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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare's Freedom

Greenblatt Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226306674, ISBN: HB: 9780226306667, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
160 pp., 22x14 cm, 10 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes – of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and ver...

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History of Art

Literary Criticism

Brush and the Pen Odilon Redon and Literature

Gamboni Dario

ISBN: HB: 9780226280554, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 94 halftones

French symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) seemed to thrive at the intersection of literature and art. Known as "the painter-writer", he drew on the works of Poe, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Mallarme for his subject matter. And yet he concluded t...

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Literary Criticism

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight In a Modern English Version with a Critical Introduction

Gardner John

ISBN: PB: 9780226283289, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
218 pp., 20.5x14 cm

The adventures and challenges of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's nephew and a knight at the Round Table, including his duel with the mysterious Green Knight, are among the oldest and best known of Arthurian stories. Here the distinguished author and poet J...

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Literary Criticism

"Long Weekend" and "Reader over Your Shoulder"

Graves Robert, Hodge Alan

ISBN: HB: 9781857546644, Carcanet, December 2006
848 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

From the perspective of the early 1940s, Robert Graves and his co-author of "The Long Weekend", the journalist and historian Alan Hodge surveyed the darkening interwar years from 1918 to 1939 with wit, insight and a passionate curiosity about the idi...

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Polonica

Literary Criticism

One of Us The Mastery of Joseph Conrad

Galt Harpham Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226316963, University of Chicago Press, February 1997
226 pp., 21.5x14 cm

The concept of mastery straddles a largely unexamined seam in contemporary thought dividing admirable self-control from a reprehensible will to power. Although Joseph Conrad has traditionally been viewed as an admirable master – master mariner, story...

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