Author : Peter Raby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521886090
Updated edition of this popular Companion examining the wide range of Pinter's work, and his continuing impact and influence.
Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470751479
This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
Author : Claire McEachern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521793599
Acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, and critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Shakespearean tragedy is a highly complex and demanding theatre genre, but the thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, are clear, concise and informative.
Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521016575
Table of contents
Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521653701
Specially-commissioned essays explore key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life.
Author : Thomas Keymer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521007573
This volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.
Author : Malcolm Godden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 1991-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521377942
Ideal for students, this collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays covers all aspects of Anglo-Saxon literature from 600-1066.
Author : Efraín Kristal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827057
The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often overlooked. Indispensable to students of Latin American or Hispanic studies and those interested in comparative literature and the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.
Author : Maryemma Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 2004-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521016371
This Companion presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel.
Author : Kirk Freudenburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521803595
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, placing them within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history. Besides addressing basic questions of authors, content, and form, the volume looks to the question of what satire 'does' within the world of Greco-Roman social exchanges, and goes on to treat the genre's further development, reception, and translation in Elizabethan England and beyond. Included are studies of the prosimetric, 'Menippean' satires that would become the models of Rabelais, Erasmus, More, and (narrative satire's crowning jewel) Swift.
