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Andy Mousley
In this collection of essays the critical methods of historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction are variously employed to explore Donne’s ambivalent relationship to language, women, love, self, God and society.
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Unlike other introductions to literary theory, this book offers a sustained discussion of a specific period of English Literature. Avoiding the danger of employing theories as templates, the book uses…
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This groundbreaking book establishes key terms and concepts for a ‘new literary humanism’ and applies them to a range of literary texts from the sixteenth century to the present day.
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Martin Halliwell,Andy Mousley
The book focuses on the thought of twenty-four mainly European and North American thinkers, ranging historically from the Renaissance to postmodernism.
This reappraisal of humanism argues that humanist thought is a diverse tradition, irreducible to current conceptions of it. It focuses on 24 influential European and American thinkers - from the…
Jo Gill
This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and…
Bella Adams
An introduction to internationally successful writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Bharati Mukherjee, Gish Jen, Chang-Rae Lee and Amitav Ghosh, set in a range of literary-cultural contexts.
Gabriel Egan
This book is new in the way it tackles the problem of imagining performances of Shakespeare as you read his plays.
Annette J. Saddik
This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts from the 1940s…
This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United\nStates in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on\nrepresentative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and\ncontent…
