and text: textualising orature and orality, simulations of the oral, the poetics of performance, and reconstructions of the oral.

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$151.40NZD