books by Sandie Byrne

books by Sandie Byrne

books:

Sandie Byrne

Jane Austen: Mansfield Park (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)
Sandie Byrne

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

This Guide traces the response to Mansfield Park from the opinions of Jane Austen's contemporaries, through nineteenth-century reviews and twentieth-century critical analyses, to the diverse readings of the novel available to the twenty-first century reader. The Guide selects the most useful and insightful of these and puts them in context, ...

Tony Harrison: Loiner

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

This book, published to commemorate the sixtieth birth of Harrison, called "our best English poet," contains essays, reminiscences, and critical studies by such luminaries as Melvyn Bragg and Richard Eyre.

H, V., & O: The Poetry of Tony Harrison
Sandie Byrne

Manchester University Press, 1998

The letters H, v., and O are central to Harrison?s poetry. "H" in the play The Big H, and many of Harrison?s poems on language and class, stands for dropped aitches--missed rungs in his "ladder of aspiration," and for the chain of association he makes from the [h]owl of the Leeds City coat of arms to Herod, H-block, H-bomb, and Hiroshima. "H" is ...

George Bernard Shaw's Plays (Norton Critical Editions)
George Bernard Shaw

W. W. Norton, 2002

This collection presents a cross-section of Shaw's most important theater work? Mrs. Warren's Profession, Man and Superman, Major Barbara , and Pygmalion . Each play is fully annotated. "Contexts and Criticism" features all-new material on the author and his work, from traditional critical readings to more theorized approaches, among them ...

George Bernard Shaw's Plays
Bernard/ Byrne, Sandie (EDT) Shaw

W W Norton & Co Inc, 2002

The Unbearable Saki: The Work of H. H. Munro
Sandie Byrne

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Saki is the acknowledged master of the short story. His writing is elegant, economical, and witty, its tone worldly, flippant irreverence delivered in astringent exchanges and epigrams more neat, pointed, and poised even than Wilde's. The deadpan narrative voice allows for the unsentimental recitation of horrors and the comically grotesque, and ...