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‘A dark treat’ Kate Riordan, author of The Stranger Haunting and moving, The Woman in the Mirror is a tale of obsession tinged with suspense, perfect…

This Guide introduces students to critical writing on Shakespeare’s comedies over the last four centuries. Guides students through four centuries of c…

Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien’s life and works ever published. This volume includes a superlative day-by-day chrono…

This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form. A jargon-…

This fully-annotated anthology of sixteenth-century English verse features generous selections from the canonical poets, alongside judicious selection…

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiogr…

Literary Biography: An Introduction illustrates and accounts for the literary genre that merges historical facts with the conventions of narrative whi…

This companion to America?s greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies. Cove…

This book introduces readers to the evolution of modern fiction in Spanish-speaking Latin America. Presents Latin American fiction in its cultural and…

This guide shows design practices and other construction professionals how to manage knowledge successfully. It explains how to develop and implement …

Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of human interactions with physical books that reveals why the tr…

How to Read World Literature addresses the unique challenges faced by a reader confronting foreign literature. Accessible and enlightening, Damrosch o…

A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, enga…

This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day. Guides students thro…

Whither Quo Vadis? offers an engaging account of how the Roman world and its history are represented in film and the way in which the different adapta…

A story of love and grief. ‘I became a widower and a father on the same day’ says Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dante’s ‘The Divine Comedy’ helped …

This Guide steers students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s history plays, enhancing their enjoyment and broadening their c…

В Интернете длительное время ведется полемика между сторонниками НАСА и противниками американского обмана. «Адвокаты» НАСА, среди которых есть как про…

Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel…

The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies is a comprehensive textbook, providing essential practical and analytical reading and writing skills…

This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. Traces the rise of r…

A comprehensive guide to Dante’s life and literature, with an emphasis on his Commedia. This text looks at the influences that shaped Dante’s writing,…

This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies, and the bearing …

Shakespeare’s Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. …

The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman …

John Sturrock’s classic explication of Structuralism represents the most succinct and balanced survey available of a major critical movement associate…

«Я не нашел у Анненкова («Вестник Европы») отметки Пушкина о 1814 годе…»

This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argue…

This is a study of the rich and diverse range of musical responses to Shakespeare that have taken place from the seventeenth century onwards. Written …

Как уцелеть в этом неспокойном мире? Возможно ли найти счастье? Как распознать своего избранника? Что предпринять, чтоб не заблудиться в лабиринтах лю…

Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance …

With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon’s indispensable dictionary firmly in the 21st Century. Written in a clear …

Written by eminent scholar David O. Ross, this guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil’s great epic, suggesti…

Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth cen…

«…Нет ничего тяжелее и неприятнее, как излагать содержание художественного произведения. Цель этого изложения не состоит в том, чтоб показать лучшие м…

This volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period. Distils into one volume the key poems of the V…

«Если я начну с того, что г. Островский самый талантливый представитель нашей драматической литературы; если я стану указывать на или на как на перл…

This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious w…

Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mys…

Две темы занимают в настоящей рецензии центральное место – во-первых, изображение в литературе народной жизни, во-вторых, в связи с первой темой – рол…

Considered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscur…

Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien’s life and works ever published. This volume includes a superlative day-by-day chrono…

Big Screen Rome is the first systematic survey of the most important and popular films from the past half century that reconstruct the image of Roman …

The myths and legends in this book have been selected both for their excellence as stories and because they illustrate the distinctive nature of Nativ…

Рецензия Салтыкова на новый роман И. И. Лажечникова, темой которого было польское восстание 1863 г., повторяет и развивает ряд тезисов, высказанных в …