Product Description: Elena, a professional Flamenco dancer, is taken by her husband to his ancestral home, for the first time, because the doctor has ordered her to stop traveling with their dance troupe and go to a spot where she can rest during what might be a difficult pregnancy...read more

Product Description: At a time when the military gave women no respect, a single mother copes with her transformation to Army officer and daily demands of a military in the throes of transition. The military allows her to compete with men only because of her sex and draws her into a trap. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Women reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900" comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare. Since Margaret Cavendish published the first critical essay on Shakespeare in 1664, women have written as scholars, critics, editors, performers and popularisers of Shakespeare...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Educational Computing Foundations provides readers with the basic information necessary to use computers professionally. It is a comprehensive, modern, easy-to-read discussion of the past, present and future uses of the computer in teaching, learning and training. Drawing from a vast wealth of the latest research and literature on educational computing, the Third Edition, reflects the most recent, relevant tools and techniques in coverage that is applicable to a variety of situations. (view table of contents)

King Lear is an enormous work in every sense. Despite the misgivings and often pertinent criticisms of earlier generations of critics, it seems now to be accepted as the greatest monument of our culture: the most revered play by the most revered writer in our language.In this study, Dr. Thompson first analyses the many critical approaches to King Lear, placing in context the formal, historical, social, philosophical, religious, mico-level and performance-based approaches. In her Appraisal section, she investigates the phenomenon of 'The Greatness of King Lear', surveying the wider issues of the status of 'classic' texts and the formation and perpetuation of literary canons. She also discusses arguments by critics who have questioned the high evaluation of King Lear, and the arguments of contemporary critics whose approaches have the effect of displacing traditional evaluations altogether.

Product Description: This elegantly argued book is the first to apply recent studies of metaphor within the fields of linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and philosophy, to English literary studies. The current explosion of interest in metaphor within these fields has as yet had little impact on the study of English literature, where a confused and impressionistic notion of "imagery" still reigns despite dissatisfaction with its lack of methodology and inappropriateness to certain texts...read more

Product Description: An international team of scholars offers: • modernised, easily accessible texts • ample but unobtrusive academic guidance • attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stage history • informative illustations, including reconstructions of early performances (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)