Hakutulokset: Sarja Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
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Comics and Graphic Novels
Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and …
Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse/The Waves
In this Readers' Guide, Jane Goldman explores critical material on To the Lighthouse and The Waves, two of Woolf's most important novels. The reader is guided through the critical …
Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire/Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) are major plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America's most significant dramatists. They both received landmark …
The Fiction of Margaret Atwood
Winner of the 2023 Atwood Society Award for Best Book on Atwood and Her Work Margaret Atwood is one of the most significant writers working today. Her writing spans seven decades, …
William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) is William Blake's best-known work, containing such familiar poems as 'London', 'Sick Rose' and 'The Tyger'. Evolving over the author's …
Shakespeare's Late Plays
Shakespeare's late plays are a 'mixed bag' with a common theme: from the fiendishly jealous Leontes to the saintly Pericles; from the ineffectual Cymbeline to the omnipotent …
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Charles Dickens is the most famous and popular English author of the 19th century, and "Great Expectations" is often regarded as his finest work. In this guide, Nicolas Tredell …
The Fiction of Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most established, and controversial, writers. This book introduces students to a range of critical approaches to McEwan's fiction. Criticism is drawn …
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Since its publication in 1982, The Color Purple has polarized critics and generated controversy while delighting many readers around the world. Rachel Lister offers a clear, …
George Orwell - Animal Farm/Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell is a writer who has been appropriated by very different political regimes and opinions, pressed into service as his various critics have seen fit. Though a …
The Fiction of Pat Barker
Pat Barker is one of the most important authors of her time. Her fiction has won many awards – including the Booker Prize for The Ghost Road, the last novel in her celebrated …