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HarperCollins Publishers Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde AQA GCSE 91 English
Book SynopsisExam Board: AQALevel: GCSE Grade 9-1Subject: English LiteratureSuitable for the 2024 examsTargeted practice questions covering your GCSE grade 9-1 set textOur Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde GCSE Grade 9-1 workbook has everything you need to put your skills to the test and score top marks on your GCSE Grade 9-1 English Literature exam! Prepare for your exam in a snap with this new GCSE Grade 9-1 Snap Revision Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Workbook from Collins. Full of questions on plot, context, characters and themes in a clear and easy-to-use format with answers included you'll get plenty of practice. With exam-style questions you can plan and write your essay responses to be completely prepared for your AQA exam. Perfect to use alongside the GCSE Grade 9-1 Snap Revision Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Text Guide for all the key information you need to practise and pass.
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HarperCollins Publishers The mirror crackd from side to side
Book SynopsisCollins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins hasadapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These readers have beencarefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading scheme to ensure that the language is at thecorrect level for an intermediate learner. This book is Level 4 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level4 is equivalent to CEF level B2 with a word count of 20,000 26,000 words.Each book includes: Full reading of the adapted version available for free online Helpful notes on characters Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot A glossary of the more difficult wordsWhen famous actress Marina Gregg buys Gossington Hall, she wastes no time in introducing herself and her husband to their new neighbours by throwing a charity fête. Everyone is enjoying seeing around the beautiful house and gardens, until tragedy strikes Heather Badcock has been poisoned. But who would want to kill Heather? And how, in the middle of a busy party, did they do it?
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HarperCollins Publishers Ex Libris 100 Books to Read and Reread
Book Synopsis**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring and gorgeously illustrated selection of the life-changing books that none of us should missWhy do we love books so much?'For legendary literary critic Michiko Kakutani, books have always been an escape and a sanctuary, the characters of some novels feeling so real to her childhood self that she worried they might leap out of the pages at night if she left the book cover open. In Ex Libris, she offers a personal selection of over 100 works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, with passionate essays on why each has had a profound effect on her life.From Homer's The Odyssey to The Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale to Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, Ex Libris covers a rich and vast range of classics, old and new, that will help build a well-rounded reader and citizen of the world. With gor
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HarperCollins Publishers Who We Are KS3 Anthology Teacher Pack
Book Synopsis24 brilliant texts to enrich your KS3 English curriculumWeave more representative and inclusive contemporary texts and writers into Key Stage 3 with this new anthology compiled by an expert panel of writers and teachers.Enable all students see themselves in or find a point of connection with the texts they are reading from the start of secondary schoolChoose from a diverse range of poetry, fiction extracts and non-fiction, including speeches and spoken sources to inspire students and help develop their writing skillsFeel confident to deliver rewarding and engaging lessons using the teaching guidance, context notes, language support and ready-made activitiesFully editable, downloadable and photocopiable so you can teach flexibly and share across the department
£116.19
HarperCollins Publishers Through Our Eyes KS4 Anthology Teacher Pack
Book Synopsis24 brilliant texts to enrich your GCSE English curriculumWeave more representative and inclusive contemporary texts and writers into Key Stage 4 with this new anthology compiled by an expert panel of writers and teachers. Support the study of unseen texts at GCSE 9-1 with a rich choice of diverse and representative texts Choose from 8 fiction extracts, 8 non-fiction extracts and 8 poems to inspire students and help develop their reading and writing skills Knit into current schemes of work with strong thematic links to the most popular GCSE set texts and tasks that develop the key skills in the GCSE English assessment objectives Feel confident to deliver rewarding and engaging lessons using the teaching guidance, context notes, language support and ready-made lesson plans and worksheets Fully editable, downloadable and photocopiable so you can teach flexibly and share across the department The perfect companion to Who We Are KS3 Anthology Teacher Pack 9780008474607
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HarperCollins Publishers Librorum Ridiculorum A compendium of bizarre
Book SynopsisA celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop.Books have the power to enrich the soul, to enliven the senses, to expand our horizons and others are simply mad. This wonderful celebration of the oddest books ever published is a treat for all bibliophiles, booksellers and fans of the bizarre. It is an exploration of the most eccentric titles and covers from our past, that have inexplicably fallen out of print but should never be forgotten.Gems include:Scouts in BondageFrog Raising for Pleasure and ProfitPremature Burial and How It May Be PreventedDrummer Dick's Discharge
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Cornerstone Invitation To The Dance
Book SynopsisHilary Spurling won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919, and the Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award for Secrets of a Woman's Heart: The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1920-1969. She is also the author of Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book, Paper Spirits and The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell. She has been Arts and Literary Editor of the Spectator, and a regular reviewer for the Observer, the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph.Trade ReviewHilary Spurling's exhaustive analysis of the novel's characters supplies a master-key for the reader -- Anthony Powell
