This ground-breaking study analyses Beckett?s television plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that they are in dialogue with innovative television traditions connected to Modernism in television, film, radio, theatre, literature and the visual art…
This is a study of Byatt's fictional and non-fictional work. It provides contextualising commentary and devotes an entire chapter to Byatt's role as critic and public intellectual.
The internationally renowned actor and playwright adapts Henrik Ibsen's Master Builder.
This collection of essays offers detailed readings of many poems, covering all of Hill's volumes up to 'Scenes from Comus' (2005). It also examines several poems yet to be made available in published form, and covers Hill's late burst of creativity in the six volumes of verse pu…
In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a 'macroscosmic journey' of the individual sleeper to 'the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides'. This book examines the figu…
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translati…
Against skeptics, Manniste argues that Miller does indeed have a philosophy of his own, which underpins most of his texts. It is demonstrated that this philosophy, as a metaphysical sense of life, forms a system the understanding of which is necessary to adequately explain even …
This is an unlooked-for project. Like many others, I first saw Artaud through the filters of American experimental theater and post-structuralism. My earliest work on Artaud began from accepted familiar premises, largely established in the 1960s: Artaud as prophet, madman, geniu…
This edition of David the Invincible's Commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge prepared by Gohar Muradyan contains the Greek original and the Armenian version (with an English translation) of this logical treatise with a study of textological issues and translation technique.
In Reading the Rabbis Eva De Visscher examines the level of Hebrew scholarship, programme of literal exegesis, and use of Jewish and Christian Hebraist sources in two commentaries on the Psalms by English polymath Herbert of Bosham (c.1120-c.1194).
The thematic part of this volume of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui is devoted mainly to Beckett's texts of the forties and later, and particularly to those he composed after his adoption of the French language. The essays presented in this part of the current issue attempt to …
A close examination of the story "After the race," which originally appeared in Dubliners that argues that the story represents a microcosm of some of the issues most central to Joyce scholarship: evolution as an artist, the Catholic Church, and nostalgia for a rapidly changing …
W.G. Sebald's status as one of the most significant German-language authors of the 20th century is rooted in his quest for historical truth beyond 'facts'. Through an in-depth analysis of Sebald's œuvre, this book proposes a new paradigm of literature as historiography that move…
The first collection in twenty years of essays on Robinson Jeffers, one of the great American poets of the twentieth century, this work signals the sea change in Jeffers scholarship, as well as the increasing breadth and depth of criticism of the literature of the American West.…
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved poems, including forty poems from his later work. A…
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved poems, including forty poems from his later work. A…
The Beach (La Spiaggia). They?ve all gone away?. the voice was blathering down the receiver. Then, knowingly:? They?ll not return?. But today. on this stretch of beach never visited before. those sunlight patches ... Signals. of theirs, who hadn't left at all?. And when you turn…
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published …
