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First published in 1970, Dictionary of World Literary Terms brings together in one volume authoritative definitions of literary terms, forms and techniques, figures of speech and …
First published in 1967, Love Songs of Chandidas provides an informative introduction which makes vividly clear the importance of Chandidas to the Indian peasant masses. As the …
First published in 1990, Philosophers’ Poets is a collection of case studies of philosophers’ readings of poets and other distinctive writers. There are those, for example, who …
First published in 1970, Leyla and Mejnun provides a thorough introduction to the Leyla and Mejnun love story and the various forms in which the story has appeared in the Islamic …
First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed ‘passives’ by linguists, using data from a large number of …
First published in 1987, Anomie examines essential moments of Western thought, tracing the complex concept of anomie. The Greek origin of the term (a-nomia, absence of joy) relates …
The cult of sensibility jangled the nerves of Europe in the mid-eighteenth century. It touched all literary genres and brought into prominence those qualities of tenderness, …
First published in 1975, Myth and Literature considers three points at which the concept of myth has entered modern literary imagination: the use of myth – or atleast their …
The French poetry of some five centuries is here surveyed in a series of studies of the work and personality of individual poets from Villon to the present day. Each chapter is …
First published in 1985, Disability in Modern Children’s Fiction presents a case for the inclusion of a planned element in the mainstream curriculum, specifically designed to …