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The Voyageur Modern Canadian Literature 5-Book Bundle
The Silence on the Shore / Combat Journal for Place d'Armes / The Donnellys / In This Poem I Am / Canadian Exploration Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductions. In this bundle we find five classic works of twentieth century fiction, drama and poetry, a period when Canada’s literary identity was shaped. Originally published in 1962, The Silence...
Crime Where the Nights are Long
Canadian Stories of Crime and Adventure from the Golden Age of Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
The period from the early 1880s through the First World War has been called "The Golden Age of the Storytellers." These were the writers who sought not to write great literature, but to entertain, spinning yarns to be printed and read, just as their predecessors, the minstrels and bards,...
by Ju-Chan Fulton, Bruce Fulton, Pak Wan-So
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
These nine stories span half a century of contemporary writing in Korea (1970s–2010s), bringing together some of the most famous twentieth-century women writers with a new generation of young, bold voices. Their work explores a world not often seen in the West, taking us into the homes, families,...
by Joseph J. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Some say the world will end in fire and ash, others frost and ice, still others dust and dissolution.
I say it will end in tentacles.
Lots of tentacles.
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B movie, camp, sci-fi, cult classic, apocalypse, gore, blood, death, grindhouse, low-budget, beach,...
by Claudia Mills
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. The essays in Part I look...
by Ian Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
This book traces the roots of Arabic science fiction through classical and medieval Arabic literature, undertaking close readings of formative texts of Arabic science fiction via a critical framework developed from the work of Western critics of Western science fiction, Arab critics of Arabic science...
English Literature
Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
PREFACE
This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has three specific aims. The first is to create or to encourage in every student the desire to read the best books, and to know literature itself rather...
by W. R. Shedden-Ralston
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston was an English writer and linguist, mostly known as an expert on Russian life and popularizer of Russian folklore and literature. “The Three Copecks” is a legend, entered in “Russian Fairy Tales, A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore”. The story tells about...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
The anthology is a ubiquitous presence in Jewish literature--arguably its oldest literary genre, going back to the Bible itself, and including nearly all the canonical texts of Judaism: the Mishnah, the Talmud, classical midrash, and the prayerbook. In the Middle Ages, the anthology became the primary...
Postmodernity in Latin America
The Argentine Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1994
Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. This collection of essays, featuring twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools, showcases the vibrancy of recent work in the field while highlighting...
by Philip Goldstein, James L. Machor
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2008
Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual, historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or lesser extent, acknowledge the various ways in which readers have found texts-- literature, television shows, movies,...
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of America’s greatest and most dark and mysterious writers. The circumstances surrounding his untimely death are still unknown, as is what made him tick. Part of the American Romantic Movement, Poe is best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, and he...
Nationalism, Islam and World Literature
Sites of Confluence in the Writings of Mahmud Al-Mas’adi
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
The writer and politician Mahmud al-Mis’adi is a figure of prime importance in the development of North African literature and cultural politics since the last war. This fascinating book covers both his essays and fiction, written between the 1930s and 1990s, which challenge the boundaries between...