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Self-Concern
This book is a major contribution to the philosophical literature on the nature of the self, personal identity and survival. Its distinctive... Les mer
In Defense of Pure Reason
This book is concerned with the alleged capacity of the human mind to arrive at beliefs and knowledge about the world on the basis of pure reason... Les mer
In Defense of Pure Reason
This book is concerned with the alleged capacity of the human mind to arrive at beliefs and knowledge about the world on the basis of pure reason... Les mer
Papers in Philosophical Logic
This is the first of a three-volume collection of David Lewis’s most recent papers in all the areas to which he has made significant contributions.... Les mer
Afrotopia
Afrocentrism and its history has long been disputed and controversial. In this important book, Wilson Moses presents a critical and nuanced view of... Les mer
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit makes the case for Wharton as a novelist of morals rather than of manners; a novelist who sought answers to... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O’Neill
This is a volume of specially commissioned essays containing studies of Eugene O’Neill’s life, his intellectual and creative forebears, and his... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O’Neill
This is a volume of specially commissioned essays containing studies of Eugene O’Neill’s life, his intellectual and creative forebears, and his... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James’s work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty... Les mer
New Essays on Hemingway’s Short Fiction
The introduction and four scholarly essays in this volume constitute an overview of Hemingway’s career as a short story writer and offer an... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville is intended to provide a critical introduction to Melville’s work. The essays have been specially... Les mer
T. S. Eliot and Ideology
Setting out to demonstrate the effect of politics on the work of T. S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot and Ideology charts first of all the influence of French... Les mer
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre... Les mer
An Introduction to West Indian Poetry
This introduction to West Indian poetry is written for readers making their first approach to poetry in English written in the Caribbean. It offers a... Les mer
Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography
One of the most popular novelists of the twentieth century, winner of a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature and an active social and political... Les mer
An Introduction to West Indian Poetry
This introduction to West Indian poetry is written for readers making their first approach to poetry in English written in the Caribbean. It offers a... Les mer
The Theatre of Sam Shepard
This comprehensive analysis traces Sam Shepard’s career from his experimental one-act plays of the 1960s to the 1994 play Simpatico. Curse of the... Les mer
J. M. Coetzee
The importance of J. M. Coetzee in the development of twentieth-century fiction is now widely recognised. His work addresses some of the key critical... Les mer
The Usable Past
How can we know the past? How can we speak of it in literary forms? Why should we want to? Concentrating on the past as both the subject of fiction... Les mer
Enacting History in Henry James
The Jamesian mode of writing, it has been claimed, actively works against an understanding of the way truth, history and power circulate in his... Les mer
Milton and Republicanism
Drawing upon the expertise of both historians and literary critics, this volume examines the classical sources of Milton’s republicanism, the... Les mer
Pedagogy and Power
Pedagogy and Power is a volume of interdisciplinary essays which explores the political dimensions of Graeco-Roman education and of its subsequent... Les mer
Equal Freedom and Utility
This rich and provocative study assesses Herbert Spencer’s pivotal contribution to the emergence of liberal utilitarianism and shows that Spencer,... Les mer
Malebranche
Malebranche’s Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion is in many ways the best introduction to his thought, and provides the most systematic... Les mer