"When Christopher Robin Milne was given a small Farnell teddy bear from Harrods 90 years ago on-one realised how much it would change so many lives. His father, A.A. Milne, wrote many stories around the adventures of the toy bear. Eventually Pooh's international fame soured the …
"The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter is the first book-length analysis of J.K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. A significant portion of the book explores the Harry Potter series' literary anc…
Publisher description: Now available in paper, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter is the first book-length analysis of J.K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. A significant portion of the book …
This entertaining collection of essays shows that Sherlock Holmes sees things others don't. He sees the world in a different way, and by so doing, allows us to see that same world - and human behaviour - in new ways as well. Is Holmes simply eccentric or a sociopath? Is he human…
Review text: "She [Poulheria Kyriakou] has produced a responsible and accurate reference work that will repay consultation by scholars working on Aeschylus or Sophocles, while developing a topic that can be fruitfully studied in any tragedy."Justina Gregory in: BMCR 2012.05.46.
The book studies the past of the characters in Aeschylus and Sophocles, a neglected but crucial topic. The characters' beliefs, values, and emotionsbear on their view of the past. This view reinforces their beliefs and their conception of themselves and others as agentsof free w…
A history of the sport Quidditch, answering such questions such as where the Golden Snitch came from, or why the Wigtown Wanderers have meat cleavers on their robes.
by ProQuest (Firm), Atkin, Graham
fromContinuum character studies
This study introduces the concept of 'characters' on the early modern stage as well as proceeding to a textual analysis of each of the main characters, looking at how what they say and do, and what is said about them creates an illusion of 'character'.
The characters of Twelfth Night are both memorable and engaging and it is through their funny and at times bitter, interplay that we experience the peculiar world of Shakespeare's Illyria.€ This study begins with a introduction to the concept of 'characters' on the early-modern …
"For more than two decades, Terry Pratchett has been regaling readers with tales of Discworld - a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants, which are standing on the back of a giant turtle, flying through space. It is a world populated by ineffectual wizards and sharp-…
