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Contains concise summaries of nearly one hundred major works of philosophy.

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Revealing the extraordinary power of literature to enrich one's life, a retired editor describes how his fascination with the life and works of William Shakespeare prompted a latent passion for literary scholarship and became a spiritual and intellectual adventure that transformed his life. Reprint

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Studying exile and utopia as correlated cultural phenomena, and offering a wealth of historical examples with emphasis on the modern period, Spariosu argues that modernism itself can be seen as a product of an acute exilic consciousness that often seeks to generate utopian social schemes to compensate for its exacerbated sense of existential loss.

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An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy

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In Lives of the Intellectuals one of contemporary America's leading critics and scholars offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of eight influential twentieth- century American writers: Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, W.H. Auden, William Maxwell, Saul Bellow, Alfred Kazin, Norman Mailer and Frank O'Hara.

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Since the beginning of time, trees have held a special place in our collective consciousness. Moyra Caldecott gathers here a collection of myths celebrating the rich symbolism of trees, from African, European, Native American, Russian, Indian, Arabian, and other traditions--bringing to life a time when trees and forests were thought be be inhabited by spirits and divine beings.

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More observations from Ireland's Number One bestselling memoirist. Mixing stories from the road with dispatches from his Irish Times columns, On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist is a spell-binding and powerful book about the human condition, the narratives we weave around the self, and the ultimate bliss of living in the present moment.

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Stiff meets the Bard in this fun life-in-death take on the great literary hacks from Milton to Swift to the Bronts to of course, George Orwell. The authors original piece (and the inspiration for the book) on Shakespeare, sex, and syphilis was covered in outlets from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to the Times of India.

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Features the celebrated playwright's four plays - Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman - that are rife with social and military satire, and teeming with ingenuity and brilliance. Reissue.

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Ruskin was not merely the most important anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century: for his admirers - who included Proust - he was a Tolstoyan figure with the magic of an artist and the moral authority of a sage.

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M. Tullius Cicero was a prolific writer, his writing covering an astonishingly wide spectrum: oratory, letters, epic and didactic poetry, pamphlets, philosophical and rhetorical treatises. He was also a major political figure at Rome during the Late Republic.

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A staggeringly unique and insightful exploration of the anus, challenging us to move away from paranoid phallocentric critical examination, towards inclusion.

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Reality Hunger questions every assumption we ever made about art, the novel, journalism, poetry, film, TV, rap, stand-up, graffiti, sampling, plagiarism, writing, and reading. In seeking to tear up the old culture in search of something new and more authentic, it is the most vital book of the new century.

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Find creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of 20 literary superstars.

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In this volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews of literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist.

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Shows that Shakespeare was a man of the theatre, one among a community of artists in the teeming world of Renaissance London. This book also sketches a gallery of Shakespeare's fellow playwrights.

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This is a collection of the major works of literary criticism from the Renaissance, beginning with Sidney's defence of poesy and moving into the critical responses to Sidney's argument, and a selection of texts illustrating the wider debates about poetry and its place in politics and society.