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R.K. Narayan, an Indian novelist who wrote in English, is a key figure in postcolonial literature. This introduction to his work explores his background, his politics, his attitude toward modernity and his skill as a storyteller, providing a detailed study of his life and fiction.

This study locates Norman MacCaig in his literary and social contexts and presents his work according to its major emphases.

This book offers the general reader an introduction to some of the most exciting poetry of recent years.

In this lucid and wide-ranging critical study, poet and critic David Kennedy charts Douglas Dunn's career from his debut volume Terry Street (1969) to his New Selected Poems 1964-2000 (2003).

This study of Henrik Ibsen delivers readings of ten of Ibsen's best-known plays including A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People and Hedda Gabler, and surveys Ibsen's total dramatic output, carefully situating his plays in his cultural, historical and intellectual contexts.

This is the first study of Thomas Middleton to emphasise the significance of his collaborative relationships, and stresses in turn the intertextual elements of his plays, pageants, poems, and pamphlets.

This new, invigorating and accessible study excitingly explores the substance and significance of J.G. Farrell's Empire Trilogy and assesses its damning and influential critique of British colonial rule.

In this study of revenge tragedies - notably by Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, John Marston and John Webster - Janet Clare suggests that genres are not passively inherited, but made and re-made every time a new play is performed.

This study considers Measure for Measure in relation to its historical contexts and contemporary relevance.

Using an innovative theory of the significance of the Globe's stage space, Penny Gay examines As You Like It's presentation of issues of power, sexuality, gender and genre.

This study seeks to provide a balanced view by approaching Rushdie's fiction in terms of its dual responsibility to the 'found' world of historical circumstance and the 'made' world of the imagination.

Two of Henry Newbolt's poems, 'Vitai Lampada' and 'Drake's Drum', became staples of poetry anthologies and were able to be recited by every school-boy.

This is a fascinating work on the architectural practice of Edward (Ted) Cullinan, who worked on schools, health buildings and conference centres before embarking on a sequence of university buildings and masterplans in the UK and abroad, always insisting on thinking and behaving differently for architecture and the greater good.

Robert Hatch's critical life spanned five decades. Starting in 1947 and continuing until 1984, he wrote about drama (and film) for The New Republic, The Nation, Theatre Arts, The Reporter, and Horizon. Along with John Simon, Robert Brustein, Richard Gilman, and Stanley Kauffmann, Hatch was one of the most potent, influential authors in the New York school of twentieth-century American arts criticism. With style and erudition Open Hatch discusses plays and productions from the following countries: England, the United States, France, Russia, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Greece, and Australia. Among the many works discussed are The Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen; The Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams; The Bourgeois Gentleman, by Molière; The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O'Neill; Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare; The Good Woman of Setzuan, by Bertolt Brecht; Exiles, by James Joyce; Endgame, by SamuelBeckett; The Blacks, by Jean Genet; The Caretaker, by Harold Pinter; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee; Dutchman, by LeRoi Jones; and Leonce and Lena, by Georg Büchner. Also included in Open Hatch are articles on the following subjects: the idea of repertory; the Living Theatre; the Actors' Studio; Broadway and Off-Broadway; melodrama; and scene design. In addition, one may find in this rich collection bio-critical pieces on such figures as Tyrone Guthrie, Orson Welles, and John Arden. The precision, wit, and wisdom of Hatch's writing chime in Open Hatch, as he reveals his sense of cultural mission - and love of all the arts - by applying to theater and drama the same high standards that are applied to fiction, poetry, art, and music.

This book represents the first attempt to study the contribution of women as cultural agents to the colonization, the anti-colonial opposition and the decolonization of territories ruled by Portugal in the African continent between the turn of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first.

The history of Italian culture stems from multiple experiences of mobility and migration, which have produced a range of narratives, inside and outside Italy. This collection interrogates the dynamic nature of Italian identity and culture, focussing on the concepts and practices of mobility, memory and translation. It adopts a transnational perspective, offering a fresh approach to the study of Italy and of Modern Languages.

This is the first critical edition of the thirty-four unattributed Middle English poems in Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.1.6. This collection of poems is significant for its thematic coherence and its stylistic variety, and for the insight it provides into regional literary culture in the century after Chaucer.

Exploration of the generation of poets anthologized in A. Alvarez's classic The New Poetry - Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter.

This book tells the fascinating story of Bluecoat's transformation from 18th century charity school to Britain's first arts centre a century ago. Hosting music, visual art, performance and literature, it is described as where 'village hall meets the avant-garde', a unique venue at the heart of Liverpool's cultural life.

Before its civil war, America supplied 80 per cent of the raw material for Britain's largest industry, the cotton trade. During the war, this fell to almost zero. This book examines what happened to this trade and to the Liverpool cotton market, its beneficiaries and its victims, during the war.

'By an excavation of her own transnational life, Hawthorne tracks the interwoven histories of gender, sexuality, and nationality into our present, with its heavily-policed borders and resurgent nationalisms. [...] Women, Citizenship, and Sexuality will appeal to literary scholars and cultural historians interested in sapphic modernism. Historians of gender and sexuality will likewise appreciate the gendered frame through which Hawthorne approaches nationality and sexuality as functionally analogous discourses whose ideological configurations persist into the present.' Jennifer Carr - Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature

This is the first book to tell the intriguing story of England's co-op architecture, from much-loved corner shops through huge department stores to the factories and warehouses that supplied them. Numerous illustrations allow readers to see the eclectic designs - by hundreds of local architects - which changed our shopping landscape forever.

Malachy the Irishman's 14th century text On Poison has been obscure in latter centuries, but in the later Middle Ages, his was a book widely known, including to Holcot and Langland. Following a lengthy introduction, the volume presents an annotated text and translation; it ends with three indexes, designed to open the text.