Books written by Ruth Robbins

  • The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde

    Building on the formula of York Notes, this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. Previous ed.: 1999.

  • The British Short Story

    ... Gilbert, 92 Parsons, Deborah L., 85, 224, 227, 229 Partisan Review, 234 Pater, Walter, 127, 168, 177 Pearson's Magazine, 108 Pearson's Weekly, 30 Penguin New Writing, 20, 212, 217, 227 Penguin Parade, 20 Penner, Alan, 215 Perrault, ...

  • The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde: Notes

    The right of Ruth Robbins to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 YORK PRESS 322 Old Brompton Road , London SW5 9JH PEARSON EDUCATION LIMITED ...

  • The British Short Story

    19. Bradley Buchanan, Hanif Kureishi (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007), p. 91. Thomas, p. 146. Stein, p. 135. Buchanan, p. 85. A. S. Byatt, ed., The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (Oxford: Oxford.

  • Pater to Forster, 1873-1924

    In The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence, Raymond Williams suggests that 1895 is a key date for British literature. Williams focuses on Thomas Hardy's publication in that year of Jude the Obscure to a torrent of critical abuse, ...

  • Oscar Wilde

    As Raymond Williams observes in Keywords: 'Individual originally meant indivisible. That now sounds like a paradox. “Individual” stresses a distinction from others; “indivisible” a necessary connection' (Williams 1988: 161).

  • Applying: To Derrida

    BEING ENGLISH: Narratives, Idioms, and Performances of National Identity from Coleridge to Trollope THE RHETORIC OF AFFIRMATIVE RESISTANCE: Dissonant Identity from Carroll to Derrida (forthcoming) VICTORIAN IDENTITIES: Social and ...

  • The French Connections of Jacques Derrida

    The kiss of death . Such are philosophy's secret fear and hope , and so it resists putting its tongue in the mouth of the other , even in the most passionate kiss ( the other band ) . If literature can bite the tongue of philosophy ( or ...

  • Baboushka and the Three Kings

    The Russian folktale about an old woman's endless search for the Christ child.

  • Pater to Forster, 1873-1924

    ... 1714–1779 Moyra Haslett PATER TO FORSTER, 1873–1924 Ruth Robbins BURKE TO BYRON, BARBAULD TO BAILLIE, 1790–1830 Jane Stabler MILTON TO POPE, 1650–1720 Kay Gilliland Stevenson SIDNEY TO MILTON, 1580–1660 Marion Wynne-Davies BATAILLE ...

  • Victorian Identities: Social and Cultural Formations in Nineteenth-Century Literature

    Social and Cultural Formations in Nineteenth-Century Literature Ruth Robbins, Julian Wolfreys. Rabinow, Paul, 85,90, 96 n. 14 Ragussis, Michael, 79 n. 1 'Representation, Conversion, and Literary Form: Harrington and the Novel of Jewish ...

  • The French Connections of Jacques Derrida

    Addresses for the first time the issue of Derrida's relation to French poetics, writing, thought, and culture.

  • The Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory

    The Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory offers the student and scholar of literary and cultural studies the most comprehensive, single volume guide to the history and development of...

  • The Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory

    While emphasizing the theory and practice of literary and cultural criticism, it provides extensive coverage of related and contextual discourses, as well as critical overviews of the work and reception of major figures responsible, ...

  • Key Concepts in Literary Theory

    This book provides students with lucid and authoritative definitions of some of the most significant terms and concepts employed in the study of literary theory.