Product Description: The concept of register is a wonderful tool for readers of all kinds of texts, especially literary ones. This book explains how register can be used without resorting to the full panoply of linguistic jargon. Readers at all levels often shy away from trying to "do stylistics" with their literary and other texts because of the apparently impenetrable terminology in which the discipline of linguistics wraps them...read more

Product Description: This is an anthology of Beckett criticism from the earliest reviews to the advanced work that was being done at the time of his death and is designed to give scholars and students of Beckett's work access to material that they would otherwise have difficulty finding...read more

Reanalyzes the works of Thomas Hardy in the light of post-structuralist criticism

Focuses on Hardy's poems and six major novels, exploring his tendency to ascribe a universal significance to the private tragedies of men and women