This book investigates the ways in which poets have exploited the resources of the language as a spoken medium - its characteristic rhythms, its phonetic qualities, its ...

A straightforward and practical introduction to rhythm and meter in poetry in English.

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This Companion, designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), will deepen and extend the ...

Recent developments in literary theory, such as structuralism and deconstruction, have come under attack for neglecting history, while historically-based approaches have been ...

A landmark collection of essays examining Joyce's relationship with Irish colonialism and nationalism.

This is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce.

During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers ...

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