WAspects of the Novel is a book compiled from a series of lectures delivered by E. M. Forster at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1927, in which he discussed the English language novel. By using examples from classic texts, he highlights the seven universal aspects of the novel: story, characters, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm.
WBefore Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry is a 1983 book about Theocritus by the classicist David M. Halperin.
WBreton Ballads is an academic monograph by Mary-Ann Constantine, published in 1996. The book includes examples of the Breton ballad known as the gwerz, and follows their history, and that of scholarship on the genre, into the 19th and 20th centuries. It was awarded the Katharine Briggs Prize by The Folklore Society in 1996.
WLanguage in Modern Literature: Innovation and Experiment is a 1979 book by literary scholar Jacob Korg. In the book, Korg examines the role that linguistic experiment played in literary modernism.
WLibertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century is a 2003 book edited by Peter Cryle and Lisa O'Connell.
WThe Pound Era (ISBN 0520024273) is a book by Hugh Kenner, published in 1971. It is considered by many to be Kenner's masterpiece, and is generally seen as a seminal text on not only Ezra Pound but Modernism in general. As the title suggests, it places Ezra Pound at the center of the Modernist movement in literature and art during the early 20th century.
WReading Pound Reading: Modernism After Nietzsche is a 1987 book on Ezra Pound by the literary scholar and professor Kathryne V. Lindberg. Lindberg considers the influence of Nietzsche upon the prose criticism of Ezra Pound, including his essay "How to Read," his books The ABC of Reading and Guide to Kulchur, as well as in more ephemeral and fugitive sources such as newspapers and obscure literary journals.
WThe Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories is a 2004 book by Christopher Booker containing a Jung-influenced analysis of stories and their psychological meaning. Booker worked on the book for thirty-four years.
WSpeak What We Feel : reflections on faith and literature is an anthology of literary critical and theological essays authored by Frederick Buechner. Published in 2001 by Harper Collins, Speak What We Feel is Buechner's thirteenth non-fiction work.
WVampires: The World of the Undead is an illustrated monograph on cultural history of vampires and vampire folklore and literature, published in pocket format by Éditions Gallimard, in 1993. Written by the French professor of English literature and specialist on vampire myth, Jean Marigny, this work is the 161st volume in the 'Découvertes Gallimard' collection.