Spectacular Performances LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino

Spectacular Performances LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & LatinoWhy did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concept of costume as high fashion and as self fashioning, as disguise and as the very essence of theatre, relate to one other? How do portraits of poets help make the author readers want, and why should books, the embodiment of the word, be

Multimodality is of increasing relevance to daily life

Solidly grounded in current historical scholarship

including discussions of his work from his first worldwide bestseller Continent (1986) up to The Pesthouse (2007)

Key figures in the field share their art-based research

but his wide-spread work can also be fruitfully employed to analyze popular culture

with 83 colour photographs and essays from leading academics which analyse how his work provides an alternative approach to documentary photography

in both manuscript and print

part of The Manchester Spenser series

complemented by film stills and expanded references

romantic comedy and kung-fu

between 1793 and 1861

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