Introductory Literary Studies

This study explores the connections between Japan's modern literary tradition and its national cinema. The first part offers a historical and cultural overview of the working relationship that developed between pure literature and film. The second analyzes 12 literary works and their adaptions...

This study explores the connections between Japan's modern literary tradition and its national cinema. The first part offers a historical and cultural overview of the working relationship that developed between pure literature and film. The second analyzes 12 literary works and their adaptions...

This comprehensive, user-friendly introduction provides information on Chaucer's life, contexts and works, also outlining major critical views and interpretations from initial publication to the present...

This guide to Eliot’s enduringly popular work offers an accessible introduction to its many contexts and overviews of key critical interpretations. Clearly structured and useful as a springboard to further study this book includes suggestions for further reading and incorporates cross-references bet..

Focussing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each period and the ways in which these concerns influence and are influenced by children's literature...

Vance moves from a brief survey of Irish literature prior to 1800 onto the contexts of Irish writing since 1800 covering, romanticism, the Victorian period, the Literary Revival and contemporary Irish writing. He also looks at Ireland in Europe and the Atlantic world, Irish cultural debates and curr..

Vance moves from a brief survey of Irish literature prior to 1800 onto the contexts of Irish writing since 1800 covering, romanticism, the Victorian period, the Literary Revival and contemporary Irish writing. He also looks at Ireland in Europe and the Atlantic world, Irish cultural debates and curr..

First published in 1970 and revised in 1982, this work provides a critical overview of the concept of irony in literary criticism. After establishing the relationship of the ironical and the non-ironical, it summarises the history of the concept of irony, before isolating and discussing its basic as..

Richard Bradford provides an overview of Milton's life, contexts, work and the relationship between these, and of the main critical issues surrounding his work...

Kazuo Ishiguro's writing has rapidly gained global recognition since his first publication in 1981. This guidebook offers a biographical survey of Ishiguro’s literary career, an introduction to his novels, plays and short stories, as well as an accessible overview of the contexts and many interpreta..

Kazuo Ishiguro's writing has rapidly gained global recognition since his first publication in 1981. This guidebook offers a biographical survey of Ishiguro’s literary career, an introduction to his novels, plays and short stories, as well as an accessible overview of the contexts and many interpreta..

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