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Cornerstone Brideshead Abbreviated
Book SynopsisJohn Crace''s ''Digested Read'' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review section, fearful that it may be their turn to be mercilessly sent up.Now he turns his critical eye on the classics of the last century, offering bite-sized pastiches of everything from Mrs Dalloway to Trainspotting via Lolita and The Great Gatsby. Those who have never quite got around to reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man will be delighted to find its essence distilled into a handful of paragraphs. Those who have never really enjoyed Lord of the Flies will be pleased to find it hilariously parodied in an easily swallowable 982 words. And those who find all such works a little highbrow will be relieved to discover, between the covers of this book, John Crace''s take on the likes of Ian Fleming, P. G. Wodehouse and the Highway Code.Witty and sharp, this is essential reading both for those who genuinely love literature and for those who merely want to appear ridiculously well read.Trade ReviewA swift kick up the backside to some of modern literature's most iconic works. Accurate, merciless and very, very funny -- Sarah WatersI've read all these books at least twice - and now I've read John Crace's digested versions I wonder why I bothered -- Will SelfA genius and a madman. The meanest, funniest parodist alive -- Joanna BriscoeFor the last 10 years [Crace's] 'Digested Reads' have been reason enough to buy the Guardian. Taking a well-known novel, he gives a brief distillation of the plot while capturing - often perfectly - the tone of its author. At the same time, he jabs a sharpened elbow into their pomposities and limitations * Spectator *Beautifully observed and poisonously cruel ... laugh-out-loud funny * The Lady *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Western Lit Survival Kit
Book SynopsisSandra Newman is the author of Cake and The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, and a memoir, Changeling. She is co-author of the bestselling How Not to Write a Novel and Read This Next. Newman lives in Brooklyn.Trade ReviewHeavens, what a joy this book is... It is extremely funny -- Lynne Truss [Praise for HOW NOT TO WRITE A NOVEL]Pick up this clever (and useful) guide -- [Praise for READ THIS NEXT] * Chicago Tribune *
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Penguin Books Ltd Why Read the Classics
Book SynopsisWhy Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say they are ''rereading'', not ''reading''), this is an absorbing collection of Italo Calvino''s witty and passionate criticism.Trade ReviewEnthusiasm and intelligence: these are the essential qualities of the critic. Calvino, himself a novelist of rare quality, possessed both generously. This is a book to read for itself, and also because it will send you back to other books to read, either again in a new way, or for the first time... Superb * Daily Telegraph *This volume itself is a classic book at bedtime, a seductive invitation to forgotten opportunities or rereading * The Times *A master’s guidance on everything from the ancient Greeks to Ernest Hemingway, proving that “a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” This timeless description applies to Calvino’s own books too -- John Self
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Oxford University Press Oxford Guides to Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer''s Troilus and Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revised in light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of Chaucer''s imaginative deployment of his sources, and an extended survey of this narrative poem''s innovative combination of a range of generic identities. The chapters explain how Chaucer builds thematic significance into his poem''s symmetrical structure, and the poem''s distinctive variety in style and language, as well as a full commentary on the poem''s concerns with love in the contexts of time and mutability and human free will. The Guide explores the poem as an extended debate about the nature and value of love, and how love was conceptualized and experienced as a form of service in quest of compassionate reward, a quasi-religious devotion, and a potentially fatal illness always in hope of cure. The subjectivities of the chief protagTrade ReviewReview from previous edition carefully written ... deeply learned ... sensible and judicious ... with monumental patience and humility Windeatt has served Chaucer and his students well * Notes and Queries *provides a rich compendium of knowledge ... highly recommended * Choice *
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Oxford University Press Shakespeare A Playgoers Readers Guide
Book SynopsisShakespeare: A Playgoer''s & Reader''s Guide is your essential companion to all Shakespeare''s extant works (as well as those known to be lost). Two of our most eminent Shakespeare scholars guide us through his sonnets, his poems, and his plays, providing the reader with detailed scene-by-scene plot synopses, cast lists, notes on the texts and sources, discussions of artistic features, and accounts of significant productions on stage and screen.Derived from the acclaimed Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, and fully updated to reflect the latest scholarship and most recent notable productions, it is the ideal compact guide for students and theatre-goers needing a helpful plot summary, or readers wishing to browse on fascinating background information.Trade Review...crammed with information of the most detailed kind. One particularly magnificent section gives the entire chronology of every one of the families involved in the history plays... This is a book with no messing about. It gives its information clearly and in a pithy manner which enables the reader to absorb a great deal of information without too much cerebral effort...this little book has a wonderfully powerful kick. * ON: YORKSHIRE *A thorough and accessible resource... * Nick Smurthwaite, Drama & Theatre Magazine *Distilled and updated from OUP's earlier Oxford Companion to Shakespeare , this book would be a fine