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Merlin and the Grailby Robert de Boron
Boydell & Brewer 2001; US$ 18.70It is hard to overstate the importance of this trilogy of prose romances in the development of the legend of the Holy Grail and in the evolution of Arthurian literature as a whole. They link the story of Joseph of Arimathea with the mythical British history of Vortigern and Utherpendragon, the birth of Arthur, and the sword in the stone, and the knightly adventures of Perceval's Grail quest and the betrayal and death of Arthur, creating the very first Arthurian cycle. more...
Orwell's 1984by Nikki Moustaki; Gilbert Borman
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on 1984 introduces you to the modern world as imagined by George Orwell, a place where humans have no control over their own lives, where nearly every positive feeling is squelched, and where people live in misery, fear, and repression. Orwell's vision of the future may be grim, but your understanding of his novel can be bright thanks to detailed summaries and commentaries for every chapter. Other features that help you study include Character analyses... more...
Mother Courage & The Caucasian Chalk Circleby Denis M. Calandra
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999; US$ 1.95Using strong metaphors as a way to create a clear anti-illusionistic atmosphere, Brecht's works highlight humans' eternal grappling with their environment to get ahead in the world; nowhere is this more evident in Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle . more...
The Cambridge Companion to John Drydenby Steven N. Zwicker
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 27.00John Dryden was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at the full range of Dryden's work in the context of his time, and includes a chronology of Dryden's life and times and a guide to further reading. more...
All's Quiet on the Western Frontby Harold Bloom
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 36.00Traces the evolution of one man's powerful antiwar sentiments. This title includes an annotated bibliography and a listing of other works by the author. more...
The Great War and Modern Memoryby Paul Fussell
Oxford University Press, USA 2000; US$ 13.45The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively... more...
The Propaganda of Peaceby Greg McLaughlin; Stephen Baker
Intellect 2010; US$ 20.00When political opponents Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new Northern Ireland executive in May 2007, a chapter was closed on Northern Irelands troubled past. A dramatic realignment of politics had brought these irreconcilable enemies togetherand the media played a significant role in persuading the public to accept this startling change. The Propaganda of Peace places their role in a wider cultural context and examines a broad range of factual and fictional representations, from journalism and public museum exhibitions to film, television drama and situation comedy. The authors propose a radically different theoretical and methodological approach to the medias... more...
Desire in the Renaissanceby Valeria Finucci; Regina Schwartz
Princeton University Press 2001; US$ 46.95Drawing on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches, ten critics engage in exciting discussions of the ways the "inner life" is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the "external" social and economic spheres. Spurred by the rise of capitalism and the nuclear family, Renaissance anxieties over changes in identity emerged in the period's unconscious--or, as Freud would have it, in its literature. Hence, much of Renaissance literature represents themes that have been prominent in the discourse of psychoanalysis: mistaken identity, incest, voyeurism, mourning, and the uncanny. The essays in this volume range from Spenser and Milton to Machiavelli and Ariosto, and focus on the fluidity of gender, the economics of... more...
Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern Englandby Nicholas Hudson
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 40.00Hudson examines Samuel Johnson's contribution to the creation of the modern English identity. more...
Crime and Defoeby Lincoln B. Faller
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 29.00Lincoln Faller describes and discusses some of the ways in which Defoe's crime fiction relates to the ordinary, popular narrative form which it imitates. more...