ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑ, ΠΟΙΗΣΗ & ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ

Rebecca Elsons A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic. A Responsibility to Awe is a contemporary classic, a book of poems and reflections by a scientist for whom poetry was a necessary aspect of research, crucial to understanding the world and her place in it, even as, having contr..

In Alls Well That Ends Well, Helen, a lowly ward, risks her life to satisfy her boundless love for Bertram, a count and ward to the King of France. Following him to Paris, she concocts an endangering plan to win the King of Frances favour and induce Bertrams hand in marriage. In the comprehensiv..

Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates o..

Beginning Shakespeare introduces students to the study of Shakespeare, and grounds their understanding of his work in theoretical discourses. After an introductory survey of the dominant approaches of the past, seven chapters examine the major current critical approaches to Shakespeare; psychoanalys..

Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and t..

Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry—an erotic, powerful collection   “One of the best books of contemporary poetry.”—Victoria Chang, Huffington Post   “Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope.”—Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005)   Selected by Nobel Prize laurea..