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This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus’ Oresteia, one of the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas. It discusses the Greek drama festival …
This volume is a distinctive critical introduction to Homer’s Iliad, the earliest epic poem, and the earliest known work of literature in ancient Greece. Michael Silk deals with …
In this useful guide, Paul Cantor provides a clearly structured introduction to Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy. Cantor examines Hamlet’s status as tragic hero and the central …
In this accessible critical introduction to Dante’s Divine Comedy Robin Kirkpatrick principally focuses on Dante as a poet and storyteller. He addresses important questions such as …
This introductory guide places the Canterbury Tales in the context of the crisis in English society in the fourteenth century. It examines the social diversity of Chaucer’s …
In this engaging introduction, Vincent Sherry combines a close reading of Ulysses with new critical arguments. He provides a useful guide to the episodic sequence of Joyce’s novel. …
Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji, written in Japan in the early eleventh century, is acknowledged to be one of Japan’s greatest literary achievements, and sometimes thought of …
This volume offers an accessible and stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature. This guide highlights Milton’s imaginative daring as he …
This handy guide to The Odyssey will introduce students to a text, which has been fundamental to literature for nearly 3000 years. Readers will be introduced to the world in that …
This handy guide places Albert Camus’ The Stranger, one of the seminal texts of existentialism and twentieth-century literature in general, in the context of French and …