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Author: Peter Raby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-03-19
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0521886090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpdated edition of this popular Companion examining the wide range of Pinter's work, and his continuing impact and influence.
Author: Peter Raby
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Published: 2012
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarold Pinter was one of the world's leading and most controversial writers, and his impact and influence continues to grow. This Companion examines the wide range of Pinter's work - his writing for theatre, radio, television and screen, and also his highly successful work as a director and actor. Substantially updated and revised, this second edition covers the many developments in Pinter's career since the publication of the first edition, including his Nobel Prize for Literature win in 2005, his appearance in Samuel Beckett's play Krapp's Last Tape and recent productions of his plays. Containing essays written by both academics and leading practitioners, the volume places Pinter's writing within the critical and theatrical context of his time and considers its reception worldwide. Including three new essays, new production photographs, five updated and revised chapters and an extended chronology, the Companion provides fresh perspectives on Pinter's work.
Author: Lucy Newlyn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-10-24
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521659093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSamuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the most influential, as well as one of the most enigmatic, of all Romantic figures. The possessor of a precocious talent, he dazzled contemporaries with his poetry, journalism, philosophy and oratory without ever quite living up to his early promise, or overcoming problems of dependence and drug addiction. The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge does full justice to the many facets of Coleridge's life and work. Specially commissioned essays focus on his major poems, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel, his notebooks, and his major work of non-fiction the Biographia Literaria. Attention is given to his role as talker, journalist, critic, and philosopher, his politics, his religion, and his reputation in his own times and afterwards. A chronology and guides to further reading complete the volume, making this an indispensable guide to Coleridge and his work.
Author: C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-07
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780521894685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of specially written essays offers both student and theatregoer a guide to one of the most celebrated American dramatists working today. Readers will find the general and accessible descriptions and analyses provide the perfect introduction to Mamet's work. The volume covers the full range of Mamet's writing, including now classic plays such as American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross, and his more recent work, Boston Marriage, among others, as well as his films, such as The Verdict and Wag the Dog. Additional chapters also explore Mamet and acting, Mamet as director, his fiction, and a survey of Mamet criticism. The Companion to David Mamet is an introduction which will prepare the reader for future work by this important and influential writer.
Author: Edward James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-11-20
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780521016575
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Author: Ritchie Robertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521653701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpecially-commissioned essays explore key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life.
Author: Thomas Keymer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-06-17
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521007573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.
Author: Malcolm Godden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-05-31
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780521377942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdeal for students, this collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays covers all aspects of Anglo-Saxon literature from 600-1066.
Author: Efraín Kristal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-05-26
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1139827057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often overlooked. Indispensable to students of Latin American or Hispanic studies and those interested in comparative literature and the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.
Author: Maryemma Graham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-04-15
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0521016371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel.
