|    Login    |    Register

Filter Results

  • Large print only
  • Audiobooks only

Showing 337-360 of 4084

StartPrev111213141516171819NextEnd


(Hardback)

By: Mark Allen

ISBN: 9780719096099
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
See more...

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


(Hardback)

By: Christopher W Thurley

ISBN: 9781526174147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
See more...

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.


(Paperback)

By: Tracey Hill

ISBN: 9780719063831
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
See more...

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. -- .


(Hardback)

By: John Thieme

ISBN: 9781350296039
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Paperback)

By: John Thieme

ISBN: 9781350296077
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Hardback)

By: Daniel Orrells

ISBN: 9781350407763
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Hardback)

By: Carol Chillington Rutter

ISBN: 9781526132499
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 14th July 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
See more...

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. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Mary Manjikian

ISBN: 9780739190661
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

In Mary Manjikian's Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End, apocalypse-themed novels of contemporary America and historic Britain are affirmed as a creative luxury of development. Manjikian examines a number of such novels using the lens of an international relat...


(Hardback)

By: Carolyne Larrington

ISBN: 9781526176134
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
See more...

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.


(Paperback)

By: Dr. Stuart R. Thomson

ISBN: 9781350010277
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Paperback)

By: William Keach

ISBN: 9780691168005
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...

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


(Hardback)

By: William Keach

ISBN: 9780691117669
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...

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.


(Hardback)

By: Femi Euba

ISBN: 9780313255571
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1989
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

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.


(Hardback)

By: Andrew N. Rubin

ISBN: 9780691154152
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...

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.


(Paperback, 3rd edition)

By: Howard Barker

ISBN: 9780719052491
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1997
Publisher: Manchester University Press
See more...

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'.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Len Platt

ISBN: 9780313316739
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

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.


(Paperback)

By: C. W. Marshall

ISBN: 9781350080911
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Hardback)

By: Ian C. Storey

ISBN: 9781350020221
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Paperback)

By: Ian C. Storey

ISBN: 9781350020214
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Hardback)

By: Drew Paul

ISBN: 9780755656721
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

How mobility and its impediment serve as frameworks for expressions of political dissent in cultural production in the Arab world


(Hardback)

By: Rosemary Woolf

ISBN: 9780907628538
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1986
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Hardback)

By: Paul Griffith

ISBN: 9781498527439
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This book examines residual oral conventions that shape the black diaspora imaginary in the Caribbean and the United States. Through a hermeneutical focus, Griffith provides fresh understandings of the Atlantic as a frame for a philosophical and cultural counterdiscourse in postcolonial communities.


(Hardback)

By: Laura Lambdin

ISBN: 9780313346828
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

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.


(Paperback)

By: Rob Burton

ISBN: 9780761835998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
Publisher: University Press of America
See more...

This work analyzes the fiction of four contemporary multicultural writers who render a 'floating world' in which cultures converge or collide in unexpected, exciting, and dangerous ways.

StartPrev111213141516171819NextEnd