Product Description: How do names attach themselves to particular objects and people and does this connection mean anything? This is a question which goes as far back as Plato and can still be seen in contemporary society with books of Names to Give Your Baby or Reader's Digest columns of apt names and professions...read more

Product Description: This beginner's guide to Shakespeare reminds us that the main reason people still watch and read Shakespeare's plays is because they identify with the characters and situations depicted in them. Drawing on all of Shakespeare's plays, Laurie Maguire shows how they illustrate some of life's most familiar stories - love and obsession, parents and children, sex and politics, suffering and revenge...read more

Product Description: Valuable to cultural historians and textual scholars alike, this volume analyzes the development of textual theory and practice in the twentieth century, questioning not just the assumptions and methodologies of textual study but its very genesis, as well as current definitions of the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)