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" Mayor of Casterbridge " (New Casebooks)

77 reviews

Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Neither cheerful nor uplifting, but always compelling and moving!
Michael Henchard, a down-on-his-luck, unemployed hay trusser, succumbs to the siren call of alcohol at a country fair. Subconsciously feeling his wife, Susan, is holding him back from success in this world, he awakes to sobriety the next morning and realizes that, in a foolish fit of pique, he has auctioned her and his daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, off to a sailor. Despite his frantic efforts to find ...

Thinking Difference: Critics in Conversation

1 review
Julian Wolfreys

Fordham University Press, 2004

Thinking in figures of difference
This is an original text in that through the practice of interviewing and its dia-logical rationale to challenge and mark difference, it seeks to think and discuss difference by means of a number of `figures of difference' (p. 68) to use the construct suggested by Plotnitsky. Each such figure is a `difference beyond difference' (p. 75). Here are some brief indications about the discussed ...

The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory

2 reviews
Julian Wolfreys

Edinburgh University Press, 2002

Do not buy this marvelous book used for hundreds of dollars!
This book is top-notch, and really should be in any decent library, personal or otherwise. HOWEVER, the third-party sellers listed here are trying to rob you by charging you hundreds of dollars for a "rare" book. This book is NOT out of print; the name has merely been changed. It is now called the "Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory", and it's available directly from Amazon ...

Deconstruction - Derrida (Transitions)

1 review
Julian Wolfreys

Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

among the best books on derrida
i am typing this with one hand with my eight month old daughter asleep on my lap so excuse the brevity. i just want to say that i have read a number of books by and about derrida and i think that this is one of the two or three best. i am a college english instructor and found the chapter on conrad's heart of darkness especially helpful for thinking about deconstruction and texts. get this ...

The Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism And Theory

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006

The Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory offers the student and scholar of literary and cultural studies the most comprehensive, single volume guide to the history and development of modern criticism in the humanities. In a clearly organized format, this major reference work takes the reader through introductions to historically influential philosophers, literary critics, schools of thought and movements from Spinoza and ...

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Hardback Library)

1 review
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Wordsworth Classics, 1995

Wonderful Collection
This collection of Sherlock Holmes stories is great. I use it as my defacto copy of the canon. It has the original Strand Magazine drawings and even has great cover artwork. My only complaint is that the font is a bit too small.

The Coming Race (Pocket Classics)

9 reviews
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1995

Sci-fi roots -- a captivating page-turner!
In this 1871 work, Lytton presents the reader with an early science fiction tale about an American adventurer whom we come to know only as "Tish". The author wrote the story near the end of his own life in 1873; however, he exposes his protagonist to vignettes of technology and ethical concepts which would not actualize until the 20th Century! At the outset of the story Tish accompanies an ...

The Beetle (Broadview Editions)
Richard Marsh

Broadview Press, 2004

The Beetle (1897) tells the story of a fantastical creature, "born of neither god nor man," with supernatural and hypnotic powers, who stalks British politician Paul Lessingham through fin de siècle London in search of vengeance for the defilement of a sacred tomb in Egypt. In imitation of various popular fiction genres of the late nineteenth century, Marsh unfolds a tale of terror, late imperial fears, and the "return of the repressed," through ...

Applying to Derrida

Macmillan, 1996

Striking out from a number of new headings and in a number of new directions each of the essays in this collection pushes at the borders of their topics, disciplines and ways of thinking, providing innovative and inventive insights into the work - and application - of Jacques Derrida on a diverse range of themes including Irish identity, communication, ethics, love, tele-technology, Victorian studies, the limits of philosophy, translation, ...

Glossalalia: An Alphabet of Critical Keywords

Edinburgh University Press, 2003

Glossalalia is not a conventional glossary or dictionary. Although arranged alphabetically, it is a cutting-edge introduction to the state of theory today. Here 26 newly commissioned "definitions" of theoretical keywords are presented in a playful A-Z format, ranging from "Animality" to "Zero." Leading theorists and critics including J. Hillis Miller, Gayatri Chavkravorty Spivak, Simon Critchley, Ernesto Laclau, and many others provide ...

Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884: The Novel, the Past and Cultural Memory in the Nineteenth Century (Transitions)
Julian Wolfreys

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Dickens to Hardy, 1837-1884 charts the transitions of particular Victorian literary and cultural concerns across nearly fifty years of the Nineteenth century. With each chapter focusing on readings of particular novels, Julian Wolfreys questions how the Victorian middle classes identified themselves in their modernity and discusses how literature mediated the construction of identities through notions of cultural memory. Additionally, two ...

Introducing Criticism at the 21st Century

Edinburgh University Press, 2002

Introducing Criticism at the 21st Century provides a wide-ranging guide to current directions in literary criticism. The book develops out of continental thinking and insights from poststructuralism, feminism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis. Each of the authors explains the various contours of their discourses while bringing these into sharp relief for the student reader through readings of canonical novels, poems, plays, films, and Web ...

Derrida: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed)
Julian Wolfreys

Continuum, 2008

Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to grasp, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material. Jacques Derrida is one of the most important thinkers ...

Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Rather than a straightforward dictionary of terms, this book gives students a brief introduction to each concept together with short extracts from the work of key thinkers and critics. Each term, concept or keyword and the passages discussing these are glossed and annotated; at the end of each entry a few reflective, practical questions direct the student to consider a particular aspect of the quotations and the concept they address. The book is ...

The French Connections of Jacques Derrida

State University of New York Press, 1999

The French Connections of Jacques Derrida offers stimulating and accessible essays that address, for the first time, the issue of Derrida's relation to French poetics, writing, thought, and culture. In addition to offering considerations of Derrida through studies of such significant French authors as Mallarme, Baudelaire, Valery, Laporte, Ponge, Perec, Blanchot, and Barthes, the book also reassesses the development of Derrida's work in the ...

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