Literary Criticism

Brian Vickers examines the issue of what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. Shakespeare's authorship has been claimed for two poems, 'Shall I die?' and A Funerall Elegye. Vickers shows that neither has the requisite stylistic and imaginative qualities. In other words, they are 'counterfeits', in the sense of anonymously authored works wrongly presented as Shakespeare's. He identifies John Ford as author of the Elegye. more...

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Judy offers an alternative interpretation of literacy that challenges traditional Enlightenment discourse’s claim that literacy and reason are the privileged properties of Western culture. Judy argues, on the basis of his readings of autobiographical African-American Arabic slave narratives, that through the production of the Arabic text, the African slave already had all the elements that the West attributes to “reason” before his original introduction to Western culture—a literacy that already mediated between Africa and Europe. more...

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Want to become a crime novel buff, or expand your reading in your favourite genre? With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you’ll quickly become an expert on the world of crime. more...

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This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913.:.; Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels.; Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky.; Explores Pound's Personae next to Apollinaire's Alcools and Rilke's Spanish Trilogy , Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country next to Proust's Swann's Way more...

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