You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Passionate Eustacia Vye detests her life amid the dreary environs of Egdon Heath and spies her escape when Clym Yeobright returns from Paris. Hardy's timeless tale of a romantic misalliance embodies his view of character as fate and underscores the tragic nature of ordinary human lives. Shakespearian in its intricate plotting and deft irony, "The Return of the Native" ranks among the author's greatest works. Unabridged republication of the classic 1878 text.
None
The essays in this new collection, all by outstanding experts in the field of modern literature, provide a different and more complex sense of Eliot's place in literary history. The eight essays are: "The Waste Land Fifty Years After," by A. Walton Litz; "The Urban Apocalypse," by Hugh Kenner; "The First Waste Land:' by Richard Ellmann;" The Waste Land: Paris 1922," by Helen Gardner; "New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land," by Robert Langbaum; "Precipitating Eliot," by Robert M. Adams; "Fear in the Way: The Design of Eliot's Drama," by Michael Goldman; and "Anglican Eliot," by Donald Davie. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
A collection of essays about the lives and writings of sixty-four famous American authors, including Maya Angelou, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, and Herman Melville.
The centenary of Eliot's birth in 1988 has provided this occasion to review his life and work, and reassess him in the light of various critical developments in the new historicism, feminism, and reader-reception theory that have emerged since the "New Criticism".
ISBN 9042000953 (paperback) NLG 40.00 encyclopaedias (Peter Burke).
The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.