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David Adams Richards of the Miramichi
A Biographical Introduction to His Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Widely considered to be one of Canada's most important authors, David Adams Richards has been honoured with a Giller Prize and two Governor General's Literary Awards. Despite this, there has been a dearth of critical appraisal of his life and works. In David Adams Richards of the Miramichi, Tony Tremblay...
by Wolfgang Ruttkowski
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2002
Scientific Essay from the year 2001 in the subject German Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: none, Kyoto Sangyo University (X. International German Congress, Wien), 69 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: By carefully comparing observations made by specialists in Chinese,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential...
A Life of My Own
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
**Esteemed biographer and legendary literary editor Claire Tomalin's stunning memoir of a life in literature
“[An] intelligent and humane book…There is genuine appeal in watching this indomitable woman continue to chase the next draft of herself." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times**
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Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina
A Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This concluding volume of the Literary Trails of North Carolina trilogy takes readers into an ancient land of pale sand, dense forests, and expansive bays, through towns older than our country and rich in cultural traditions. Here, writers reveal lives long tied to the land and regularly troubled...
by Fernando Sorrentino, Clark M. Zlotchew
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
These wide-ranging conversations have an exceptionally open and intimate tone, giving us a personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature.
Interviewer Fernando Sorrentino, an Argentinian writer and anthologist, is endowed with literary acumen, sensitivity,...
Novel Destinations, Second Edition
A Travel Guide to Literary Landmarks From Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Follow in the footsteps of much-loved authors, including Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austen, and many more. For vacationers who crave meaningful trips and unusual locales, cue National Geographic's Novel Destinations—a guide for bibliophiles to more...
Awkward
A Detour
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Mary Cappello[’s] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . . [is] revelatory indeed.” -MARK DOTY, author of Dog Years: A Memoir and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
A wonderful, multi-layered piece of writing, with all the insight of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work.
The volume is divided into six sections that consider:
the foremost figures of the Anglophone Caribbean literary tradition and...
Literary Awakenings
Personal Essays from the Hudson Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
During the past thirty years, the editors of the Hudson Review have observed a trend among some of the best literary essayists and reviewers to situate their criticism in a deeply personal manner as opposed to the theoretical, technocratic work being produced in many literary and academic publications....
The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan
Histories and Cultures of the Book
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan explores the varying uses of literature in Japan from the late Meiji period to the present, considering how creators, conveyors, and consumers of literary content have treated texts and their authors as cultural resources to be packaged, promoted, and preserved.
As...
The Best Minds of My Generation
A Literary History of the Beats
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
THE BEST MINDS OF MY GENERATION is a very unusual new addition to the oeuvre of Beat writing. Based on a series of lectures that Allen Ginsberg gave at the Naropa Institute in Colorado and then at Brooklyn College, the book is many things at once: literary primer for those new to the Beats; unique...
Elie Wiesel
Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
“Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel’s interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more.” —Publishers Weekly
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the...
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised
A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide—a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes, and contexts—that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable.
While...