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The Elements of Expression
Putting Thoughts into Words
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
More than ever in this completely updated edition, The Elements of Expression helps word users "light up the cosmos or the written page or the face across the table" as they seek the radiance of expressiveness—the vivid expression of thoughts, feelings, and observations. Nothing kills radiance like...
English Lit 101
From Jane Austen to George Orwell and the Enlightenment to Realism, an essential guide to Britain's greatest writers and works
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
A guide to the greats in British literature!
From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Charles Dickens' Tiny Tim to Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy and Shakespeare's Juliet, British authors have created some of the most compelling characters in all of literature. But too often, textbooks reduce these vibrant...
The Real Rule of Four
The Unauthorized Guide to the New York Times #1 Bestseller
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason’s The Rule of Four is already a bookselling phenomenon. The Ivy League super-achievers drew upon an authentic 1499 Renaissance text to create their thriller about two Princeton undergraduates who try to unravel the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (pronounced...
Modernist Lives
Biography and Autobiography at Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Focusing on the biographies and autobiographies published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press from 1917-1946, Claire Battershill shows the importance of publishing history in understanding modernist literary work and culture. Modernist Lives draws on archival material from the Hogarth Press...
by Harold Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
by Dr Lynn Wells
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
This introduction to the work of Ian McEwan places his fiction in historical and theoretical context. It explores his biography, literary techniques and the issues of ethics and representation. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author it also offers an overview of the critical reception McEwan's work has provoked.
Narcissistic Narrative
The Metafictional Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Chapter Seven
The Theme of Linguistic Identity: La Maccina Modiale
Linda Hutcheon
Chapter Seven, “The Theme of Linguistic Identity: La macchina mondiale”, uses Paolo Volponi’s 1965 novel to explore precisely the mimesis of process through language.
by Daily Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy: by Rachel Joyce | Conversation Starters
A Brief Look Inside:
EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,
and the characters and its world still live on.
Conversation Starters...
by Cheryl A Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Fashion and celebrity may be twenty-first century obsessions, but they were also key concepts in Regency culture. Both celebrated and condemned for their popularity, silver fork novels were extremely prolific during this period. This study looks at the social and literary impact of this significant genre.
by Book Habits
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie | Conversation Starters
After years of taking care of her twin siblings, Isma finally flies to Massachusetts from London to pursue her graduate degree. But she worries about twins Aneeka and Parvaiz, and the effects of having a jihadi father they barely knew. Parvaiz...
by Alberto Manguel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In the 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel leads us back into our literary tradition to find insight about one of the most contentious issues of our time: the rise of ethnic nationalism. The end of ethnic nationalism -- building societies around sets of common values -- seems like a good idea....
by Keith K Abbott, Erik Weber
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. In Downstream From Trout Fishing In America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan, Keith Abbott paints a portrait of Richard Brautigan as a lovable and whimsical friend. Abbott explains the writer's dedication to the art of fiction and his quest to break beyond the pop culture,...
Cómo vivir juntos
Simulaciones novelescas de algunos espacios cotidianos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Fascinante reunión de apuntes manuscritos, verdadera cantera que permite seguir a Barthes no sólo en el momento de la exposición sino en el del trabajo previo, estos seminarios excepcionales se publican por primera vez en castellano. Como la obra sobre los pasajes de París permite imaginar a Walter...
Shakespeare's Insults
Educating Your Wit
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The sharpest stings ever to snap from the tip of an English-speaking tongue are here at hand, ready to be directed at the knaves, villains, and coxcombs of the reader's choice. Culled from 38 plays, here are the best 5,000 examples of Shakespeare's glorious invective, arranged by play, in order of...