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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-…

«В Париже на днях достался большой успех на долю новой книги, касающейся русской истории. Книга эта называется «Le Roman d'une impératrice. Catherine …

The Concise Companion to Feminist Theory introduces readers to the broad scope of feminist theory over the last 35 years. Introduces readers to the br…

«Из этюда Бюто в февральской книжке „Nouvelle Revue“(„Le Cardinal Voltaire“) оказывается, что немногого не хватало, чтоб Вольтер сделался кардиналом п…

История русской Коко Шанель XXI века. Поэма о жизни и творчестве нашей современницы - российско-белорусской талантливой художницы и модельера одежды Е…

The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642. Places emphasis on those plays that are rea…

Рецензия на книгу Октава Юзана «Son Altesse la femme» (о судьбе Жакетты Обер, подруги деятеля Французской революции Эро де Сешеля).

Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful rea…

Джорджо Вазари (1511—1574) – одна из самых ярких фигур итальянского Возрождения. Будучи учеником Микеланджело Буонаротти и придворным художником семьи…

«Сталкер» Андрея Тарковского – один из самых загадочных и удивительных фильмов в кинематографе нашей страны. Это фильм-притча по мотивам повести брать…

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

Манит загадочный мир Востока? Любите восточные танцы и всегда мечтали научиться танцевать? Хотите примерить на себя шикарные восточные костюмы и почув…

This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture demonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language and culture from medieval…

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

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and i…

The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900–2000 is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentie…

A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and eco…

A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science f…

This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism. Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept acr…

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

A Brontë Encyclopedia is an A- Z encyclopedia of the most notable literary family of the 19th century highlighting original literary insights and the …

Монография посвящена отечественной музыке ХХ века, связанной с отображением истории освободительного движения в нашей стране и за её пределами. После …

This Companion provides an original and authoritative survey of twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of the best scholars and cri…

Л. В. Брант – беллетрист и критик конца 1830–1840-х гг., в течение ряда лет фельетонист «Северной пчелы». Одержимый, по выражению Белинского, страстью…

Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Br…

This major intervention into debates about the postcolonial and the global proposes that theory should embody unevenness as symptom even as it envisio…

This introduction provides a concise overview of the central issues and critical responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets, looking at the themes, images, an…

This introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it “big”, “new”, “r…

A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the…

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare critic…

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

This unique introduction explores Herman Melville as he described himself in Billy Budd-"a writer whom few know." Moving beyond the recurring depictio…

Жить и творить не только в ногу со временем (con tempo), но и обгоняя его – таковым было кредо Игоря Фёдоровича Стравинского. Именно это и становится …

Daniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novel for decades and now brings his impressive erudition and critical acuity to this insi…

This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it. Places the po…

«Томас Карлейль принадлежал к числу таких писателей, которые в литературе своей страны делают эпоху. Непосредственное влияние их на умы сограждан прох…

This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poet…

«В книге г-жи Симон-Вьено «Marie Antoinette devant le dix-neuvième siècle» со всеми подробностями рассказана весьма любопытная история подставной жены…

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature’s enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the …

This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period and highlig…

Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton …

Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century…

«…Сравнение Пушкина с Лермонтовым особенно трудно по тому горестному обстоятельству, которое как будто бы сделалось неизбежною участью наших великих п…

Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell offers readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English. Brings together original …

«Имеет ли образ мыслей наших влияние на наши действия, стремления, горести, радости – на всю нашу жизнь? Без сомнения, наш образ мыслей производит вла…