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The Book That Changed My Life
Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Every reader can name at least one book that changed his or her life—and many more beloved titles will surely come to mind as well. In The Book That Changed My Life, fifteen of America’s most influential authors discuss their own special literary choices. These unique interviews with National...
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....
Talking with Poets
Interviews with Robert Pinsky, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Michael Hofmann, and David Ferry.
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
The five interviews in this book were conducted by students in “The Art of Poetry,” a course that Harry Thomas taught for several years. The students’ depth of knowledge and keenness of insight into the poets’ work is an affirmation of American education. The poets respond to the students...
Bookworm
A Memoir of Childhood Reading
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one.
She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. No...
Fabricating Lives
Explorations in American Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
How does the autobiographer want us to perceive him? How do we penetrate the memoirist’s strategies and subterfuges—sometimes conscious, usually—brilliant—and discover the real person screened behind them?
In this fresh and provocative approach to the reading of autobiography, Herbert Leibowitz...
Gun in Cheek
An Affectionate Guide to the "Worst" in Mystery Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
"This is fabulously funny stuff." — John D. MacDonald
"Bill Pronzini surveys the worst crime fiction — not just the average inferior product, but the junk classics, works that achieve a heroic degree of badness. No brief summary can do justice to Mr. Pronzini's researches."...
The Road to the Dark Tower
Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2004
AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE DARK TOWER SERIES—INCLUDING BOOK-BY-BOOK ANALYSIS AND INSIGHT INTO STEPHEN KING'S CREATIVE PROCESS.
In 1970, Stephen King embarked on what would become the crowning achievement in his literary career-the Dark Tower. The seven-volume series, written and published...
Theorists of the Modernist Novel
James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between their theories, Parsons pays particular attention...
Deconstruction After All
Reflections and Conversations by Christopher Norris
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This collection of interviews, reflections, and creative criticism presents Christopher Norris’s vigorous polemics with Hayden White, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, Thomas Kuhn, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Rorty, and Stanley Fish. Alongside Norris’s uncompromising...
by Terry Eagleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing questions and...
Keepers of the Code
English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Keepers of the Code explores the complex network of associations and negotiations that influenced the development of literary anthologies in English Canada from 1837 to the present. Lecker shows that these anthologies are deeply conflicted narratives that embody the tensions and anxieties felt by...
by SpeedyReads
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
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The timeline of the book starts to unfold in a non-linear way. It begins right at the time...
by SpeedyReads
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
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According to the author, everyone becomes a journalist...
by SpeedyReads
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
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