CLARENDON HOUSE PUBLICATIONS

When teaching 11 to 14 year olds about mediaeval literature like Beowulf or Gawain and the Green Knight, one runs into the enormous...

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One of the main figures of the Romantic movement, John Keats (1795 – 1821) only managed to get into publication four years before his...

Renowned Canadian academic Northrop Frye, outlines the shape of fiction in his book Anatomy of Criticism: In the second paragraph of the...

It was common practice in schools a few years ago, and may still be, that, in order to ‘do’ Shakespeare, the teacher would play Baz...

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Graham Greene’s novel Brighton Rock is an interesting example of an Irony, a story which draws its power from the classic patterns and...

When you think about writing your book (or story or whatever it is you’re working on) does it initially seem to you like a mountain over...

’Do not laugh!’ Tolkien famously wrote in a letter to Milton Waldman, ‘But once upon a time (my crest has long since fallen) I had a mind...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...