Oxford University Press, USA, May 1991. Hardcover. In this groundbreaking work, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics turns to the major figure in English literature, William Shakespeare, and proposes a dramatic new reading of nearly all his plays and poems. The key to A Theater of Envy is..... More

Syracuse University Press, May 1996. Trade Paperback. For years, William York Tindall's guide has been one of the very best ways to approach the difficult writing and complex language of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Over a period of forty years, Tindall studied, instructed, and most importantly, learned from graduate students..... More

Facts on File, August 1995. Oversized Hardcover. The Literary A to Z series provides the detail readers need to fully appreciate the lives and works of great writers. Coverage includes: -- Detailed synopses of all major and most minor works -- An overview of the critical reception to each work..... More

Liverpool University Press, June 1996. Trade Paperback. The works of James Joyce have long been regarded as central to European modernism. It is also clear what a continuing provocation and source of renewal Joyce's works are for contemporary cultural theory, especially feminism, post modernism and postcolonialism. This new edition of..... More

Columbia University Press, January 1998. Trade Paperback. This Columbia Critical Guide offers a thorough overview of the incredible wealth of criticism about these two masterpieces, as well as insights into Joyce's writing process and his literary sources--revealed by critics and artists who knew him personally. The volume explores the relationship..... More

Penguin Classic, December 2011. Trade Paperback. For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wide-ranging allusions confirms its standing as an imperishable..... More

Clarendon Press, February 1995. Trade Paperback. Every epoch recreates its classical icons--and for literary culture no icon is more central or more protean than Shakespeare. Even though finding the authentic Shakespeare has been a goal of scholarship since the eighteenth century, he has always been constructed as a contemporary author..... More

Grove Pr, October 1989. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More

Shoemaker & Hoard, November 2005. Hardcover. Edmund Wilson, 20th century America's most direct and readable critic of literature and society, was a man of many loves. In his half century as a major force in American letters he had an outsize romantic career that reflected the complex depths of his..... More

Farrar Straus Giroux, August 2005. Hardcover. From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilson went on to write three classics of..... More

Princeton University Press, October 1997. Trade Paperback. Edmund Wilson helped shape American letters from the early 1920s through the mid-'60s. He remains a presence in our literary culture, and his accounts of art and society have influenced a younger generation of readers and thinkers. This vibrant collection emerges from symposiums..... More

Black Sparrow Press, April 2022. Hardcover. The liberating power of anger has rarely felt so good and healing as in this complete collection of a landmark in feminist poetry. "She digs her teeth into the slaveries of woman, she cries them aloud with such fulminating energy that the chains begin..... More