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  • The Absurd

    Series series The Critical Idiom Reissued
    First published in 1969, provides a helpful introduction to the study of Absurdist writing and drama in the first half of the twentieth century. After discussing a variety of definitions of the Absurd, it goes on to examine a number of key figures in the movement such as Esslin, Sartre, Camus, Ionesco and Genet. The book concludes with a discussion of the limitations of the term ‘Absurd’ and ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Modern Verse Drama

    Series series The Critical Idiom Reissued
    First published in 1977, this book provides a clear and well-illustrated analysis of modern verse drama. It studies the work of its chief exponents, T. S. Eliot and Christopher Fry, as well as the genre’s place in the development of modern theatre. It particular focuses on the effect that verse drama has had on an audience’s awareness of language in the theatre, paving the way for dramatists like ... Read more

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  • Drama Criticism

    Developments since Ibsen

    Edited by Arnold P. Hinchliffe ...
    Series series Casebooks Series
    This volume present important studies in dramatic and theatre criticism as developed in the English-speaking world since the late nineteenth century. Part One, Prologue, gives key statements from Aristotle to Ibsen. Part Two, Plays and Players, covers the broad spectrum of journalistic and academic criticism, new production methods and theories, and new playwriting techniques during this century. ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

  • T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land

    Series series Casebooks Series
    This is a Bloomsbury Academic title. For our full Academic Catalogue, please visit https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/academic/ ... Read more

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    Selected Literary Essays includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis’s most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed in this volume range from Chaucer to Kipling, from "The literary impact of the authorized version" to "Psycho-analysis and literary criticism," to Shakespeare and Bunyan, and Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, are the ... Read more

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  • The Routledge History of Literature in English

    Britain and Ireland

    The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and ... Read more

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  • Pleasing Myself

    From Beowulf to Philip Roth

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Sir Frank Kermode is acknowledged as one of the greatest critics of our time, renowned for the wit humanity and good sense of his writing. Pleasing Myself brings together the very best of his shorter pieces, on topics ranging from Donne and Yeats to modern art and money. ... Read more

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  • The History of Theatre

    by David Timson ...
    This bold undertaking covers Western theatre from ancient Greece to the present day. It traces the development of dramatic art through the miracle plays, the great Shakespearean period, Molière and Racine in France, Goethe in Germany, through the nineteenth century and the main movements in the twentieth century. It is written by David Timson, the British actor and director who features ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry

    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and essays ensured that major poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and Rossetti were household names, and they remain popular today. The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry provides an accessible ... Read more

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  • Ezra Pound

    Edited by Eric Homberger ...
    This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

    Edited by Matthew Bevis ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped and shaping forces. The volume is divided into four main sections. The first section on 'Form' looks ... Read more

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  • The Common Pursuit

    by F. R. Leavis ...
    F. R. Leavis was the chief editor of Scrutiny, which between 1932 and 1953 had some claim on being the most influential literary journal in the English-speaking world.The Common Pursuit is a selection of Leavis's essays from Scrutiny, including his robust defence of Milton against T. S. Eliot, his deeply-felt engagement with Shakespeare, and his severe strictures on attempts to import sociology ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD