Literary History & Criticism


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  • Cover scan of Modernism And Magic
    Modernism And Magic: Experiments With Spiritualism, Theosophy And The Occult
    Leigh Wilson - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  • Cover scan of Maurice Lindsay's The Burns Encyclopaedia

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    Maurice Lindsay's The Burns Encyclopaedia
    Maurice Lindsay - Hardback - Robert Hale
    This is a handbook and guide for readers of Burns' poetry and letters and a reference book to his life. It also provides a fascinating Scottish backcloth to the 18th century.
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    Material Inscriptions: Rhetorical Reading In Practice And Theory
    Andrzej Warminski - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
    Focusing insistently on the practice of rhetorical reading, this title demonstrates how the self-undoing of tropological systems necessarily generates narratives which turn out to be allegories of their own conditions of (im)possibility.
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    The Modernist Party
    - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
    Have you ever been struck by the number of parties in Modernist literature? In this book, scholars explore the party both as a literary device and as a social setting in which the movement's creative values were developed.
  • Cover scan of Muriel Rukeyeser And Documentary
    Muriel Rukeyeser And Documentary: The Poetics Of Connection
    Catherine Gander - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
    This study of 20th-century American poet Muriel Rukeyser explores the multiple avenues of her 'poetics of connection' to reveal a profound engagement with the equally intertextual documentary genre.
  • Cover scan of Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts
    Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts
    - Hardback - D.S. Brewer
    The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from the medieval period and explore some of their medieval contexts, deepening our understanding not only of the romances concerned but also of the specific medieval contexts that produced or influenced them.
  • Cover scan of Myths And The Mythmaker
    Myths And The Mythmaker: A Literary Account Of J.M. Barrie's Formative Years
    Ronald D. S. Jack - Paperback - Rodopi
    Through closely focused textual analyses, this text dispels the popular images of Barrie as 'escapist' writer and immature, mother-fixated artist. It seeks to replace the narrow prose canon on which the 'Oedipal' and 'Kailyard' myths are based with a thorough account of his Victorian apprenticeship.
  • Cover scan of Muriel Spark
    Muriel Spark: The Biography
    Martin Stannard - Paperback - Phoenix
    Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark ended her life as the epitome of literary chic, one of the great writers of the 20th century. This book tells her story.
  • Cover scan of Macbeth, William Shakespeare
    Macbeth, William Shakespeare
    - Paperback - Longman
    Each title in this series offers an exciting approach to English literature and will help students achieve a better grade. This book is packed with detailed summaries and commentaries, snappy advice, fun facts, and an extended resources section.
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    Macbeth
    William Shakespeare - Paperback - Longman
    For pupils aged 11 to 16, this edition of 'Macbeth' includes photographs from a range of productions to encourage students to think about different productions, and targeted support to help all pupils understand the play and its language.

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