So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare's language, making his plays easily accessible to modern-day audiences.
Overheard Voices examines poetic address and in particular apostrophe (the address of absent or inanimate others) in the work of four post-World War II American poets, with a focus on loss, desire, figuration, audience, and subjectivity.
Unique roman achevé de Benjamin Constant, Adolphe (1816) raconte l’inexorable décomposition d’une relation amoureuse : sommé de quitter Ellénore au nom de la carriere a laquelle on le destine, le narrateur ne parvient pas plus a rompre qu’a aimer.