This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new light on all of Fowles' writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant's Woman as the most widely studied of Fowles' works. The impressive cast of contributors offers an outstanding range of expertise on Fowles, providing fresh reassessments and new perspectives.

John Fowles (New Casebooks)

Acheson, James

Reference

Red Globe Press

John Fowles (Modern Novelists)

John Fowles has the distinction of being both a best-selling novelist and one whose work has earned the respect of academic critics. In this clear and concise book, James Acheson traces the development of Fowles' novels from The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman, each concerned with the quest for self-knowledge, through to The Ebony Tower and Daniel Martin. He shows how the sexual element of Fowles' early novels is interwoven with the author's interest in French existentialism as, in his first three works of fiction, Fowles' main characters are obliged not only to struggle with sexual issues but to choose between living a life of humdrum conventionality, on the one hand, or seeking to discover a sense of their own 'authenticity' on the other. By the 1970s, however, Fowles' interest in existentialism had begun to wane, his disillusionment taking different forms in The Ebony Tower, a collection of short stories, and in Daniel Martin, the novel that followed it. In A Maggot, his most recent work of fiction, he abandons existentialism in favour of a more generalised philosophical issue - the limits of human knowledge.

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Part of the Fundamentals in Clinical Ophthalmology series, this new book on neuro-ophthalmology provides authoritative coverage of the diagnosis and management of the neuro-ophthalmological conditions. It covers the anatomical and physiological basis and makes the link between the ophthalmological manifestations and neurological roots of these commonly encountered conditions. Drawing in neurosurgery, neuroradiology , radiotherapy and neuro-otology as well, it is an ideal basic reference for ophthalmologists and neurologists in training..

Neuro-Ophthalmology: (FCO Series) (Fundamentals of Clinical Opthalmology)

Medical Books

Riordan-Eva, Paul

Medicine

BMJ Books

Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism

This collection of original essays focuses on new and continuing movements in British Poetry. It offers a wide ranging look at feminist, working class, and other poets of diverse cultural backgrounds. Devoted to close readings of poets and their contexts from various postmodern perspectives, this book offers a wide-ranging look at the work of feminists and “post feminist” poets, working class poets, and poets of diverse cultural backgrounds, as well as provocative re-readings of such well-established and influential figures as Donald Davie, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Craig Raine. Contributors include many respected theorists and critics, such as Antony Easthope, C.L. Innes, John Matthias, Edward Larrissy, Linda Anderson, Eric Homberger, Alastair Niven, R.K. Meiners, and Cairns Craig, in addition to new writers working from new theoretical perspectives. Their approaches range from cultural theory to poststructuralism; each essayist addresses a general audience while engaging in debates of interest to postgraduates and specialists in the fields of twentieth-century poetry and cultural studies. The book’s strength lies in its diversity at every level.

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

State University of New York Press

An Index to Dr. Williams' Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language

History

Asia

BiblioLife

Virginia Woolf (New Casebooks, 51)

This collection of original essays on Virginia Woolf by leading scholars in the field opens up new debates on the work of one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. 
The collection also looks at some of Woolf's own essays, discussing her theory of fiction and devotion to 'stream of consciousness' writing. Its thirteen contributors place this discussion of Woolf's artistic theory and practice within the context of her association with the Bloomsbury Group and her interest in spirituality, feminism, homosexuality, pacifism and psychoanalysis.

Virginia Woolf (New Casebooks, 147)

Red Globe Pr

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