starting point for anyone wanting or needing to know more about the man and his work. * Susan Elkin, School Librarian *Table of ContentsPreface All Is True All's Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It Cardenio The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Edward III First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI) Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry V Henry VI Part 1 Julius Caesar King John King Lear A Lover's Complaint Love's Labour's Lost Love's Labour's Won Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer's Night Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles The Phoenix and the Turtle The Rape of Lucrece Richard Duke of York (3 Henry VI) Richard II Richard III Romeo and Juliet Sir Thomas More Sonnets The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen Venus and Adonis The Winter's Tale A Short Life of William Shakespeare Shakespeare's Life, Works, and Reception: A Partial Chronology, 1564-2020 Family Tree of Characters in the English Histories Some Suggested Further Reading
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Dorling Kindersley Ltd Marvel The Way of the Warrior Marvels Mightiest
Book SynopsisIs Shang-Chi Marvel''s ultimate fighter?Discover the fighting styles, training techniques, and secret disciplines of Marvel Comics'' mighty martial artists and hand-to-hand combatants. From disciples of Eastern combat tactics and mixed martial arts, to superpowered street fighters and deadly weapons masters, this book pulls no punches in revealing Marvel''s ultimate warriors. Learn about the distinctive skills, expertise, and classic clashes of Marvel''s most lethal martial artists. They are all here, beautifully illustrated with original comic art: Shang-Chi, Iron Fist, Elektra, Daredevil, Taskmaster, Gamora, Karnak, Black Widow, Bullseye, Master Izo, Fat Cobra, Steel Serpent, Mantis and many more.This is the Way of the Warrior. 2021 MARVEL
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Penguin Books Ltd Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging
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Dorling Kindersley Ltd The DC Book
Book SynopsisTravel the myriad worlds of the DC Multiverse. If you want to truly understand DC Comics, The DC Book is your one-stop guide to the DC Multiverse. This unique, insightful examination of a mind-boggling comics universe takes readers on a compelling journey from the dawn of Super Heroes to the formation of the Dark Multiverse... and beyond.Meticulously researched and expertly written, The DC Book is packed with stunning comics artwork, illuminating infographics, and incisive, specially curated essays that shed new light on the ever-evolving DC Multiverse. From the world''s finest Super Heroes such as Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, to iconic villains like the Joker, Lex Luthor, and Darkseid, to mythic realms like Apokolips and Themyscira, to cosmic energies like The Source and The Speed Force, The DC Book explores the key concepts, characters, and events that have defined and shaped DC Comics over the past 80 years.Divided into key subject areas, i
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Dorling Kindersley Ltd Captain America Ultimate Guide New Edition
Book SynopsisSuper Hero. Leader. Avenger. One of Marvel Comics most inspiring characters is all this and so much more. With a foreword by the equally legendary Stan Lee, Captain America: The Ultimate Guide: New Edition celebrates the 80th Anniversary of the iconic Captain America. Delve into the long and storied history of the First Avenger, from his service in World War II through to the earth-shattering events of the Infinity Wars and Empyre.Discover the origins of Captain America and how he joined the Avengers. Learn about his first encounters with his courageous allies, including Peggy Carter, Winter Soldier, and Falcon, and his epic clashes with villains such as Baron Zemo and Red Skull. Iconic, brave, and principled, Captain America has become one of Marvel Comics'' most beloved Super Heroes. Expertly written and lavishly illustrated, no Marvel or Captain America fan will want to miss this indispensable guide. 2021 MARVEL
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Penguin Books Ltd Eliots Book of Bookish Lists
Book SynopsisWho had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts?Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has ransacked the libraries and archives of world literature, compiling hundreds of bookish lists. This eclectic gallimaufry showcases his favourites: we witness the tragic ends of the Ancient Greek tragedians, learn the name of George Orwell''s pet cockerel and rummage through Joan Didion''s travelling bag; we consider the history of literary fart jokes, orbit the Shakespearean moons of Uranus and meet several pigs with wings. From the sublime to the ridiculous - and everything in between - Eliot''s lists, recommendations and nuggets of trivia will delight, inspire and surprise anyone who loves reading.Beautifully presented with supplementary maps and illustrations, Henry Eliot''s Book of Bookish Lists is the essential gift for book-lovers.Trade ReviewI loved this so much. Lists for bookish folk, filled with things I had not known or dreamed -- Neil GaimanTotally enthralling... The perfect bedside book -- Jilly CooperAn eccentric idea beautifully executed -- Louis de BernièresIf there was a list of books about lists, Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists would be top -- Philip PullmanAn absolute delight - Borges meets Buzzfeed -- Tom HollandA gorgeous confection . . . How do I love this book? Let me list the ways . . . -- Chris RiddellBrimful of piquant and scrumptious surprises -- John LloydHours of innocent snacking -- Iain SinclairVery entertaining and sprightly -- Ian McKellenThoroughly enjoyable... As amusing as it is informing -- Michael PortilloBuried deep in the etymology of the word 'list' is the notion of pleasure. Mr Eliot's marvellous vade mecum reminds us why -- John MitchinsonI loved Eliot's book for its wit, learning, eccentricity and unrepentant bookishness -- Alan TaylorA magnificent labyrinth of literary trivia to get lost in . . . fun and fascinating things on every page -- Edward Brooke-HitchingA trove of treasures from start to finish -- Dennis DuncanDeliciously idiosyncratic -- Rachel Cooke * Observer *Reading this book is like going on a literary Grand Tour . . . Essential for the pub quiz * Country Life *Eliot's books have been my equivalent of big game almanacs. This book is half a delight and half a gauntlet -- Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *The ultimate book for lovers of lists and literature . . . surprising, inspiring and amusing -- Denise O'Donoghue * Irish Examiner *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book Quiz
Book SynopsisLOOKING FOR A GIFT FOR THE BOOKWORM IN YOUR LIFE? THIS QUIZ BOOK IS IT!Which Haruki Murakami novel shares its title with a Beatles song? In Roald Dahl''s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is Charlie''s surname? What is heavy-drinking Rachel Watson known as in the title of a 21st-century bestseller? And what do you get if you add the number of Bennet sisters in Jane Austen''s Pride and Prejudice to the number of Karamazov brothers in Fyodor Dostoevsky''s The Brothers Karamazov?With four hundred questions covering books from literary classics to modern bestsellers, through iconic children''s books and books you say that you''ve read but really you haven''t, The Penguin Book Quiz is as appropriate for making you look well-read at a party as it is for a book-loving family to tuck into after Christmas dinner: it''s as enjoyable to read as it is to play.Featuring the work of everyone from Antony Beevor to Zadie Smith, books from The Very Hungry Caterpillar to Ulysses, and with movie, music, television, theatre and literary references abounding, this entertaining quiz tickles the fancy (and the brains) of light and heavy readers alike.Answers:- Norwegian Wood- Bucket- The Girl on the Train- Eight (five sisters, three brothers)''Unceasingly enormous fun'' Alan Connor, author of The Joy of Quiz''I''ll definitely be buying copies of this book as gifts'' Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth is Missing''The greatest social lubricant since the invention of alcohol'' John Preston, author of A Very English ScandalTrade ReviewTip: Start the day with a quiz. My long-suffering partner bought me James Walton's The Penguin Book Quiz for Christmas. It wakes you up, gives you a laugh and makes you feel like you're not wasting your time, because you're learning things -- Jacqueline Wilson * The Sunday Times *Detailed, entertaining and wonderfully informative, a must-have for quiz aficionados and bibliophiles alike * Kevin Ashman *It's so much fun. The perfect level for keen but not necessarily expert readers. Specific enough to make you reach back into your memory and occasionally kick yourself at not finding the answer, but not so specialised that you want to give up . . . I'll definitely be buying copies of this book as giftsFew quiz questions make you smile, laugh or gasp. James Walton's always do. The Penguin Book Quiz is unceasingly enormous funQuite possibly the greatest social lubricant since the invention of alcohol. An absolute delightAttractively presented in vintage Penguin livery, this is the ultimate literary quiz, packed full of questions on everyone from Dickens to Dahl. With such a broad range of genres and topics covered, The Penguin Book Quiz really is the perfect antidote to tired parlour games and awkward small talk this Christmas * Waterstones, Top 10 Gifts for Bookworms this Christmas *The perfect gift for the sort of person (like me) who shouts the answers at University ChallengeFiendish, funny and endlessly surprising, James Walton has provided the perfect volume for anyone who loves books, relishes a quiz or just fancies showing off at a dinner partyA must for those who think they know their literature . . . includes the unexpected, alongside the more serious * Independent on 'Sonnets, Bonnets & Bennetts' *How nice it would be if the family would sit around the Boxing Day fireside considering the questions in affable competition * Daily Telegraph on 'Sonnets, Bonnets & Bennetts' *
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Indiana University Press The Aesops Fable Paradigm
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Aesop's Fable Paradigm is interdisciplinarity at its best: a genuine dialogue between the sciences and the humanities that not only undermines the notion of an unbridgeable divide between "the two cultures" but also offers fascinating insights into the sociology of science. In addition to its important scholarly insights, we are given an insider's view on how scientific work actually gets done, which makes it an excellent teaching resource. As an added bonus, the book is a pleasure to read: it's both playful and witty, but also deadly serious, and it never pulls its punches."—Louise Barrett, University of Lethbridge"An impressively collaborative, interdisciplinary (and quite often funny!) set of essays that illustrate concretely not only how scientists anthropomorphize animals and draw on folkloric constructs in their research design and conclusions, but also how scientists need folklorists to help them sort it out. A must-read for anyone interested in the overlaps and little-understood connections between folklore and science."—Lisa Gabbert, author of Winter Carnival in a Western Town: Identity, Change, and the Good of the Community"Like the coyotes and badgers of native Western folklore that collaborate to ferret prey from their safe burrows, a scientist and a folklorist unite to ferret comparative psychology from its reliance on non-diagnostic experiments into a more enlightened era of self-reflection.The Aesop's Fable Paradigm provides an opportunity for engaging scholars with the challenges of designing a study of animal cognition that probes species-unique cognitive processes rather than continuing to debate how human-like nonhumans can be"—Jennifer Vonk, Oakland UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Perplexities of Water, by K. Brandon Barker and Daniel J. Povinelli1. The Animal Question as Folklore in Science, by K. Brandon Barker2. The Early Tradition of the Crow and the Pitcher, by William Hansen3. Going Meta: Retelling the Scientific Retelling of Aesop's the Crow and the Pitcher, by Laura Hennefield, Hyesung G. Hwang, and Daniel J. Povinelli4. Anthropomorphomania and the Rise of the Animal Mind: A Conversation, by K. Brandon Barker and Daniel J. Povinelli5. Fabling Gestures in Expository Science, by Gregory SchremppConclusion: Old Ideas and the Science of Animal Folklore, by K. Brandon Barker and Daniel J. PovinelliAppendix: Doctor Fomomindo's Preliminary Notes for a Future Index of Anthropomorphized Animal Behaviors, by Daniel J. Povinelli, K. Brandon Barker, Marisa Wieneke, and Kristina DownsIndex
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Creative Media Partners, LLC A Study Guide for Ayad Akhtars Disgraced
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for John Knowless Peace Breaks Out
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Claudia Rankines From Citizen
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Limits to Interpretation The Meanings of Anna
Book SynopsisVladimir E. Alexandrov advocates a broad revision of the academic study of literature, proposing an adaptive, text-specific approach designed to minimize the circularity of interpretation inherent in the act of reading. He illustrates this method with the example of Tolstoy's classic novel, Anna Karenina, via a detailed “map” of the different possible readings that the novel can support.Trade ReviewA major contribution to Tolstoy studies. ... Essential."" - Choice""I find this book particularly attractive because it is rooted in formalist and structuralist theory, skeptical about both the premises and the results of much (especially American) later criticism, and respectful of the text of Anna Karenina."" - Slavic Review""Alexandrov does not insist on the resolution of the novel's basic contradictions but leaves it to his reader what to make of Anna Karenina: a work whose tumult of meanings ultimately undoes it or makes it mysterious and rich, like life."" - Modern Philology
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Unlikely Futurist Pushkin and the Invention
Book SynopsisThrough systematic and detailed readings of Futurist texts, James Rann offers the first book-length study of the tensions between the outspoken literary group and Aleksandr Pushkin. Rann's analysis contributes to the understanding of both the Futurists and Pushkin's complex legacy.Trade ReviewElegantly written and convincingly argued. The Unlikely Futurist provides for the first time a comprehensive account of the complex relationship between Russian Futurism, on the one hand, and Pushkin and his myth, on the other." - Daria Khitrova, Harvard University"An extremely intelligent, well-polished study of Russian Futurism's treatment of Pushkin as both a historical burden to be thrown from the 'steamship of modernity' and a source of inspiration for the Futurist, avant-garde project of reinvigorating Russian and Soviet poetry. The Unlikely Futurist dazzles." - Tim Harte, Bryn Mawr College
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University of Wisconsin Press The Making of an Antifascist Nordahl Grieg
Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive and accessible book, Dean Krouk examines a significant public figure in Scandinavian literature and a critical period in modern European history through original readings of the political, ethical, and gender issues in Nordahl Grieg’s works.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Seas of Empire and Despair: 1902–1924 2 Anti-Imperialist Awakening: 1925–1927 3 Death in the Machine Age: 1928–1932 4 Polemical Confrontations: 1933–1935 5 Hope and Defeat: 1936–1937 6 Satire and Purge: 1937–1938 7 Becoming a Resistance Poet: 1939–1941 8 A Modern Wergeland: 1941–1943 Notes Bibliography Index
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc Booked A Travelers Guide to Literary Locations
Book SynopsisA must-have for every fan of literature, Booked inspires readers to follow in their favorite characters footsteps by visiting the real-life locations portrayed in beloved novels including the Monroeville, Alabama courthouse in To Kill a Mockingbird, Chatsworth House, the inspiration for Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice, and the Kyoto Bridge from Memoirs of a Geisha. The full-color photographs throughout reveal the settings readers have imagined again and again in their favorite books. Organized by regions all around the world, author Richard Kreitner explains the importance of each literary landmark including the connection to the author and novel, cultural significance, historical information, and little-known facts about the location. He also includes travel advice like addresses and must-see spots.Booked features special sections on cities that inspired countless literary works like a round of locations in Brooklyn from Be
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WW Norton & Co A Readers Book of Days
Book SynopsisAn addictively readable day-by-day literary companion and guide from a former bookseller and eight-time Jeopardy! Champion.Trade Review" It's a lovely book to curl up with, and suggests appropriate books for each month... " -- The Herald
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Houghton Mifflin Languages of Tolkiens Middleearth A Complete
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Now Read On A Course in Multicultural Reading
Book SynopsisThe first anthology to combine literatures from around the world on an equal footing. Designed as a course for non-native English speakers in how to read literature. Contains extracts, questions, exercises and commentary.Table of ContentsPart I Section 1. Poetry: Abdul Ghafar Ibrahim The Wall, Mutabaruka (Allan Hope) You Ask Me, William Carlos Williams This is Just to Say, Hilary Tham Offerings, Abdul Ghafar Ibrahim Hello, Arthur Gorges Her Face, Lord Byron So We'll Go No More A-Roving, Chinweizu Colonizer's Logic, J.R.D.A Dubreka Goodbye Europeans, Fadzillah Amin Dance. Section 2. Short Stories: Ambrose Pierce The Disinterested Arbiter, Ernest Hemingway In Our Times, Samuel Clemens A Fable, Fredric Brown The Weapon, Grace Paley Mother, Catherine Lim The Journey, Laurie Clancy Reading the Signs. Section 3. Plays: Edward Bond Bingo, Five Snippets, Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Ernest, Harold Pinter Silence, William Shakespeare Macbeth, Anton Chekhov The Bear. Section 4. Novels: D.H.Lawrence Sons and Lovers, Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls, George Orwell Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Shahnon Ahmad No Harvest but a Thorn, Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things, Lloyd Fernando Scorpion Orchid, Anita Desai A Village by the Sea. Part II Section 5. Poetry: Pitika Ntuli In My Country, Keorapetse Kgositsile Mandela's Sermon, Mabel Segun Bride Price, Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, John Keats La Belle Dame sans Merci, Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade, William Wordsworth Daffodils, John Agard Rainbow, Shirley Lim The Dulang-Washer, Maya Angelou Woman Work, The Joeys Men Are, Emily Dickinson A Narrow Fellow in the Grass, Muhammad Haji Salleh Three Beserah Fisherman, Thomas Hardy The Convergence of the Twain. Section 6. Short Stories: Three Points of Entry, W. Somerset Maugham The Force of Circumstance, Isaac Asimov True Love, Nick Joaquin May Day Eve, Katherine Mansfield The Garden Party, Janet Frame You Are Now Entering the Human Heart Section 7. Plays: William Shakespeare Macbeth, Harold Pinter A Night Out, Mahesh Dattani Dance Like a Man, Ramli Ibrahim In the Name of Love. Section 8. Novels: George Orwell Animal Farm, Jack Schaffer Shane, Harper Lee To Kill a Mocking Bird, James Vance Marshall Walkabout. Part III Section 9. Poetry: Kojo Gyinage Kyei Time, W.H.Auden Stop All the Clocks, Emily Dickinson Because I could not Stop for Death, Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility, Edwin Brock Song of the Battery Hen, James Berry Fantasy of an African Boy, Sudeep Sen New York Times, John Keats When I Have Fears, To Autumn. Section 10. Short Stories: Steven Schutzman The Bank Robbery, Simon Tay Drive, Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Like Birds, Like Fishes, Siew Yue Killingley Everything's Arranged, Pira Sudham Rains, Saki (H.H.Munro) The Open Window. Section 11. Plays: George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion, Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Ernest, William Shakespeare Hamlet, As You Like It, Julias Caesar Wole Soyinka The Swamp Dwellers, Athol Fugard Sizwe Bansi is Dead. Section 12. Novels: John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, K.S.Maniam The Return, R.K.Narayan The Man-Eater of Malgudi, Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Green Studies Reader From Romanticism to
Book SynopsisGreen Studies is a booming area for study and The Green Studies Reader is a fantastically comprehensive selection of critical texts which address the connection between ecology, culture, and literature. It offers a complete guide to the growing area of 'ecocriticism' and a wealth of material on green issues from the romantic period to the present. Included are extracts from today's leading ecocritics and figures from the past who pioneered a green approach to literature and culture. This Reader sets the agenda for Green Studies and encourages a reassessment of development of criticism and offers readers a radical view of its future.Trade Review'Laurence Coupe's Green Studies Reader provides an excellent overview of achievements to date in this emerging field . . . Coupe's anthology is a wide-ranging introduction to a thriving branch of literary study. The extracts are brief and well-chosen, and the wealth of introductory material is always informative. It should make a very good textbook, but it is also a stimulating collection for anyone interested in the fruitful intersection between environmentalism and literature.' - Annotated Bibliography for English Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Othello A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
Book SynopsisThis volume is a broad-ranging guide to Othello, providing an introduction to the contexts of the play, the range of critical responses to the play and the play in performance.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Contexts Contextual Overview Chronology Contemporary Documents: Giraldi Cinthio, Gli Hecatommithi (1566) Leo Africanus (John Leo) The History and Description of Africa, trans. John Pory (1600) Fynes Moryson An Itinery Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell (1617) Thomas Coryat Coryat's Crudities (1611) Christopher Marlowe The Jew of Malta (c. 1590) Robert Greene Selimus, Emporer of the Turks (1594) William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus (c.1594) 2. Interpretations Critical History Early Reception: Thomas Rymer, from A Short View of Tragedy (1693) Samuel Johnson, from The Plays of Shakespeare (1765) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from 'Notes on the Tragedies' (published 1836-9) from Table Talk (1835) Edward Dowden, from Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art (1875) A. C. Bradley, from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (1904) Twentieth-Century Criticism: G. Wilson Knight The Othello Music E. E. Stoll 'Iago' (1940) William Empson Honest in Othello (1951) F. R. Leavis, from Diabolic Intellect and the Noble Hero (1952) Marvin Rosenberg from The Masks of Othello (1961) G. K. Hunter, Othello and Colour Prejudice (1967) Terry Eagleton Nothing (1986) Karen Newman 'And wash the Ethiop white': femininity and the monstrous in Othello (1987) David McPherson Othello and the Myth of Venice (1990) Lisa Jardine 'Why should he call her a whore?': Defamation and Desdemona's case (1990) Andrew Hadfield The 'gross clasps of a lascivious Moor': The Domestic and Exotic Contexts of Othello (1998) The Work in Performance: Virginia Mason Vaughan Othello on the English Stage 1604-1754 Sir Richard Steele The Tatler, no. 167 (2 May 1710) William Hazlitt 'Mr Macready's Othello' (13 October 1816) Virginina Mason Vaughan 'Paul Robeson's Othello' (1930, 1943) Patricia Tatspaugh 'Orson Welles Othello' (1952) Stanley Wells 'Trevor Nunn's Othello' (1989) 3. Key Passages Introduction Key Passages: Act 1, scene 1, lines 81-80, Act 1, scene 3, lines 1-294, Act 2, scene 3, lines 255-357, Act 3, scene 3, lines 90-281, Act 3, scene 3, lines 333-482, Act 4, scene 1, lines 60-142, Act 4, scene 2, lines 30-92, Act 5, scene 2, lines 257-369 Further Reading Editions and Text Collections of Essays Background Reading Critical Interpretations Stage History Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) William Shakespeares Macbeth A Routledge Study
Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeareâs Macbeth is a timeless tale of love, greed and power, which has given rise to heated debates around such issues as the representation of gender roles, political violence and the dramatisation of evil.Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeareâs play presents: extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and performance of the text, from publication to present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Macbeth and seeking not only a guide to the play, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Shakespeareâs text.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Contexts, Introduction, Chronology, Source Part 2: Interpretations, Critical History, Early Critical Reception Part 3: Key Passages Part 4: Further Reading Recommended Editions of Macbeth. Contexts. The Play in Performance. Film Versions. Criticism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Herman Melvilles MobyDick A Routledge Study Guide
