18 books like George Bernard Shaw

What to read after George Bernard Shaw — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Poetry and belief in the work of T.S. Eliot Kristian Smidt · 1949 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This title, first published in 1961, explores the general background of attitudes, beliefs and ideas from which Eliot’s works have originated. This study examines the influences of Eliot’s work, and includes Eliot’s personal views as told to the author. The book also looks at technique, structure and imagery of his poetry. This title will be of interest to students of literature. Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

La casa de Bernarda Alba Federico García Lorca · 1973 · 159p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Un título de nivel 4 de la serie Leer y aprender de lecturas graduadas. Adaptado para los estudiantes por D. Carpani. Una casa silenciosa, oscura. Calor asfixiante, campanas que doblan, secretos inconfesables. Un espacio cerrado, rígidamente controlado por Bernarda Alba, donde viven sus cinco hijas, las criadas y una madre anciana enajenada por su locura. A pesar de los esfuerzos de Bernarda, la… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

S.J. Perelman Steven H. Gale · 1985 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate First published in 1992, this book focuses on the oeuvre of S. J. Perelman. Taken together, the essays included serve as an introduction to this important humorist’s work, both in terms of the specific short prose pieces, plays, and films examined and as an overview of his lengthy professional career. They provide insightful and in-depth literary analyses as well. The work encourages a better… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

Forster Malcolm Bradbury · 1966 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Moderate E.M. Forster's beloved novel of forbidden love, culture clash, and the confines of Edwardian society   Visiting Florence with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional, lower-class Mr. Emerson and his son, George. Upon her return to England, Lucy becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse, but she finds herself increasingly torn… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

William Shakespeare Brian Vickers · 2002 · 564p · ≈ 18h · Moderate 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 students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

Works of Thomas de Quincey Grevel Lindop · 2001 · 3024p · ≈ 100h · Moderate Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the first part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material. Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

Post-colonial Shakespeares Ania Loomba · 1998 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate This collection of new essays explores the multiple possibilities for the study of Shakespeare in an emerging post-colonial period. Post-Colonial Shakespeares examines the extent to which our assumption about such key terms as 'colonization', 'race' and 'nation' derive from early modern English culture. It also looks at how such terms are themselves affected by what were established subsequently… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

Öteki renkler Orhan Pamuk · 1999 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

Ann Radcliffe Romanticism And The Gothic Dale Townshend · 2014 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "This book offers unique and fresh perspectives upon the literary productions of one of the most highly remunerated and widely admired authors of the Romantic period, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823). While drawing upon, consolidating and enriching the critical impulses reflected in Radcliffe scholarship to date, this collection of essays, composed by a range of renowned scholars of the Romantic period,… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

Wheel of fire: essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies G. Wilson Knight · 1930 · ★ 3.0 · 343p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

L'art du Roman Milan Kundera · 1960 · ★ 3.6 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "Le monde des théories n'est pas le mien. Ces réflexions sont celles d'un praticien. L'œuvre de chaque romancier contient une vision implicite de l'histoire du roman, une idée de ce qu'est le roman. C'est cette idée du roman, inhérente à mes romans, que j'ai fait parler." Milan Kundera. Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides · 1526 · ★ 4.0 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Demanding Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied thereafter a passion for accuracy and a contempt… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

Ted Hughes Terry Gifford · 1981 · ★ 3.6 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This innovative casebook introduces readers to wide-ranging critical dialogue about the work of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular and influential British poets of the twentieth century. In twelve new essays, international authorities on Hughes examine and debate his work, shedding new light on familiar texts. Split into two parts, the first half of this book examines Hughes's work through… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

Hamlet William Shakespeare · 1603 · ★ 4.0 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Demanding In this quintessential Shakespeare tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that have held audiences spellbound for nearly four centuries. Those fateful exchanges, and the anguished soliloquies that precede and follow them, probe depths of human feeling rarely sounded in any art. The title role of… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

A preface to Wordsworth John Arthur Purkis · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Probably the most famous of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth worked with and influenced many of the leading poets of the age. This excellent introduction to his life and works sets his writing firmly in the context of his times. John Purkis provides an outline of Wordsworth's life and cultural background and their effect on his work, and examines his verse, from the earliest school poems to… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

Tod in Venedig Thomas Mann · 1925 · ★ 3.5 · 142p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Celebrated novella of a middle-aged German writer℗s tormented passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, and its tragic consequences. Powerful evocation of the mysterious forces of death and disintegration in the midst of existence, and the isolation of the artist in 20th-century life. This edition provides an excellent new translation and extensive commentary on many facets of the… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

George Gissing Martin Ryle · 2016 · 173p · ≈ 5h · Moderate First published in 2005, this collection of essays brings together British, European and North American literary critics and cultural historians with diverse specialities and interests to demonstrate the range of contemporary perspectives through which George Gissing’s fiction can be viewed. It offers both closely contextualised historical readings and broader cultural and philosophical… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

Prolegomena ad Homerum, sive, De operum Homericorum prisca et genuina forma variisque mutationibus et probabili ratione emendandi Friedrich August Wolf · 1795 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Demanding Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

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