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Writing landscapes inevitably occurs in dialogue with a long textual and pictorial tradition, but first-hand experience also provides key stimuli to many writers’ accounts. This monograph employs a c …

Bringing together leading international scholars, John Banville and His Precursors explores Booker and Franz Kafka prize-winning Irish author John Banville”s most significant intellectual influences …

Michel Foucault’s 1969 essay “What is an Author?” sidesteps the stormy arguments surrounding “intentional fallacy” and the “death of the author, ” offering an entirely different way of looking at tex …

Originally published in 1978, this study presents a detailed analysis of the major literary movements in Austria and Germany from the end of the nineteenth century to the collapse of the Third Reich. …

Is Laurence Sterne one of the great Christian apologists? Ryan Stark recommends him as such, perhaps to the detriment of the parson”s roguish reputation. The book”s aim, however, is not to dispel r …

Who were Shakespeare”s ”Friend” and the ”Dark Lady”? Why did Donne risk his life and ruin his career for a seventeen-year-old girl? Why did Wordsworth”s sister retire to her bed on his wedding …

First published in 1968. By selective study of certain of the comedies, tragedies and sonnets, Philip Edwards views Shakespeare”s work as a whole and explains why his art developed as it did. The wo …

This book examines the impact of scientific and sexologic theories on the creation of character in the prose of two moderns, Hemingway and H.D. …

This is Volume VIII in a series of ten on India: Religion and Philosophy. Originally published in 1879, work an endeavour has been made to supply the long-felt want of a Hindu Classical Dictionary. T …

Schools and universities are fast becoming managerial ”courts” of learning in which educators and students are system creatures busily fulfilling system protocols. Any teacher or academic yearning …