Early Modern & Modern Humanities & Cultures

ISBN: 9780746307793
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
A short, clear, critical study of David Hare's work for theatre, film and television, concentrating on questions of staging, performance and narrative and dramatic form.
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ISBN: 9780746311097
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
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ISBN: 9781908343734
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Benito Pérez Galdós’ finely-crafted novel, Meow, is a tragi-comedy. It is the story of a middle-aged, middle class middle-manager who does not know how to pull the strings that could get him reinstated to his ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780746310786
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
A detailed critical study of the leading Indian novelist in English and a key figure in the development of a distinctive postcolonial literature.


This study covers all of Narayan's work, offering an accessible introduction to his l... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780746310960
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
This book brings together two of the most significant British women writers of the Romantic period, Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams, and explores the poetics and politics of their work.

In the 1790s, when Charlotte Smith and Hel... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975738
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
José María Hinojosa (1904-1936) has been credited with being a pioneer of Surrealism in Spain. He moved in the same circles as Buñuel and Dalí and was one of the key figures behind an attempt to form an... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856688904
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
The Inquisitor's Handbook , a translation of a 1537 compilation of rules for inquisitorial personnel, introduces today's reader to the Spanish Inquisition in the same way a sixteenth-century inquisitor would have been introduced to his duties. ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975516
Published by : Legenda
Series: Moving Image
Volume: 5
Until recently, the story of African film was marked by a series of truncated histories: many outstanding films from earlier decades were virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from critical accounts. However, various cons... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975509
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 36
Hélène Cixous (1937-), distinguished not least as a playwright herself, told Le Monde in 1977 that she no longer went to the theatre: it presented women only as reflections of men, used for their visual effect. The t... .... Learn More