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Tolstoy’s Phoenix
By examining Tolstoy's techniques and analyzing the structure of War and Peace, essayist George R. Clay offers a fresh perspective and...
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Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
This book, part of the acclaimed AATSEEL Critical Companions series, is designed to guide readers through Dostoevsky's most mysterious and...
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Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The Golovlyovs
This companion to M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's The Golovlyovs opens with a general introduction discussing the work in the context of...
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The Tel Quel Reader
The work of the French literary review, intellectual grouping and publishing team Tel Quel had a profound impact on the formation of literary and...
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Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism
Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism is Donald Fanger's groundbreaking study of the art of Dostoevsky and the literary and historical context in which...
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Corpus Linguistics
This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on...
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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...
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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...
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Pushkin on Literature
Pushkin on Literature approaches Pushkin's literary accomplishment from a unique perspective: it focuses on Pushkin the critic, and on his...
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Fishing by Obstinate Isles
Fishing by Obstinate Isles explores the relations of recent British and American poetries, challenging American views of a British poetry dominated...
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Poetry On and Off the Page
The fourteen essays that make up this collection have as their common theme a reconsideration of the role historical and cultural change has played...
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Theatre Matters
Theatre, in a variety of forms and contexts, can make, and indeed has made, positive political and social interventions in a range of developing...
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Plato and the Socratic Dialogue
This book proposes a new paradigm for the interpretation of Plato’s early and middle dialogues. Rejecting the usual assumption of a distinct...
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Language and Society
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Downes’ textbook is an accessible introduction to the social aspects of language and their various...
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Close Listening
Close Listening and the Performed Word brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry...
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Midrash and Theory
In Midrash and Theory, David Stern presents an approach to midrashic literature through the prism of contemporary theory.
As midrash--the...
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Salvador Dalí’s Art and Writing, 1927–1942
This book examines the evolution of Dalí’s art during the 1920s and 1930s when he was associated first with the Catalan avant-garde and then with...
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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...
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Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton
This book offers a fresh examination of key seventeenth-century writers in the context of their common interest in the republican, libertarian and...
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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...
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If You See the Buddha
In a 1994 American Scholar article, Andrew Wachtel wrote of Ivan Bunin: "[He] is undoubtedly the greatest Russian writer whom no one...
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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...
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