The Cambridge Companion To Tom Stoppard

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Companion to the work of playwright Tom Stoppard who also co-authored screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.

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Genre : Drama
Author : Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2001-09-20
File : 264 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521645921


Gale Researcher Guide For Tom Stoppard

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Tom Stoppard is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

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Genre : Study Aids
Author : John Wilders
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
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File : 15 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781535852692


The Cambridge Introduction To Tom Stoppard

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An engaging overview of one of the most dynamically entertaining and intellectually challenging British playwrights of the past fifty years.

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Genre : Drama
Author : William Demastes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2012-11-22
File : 179 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781107021952


The Cambridge Companion To Postcolonial Literary Studies

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Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Neil Lazarus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2004-07-15
File : 358 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521534186


The Cambridge Companion To Edgar Allan Poe

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This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stories and criticism, and place his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. They situate his imaginative writings in relation to different modes of writing: humor, Gothicism, anti-slavery tracts, science fiction, the detective story, and sentimental fiction. Three chapters examine specific works: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Raven', and 'Ulalume'. The volume features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2002-04-25
File : 290 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521797276


Tom Stoppard S Plays

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In Tom Stoppard’s Plays: Patterns of Plenitude and Parsimony Nigel Purse assesses the complete canon of Tom Stoppard’s works on a thematic basis. He explains that, amongst the plenitude of chaotic comedy, wordplay and intellectual ping-pong of Stoppard’s plays, the principle of parsimony that is Occam’s razor lies at the heart of his works. He identifies key patterns in theme – ethics and duality - and method – Stoppard’s stage debates and his dramatic vehicles - as well as in theatrical devices. Quoting extensively from all Stoppard’s published works, many of his interviews and also unpublished material Nigel Purse arrives at a comprehensive and unique appraisal of Stoppard’s plays.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Nigel Purse
Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2016-11-01
File : 686 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789004319653


The Cambridge Companion To Tolstoy

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Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and educational textbooks. The specially commissioned essays in The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy do justice to the sheer volume of Tolstoy s writing. Key dimensions of his writing and life are explored in essays focusing on his relationship to popular writing, the issue of gender and sexuality in his fiction and his aesthetics. The introduction provides a brief, unified account of the man, for whom his art was only one activity among many. The volume is well supported by supplementary material including a detailed guide to further reading and a chronology of Tolstoy s life, the most comprehensive compiled in English to date. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Donna Tussing Orwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2002-09-19
File : 292 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521520002


The Cambridge Companion To Dostoevskii

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Key dimensions of Dostoevskii's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. Contributors examines topics such as Dostoevskii's relation to folk literature, money, religion, the family and science. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : William J. Leatherbarrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2002-07-18
File : 264 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521654734


The Cambridge Companion To Coleridge

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Samuel 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.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Lucy Newlyn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2002-10-24
File : 292 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521659094


The Cambridge Companion To Ovid

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Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Ovid, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.

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Genre : History
Author : Philip R. Hardie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2002-05-02
File : 424 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521775280