Literary Genres Books

New and Published Books

1. Grotesque

   By Justin Edwards, Rune Graulund

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Thinking Poetry

   Edited by Peter Nicholls, Peter Boxall

   This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry and some of the most significant poets working in the English language today, to offer a critical assessment of the nature and function of poetic thought. Working at once with questions of form, literary...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. The People of Aristophanes (Routledge Revivals)

   A Sociology of Old Attic Comedy

   By Victor Ehrenberg

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1951, The People of Aristophanes provides a sociological account of Athens in the period of its greatest glory. Drawing upon Old Attic Comedy and the plays of Aristophanes, the author recreates, for the reader, the life of Athens at that time. He writes extensively about social...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Sir Thomas Malory

   The Critical Heritage

   Edited by Marylyn Parins

   The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. Laurence Sterne

   The Critical Heritage

   Edited by Alan B. Howes

   The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. Thomas Hardy

   The Critical Heritage

   Edited by R. G. Cox

   The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. EAch volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
7. Society and Literature 1945-1970 (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Alan Sinfield

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter, of his or her society. It explores the social basis of our conceptions of literature and the ways in which writing is affected by the media, institutional and technical, through which...

   Published May 5th 2013 by Routledge
8. Entropy Exhibition (Routledge Revivals)

   Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction

   By Colin Greenland

   When first published in 1983 The Entropy Exhibition was the first critical assessment of the literary movement known as ‘New Wave’ science fiction. It examines the history of the New Worlds magazine and its background in the popular imagination of the 1960s, traces the strange history of sex in...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
9. Wallace Stevens

   Edited by Charles Doyle

   This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. George Bernard Shaw

    Edited by T. F. Evans, Mr T F Evans Nfa

    This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge