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  • The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    A milestone in the history of popular theology, ‘The Screwtape Letters’ is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil.This profound and striking narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior colleague engaged in his first mission on earth trying to secure the damnation of a young ... Read more

    S$ 9.80 SGD

  • The Great Divorce

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    C.S. Lewis’s dazzling allegory about heaven and hell – and the chasm fixed between them – is one of his most brilliantly imaginative tales, as he takes issue with the ideas in William Blake’s ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’.In a dream, the narrator boards a bus on a drizzly afternoon and embarks on an incredible voyage through Heaven and Hell. He meets a host of supernatural beings far removed ... Read more

    S$ 9.58 SGD

  • Shakespeare's Restless World

    Portrait of an Era

    The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focusWe feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. Think of Hamlet, trapped in indecision, or Macbeth’s merciless and ultimately self-destructive ambition, or the Machiavellian rise and short reign of Richard III. They are so vital, so alive and real that ... Read more

    S$ 7.07 SGD

  • 'Wide Sargasso Sea' by Jean Rhys as a postcolonial response to 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte

    Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,00, University of Koblenz-Landau (Anglistik), course: Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures, language: English, abstract: Wide Sargasso Sea is one of the best-known literary postcolonial replies to the writing of Charlotte Bronte and a brilliant deconstruction of what is known as the ... Read more

    S$ 16.78 SGD

  • The Situation and the Story

    The Art of Personal Narrative

    A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of LoveAll narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that ... Read more

    S$ 13.83 SGD

  • Lettres de Scandinavie de Mary Wollstonecraft

    Lettres écrites durant un court séjour en Suède, en Norvège et au Danemark

    Series series Textuelles
    Rendue célèbre par une éloquente Défense des droits de la femme (1792), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) est une figure importante de la littérature anglaise du XVIIIe siècle. Membre du cercle radical londonien incluant Paine, Blake, Godwin et le peintre Fuseli, elle vécut à Paris pendant la Révolution française, qu’elle soutint tout en regrettant ses errements. En 1795, l’entrepreneur américain ... Read more

    S$ 13.99 SGD

  • La nuit

    Dans l'Angleterre des Lumières

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Monde anglophone
    “Light”, “Night”, deux vocables de même consonance, deux concepts dont les acceptions, contraires mais complémentaires, sont au cœur de la littérature et de la culture anglaises au siècle des Lumières. Dans la vie quotidienne, la sphère nocturne, à Londres en particulier, est dangereuse, mais aussi fascinante, riche de plaisirs plus ou moins licites. En mer, la navigation de nuit est risquée, mais ... Read more

    S$ 18.99 SGD

  • Jonathan Swift

    His Life and His World

    by Leo Damrosch ...

    S$ 33.67 SGD

  • The Promise of the Suburbs

    A Victorian History in Literature and Culture

    by Sarah Bilston ...
    A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for womenFrom the earliest decades of the nineteenth century, the suburbs were maligned by the aristocratic elite as dull zones of low cultural ambition and vulgarity, as well as generally female spaces isolated from the consequential male world of commerce. Sarah Bilston argues ... Read more

    S$ 43.81 SGD

  • Homo famelicus

    Le théâtre de Tom Murphy

    Series series Littérature et civilisation irlandaises
    L’œuvre de Tom Murphy, dramaturge irlandais célébré dans le monde anglophone, mais encore méconnu en France, invente des histoires insolites pour dire une modernité paradoxale, grisée par une prospérité nouvelle mais mal partagée, et cependant hantée par les spectres du passé – comme celui de la Grande Famine qui dévasta l’Irlande au milieu du xixe siècle, et qui fait retour sous la forme d’une ... Read more

    S$ 20.49 SGD

  • Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment

    Vitality from Spenser to Milton

    Garrett Sullivan explores the changing impact of Aristotelian conceptions of vitality and humanness on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature before and after the rise of Descartes. Aristotle's tripartite soul is usually considered in relation to concepts of psychology and physiology. However, Sullivan argues that its significance is much greater, constituting a theory of vitality that ... Read more

    S$ 36.18 SGD

  • The Story of Fictional Truth

    Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel

    by Paul Dawson ...
    Series series THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV
    In The Story of Fictional Truth, Paul Dawson looks anew at the historical relationship between the genre of the novel and the concept of fictionality, arguing that existing scholarship on the emergence of realist fiction has been shaped by the trope of the death of the novel. The unexplored logic of this premise is that the novel was born anticipating its own demise, with both its requiem and its ... Read more

    S$ 48.06 SGD

  • Somewhere Else in the Market

    An Essay on the Poetry of J. H. Prynne

    by Joe Luna ...
    Series series Elements in Poetry and Poetics
    This Element develops a close reading of 'Britain's leading late modernist poet', J. H. Prynne. Examining the political and literary contexts of Prynne's work of the 1980s, the Element offers an intervention into the existing scholarship on Prynne through close attention to the ways in which his poems respond to the social and political forces that define both modern Britain and the wider world of ... Read more

    S$ 24.19 SGD

  • Samurai Ethics in the Works of Kazuo Ishiguro

    by Lynn Bay ...
    Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, University of Würzburg (englische Literaturwissenschaft), language: English, abstract: Japanese-British writer Kazuo Ishiguro is not very fond of critics concentrating on Japanese elements in his works , however, his first short stories and the following two novels take place - even if ... Read more

    S$ 27.13 SGD

  • Literature of Consciousness

    Samuel Becket – Subject – Negativity

    Series Book 8 - Cross-Roads
    The questions the writer Samuel Beckett posed in his dramas, his prose and his poetry are the central questions asked by the most outstanding thinkers of modernity. Samuel Beckett, therefore, is the central figure in this book, but he is not alone. This study is not only a precise literary analysis, but it also traces transformations in terms of subjectivity and tries to conceptualize them. It ... Read more

    S$ 98.53 SGD

  • Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
    This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism. The author argues that the concept of metamodernist poetry helps to recalibrate the opposition between mainstream and innovative poetry, and he investigates whether a new generation of British poets can be accurately defined as metamodernist. Antony Rowland analyses the ways in which contemporary British poets such as ... Read more

    S$ 20.81 SGD

  • Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland

    Studies in Literature and Culture

    Series Book 73 - Reimagining Ireland
    Since the end of the nineteenth century, Ireland has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of its cultural, political, constitutional and religious identities, resulting in an unparalleled questioning of the dominant discourses and narratives that have seemingly defined the nation. The essays in this collection examine the ways in which established Irish socio-cultural structures of authority and ... Read more

    S$ 92.31 SGD

  • Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance

    1550–1700

    by Susan Wiseman ...
    Taking Ovid's Metamorphoses as its starting point, this book analyses fantastic creatures including werewolves, bear-children and dragons in English literature from the Reformation to the late seventeenth century. Susan Wiseman tracks the idea of transformation through classical, literary, sacred, physiological, folkloric and ethnographic texts. Under modern disciplinary protocols these areas of ... Read more

    S$ 40.54 SGD

  • Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830

    Visions of History

    Edited by B. Dew, F. Price ...
    Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830 explores a series of debates concerning the nature and value of the past in the long eighteenth century. The essays investigate a diverse range of subjects including art history, biography, historical poetry, and novels, as well as addressing more conventional varieties of historical writing. ... Read more

    S$ 66.70 SGD

  • Analysis of Female Characters in William Shakespeare's Comedy 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

    Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Anglistik), course: Hauptseminar: The History of British Comedy, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper will examine the four female characters of William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream which is one of the ... Read more

    S$ 16.78 SGD

  • Poetry Against the World

    Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain

    by Magdalena Kay ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    Poetry Against the World: Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain brings together two major poets, who espouse opposite aesthetic ambitions, yet are both taken as paragons of Englishness, in order to ask how they pitch their poetry against an inhospitable world. This book explores how these two representative poets seek to redress an "age of demolition" through their poetry, ... Read more

    S$ 70.25 SGD

  • Shakespeare and Indian Theatre

    The Politics of Performance

    This book looks at adaptations, translations and performance of Shakespeare's productions in India from the mid-18th century, when British officers in India staged Shakespeare's plays along with other English playwrights for entertainment, through various Indian adaptations of his plays during the colonial period to post-Independence period. It studies Shakespeare in Bengali and Parsi theatre at ... Read more

    S$ 124.47 SGD

  • Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation

    Series Book 135 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Bringing the collaborative process to life through an array of examples, Heather Witcher shows that sympathetic co-creation is far more than the mere act of writing together. While foregrounding the material aspects of collaboration – hands uniting on the page, blank space left for fellow contributors, the writing and exchanging of drafts – this study also illuminates its social aspects and its ... Read more

    S$ 109.53 SGD

  • L’Acte inqualifiable, ou le meurtre au féminin / Unspeakable Acts: Murder by Women

    Series Book 37 - Nouvelle poétique comparatiste / New Comparative Poetics
    Qu’elle soit appelée meurtrière, assassine ou tueuse, la femme qui commet un homicide élude les catégories usuelles : elle dérange l’ordre social, bouleverse les rapports de forces symboliques et inquiète les dispositifs judiciaires. Cet ouvrage collectif bilingue (français et anglais) interroge la manière dont l’écriture ou la réécriture du meurtre au féminin contribue à façonner et à ... Read more

    S$ 68.22 SGD