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This study is an essay in five 'distortions', tracking the way the play manipulates and explores fundamental human concerns; the body, history, theatre, childhood and family and the mirrors and shadows of individual identity and self-knowledge.

This study examines the whole of Frame's output starting with the fiction (novels, short-stories and poems) before focusing on the two autobiographical novels, Owls do Cry and Faces in the Water, to end with the autobiographical trilogy, a sort of restorative prism inviting us to (re) read all her preceding works.

This book locates Lehmann's fictional achievement in the context of her times and in particular describes its positioning within the turbulent period between two world wars and the changing aesthetic of modernity.

This study provides an engaging overview and clear analysis of the fiction, non-fiction and drama of African-American writer James Baldwin ( 1924-1987).

Colin MacCabe's study places T.S. Eliot's poetry in the context of his journeys from philosophy to poetry and from modern scepticism to traditional Christianity, and uses Eliot's life to illuminate his poetry.

This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern African writing.

This close and sensitive study shows Christopher Smart (1722-1771) to be one of the finest and most important English religious poets between George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

This book is a concise introduction, drawing on the latest research, to the life and work of the most celebrated English poet of the late seventeenth century.

Concentrating on her most recent collections, this introduction to Canada's greatest short-story writer shows how Munro uses fluid concepts of time to subvert notions of a single fixed reality.

This book draws together the different aspects of Margaret Drabble's narrative practice, and looks at the increasing flexibility of her narrative methods, both in terms of the kind of narrator used and in the structuring of plot events.

In this study Emma Smith teases out instances of doubleness, duplication and paradox in Othello.

The book's focus is the major satires upon which Swift's literary reputation principally rests, including A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal and the infamous scatological poems.

An illuminating and lucid study which examines the psychological and stylistic aspects of Djuna Barnes's work, including her modernist classic Nightwood, providing a stimulating introduction to a bold and enigmatic writer in the literary Paris of the 1920s and 1930s

Concentrating mainly on the novels from 1960 to the present day Amanda Greenwood contests critical perceptions of O'Brien as a narrow chronicler of women's inner lives, arguing that O'Brien's writings are not only radical but deeply revealing of the position of women under patriarchy in Ireland and beyond; the later texts suggest the need for revisions of the social and symbolic orders.

This study offers a close reading of each of Swift's novels, exploring the innovative formal strategies and identifying such recurrent themes as the presence of the past in the present, the blurring of distinctions between 'history' and 'story', fact and fiction, and the possibilities of redemption in a contemporary social and emotional wasteland.

This title is a study of Tennyson's lyrical imagination, describing its complex fascinations with recurrence, progress, narrative, and loss, and its doubts about its own artfulness.

This book illuminates the importance of the inter-relationship between emotion and religion in the poetry of three women poets: Felicia Hemens, Dora Greenwell and Anne Procter of the Romantic and Victorian eras.

Pre-Raphaelitism: Poetry & Painting offers an in-depth analysis of the impact of Pre-Raphaelitism on the arts.

This book is the first full-scale exploration of the fiction of one of the most influential women writing in English in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.