"The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors provides you with quick, clear answers to the queries you are most likely to raise as a writer or editor - whether professionally, in your studies, or for pleasure." "Included in this new edition are appendices setting out the stand…
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"Recent years have seen a striking surge in the production of literary biopics. Writers turned cinema subject in recent films include Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Iris Murdoch, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Lillian Hellman, Allen Ginsberg, Kafka, Keats, Ka…
"This book offers an original account of the development of literary biography in the long eighteenth century and reveals different ways in which biographers probed the inner life through writers' melancholy. The first half tracks the unstable status of melancholy in biographica…
A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history's most notable cases of a complete lack of literary succes…
This book examines Algerian women's narratives of the Algerian War of Independence, drawing on political and historical analyses, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, essays, and films"
"A central theme of Michel Foucaults work as a philosopher and historian is the quest to see through the surface of society and understand the processes going on beneath it. Across a long career that saw him become perhaps the most influential philosopher of the mid-late twentie…
