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The first book-length study of Heaney's dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney's major literary exemplars.

The first book-length study of Heaney's dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney's major literary exemplars.

A collection of critical essays on the writing of Kathleen Jamie. Whether engaging with national politics, with gender, with landscape and place, or with humanity's relation to the natural environment, it demonstrates that Kathleen Jamie's verse teaches us new ways of listening, of seeing and of being in the contemporary world.

These 16 newly commissioned critical essays and 7 previously unpublished poems by leading poets make up the first full-length study of Kathleen Jamie's writing.

Beginning with a broad overview of crossover fiction in Britain, this book offers readings of leading British crossover authors, including J.K. Rowling, Philip Pullman, and Mark Haddon. This book discusses the growing popularity of children's classics for adult readers, with a special focus on C S Lewis.

What does it mean when people use the word 'Hell' to convey the horror of an actual, personal or historical experience?This book explores the idea that modern, Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or experience of endless or unjust suffering. In the contemporary period, the descent to Hell has come to represent the means of recovering - or discovering - selfhood. In exploring these ideas, this book...

This book explores the idea that modern, Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or experience of endless or unjust suffering. In contemporary society, the descent to Hell has come to represent the means of recovering -- or discovering -- selfhood. Hell in Contemporary Literature discusses descent journeys in Holocaust testimony and fiction, memoirs of mental illness, and feminist, postmodern, and pos...

Highly recommended by ChoiceWhile crossover books such as Rowling's Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention, critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace with the growing popularity of this new category of writing and reading. Falconer remedies this lack with close readings of six major British works of crossover fiction, and a wide-ranging analysis of the social and cultural implications of the global c...