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Julius Caesar

by Richard Wilson

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 This title provides a selection of important essays by leading critics on Shakespeare's first "Globe" play. The readings have been chosen to highlight the urgency with which this drama speaks to 21st century concerns about democracy, the media and mass communication.
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Mill On The Floss And Silas Marner

by Andrew Maunder e Nahem Yousaf

40,53€ + 10% CARD

 Eliot's radical cultural politics and the arrestingly original fictional strategies that characterize "The Mill on the Floss" and "Silas Marner" are explored from a variety of perspectives - feminist, historicist, structuralist and psychoanalytic.
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Ulysses

by Rainer Emig

39,34€ + 10% CARD

 This collection of essays on James Joyce's masterpiece, "Ulysses", provides an up-to-date overview of debates in Joycean scholarship, with particular emphasis on gender, postcolonial and ideological critiques, and deconstructive readings.
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Virginia Woolf

by James Acheson

30,99€ + 10% CARD

 James Acheson presents a vibrant collection of brand new essays on Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'To the Lighthouse'. A team of leading scholars provide stimulating re-assessments and fresh critical perspectives on these two major works of British fiction.
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J.R.R. Tolkien

by Peter Hunt

29,80€ + 10% CARD

 This edited collection of brand new essays examines The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in the light of children's literature theory and approaches. Exploring issues such as gender, language, narrative, and ecocriticism, the volume also places Tolkien's most popular works in the context of a range of visual media including the film adaptations.
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Romeo And Juliet

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 As one of the world's greatest love stories "Romeo and Juliet" continues to excite new theatre goers, readers and film goers. This collection of contemporary essays raises topical debates about the nature of love conventions, as well as offering new insights into Shakespeare's text.
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Othello

38,15€ + 10% CARD

 This collection of recent essays provides readers with examples of feminist, new historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive and post-colonial criticism of "Othello". Together they show how Shakespeare's play continues to signify in popular culture as well as in critical history.
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Shakespeare'S Problem Plays - All''S Well That Ends Well, Measure For Measure, Troilus And Cressida

33,38€ + 10% CARD

 This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of contemporary critical readings of Shakespeare's three 'problem plays': All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Trolius and Cressida.
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Shakespeare, Feminism And Gender

by Kate Chedgzoy

39,34€ + 10% CARD

 Collecting together essays which offer detailed accounts of particular plays, along with others that take a broader overview of the field, this casebook showcases the range of critical strategies used in feminist criticism of Shakespeare.
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Marlowe

by Avraham Oz

39,34€ + 10% CARD

 This casebook offers a wide ranging selection of essays on plays of Shakespeare's most notable contemporary playwright, Christopher Marlowe. Critical perspectives on Marlowe's plays: "Tamburlaine the Great" parts one and two, "The Jew of Malta", "Doctor Faustus", and "Edward II" are included.
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Robert Cormier

30,99€ + 10% CARD

 Robert Cormier is widely recognised as one of the leading authors of young adult fiction. This collection of brand new essays demonstrates a variety of critical approaches to Cormier's work, including his best-known novels and lesser-studied texts. It offers an accessible examination of the author's considerable impact on children's literature.
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Medieval English Literature

by Beatrice Fannon

34,57€ + 10% CARD

 This New Casebook brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval literature by leading academics. The volume examines major authors such as Chaucer, Langland and the Gawain Poet, and covers key topics in medieval literature, including gender, class, courtly and popular culture, and religion.
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Roald Dahl

by Ann Alston e Catherine Butler

29,80€ + 10% CARD

 Roald Dahl is one of the most enduringly popular children's authors of the last fifty years; and one of the most controversial. This timely collection of new essays, from an international team of leading scholars, provides both an overview and a contemporary assessment of Dahl's reputation and his achievement as a writer for children.
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Melvin Burgess

by Alison Waller

29,80€ + 10% CARD

 This edited collection presents new essays on Melvin Burgess and an interview with the author, introducing readers to the debates surrounding his work and status as an author of controversial young adult fiction. The volume outlines existing critical approaches to his fiction and showcases innovative developments in children's literature studies.
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Jacqueline Wilson

by Lucy Pearson

29,80€ + 10% CARD

 Jacqueline Wilson is one of the most popular writers for children in Britain today, and is ground-breaking in her frank treatment of issues such as adoption, divorce and death. Addressing Wilson's work from a variety of perspectives, this exciting volume brings together a range of new critical essays from an international team of scholars.
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J. K. Rowling

by Cynthia Hallett e Peggy Huey

29,80€ + 10% CARD

 This vibrant and timely collection of brand new essays explores the complete Harry Potter series. The volume presents a variety of critical essays by a range of scholars, providing students with much needed guidance on how to approach these immensely popular texts and films, and how to tackle the complex concepts found within Rowling's world.
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C.S. Lewis

by Lance Weldy e Michelle Ann Abate

29,80€ + 10% CARD

 C. S. Lewis's seven-book series about the fictional land of Narnia has become an irrefutable classic. This collection of new, wide-ranging essays explores the past, present and future importance of the Narnia books, providing the most current, and some of the most cutting-edge, research about this popular fantasy series.
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Dylan Thomas

38,15€ + 10% CARD

 These essays explore the full range of Thomas's work. They use approaches such as marxism, feminism and deconstruction previously neglected by critics, and focus on his complex relationships with surrealism, modernism, Wales, popular culture, the USA and his own contemporaries.
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Revenge Tragedy

by Stevie Simkin

39,34€ + 10% CARD

 This volume has essays on five plays which are representative of the genre of revenge tragedy. They represent ideas about Renaissance society and politics recurrent issues include sexuality, the complex relations of gender and power, and the relationship between the individuals and the state.
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Julius Caesar

by Richard Wilson

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 This title provides a selection of important essays by leading critics on Shakespeare's first "Globe" play. The readings have been chosen to highlight the urgency with which this drama speaks to 21st century concerns about democracy, the media and mass communication.
ENGLISH

Mill On The Floss And Silas Marner

by Andrew Maunder e Nahem Yousaf

40,53€ + 10% CARD

 Eliot's radical cultural politics and the arrestingly original fictional strategies that characterize "The Mill on the Floss" and "Silas Marner" are explored from a variety of perspectives - feminist, historicist, structuralist and psychoanalytic.
ENGLISH

Ulysses

by Rainer Emig

39,34€ + 10% CARD

 This collection of essays on James Joyce's masterpiece, "Ulysses", provides an up-to-date overview of debates in Joycean scholarship, with particular emphasis on gender, postcolonial and ideological critiques, and deconstructive readings.
ENGLISH

Shakespeare'S Problem Plays - All''S Well That Ends Well, Measure For Measure, Troilus And Cressida

33,38€ + 10% CARD

 This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of contemporary critical readings of Shakespeare's three 'problem plays': All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Trolius and Cressida.
ENGLISH

Othello

38,15€ + 10% CARD

 This collection of recent essays provides readers with examples of feminist, new historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive and post-colonial criticism of "Othello". Together they show how Shakespeare's play continues to signify in popular culture as well as in critical history.
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