Product Description: This is the third collection produced by members of a six-year research project, funded by the NUFU (Norwegian Programme for Development, Research, and Education), whose concern was to find, preserve, and analyse 'orature' - spoken forms of all kinds, both their unique qualities and their equivalence in importance to 'literature'...read more

Product Description: An examination of the ways in which the artists and writers of the 1940s developed and extended approaches from earlier English romanticism to provide a direct and compassionate response to the reality of contemporary destruction.

Visualisation in Popular Fiction 1860-1960 explores the important but neglected tradition of illustrated fiction in English. It suggests new analytical approaches for its study by offering detailed discussions of a range of representative texts, including Mary Webb's Gone to Earth and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. Among the issues and genres Sillars explores are:* Victorian `narrative' paintings* Edwardian fictional magazines* comic strips * illustrated children's stories* the translation of novels into film An insightful and highly informative work, Visualisation in Popular Fiction will be of value to students of literature, cultural studies, visual art and film.

Product Description: Time and the visual sense were two essential preoccupations of the Victorians, and both were central to their presentations of Shakespeare's plays. In this extensive new study, Stuart Sillars examines multiple facets of this complex relationship...read more

Product Description: Extending the Book introduces the largely-forgotten art of extra-illustration -- individually adding portraits or other illustrations to published books -- and explores what this personalized form of book design reveals about the history of reading...read more

Product Description: Illustrations have been an important element of many of the most extensively read editions of Shakespeare's plays, from the frontispieces to Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition to the multiple images placed within the text of Victorian editions...read more

Product Description: Painting Shakespeare explores the tradition of critical and interpretive painting and engraving that developed when eighteenth-century artists rejected the depiction of Shakespeare's plays in performance to produce images based on the new scholarly editions...read more

An exploration of key texts 'Howards End', 'The Rainbow', and the poetry of Owen, Sassoon and Edward Thomas to show the mingled continuation and rejection of convention as their characteristic achievement It also discusses the writing's increasing concern with inadequacies of language.

Product Description: This book explores key texts--Howard's End, The Rainbow, and the poetry of Owen, Sassoon, and Edward Thomas--to show the mingled continuation and rejection of convention as their characteristic achievement, exploring features often seen as failures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: (For students at all levels and those already working in any field of business activity, Success in Communication makes clear the vital role of communication in business life and shows how to develop the skills necessary for effective business communication...read more

Product Description: 8vo, xi, 192pp, No Signatures or Annotations, Illustrated, Hardback with Dust Jacket both in Very Good/Fine condition.