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  • Covert Plots
    Cedric Watts
    This book is a sequel to The Deceptive Text: An Introduction to Covert Plots. Critics said of that volume: ’Here is a rare book - a study of fictional theory which is actually fun to read... We know of no other recent book quite like this one’ ((Journal of Modern Literature). ’Deeply meditated... and meticulously written’ (Conradiana). ’Rich in ideas, stimulating, critically h...
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    10,14 €

  • ’Where Gone?’ and Other Poems, Fictions and Memories
    Cedric Watts
    This volume gathers poems, recollections and fictional items written by Cedric Watts between 1966 and 2017. Some have been published, some have not. The resultant medley should gratify nostalgia, while providing ironic instruction and mild entertainment. ...
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    8,73 €

  • Shakespeare
    Cedric Watts
    If you need a helping hand with Shakespeare, this book provides it.Dr Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Sussex University, offers a broad introductory survey of Shakespeare’s works and techniques. Every play is discussed critically - even Love’s Labour’s Won! Matters of prosody and rhetoric are explained. The Sonnets are interpreted provocatively.’An ide...
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    18,43 €

  • ’Reshaping Shakespeare’ and Later Literary Essays
    Cedric Watts
    Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English at Sussex University, gathers here seventeen of his literary essays which were previously published in a diversity of locations. The authors discussed include: Shakespeare, Dickens, James Fenimore Cooper, Maupassant, Kipling, O. Henry, Anthony Hope, Conan Doyle, John Buchan, John Galsworthy, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, ...
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    23,43 €

  • ?Rescuing Miranda? And Further Literary Essays
    Cedric Watts
    Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English at Sussex University, gathers here fifteen of his literary essays which were previously published in a diversity of locations. They include some of his most popular and controversial pieces, notably:? The Semiotics of Othello?;?Bakhtin?s Monologism?;?Haunting Conrad?s Under Western Eyes?;and ?Jews and Degenerates in The Secret Agent...
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    12,23 €

  • ’Janiform Novels’ and other Literary Essays
    Cedric Watts
    ’Janiform Novels’ and Other Literary Essays gathers 25 essays by Cedric Watts, MA, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English at Sussex University. Previously published in a diversity of magazines and books, these conveniently-gathered literary discussions deal with such authors as Sophocles, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Milton, Defoe, Richardson, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, ...
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    13,48 €

  • A String of Sausages
    Cedric Watts
    These recollections, variously trivial, quirky and ironic, may provide some food for thought (and perhaps even a few moments of entertainment) for my children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren. ...
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    13,80 €

  • Shakespeare’s ’Julius Caesar’
    Cedric Watts
    What is the play really about?Tragedy, history, problem play - what is its genre?Who, if anyone, is the play’s hero?Is the murder of Caesar justified?Is Brutus a hypocritical Stoic?How does posthumous characterisation work?What makes the play so topical?''Julius Caesar'' has long been regarded as one of Shakespeare’s greatest dramas. Some of its phrases live on famously: 'Bewar...
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    10,19 €

  • Shakespeare Puzzles
    Cedric Watts
    Professor Cedric Watts discusses 25 puzzles presented by the works of Shakespeare. For instance: The Sonnets - autobiographical or fictional? What is the plot of the long-lost Love's Labour's Won? What are the 'glass eyes' in King Lear? Prospero's epilogue: it is really Shakespeare's farewell? Repeatedly, these challenging discussions reveal and resolve problematic features o...
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    11,92 €

  • Cunninghame Graham
    Cedric Watts / Laurence Davies
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    63,58 €

  • A Preface to Conrad
    Cedric M.A. Ph.D. (Professor) Watts
    Widely recommended, this guide to Conrad offers a vivid and incisive account of his life and literary career, and gives detailed attention to the contexts, themes, problems and paradoxes of his works.   ...
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    82,77 €

  • A Preface to Greene
    Cedric M.A. Ph.D. (Professor) Watts
    ’Pleasurable, fearless, perceptive, provocative...the attention to scholarly detail is admirable...The material is not only entertainingly presented but also extraordinarily wide-ranging...Incisive critical accounts...A valuable reference resource’ Neil Sinyard in the Graham Greene Newsletter This is the most comprehensive and consise guide to Graham Greene’s life and works. ...
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    66,52 €

  • Joseph Conrad
    Cedric P Watts
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    48,54 €