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Through a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology, Rethinking Therapeutic Reading reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.

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Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first collection of critical writing on Flanagan's fiction. Featuring 12 essays from leading scholars, this volume offers new insights on how his native Tasmania has influenced Flanagan as a writer, and the impact that he has had on Australian and world literature.

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An introduction and summary to William Godwin, bringing together the best of his writings.

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This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theorysteeped in philosophical, theoretical and political commitments to 'difference'have obscured the important investments in 'sameness' that have been central to queer history. Same old dwells on these investments and elucidates their significance.

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In this volume, Wilson asks why Shakespeare remained so enigmatic about his religious beliefs, and demonstrates how he constructed a self-concealing theatre of darkness, deferral, evasion and disguise. This will be essential reading for all Shakespearean scholars, especially those with an interest in the Bard's Catholic connections. -- .

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She-Wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature. -- .

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Whos the true author of Frankenstein The evidence and the debate can be found here.

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Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural theories and on a knowledge of Dazai's work in the context

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Provides a detailed analysis of intertextual sources from the perspective of the metaphorical re-writings which they undergo in Proust's writing. The author re-evaluates the broader role within the novel of images, which tend to be viewed as isolated rather than as essential parts of a coherent network.

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Featuring essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this book offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the multifaceted writing of women associated with surrealism, and highlights howthis oeuvre intersects with and contributes to contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment.

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This new edition of Plato's Symposium provides beginning readers and scholars alike with a solid, reliable translation that is both faithful to the original text and accessible to contemporary readers. In addition, the volume offers a number of aids to help the reader make his or her way through this remarkable work.

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"Tamburlaine the Great" achieved, and sustained, great success on the Elizabethan stage, and it speaks to our own time too, when it has been the subject of numerous productions. Cunningham and Henderson illuminate the themes of the play to help make it accessible to today's readers. In the REVELS PLAYS STUDENT EDITIONS series.

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Includes ten speeches that illustrate Cicero's entire career and exemplify the major contexts for his oratory: before the senate, the people, and the courts. This title illuminates the major political crises of Cicero's time and offers portraits of many of the major political figures.

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When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.

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First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume.