著者:Adriana Craciun
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2016年03月04日
How did the Victorian fixation on the disastrous John Franklin expedition transform our understanding of the Northwest Passage and the Arctic? Today we still tend to see the Arctic and the Northwest……続きを見る
A History of English Autobiography explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts imp……続きを見る
著者:Sophie Chiari
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年03月09日
With its many rites of initiation (religious, educational, professional or sexual), Elizabethan and Jacobean education emphasized both imitation and discovery in a struggle to bring population to a ……続きを見る
著者:Dennis Low
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年03月09日
Dennis Low's re-evaluation of the Lake Poets as mentors begins with the controversial premise that Robert Southey was one of the nineteenth-century's greatest champions of women's writing. Together ……続きを見る
“A generous and pleasurable collection. . . . Vibrant and illuminating, with quotable lines on every page. . . . [Lessing is] a superb essayist: lucid, wise, knowledgeable, and witty.”ー Booklist
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A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country." ー New York Times Book Review
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"Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. Butーa country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be stron……続きを見る
著者:C. S. Lewis
出版社: HarperCollins
発売日: 2013年11月05日
This entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures, and hard to find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twentieth–century reader how to read and……続きを見る
著者:E. B. White
出版社: HarperCollins
発売日: 2013年07月02日
Originally edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, and revised and updated by Martha White. With a foreword by John Updike.
These letters are, of course, beautifully written but above all personal, precise,……続きを見る
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
“I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays of……続きを見る
著者:C. S. Lewis
出版社: HarperCollins
発売日: 2013年11月05日
The Allegory of Love is a study in medieval traditionーthe rise of both the sentiment called "Courtly Love" and of the allegorical methodーfrom eleventh-century Languedoc through sixteenth-century E……続きを見る
著者:C. S. Lewis
出版社: HarperCollins
発売日: 2013年11月05日
Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should ……続きを見る
The beloved New York Times bestselling author Making Toast and Kayak Morning returns with a powerful meditation on a universal subject: love.
In The Book of Love, Roger Rosenblatt explores love in a……続きを見る
著者:C. S. Lewis
出版社: HarperCollins
発売日: 2013年11月05日
Languageーin its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meaningsーis a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination ……続きを見る
著者:C. S. Lewis
出版社: HarperCollins
発売日: 2013年11月05日
In The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It descri……続きを見る
‘A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ Oldie
In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels acr……続きを見る
著者:Lynne Bradley
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年03月16日
Questioning whether the impulse to adapt Shakespeare has changed over time, Lynne Bradley argues for restoring a sense of historicity to the study of adaptation. Bradley compares Nahum Tate's Histor……続きを見る
The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A ……続きを見る
著者:Wesley A. Kort
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
From the unbending belief in invisible powers that animates Till We Have Faces to the depiction of Aslan's sacrifice and resurrection in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis's writing ……続きを見る
著者:Ralph Berry
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年03月17日
In this lucid and original study, first published in 1972, Ralph Berry discusses the ten comedies that run from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night. Berry’s purpose is to identify the form of each……続きを見る
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, published in 1475, is quite possibly the most famous text written in Middle English and has been studied and analysed countless times over the several hundr……続きを見る
著者:Arnold Kettle
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年03月17日
First published in 1953, this book forms the second part of Arnold Kettle’s An Introduction to the English Novel. In this second part, Kettle builds a discussion of the modern English novel around t……続きを見る
著者:Arnold Kettle
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年03月17日
First published in 1951 (this edition in 1967), this book forms the first part of Arnold Kettle’s An Introduction to the English Novel. Since the novel, like every other literary form, is a product ……続きを見る
British Fictions of the Sixties focuses on the major socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to the development of literature over the decade. This book is the first critical……続きを見る
著者:Will Tattersdill
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2016年03月04日
In this revisionary study, Will Tattersdill argues against the reductive 'two cultures' model of intellectual discourse by exploring the cultural interactions between literature and science embodied……続きを見る
著者:Louise Curran
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2016年01月22日
This fascinating study examines Samuel Richardson's letters as important works of authorial self-fashioning. It analyses the development of his epistolary style; the links between his own letter-wri……続きを見る
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Wor……続きを見る