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Bernard Sharratt
These selected essays, ranging from a Bakhtinian study of John Skelton (d. 1529) to a sympathetic critique of Raymond Williams (d.1988), explore a variety of relations between literature and politics…
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This short book offers three accessible essays. Joyce’s Boarding House shows how the use of language in Dubliners might justify his claim for the book as a chapter in the…
W. B. Yeats’s short poem ‘Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation’ may be only a minor work in the Yeats canon, but, in an unusually challenging exercise in…
A series of attempted answers to a suitably challenging mock-examination paper probe the curious relations between various literary works and the specific procedures, problems, and dilemmas of the legal process…
In three very different kinds of writing, this short book tackles various facets of the curious problems of time. A reflexive essay probes what it is that we are measuring…
Drama and democracy are critically entwined. This book considers some of the interconnections. A posthumous letter to Raymond Williams asks questions about his neglected television plays. The ambivalent politics of…
From ‘Lit.Crit.’ to the digital future…These various pieces trace a trajectory from a concern with problems of traditional literary criticism, through an often reluctant engagement with a variety of fashionable…
The merging of politics and religion today occurs mainly as various fundamentalisms, those of right-wing American Christians, Islamic radicals, or Israeli Zionists. Back in the 1960s, a different blend was…
Paul arrives in Budapest to give a lecture, but finds himself seeking an elusive woman, and increasingly caught up in some odd connections between football hooliganism, a mafia protection racket…
Dave and Kate arrive in Venice as strangers, for very different reasons, until a sequence of bizarre events bring them uneasily together. But are they confronting blackmail, terrorism, radical politics…
Tom Brady is due to give his last-ever lecture, in one of his favourite cities, magical Prague. But he hadn’t reckoned with a feisty old lady, a highly secret society…
So what were those F16s doing low over Cambridge? Why did the Norfolk coast move in the night? Or strange stars suddenly start blinking on the screens of SETI? Could…
The success of Christianity in the Roman Empire was also the harsh defeat of a much older religion. Egypt in the 4th century was the battleground.Christians were also split…
Can a mere stage play attempt to do adequate justice to the controversial theories and complex life of the great Charles Darwin…? Absolutely not. So, instead, enjoy this constantly mutating…
A film-text for pseudo-scholars It was the usual story, of course: Boy meets Girl, Client hires Private Eye, and the two tales get entangled during a leisurely stroll around the…
At the centre of this unusual bookon T. S. Eliot are two very differentand even incompatible critical accountsof The Waste Land, situated within asequence of changing personal reactions to Eliot’s…
Mark arrives in Rome to take down an exhibition of his paintings but they have all been stolen. Is it simple theft or a scam, and why are Christian fundamentalists…
Since the beginning of the nineteenth century many forms of theatre have been called ‘popular’, but in the twentieth century the term ‘popular drama’ has taken on definite political overtones…
