W. W. Norton & Company, May 1993. Trade Paperback. This landmark anthology, the first of its kind, takes its impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecth: "In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times." Bearing witness to extremity - whether..... More
Library of America, April 2010. Hardcover. Here is the story, told firsthand through electric, deeply engaged writing, of America's living theater, high and low, mainstream and experimental. Drawing on history, criticism, memoir, fiction, poetry, and parody, editor Laurence Senelick presents writers with the special knack "to distill both the immediate..... More
Doubleday Anchor Books, January 1958. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Doubleday Anchor Original; Cover by Philippe Julian w/ typography by Edward Gorey; Covers in great shape, spine ever so slightly worn; Text free of markings; An exceptional copy, fit for any collector's library. More
Modern Language Association, January 1991. Paper Back. Approaches to Teaching World Literature 35. More
Modern Language Association, January 1990. Trade Paperback. Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate..... More
Modern Language Association of America, September 2019. Paper Back. Known for her violent, startling stories that culminate in moments of grace, Flannery O'Connor depicted the postwar segregated South from a unique perspective. This volume proposes strategies for introducing students to her Roman Catholic aesthetic, which draws on concepts such as..... More
Modern Language Association, January 2003. Trade Paperback. Anna Karenina is probably the most often taught nineteenth-century Russian novel in the American academy. Teachers have found that including this virtuoso work of art on a syllabus reaps many rewards and stirs up heated classroom discussion -- on sex and sexuality, dysfunction..... More
Arcade Publishing, January 2006. Hardcover. More
The Norton Library. Trade Paperback. More
Holt McDougal, February 1998. Hardcover. Very clean copy. Remainder mark on the bottom edge of the print block. More
Mariner Books, October 2006. Trade Paperback. "[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you." -- from the introduction by..... More
Thames & Hudson, September 1991. Hardcover. Glossy patterened boards with a cloth spine. Illustrations and photographs throughout. Very lightly bumped corners. More
Cambridge University Press, November 1986. Paper Back. Essays by international Chaucer experts provide a challenging introduction to the poet. They establish a context for Chaucer, discuss the significance of his position within it, and apply detailed and innovative analysis to his poetry. More
Cambridge University Press, November 1993. Paper Back. English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century, an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This introductory Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by..... More
Cambridge University Press, November 2004. Paper Back. This Companion's textual analysis of the complete range of Flaubert's work, including Madame Bovary, is accompanied by discussion of broader theoretical issues, including Flaubert's place in the canon of French literature. The series of new essays represents the latest scholarly thinking on the..... More
Cambridge University Press, October 1998. Paper Back. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw is an indispensable guide to one of the most influential and important dramatists of the theater. The volume offers a broad-ranging study of Shaw with essays by a team of leading scholars. The Companion covers all..... More
Cambridge University Press, May 2001. Trade Paperback. This volume of specially commissioned essays provides accessible introductions to all aspects of George Eliot's writing by some of the most distinguished new and established scholars and critics of Victorian literature. The essays are comprehensive, scholarly and lucidly written, and at the same..... More
Cambridge University Press, October 1997. Paper Back. This book presents ancient Greek tragedy in the context of late-twentieth-century reading, criticism and performance. The twelve chapters, written by seven distinguished scholars, cover tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Athens, a range of approaches to the surviving plays..... More
Cambridge University Press, March 2012. Trade Paperback. In the history of modern theater Ibsen is one of the dominating figures. The sixteen chapters of this Companion explore his life and work. The plays are grouped and discussed chronologically; among the thematic topics are discussions of Ibsen's comedy, realism, lyric poetry..... More
Cambridge University Press, June 1989. Trade Paperback. The Cambridge Companion to Milton will provide an accessible and helpful guide for any student of Milton, introducing readers to both the scope of Milton's work and the range of current approaches to it. The Companion's eighteen contributors have written informative, stimulating, often..... More
Cambridge University Press, June 2005. Trade Paperback. The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov provides a concise introduction to the creative world of one of the twentieth century's most important writers. Fourteen individual essays cover such topics as Nabokov's storytelling techniques, his achievements as a short story writer, his evolution as a...... More
Cambridge University Press, June 2001. Trade Paperback. This collection of specially commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Robert Frost's poetry and life. Frost remains one of the most memorable and beguiling of modern poets. The essays in this volume enable readers to explore Frost's art..... More
Cambridge University Press, September 2010. Paper Back. An international team of leading T.S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer's work to build up a carefully coordinated and fully rounded introduction. Five chapters give a complete account of Eliot's poems and plays, while others assess the major..... More
Cambridge University Press, January 1998. Trade Paperback. This is a collection of thirteen original essays from a team of leading Williams scholars. This wide-ranging volume covers Williams' works, from the early apprenticeship years through to his last play before his death in 1983. In addition to essays on the major..... More
Cambridge University Press, May 2000. Paper Back. Virginia Woolf is now hailed as one of the greatest, most innovative writers of our age. This landmark collection of essays by leading scholars addresses the full range of her intellectual perspectives--literary, artistic, philosophical and political. The volume provides original, new readings of..... More
