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Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English... Les mer
Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English... Les mer
Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English... Les mer
The Poetry of Praise
One of the chief functions of poetry in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was to praise gods, people and things. Heroes and kings were... Les mer
Art and Ethical Criticism
A timely and philosophically significant contribution to modern aesthetics featuring some of the best contemporary work in philosophical studies of... Les mer
The Poetry of War
Poets from Homer to Bruce Springsteen have given voice to the intensity, horror, and beauty of war. The greatest war poets praise the victor while... Les mer
Twentieth-Century Poetry and the Visual Arts
The emergence of photography and film in the twentieth century helped to create a shift from a culture of words to a culture of images. Since then,... Les mer
Verdi and the French Aesthetic
Focusing on Verdi’s French operas, Giger shows how the composer acquired an ever better understanding of the various approaches to French... Les mer
Realism, Photography and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
This radically new account of the relationship between photography and literary realism in Victorian Britain draws on detailed readings of... Les mer
Imagining Equality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
The theme of inequality has often dominated academic criticism, which has been concerned with identifying, analyzing, and demystifying various... Les mer
Journalism and the Novel
Literary journalism is a rich field of study that has played an important role in the creation of the English and American literary canons. In this... Les mer
Shakespeare and Tolerance
Shakespeare’s remarkable ability to detect and express important new currents and moods in his culture often led him to dramatise human... Les mer
Scotland and the Fictions of Geography
Focusing on the relationship between England and Scotland and the interaction between history and geography, Penny Fielding explores how Scottish... Les mer
The Stanislavsky System of Acting
Konstantin Stanislavsky, the Russian director and actor and co-founder, in 1898, of the Moscow Art Theatre, was the originator of the most... Les mer
Shakespeare for the People
Beginning by mapping out an overview of the expansion of elementary education in Britain across the nineteenth century, Andrew Murphy explores, for... Les mer
Shakespeare’s Women
David Mann examines the influence of the Elizabethan cross-dressed tradition on the performance and conception of Shakespeare’s female roles... Les mer
Redemption and the Merchant God
Dostoevsky's Russian chauvinism and anti-Semitism have long posed problems for his readers and critics. How could the author of The Brothers... Les mer
Öyvind Fahlström: The Art of Writing
Öyvind Fahlström (1928-76), the Brazilian-born Swedish multi-artist, is one of the mid-twentieth century’s most intriguing cultural figures. His... Les mer
Poetry as Re-Reading
Rereading and rewriting our understanding of the poetics of modernism and postmodernism, this truly revisionary work identifies a significant... Les mer
Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus is usually regarded as our most important source for the history of the second half of the fourth century AD, while his literary... Les mer
The Art of Pliny’s Letters
In the first book on intertextuality in Pliny the Younger, Professor Marchesi invites a new reading of Pliny’s collection of private epistles: the... Les mer
The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709–1875
Illustrations have been an important element of many of the most extensively read editions of Shakespeare’s plays, from the frontispieces to... Les mer
Thinking about Harmony
Focusing on music written in the period 1800–1850, Thinking About Harmony traces the responses of observant musicians to the music that was being... Les mer
A Companion to Henry James
Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship... Les mer