Written by teachers who are also at the forefront of the development of critical theory, The State of Theory offers a diversity of perspectives, both practical and theoretical, on the…

This introductory book takes the reader through literary history from Renaissance to Postmodernism and considers individual texts as paradigms which can both reflect and unsettle their broader linguistic and cultural…

Is Shakespeare any Good? reveals why certain literary works and authors are treated as superior to others, and questions the literary establishment s criteria for creating an imperium of great…

Richard Bradford reasserts the value of Jakobson’s work on poetry and poetics. Exploring Jakobson’s thesis that poetry is the primary object of language, he demonstrates how vital Jacobson’s work is…

Richard Bradford’s new introduction to poetry begins with and answers the slippery question, ‘what is poetry?’. The book provides a compact history of English poetry from the 16th century to…

Richard Bradford argues that many traditional poets treat words as visual artefacts and that some poems demand to be interpreted like pictures.

Although by common consent the greatest theologian of the Anglican tradition, Richard Hooker is little known in Protestant circles more generally, and increasingly neglected within the Anglican Communion. Although scholarship…

For over forty years now there has been a steady stream of interest in Richard Hooker. This renaissance in Hooker Studies began with the publication of the Folger Library Edition…