Samuel Beckett claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but he proves remarkably forthcoming in these pages, which document the thirty-year working relationship between the playwright and his principal producer in the United States, Alan ...

Professor Chao covers the whole field of language and of modern developments in linguistics, with particular emphasis on those aspects which are likely to be most interesting to the layman.

These are supplied online with a software interface which allows users to quickly orient themselves among the varieties of Irish via clickable maps.

" After discussing existentialism as it pertains to art, human emotions, and psychology, French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre turns the question of existentialism to the subject of literature by stating that he wishes to ...

Reflecting his life story, his work traces a course from romance and erotica through satire to devotional verse. This splendid collection includes songs, sonnets, elegies, epithalamia, satires and devotional poems.

"In 1945, Gianna Manzini (Pistoia, 1896-Rome, 1974) wrote "Game Plan for a Novel" -- her first novel to now appear in English -- which takes its shape as an explanation of the genesis and development of a novel written as a letter to her ...