Literary category: 117525 books
Literary Territories
Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage, to Roman mapmaking, to the systematization of Ptolemy's scientific works, Literary Territories argues that forms...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2008
Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change is the first systematic and detailed overview of modern Tibetan literature, which has burgeoned only in the last thirty years. This comprehensive collection brings together fourteen pioneering scholars in the nascent field of Tibetan literary studies, including...
by Vincent Gray
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Literary post-mortem of the 'Raghavee' novella . On the surface this a remarkably simple love story - but this is a deception! This novella is also in a way a sister story to my 'Waterlandsridge'. They are both 'poetic narratives',
For those who are interested in reading ‘Raghavee – The Immoral...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
In the nineteenth century, literary criticism first developed into an autonomous, professional discipline in the universities. This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the vast field of literary criticism between 1830 and 1914. In over thirty essays written from a broad range...
by Beatrice Groves
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Literary Allusion in Harry Potter builds on the world-wide enthusiasm for J. K. Rowling’s series in order to introduce its readers to some of the great works of literature on which Rowling draws. Harry Potter’s narrative techniques are rooted in the western literary tradition and its allusiveness...
by Lee Andrew Elioseff
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The whole history of literary criticism is illuminated by this analysis of one English critic’s work. It is, in effect, a literary case study presented as partial answer to the complicated question: what cultural conditions are conducive to the development of a particular theory of literature? Initially,...
Text in the Natural World
Topics in the Evolutionary Theory of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The study of literature has expanded to include an evolutionary perspective. Its premise is that the literary text and literature as an overarching institution came into existence as a product of the same evolutionary process that gave rise to the human species. In this view, literature is an evolutionary...
Bloomsbury's Outsider
A Life of David Garnett
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for best biography 2016
Book of the Year 2015 Sunday Times
Book of the Year 2015 Times Literary Supplement
Book of the Year 2015 Evening Standard
**Book of the Year 2015 New Zealand Listener
Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2015
Literary...
An Uncommon Reader
A Life of Edward Garnett, Mentor and Editor of Literary Genius
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
One of The Sunday Times' (U.K.) Books of the Year
"Garnett's life will not need to be written again." —Andrew Morton, Times Literary Supplement
A penetrating biography of the most important English-language editor of the early twentieth century
During the course of...
Literary Philadelphia
A History of Poetry & Prose in the City of Brotherly Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
“Peppered with many . . . unexpected literary treasures . . . A wonderful introduction to/overview of [Philadelphia’s] abundant literary heritage” (Philly.com).
Since Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin put type to printing press, Philadelphia has been a haven and an inspiration for...
by Eduardo Halfon
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
ACCLAIMED NOVELS & AUTHOR: Eduardo Halfon’s first two English-language books were lauded by outlets such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Marie Claire, while the author was featured on NPR and at major U.S. book festivals and reading series, including PEN World Voices, Wordstock,...
Next Wave
America's New Generation of Great Literary Journalists
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Next Wave collects the work of today’s finest young writers—nineteen creative reporters whose work builds upon foundations laid by previous generations. Although naysayers predicted the decline of quality long-form journalism with the rise of the Internet, Next Wave is evidence that the genre...
by Stuart Ross
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Best Books of 2005, Ottawa Xpress
Writer's Trust of Canada's "Warm Weather Reads Recommended by Writers" list (recommended by Robert Hough)
Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is equal parts literary memoir, advice for the emerging writer, and reckless tirade. Ross has been...
Sydney and Violet
Their Life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A long overdue biography of the power couple that nurtured and influenced the literary world of early twentieth-century England
"I write primarily to pay homage to a beloved friend, but also in the hope that some future chronicler of the history of art and letters in our time may give...