Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: One of the central figures of 20th-century Scottish literature, Edwin Morgan was a prolific letter writer. His correspondence, like his poetry, is wide-ranging, full of generosity and enthusiasm, and above all testament to his lifelong commitment to exploring the possibilities of poetry...read more

Narrative is a central concept necessary to any student of literature seeking to develop a critical vocabulary. In Narrative, John Coyle provides a lucid overview of the ideas which are basic to this concept. Groundbreaking advances are described in this focussed and wide-ranging theoretical study, in which all of the key concepts of narrative are closely examined. This explanatory guide will prove essential for introductory students, as it illustrates how narrative works and demystifies technical terms. While poetry is also encompassed, the emphasis is placed upon prose narrative, covering a wide range of genres in addition to fiction, including biography, autobiography, and histriography. Narrative addresses contemporary literary theory, including postmodernism, and provides the reader with a solid basis of understanding which will prove invaluable for further study.