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This collection examines young adult Gothic fiction to demonstrate how the contemporary resurgence of the Gothic in texts for young people signals anxieties about, and hopes for, young people in the twenty-first century.

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Innovative poetry that combines lyricism, narrative, and biography

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Zafer Senocak (b.1961) is an important German literary voice from the large Turkish community in Germany. This study opens with previously unpublished material by Senocak, and includes a biographical essay and interview, as well as essays addressing all aspects of his work.

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This volume contains the proceedings of the Zeami and the N Theatre in the World symposium.

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It is in "Bleak House" that Dickens the realist and Dickens the modernist are often thought to meet. The essays collected in this "New Casebook" embody some of the approaches to Dickens, using deconstructive, feminist, Marxist and post-structuralist methods.

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Examines the major plays of George Etherege and William Wycherley within the context of the cultural and historical changes that marked the early years of Charles II's reign, and addresses various issues such as marriage, manners, heroism and sovereignty that preoccupied late 17th-century Britain.

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London is, and always has been, crammed with literary life. Playwrights, novelists, diarists, poets and essayists have roamed its streets, met in its cafes and strolled in its gardens. They have been inspired by its monuments, churches, law courts and theatres and have created fictional Londoners. This work is aimed at book lovers and readers.

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Combines the two distinct but related themes of love and romance, this giftbook illustrates texts with the images of medieval romances. It also juxtaposes words of love alongside images of gold jewellery and other inscribed mementoes. The introduction explains the medieval fascination with the quest and its ideals of beauty and chivalry.

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Legendary Shakespearean actress Dame Janet Suzman launches an attack on the anti-Shakespeareans, and launches a passionate defence of women on stage, while simultaneously arguing for more roles for women of the calibre of Hamlet.

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Whatever happened to the bard's books Ardent bibliophile Stuart Kells investigates.

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Provides a survey of the Western dramatic tradition. This title overviews Western drama from Ancient Greece to modern America. It includes chapters on great eras of drama, such as the Renaissance; national theatres, such as the theatres of Latin America, Ireland, and Poland; and important theatrical movements.

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Nicolas Tredell explores the critical material generated by these two works of modernist fiction. From the initially mixed critical responses to the novels in the early 1930s, the Guide follows the growth of interest in Faulkner's work across six decades.

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Albert Wendt is by far the most prolific and most influential contemporary Pacific Island writer. He has written four books of poetry, three collections of short stories, five novels and has edited three anthologies of Pacific writing. This is the first extended study of this writer.

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Over 250 world-changing speeches, from ancient history to the 21st century.

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It was a refreshing, old-fashioned pleasure to read Julie Scott Meisami's verse translation of, and introduction and notes to, this twelfth-century Persian allegorical romance. Orhan Pahmuk, in the Times Literary Supplement

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Designed for teachers, this is a comprehensive book of lesson plans, projects, discussion questions, reproducible worksheets and more.

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