James Brophy & William Davies 
Samuel Beckett’s Poetry [PDF ebook] 

‘Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante”s ”second love”; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of …

What can postcolonialism tell us about international relations? What can international relations tell us about postcolonialism? In recent years, postcolonial perspectives and insights have challenged …

First published in 1987. Often the best known and most memorable passages in Shakespeare”s plays, the soliloquies, also tend to be the focal points in the drama. Twenty-seven soliloquies are examine …

Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries. Wil …

The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory explores relationships between narrative and imperium in the context of Western Modernism by examining the Quest as a vexed trope in Heart of Darkness, Passage to …

Who”s Who in Shakespeare presents a complete and handy guide to the men and women who throng Shakespeare”s plays. It provides: * detailed biographical information on each leading figure * analyses …

Walden s Shore explores Thoreau s understanding of the living rock on which life s complexity depends not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson s subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral …

The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe”s greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne”s Essays, Rabelais” comic fictions, Rons …

Through the comparative study of literatures from the United States and Latin America, Segregated Miscegenation questions received notions of race and nation. Carlos Hiraldo examines the current unde …

A comprehensive analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare”s reception by major American writers and poets. …