To accompany a freshman-level English Composition course. Each essay in our argument pocket reader has withstood the test of time and teaching, making it the perfect companion for any writing course. A Prentice Hall Pocket Reader is the perfect way to bring additional readings to writing classes at no additional cost to students when packaged with ...
The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers' efforts to intimate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare ...
This volume examines the sources and impact of Bloom's Shakespearean criticism. Through focused and sustained study of this writer and his best-selling book, this collection of essays addresses a wide range of issues pertinent to both general readers and university classes: the cultural role of Shakespeare and of a new secular humanism addressed ...
Although current theory has discredited the idea of a coherent, transcedent self, Shakespeare's characters still make themselves felt as a presence for readers and viewers alike. Confronting this paradox, Christy Desmet explores the role played by rhetoric in fashioning and representing Shakespearean character. She draws on classical and ...
This book addresses the gap for an up-to-date analysis of Shakespeare's relation to the Gothic. An authority of the Gothic, E. J. Clery, has stated that: 'It would be impossible to overestimate the importnace of Shakespeare as touchstone an inspiration for the terror mode, even if we feel the offspring are unworthy of their parent.'
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