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Language of Literature
Routledge 2003; US$ 23.95Built around the assessment objectives for AS and A2 level English, offering explanations, examples, exercises, summaries, a glossary of key terms and suggested answers. more...
How Texts Work
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 23.95How Texts Work : explores the ways in which we categorize texts reveals the limitations of some of the polarisations we use to categorize texts analyzes a wide variety of texts from a range of genres and periods, from Ibsen's A Doll's House to an 18-30s brochure, Internet chatrooms and George Bush's September 11 speech offers a step-by-step... more...
Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales [I]
Boydell & Brewer 2002; US$ 99.00A new two-volume edition of the sources and major analogues of all the Canterbury Tales prepared by members of the New Chaucer Society. This collection, the first to appear in over half a century, features such additions as a fresh interpretation of Chaucer's sources for the frame of the work, chapters on the sources of the General Prologue and Retractions,... more...
Introduction to Literary Studies
Routledge 2004; US$ 29.95In this volume, Mario Klarer provides the essential beginner's guide to literary studies. Offering a concise, easy-to-understand discussion of central issues in the study of literary texts. more...
Faking Literature
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 34.00Literary forgeries are usually regarded as spurious versions of genuine literature. Faking Literature argues that the production of a literary forgery is an act that reveals the spurious nature of literature itself. This intriguing book will be of interest to all teachers, students and readers of English literature. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 30.00This book introduces students to the literature of Anglo-Saxon England, the period from 600 1066, in a collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays. The Companion is aimed at students encountering Old English Literature for the first time, and teachers who have no expertise in Old English but who require clear guidance in an unfamiliar field. more...
Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 119.99A study which explores the implications of multiple authorship, using as examples the case of Keats and the assistants who aided him in the creation of "Isabella", the contributions of John Stuart Mill's wife to his autobiography, and the revisions to Wordsworth's "The Prelude". more...
Gender and the Chivalric Community in Malory's Morte d'Arthur
UPF 2003; US$ 59.95?A lively and thought-provoking study of gender in the Arthurian community. It is at once theoretically sophisticated and highly readable, full of insightful close readings yet conscious of larger patterns of analysis.?--Laurie Finke, Kenyon College Gender and the Chivalric Community in Malory?s Morte d?Arthur reveals, for the first time in a book-length... more...
She, This in Blak'
Routledge 2006; US$ 95.00Takes a look at Chaucer's great Trojan romance, Troilus and Criseyde, in light of scholarship on late scholastic discourses on representation and causality as they pertain to human perception and judgment. This study also contributes to a growing literature on the impact of scholastic psychological theory upon contemporary cultural forms. more...
Forging Chivalric Communities in Malory's Le Morte Darthur
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 100.00Malory presents chivalry as a dynamic code shaped and reshaped by communities ranging from the nation to the province, from hermits to women. more...









