Product Description: George Eliot's work has been subject to a wide range of critical questioning, most of which relates her substantially to a Victorian context and intellectual framework. This book examines the ways in which her work anticipates significant aspects of writing in the twentieth and indeed twenty first century in regard to both art and philosophy...read more

Product Description: This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentieth century who respond to ideas about tragedy. Although Ibsen has been accused of being responsible for the 'death of tragedy', Ken Newton argues that Ibsen instead generates an anti-tragic perspective that had a major influence on dramatists such as Shaw and Brecht...read more

Product Description: This is the first study to argue that Jewish Mysticism influenced all Eliot's novels and not just her Jewish novel, Daniel Deronda , and leaves the reader with a very different George Eliot from that assumed by most previous criticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A thoroughly revised edition of this successful undergraduate introduction to literary theory, this text includes core pieces by leading theorists from Russian Formalists to Postmodernist and Post-colonial critics. An ideal teaching resource, with helpful introductory notes to each chapter...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Students of literary theory have been well provided for by the publication of various Readers in literary theory. However, the relation between theory and critical practice still presents a problem to the general reader. This book brings together essays by major critics which apply theory to practice in an accessible way...read more

Product Description: An introductory text, tracing the emergence of interpretative criticism as a major form of literary criticism in Anglo-American New Criticism. Its relation to hermeneutics, and attacks on interpretation as a critical method by traditional, structuralist and post-structuralist critics are explored...read more

Product Description: An introductory text, tracing the emergence of interpretative criticism as a major form of literary criticism in Anglo-American New Criticism. Its relation to hermeneutics, and attacks on interpretation as a critical method by traditional, structuralist and post-structuralist critics are explored...read more