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Crime Fiction : From Poe to the Present [Paperback]
Martin Priestman (Author); Isobel Armstrong (Editor)
$19.95ISBN: 9780746312179
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
This book gives a historical and critical introduction to the genre of crime fiction, from Edgar Allan Poe's first detective story The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841 to the present day. It concentrates chiefly on three branches of Cri... .... Learn More -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning [Paperback]
Simon Avery (Author)
$19.95ISBN: 9780746312063
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century and has recently undergone a major critical reappraisal. In this new study, Simon Avery examines a range of her poems, both well known and less ... .... Learn More -
Charlotte Bronte [Hardback]
Patsy Stoneman (Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9780746311950
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is one of the most famous novels in the world; its heroine’s spirited response to hardship and temptation has engaged an eager readership since its publication in 1847. Jane ... .... Learn More -
David Hare [Paperback]
Jeremy Ridgeman (Author)
$19.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9780746307748
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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Heresies and Heretics: Memories of the Twentieth Century [Paperback]
George Watson (Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9780718892920
Published by : Lutterworth Press
In this enjoyably iconoclastic book, George Watson discusses some of the great heresies of the twentieth century, and the cultural heretics who espoused them, often with surprising results. Watson provides us with examples of 'tru... .... Learn More -
Pre-Raphaelitism: Poetry and Painting [Hardback]
Lindsay Smith (Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9780746308066
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
This book re-assesses the significance to Pre-Raphaelitism of the fundamental relationship of poem to painting, of
the visual to the verbal, to examine those aspects of the movement that account for its enduring legacy. Beginning
with th... .... Learn More -
Translating the English Bible: From Relevance to Deconstruction [Paperback]
Philip Goodwin (Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9780227173916
Published by : James Clarke & Co
In his detailed and thought-provoking work, Philip Goodwin conducts a thorough analysis of the challenges facing the Biblical translator, with particular focus on the problematic dominance of the King James Version of the Bible i... .... Learn More -
Perspective Criticism: Point of View and Evaluative Guidance in Biblical Narrative [Paperback]
Gary Yamasaki (Author)
$37.00ISBN: 9780227173992
Published by : James Clarke & Co
Countless times in the Bible readers are presented with a report of a character engaged in some action, but no explicit indication from the storyteller on how the action is to be evaluated. At first glance, it would appear the rea... .... Learn More -
Rigmaroles and Ragamuffins: Unpicking Words we Derive from Textiles [Paperback]
Elinor Kapp (Author)
$19.95ISBN: 9780957475908
Published by : Elinor Kapp
The English language has developed over many centuries from many diverse languages and cultures, some now lost. If we want to bring to life something of its impressive history, we might use the metaphor of a great river into which... .... Learn More -
Form and Feeling in Modern Literature: Essays in Honour of Barbara Hardy [Hardback]
William Baker (Editor); Isobel Armstrong (Editor)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975370
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Essays, short stories and poems by eminent creative writers, critics and scholars from three continents celebrate the literary achievements of Barbara Hardy, the foremost exponent of close critical reading in the latter half of th... .... Learn More