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                  Critical Insights: In Cold Blood

                  Amenia, NJ. Salem Press: Grey House, 2020


                  Truman Capote’s compelling and harrowing account of the murder of the Clutter family and the subsequent trial and execution of the killers made a huge impact when first published in 1965, and continues to provoke controversy, find readers, and generate critical debate. This volume offers a rich range of perspectives on Capote’s major work, exploring it as a “non-fiction novel” and as a “true crime” story, tracing its reception by reviewers, critics and the general public, discussing its impact on the real-life community and individuals it describes, and examining the crucial ethical, judicial and penal issues it raises.

                  Critical Insights: The Kite Runner

                  Amenia, NJ. Salem Press: Grey House, 2020


                  Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner combines a compelling, moving narrative, memorable characters and situations, powerful depictions of suffering and guilt, an urgent quest for redemption, and an intense engagement with the fraught and complex history and politics of Afghanistan and its relations with American culture.

                  Critical Insights: A Midsummer Night's Dream

                  Amenia, NY. Salem Press: Grey House, 2020


                  Shakespeare's best-known, most-loved and sometimes controversial comedy is an intricately structured drama that employs a rich range of poetry and prose to juxtapose fairies and mortals, artisans and aristocrats, court and forest, fantasy and reality, reason and madness. This volume offers a variety of new perspectives on its critical history, complex form, rich language, key themes, and the many theatrical and cinematic versions it has generated.

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                  Conversations with Critics

                  2nd edition

                  Great Britain and Singapore: Verbivaracious Press, 2015


                  Nicolas Tredell interviews John Barrell; Catherine Belsey; Bernard Bergonzi; Christine Brooke-Rose; David Caute; Brian Cox; Donald Davie; Terry Eagleton; Stephen Heath; Robert Hewison; Philip Hobsbaum; Lisa Jardine CBE; Sir Frank Kermode; Colin MacCabe; Karl Miller; Sir Roger Scruton; C. H. Sisson CH; George Steiner; Raymond Tallis; Dame Marina Warner

                  'scrupulously researched [...] 20 lengthy and fascinating conversations with prominent literary figures'

                  Isobel Armstrong, Times Educational Supplement

                  'as entertaining a guide to contemporary critical debates as one could hope for ... [Tredell's] questions are             informed, explicit and seek always to connect specific issues to overall literary and political contexts'

                                                             Mark Ford,  Times Literary Supplement



                  Cinemas of the Mind: A Critical History of Film Theory

                  Duxford: Icon, 2002


                  '[A] resourceful and stimulating study of classical and recent film theory ... an invaluable work'

                  John Conomos, Screening the Past

                   

                  'an excellent introduction to the rich history of film theory'

                  Nicolas Magenham, Cercles

                   

                  'clear and informative exposition and some nicely chosen stills'

                  Richard Armstrong, Kamera 03

                   


                  The Fiction of Martin Amis: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism

                  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000


                  'a useful volume for students ... Tredell makes a good job of selection, editing prudently and generously as required, and splices the extracts together well'

                  Year's Work in English Studies


                  William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury / As I Lay Dying: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism

                  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999


                  'The criticism in this Guide aims to provide a series of suggestions, insights and indicators that will help us to navigate Faulkner's labyrinths and to emerge with a richly enhanced understanding of the styles, structures and multiple meanings of two of his greatest works'

                  Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism

                  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999


                  'this book is engaging, lively and scholarly: a rare combination'

                   Year's Work in English Studies

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                  Charles Dickens: Great Expectations: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism

                  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998


                  '[An] excellent survey of essays, articles and reviews on Great Expectations'

                  Professor Bernard N. Schilling,The Rain of Years: Great Expectations and the World of Dickens

                  F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism

                  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998


                  '[This book] trace[s] the novel's critical reputation from 1925 into the 1990s, interweaving Tredell's narrative with generous excerpts from reviews and critical essays'

                   Jackson R. Bryer, The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald


                  '[It] skilfully imbeds excerpts from reviews, periodical articles and book sections in a narrative of the novel's critical reception and interpretation'

                                                            Jackson R. Bryer, Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby


                  Conversations with Critics

                  1st edition

                  Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1994


                  Nicolas Tredell interviews John Barrell; Catherine Belsey; Bernard Bergonzi; Christine Brooke-Rose; Dame A. S. Byatt; David Caute; Brian Cox; Donald Davie; Terry Eagleton; Stephen Heath; Robert Hewison; Richard Hoggart; Lisa Jardine CBE; Sir Frank Kermode; Colin MacCabe; Karl Miller; Sir Roger Scruton; C. H. Sisson CH; George Steiner; Dame Marina Warner

                  'scrupulously researched [...] 20 lengthy and fascinating conversations with prominent literary figures'

                  Isobel Armstrong, Times Educational Supplement

                  'as entertaining a guide to contemporary critical debates as one could hope for [...] [Tredell's] questions

                                                         are informed, explicit and seek always to connect specific issues to overall literary and political contexts'

                                                          Mark Ford, Times Literary Supplement





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