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Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 40.00This book explores the various meanings given to tragedy, from Aristotle, via Roman ideas and practices, to the middle ages. more...
The Theatre Industry in Nineteenth-Century France
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 60.00This book explores the history of French theatre in the nineteenth century. more...
Theatre and State in France, 1760-1905
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 53.00Relations between theatre and state were seldom more fraught in France than in this period. F. W. J. Hemmings traces the vicissitudes of this perennial conflict. more...
The Poetics of Personification
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 27.00An appraisal of literary personification in the light of developments in poststructuralist thought. more...
The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 18411991
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 62.00A history of an important newspaper and of Jewish communal life, interpreted through its most vibrant public voice. more...
Editing Fact and Fiction
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 42.00Editing Fact and Fiction is a concise, practical guide to book editing. more...
Useful Fictions
University of Nebraska Press 2011; US$ 40.00We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival depends on obtaining true information, so drawn to fictional narratives? After all, virtually every human culture reveres some form of storytelling.... more...
Telling Children's Stories
University of Nebraska Press 2011; US$ 35.00The most accessible approach yet to childrens literature and narrative theory, Telling Childrens Stories is a comprehensive collection of never-before-published essays by an international slate of scholars that offers a broad yet in-depth assessment of narrative strategies unique to childrens literature. more...
Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 41.00Explores the political significance of aesthetic analysis in the context of film and cultural studies. more...
Literary Journals in Imperial Russia
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 26.00Originally published in 1998, this was the first volume to examine the extraordinary history of literary journals in imperial Russia. more...









