The Idea of Literature. The Foundations of English Criticism — 1979
Статьи сборника дают представление о формировании литературно-критической мысли в Англии на протяжении четырех столетий - от эпохи Возрождения до наших дней. Издание сопровождается вступительной статьей, справками об авторах и комментариями к тексту. В сборник вошли критические очерки крупнейших английских писателей и литературных критиков: Сиднея, Филдинга, Диккенса, Теккерея, Шоу и др.
The Penguin Companion to Literature.U.S.A. and Latin America — 1971
This volume of the COMPANION crosses the Atlantic to cover the literature of the two Americas.The section on the U.S.A. covers literature from the early colonial writers o the present day.Owing to particulary shadowy borders between literature and non-literature in the United States,many entries have been vevoted to writers outside the strictly literary field,including politicians,philosophers and sociologists.The Latin American section gives comprehensive coverage to a much less familiar literature,now increasingly alive and the subject of a rapidly growing interest
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories — 2011
The short story has become one of the major forms of modern literary expression - in some ways the most modern of them all'. The story of the British short story since the Second World War is one of change and revolution and this powerful and moving collection brilliantly demonstrates the evolution of the form. Containing thirty-four of the most widely regarded postwar British writers, it features tales of love and crime, comedy and the supernatural, the traditional as well as the experimental. This many-storied, many-splendored collection is a brilliant portrait of the generation of writers who have immediately influenced the brightest, sharpest and most intriguing writers who continue to emerge today
Bradbury М., The Modern American Novel — 1985 (An Opus book)
Beginning in the 1890s,when American literature was still regarded as an offshoot of its British counterpart,Malcolm Bradbury traces the development of modernism in the works of James,Crane,and Dreiser;he shows how in the 1920s,with Hemingway,Fitzgerald,and Faulkner,the American novel came into its own;and he points to the emergence after the war of Black and Jewish writers and to recent experiments in the novel form:Heller,Pynchon,Vonnegut,Roth,and others.Challenging the widely held view that the American novel was formed 'on native grounds',Professor Bradbury emphasizes always its countinuing links with European fiction.His is the first book to offer an up-to-date critical account which students of the novel and of American culture willfind indispensable
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