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Turns a critical eye on Aesop”s Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop”s portrayal of his animals. Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop”s Fa …

Women”s Experimental Writing considers six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Ka …

Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, Fellow Romantics offers an ins …

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, ‘The Death of the Author, ‘ argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation beca …

Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe”s most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arous …

In her timely contribution to revisionist approaches in modernist studies, Lorraine Sim offers a reading of Virginia Woolf”s conception of ordinary experience as revealed in her fiction and nonficti …

First published in 1986. This outstanding collection of major essays by some of America’s finest literary scholars and critics provides students of American literature with a unique perspective of Am …

This book examines the struggle for Protestant consensus and unity through the work of John a Lasco (1499-1560). It is only in recent years that scholars have begun to recognize the importance of Las …

The modernist period was an era of world war and violent revolution. Covering a wide range of authors from Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy at the beginning of the period to Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel …

Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, Jo …