This theoretical study of linguistic structure in literature focuses on verse and narrative from a
linguistic perspective. Nigel Fabb provides a simple and realistic linguistic explanation of …

It is easy to see why stylistics might potentially have close links with translation: both are
concerned with the fine linguistic detail of a text and how it can be seen as a reflection of a …

The campus novel is one of the best loved forms of fiction in the post-war period. But what
are its characteristic themes? What are its prejudices? And what does it take for granted …

In a speech given in December 1925, Vladimir Nabokov declared that 'everything in the
world plays', including 'love, nature, the arts, and domestic puns'. Each of Nabokov's novels …

This book examines the question of death in the light of Heidegger's paradigmatic
discussion in Being and Time. Although Heidegger's own treatment deliberately refrains …

Literary Studies: A Practical Guide provides a comprehensive foundation for the study of
English, American, and world literatures, giving students the critical skills they need to best …

Orientalist Poetics is the only book on literary orientalism that spans the nineteenth century
in both England and France with particular attention to poetry and poetics. It convincingly …

, AAl though Ian McEwan's recent best seller Saturday maintains through out a conspicuous
air of up-to-the-minute internationalism, that impres sion turns out to be somewhat …

Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought provides essential information on, and a
critical interpretation of, nineteenth-century thought and nineteenth-century thinkers. The …

In The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society, I analyzed
a shift in the history of economic thought from a labor theory of value concerned with the …