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A wide-ranging exploration of Anne Carson's multi-faceted engagement with antiquity covering the full breadth of her oeuvre, from her novels, poems, and essays to her PhD thesis and artwork.

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Using Calvin Hernton's Sex and Racism in America in the development of women's stereotypes, Anna Maria Chupa adds a mythic interpretation to these characters, while at the same time recognizing that the social context that informs the stereotypes creates the imagery through which archetypes are manifest.

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This text aims to provide a crictial discussion of the work of the French writer Annie Ernaux. It gives a chronological account of Ernaux's development as a writer, indicating the broad variations in narrative structure, language, and to a lesser extent, theme, which distinguish each text.

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An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010 -- .

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This book is a critical biography and literary cultural analysis of Burgess's interactions with the United States of America and American society, using newly discovered documents, archival research and Burgess's entire canon to investigate the profound influence of America on Burgess's life and work.

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This in-depth study of the important but neglected writer Anthony Munday fills a long-standing gap in our knowledge and understanding of London and its culture in the early modern period. It will be of interest to historians, literary scholars and cultural geographers. -- .

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This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers pick up the play's themes of desire and delinquency, exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present. Is the play tragedy Comedy Farce Rutter shows it's all three. -- .

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A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis of feeling and affect in literary texts. It shows how contemporary audiences learned to understand emotion in themselves and others, through empathetic response, the development of fictionality and the emergence of interiority.

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This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing. In doing so, he offers a new paradi

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Explores the links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. This book shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing.

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In searching for a definitive concept of black theatre, Euba delves deeply into the Yoruba culture and gods, specifically the attributes and ritual of Esu-Elegbara.

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Argues that cultural politics - specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts - played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critical period after World War II.

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These fragments essays, thoughts and poems on the nature of theatre likewise reject the constraints of 'objective' academic theatre criticism. They explore the collisions of intellect and artistry in the creative act. This book is a cultural manifesto for Barker's own 'Theatre of Catastrophe'.

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From 1890 to 1920, the British aristocracy faded in historical importance. This book explores the centrality of aristocracy to late Victorian and early-20th-century literary culture.

Included are discussions of such writers as Marie Corelli, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, H.G.

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The central figure of medieval Romance, King Arthur has captivated literary imaginations. This book includes extended entries on 34 writers in the Arthurian tradition. It provides an introductory overview and a discussion of Arthurian lore in art, along with suggestions for further reading.

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