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Presenting a clear, well-argued view of Vonnegut's work within the context of American literature and history, this study discusses all of Vonnegut's novels against the background of his other writing, events of the 20th century and the vast array of Vonnegut scholarship.

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The author of such works as A Brighter Sun (1952), The Lonely Londoners (1956), and The Plains of Caroni (1970), West Indian novelist Samuel Selvon is attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention.

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In this study Karen Lawrence presents Joyce's Ulysses as it evolves through radical changes of style. She traces the abandonment of a narrative norm for a series of rhetorical masks, regarded as conscious aesthetic experiments, and considers the theoretical implication of this process, for both the writing and reading of novels. Originally publish

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The description for this book, The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth, will be forthcoming.

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Characterization has been a troubled and neglected problem within literary theory. This book demonstrates that the representation of a character takes place within a shifting field of narrative attention and obscurity. By making the person indispensable to our understanding of literary form, it offers a forward-looking avenue for narrative theory.

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Surveying the work of over 250 playwrights, this guide covers multiple styles, nationalities and periods. Guidance on performing and staging one-act plays is also covered, as well as contact information and where to apply for performance rights. It includes a chapter introducing the history of the one-act play rounds.

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Offers an understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliterary era of ancient Greece.

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While there have been many illuminating studies of pre-literary vampires and vampires that have already been firmly established as literary figures, the story of the crucial moment of transition from folkloric figure to literary subject has not yet been told. The Origins of th...

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The unprecedented commercial success of these novels has generated mixed reactions: at the same time that the secondary status afforded women's narrative has come to be questioned in many academic circles, some authors are dissociating themselves from women's writing.

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Drawing together diverse literary, critical and theoretical texts in which the palimpsest has appeared since its inauguration by Thomas De Quincey in 1845, this work provides a genealogy of this metaphor. It also provides a reference point and critical tool for future employment of the concept of 'palimpsestuousness'.

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A thought-provoking new assessment of this important Greek dramatic text by a major scholar.

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Penny politics explores how and why Victorian popular literature from the 1830s and 1840s appealed to politicised, intermittently radicalised working-class audiences by supplementing its violent, counter-cultural entertainments with openly political content.

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Penny politics explores how and why Victorian popular literature from the 1830s and 1840s appealed to politicised, intermittently radicalised working-class audiences by supplementing its violent, counter-cultural entertainments with openly political content.

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This book examines the censure of working-class womens leisure activities in public spaces as a condemnation of female identity and agency in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. It explores these activities as first steps toward a unified labor movement.