Book SynopsisNo book is more central to the study of nineteenth-century American literature than Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or The Whale. First published it 1851, it still speaks powerfully to readers today. Combining reprinted documents with clear introductions for student readers, this volume examines the contexts of and critical responses to Melville's work. It draws together:*an introduction to the contexts in which Melville was writing and relevant contextual documents, including letters*chronology of key facts and dates*critical history and extracts from early reviews and modern criticism*fully annotated key passages from the novel*a list of biblical allusions*an annotated guide to further reading. Extensive cross-references link contextual information, critical materials and passages from the novel providing a wide-ranging view of the work and ensuring a successful and enjoyable encounter with the world of Moby-Dick.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Bleak House A Routledge Study Guide and
Book SynopsisWith its sustained social criticism and complex construction, Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) is considered by many critics to be Dickens's most remarkable novel. Janice Allan: introduces the contextual issues that most directly influenced Dickens's writing and reprints relevant source documents provides a comprehensive survey of the criticism of Bleak House from publication to the present, then introduces, reprints and annotates extracts from significant critical texts discusses key passages of the text, which are reprinted and fully annotated for ease of use includes cross-references throughout, making illuminating connections between the text, contexts and interpretations of the novel concludes the volume with suggestions to further reading, enabling additional focused study Both accessible and informative, Janice Allan provides an invaluable guide to one of the nineteenth century's most important and frequently studied novels.Trade Review'This rich and well-organized collections will be a great help to any reader confronting the complexities of Dickens's novel for the first time.' - Dickens Quarterly
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice
Book SynopsisRobert Morrison sets Pride and Prejudice within the social contexts of female conduct books and political tales of terror and traces criticism of the novel from the nineteenth century to the present, including material on the 1995 film adaptation. Extensive introductory comment and annotation complement extracts from critical and contextual texts. The book concludes with fourteen widely studied passages from Pride and Prejudice, reprinted with editorial comment.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Victorian Age An Anthology of Sources and Documents
Book SynopsisThe Victorian Age introduces students of nineteenth-century literary and cultural history to the main areas of intellectual debate in the Victorian period. Bringing together for the first time in one volume a wide range of primary source material, this anthology gives readers a unique insight into the ways in which different areas of Victorian intellectual debate were interconnected.The Victorian Age covers developments in social and political theory, economics, science and religion, aesthetics, and sexuality and gender, and provides access to a range of documents which have hitherto been highly inaccessible - both difficult to locate and difficult to interpret and understand. This authoritative anthology contains:* a general introduction which explains the various ways in which the relationships between literary and intellectual culture can be theorised* essays describing the background to the areas of debate illustrated by the selected source documents* bibliographical notes on all the documents included* brief accounts of the reputation and career of the documents' authors.This volume will enable humanities students, as well as the general reader, to understand complex areas of debates in an unusually wide range of disciplines, several of which will be unfamiliar.
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Taylor & Francis Charles Dickenss David Copperfield
Book SynopsisThis guidebook offers the ideal introduction to one of the most enduringly popular works of the nineteenth century. Richard J. Dunn first places David Copperfield in its social, biographical and literary contexts, touching upon such fascinating issues as autobiography and Victorian social conditions, before offering a handy chronology and reprinted documents from the period. In a second section, ''Interpretations'', he traces responses to the novel from the first reviews to modern criticism and reprints extracts from key critical works. The overview and extracts together offer insight into a remarkable range of issues, from the novel''s humour to its reflections of class and gender structures. The section also considers the long history of stage and screen interpretations of Dickens''s highly dramatic text. The third major section pulls together text and context by reprinting key passages of the novel, carefully cross-referenced to materials in the previous sections. The links
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Taylor & Francis John Miltons Paradise Lost
Book SynopsisJohn Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate to conscience and consciousness.Designed for students new to Milton's complex, lengthy work, this sourcebook:* outlines the often unfamiliar contexts of seventeenth-century England which are so crucial to Paradise Lost* completes the contextual study with a chronology and reprinted documents from the period* examines and reprints a broad range of responses to the poem, from early reactions to recent criticism* reprints the most frequently studied passages of the poem, along with extensive commentary and annotation of unfamiliar or significant terms used in Milton's work* provides cross-references between the textual, contextual and critical sections of the sourcebook, to show how all the materials can be called upon in an individual reader's encounter with the text* suggests further reading for those facing the huge array of critical work on the poem.With an emphasis on enjoying as well as understanding what can be a somewhat daunting work, this sourcebook will be a welcome resource for anyone new to Paradise Lost.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) William Shakespeares Twelfth Night A Routledge
Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c.1600) is one of his most captivating plays. A comedy of mistaken identities, it has given rise to thought-provoking debates around such issues as gender identity and role-playing, manipulation and deception.Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare's spirited play offers: extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and performance of the text, from publication to the present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Twelfth Night and seeking not only a guide to the play, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Shakespeare's text.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Contexts 2. Interpretations 3. Key Passages 4. Further Reading Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Ecocriticism
Book SynopsisEcocriticism: The Essential Reader charts the growth of this important field. The first-wave ecocriticism section focuses on key readings from the 1960s to the 1990s. The second-wave ecocriticism section goes on to consider a range of exciting contemporary trends, including environmental justice, aesthetics and philosophy, and globalization.Readings include the work of: Raymond Williams Jonathan Bate Timothy Morton Ursula Heise Lawrence Buell Kate Soper Cary Wolfe and Kate Rigby. Containing seminal, representative, and contemporary work in the field, this volume and the editorial commentary is designed for use on both undergraduate and postgraduate ecocritical literature courses.Table of ContentsPart 1: First-Wave Ecocriticism 1. Shakespeare’s American Fable, Leo Marx 2. Nature As Female, Carolyn Merchant 3. Country and City, Raymond Williams 4. The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis, Lynn White Jr. 5. The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects, Arne Naess 6. Introduction: Ecology and Man—A Viewpoint, Paul Shepard 7. The Etiquette of Freedom, Gary Snyder 8. The Economy of Nature, Jonathan Bate 9. Representing the Environment, Lawrence Buell 10. The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature, William Cronon 11. Introduction: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis, Cheryll Glotfelty Part 2: Second-Wave Ecocriticism 12. The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics & Pedagogy, Joni Adamson, Mei Mei E.vans, and Rachel Stein 13. Introduction: Emerging Models of Materiality in Feminist Theory, Stacy Alaimo 14. Race, Class, and the Politics of Place, Robert D. Bullard 15. Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands 16. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ecocriticism, Ursula K. Heise 17. Introduction, Graham Huggan 18. Environmentalism and Postcolonialism, Rob Nixon 19. Natural Universal and the Global Scale, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 20. Conclusion: What Is to Be Done? Political Ecology!, Bruno Latour 21. Imagining Ecology Without Nature, Timothy Morton 22. The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture and Literature in America, Dana Phillips 23. What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the non-Human, Kate Soper 24. Ecopolitics/ Ecocriticism, Gabriel Egan 25. Reading The Otherworld Environmentally, Alfred Siewers 26. Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor, Beth Tobin 27. Ecology, Epistemology, and Empiricism, Robert N. Watson 28. The Climate of History: Four Theses, Dipesh Chakrabarty 29. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Ursula LeGuin 30. Writing After Nature, Kate Rigby
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Taylor & Francis British Romanticism Criticism and Debates
Book SynopsisIncluding classic essays and lively debates, British Romanticism shows that Romantic literature is an interesting and exciting topic to read and study. Combining key pieces from the last 25 years alongside newly written essays offering fresh takes on the area, this book covers the essential topics but with a contemporary and dynamic twist. Each section includes a detailed introduction and covers issues which are as relevant to current readers as to those in the romantic period, such as media, science, religion, politics, ethics, gender, sexuality, race, nationalism and ethics. The book contains additional features such as suggestions for further reading and an introduction to the history of interpreting Romantic Literature. Designed to appeal to both undergraduate and postgraduate readers, this distinctive volume reflects the vibrant debates across Romantic Studies from the 1990s to the present.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 Politics, Ideology, and the Literary 1. Insight and Oversight: Reading Tintern Abbey, Marjorie Levinson 2. Keats and Critique, Paul Hamilton 3. Βyron’s Causes: The Moral Mechanics of Don Juan, James Chandler 4. Stealing Culture in the Shadow of Revolutions, Daniel O’Quinn Part 2 Aesthetics and Literary Form 5. Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail, Alan Liu 6. Historicism, Deconstruction, and Wordsworth, Frances Ferguson 7. Legislators of the Post-Everything Word: Shelley’s Defence of Adorno, Robert Kaufman 8. Utility, Retribution, and Godwin’s Caleb Williams, Mark Canuel Part 3 Audiences and Reading Publics 9. The Sense of an Audience, Lucy Newlyn 10. Theater as the School of Virtue, Ann K. Mellor 11. Study to be Quiet, Kevin Gilmartin 12. Audience, Irony, and Shelley, Andrew Franta Part 4 Authorship and Authority 13. From ‘National Tale’ to ‘Historical Novel’: Edgeworth, Morgan, and Scott, Ina Ferris 14. Keats’s Prescience, Andrew Bennett 15. DeQuincey’s Imperial Systems, Anne Frey 16. Milton Unbound, Margaret Russett Part 5 Gender, Sexuality, and the Body 17. Gendering the Soul, Susan Wolfson 18. The Domestication of Genius: Cowper and the Rise of the Suburban Man, Andrew Elfenbein 19. Sensibility, Free Indirect Style, and the Romantic Technology of Discretion, Clara Tuite 20. Writing/Righting Gender, Jacqueline M. Labbe Part 6 Racism, Nationalism, Imperialism 21. Was Frankenstein’s Monster ‘a Man and a Brother’?, H.L. Malchow 22. Blake and Romantic Imperialism, Saree Makdisi 23. "Voices of Dead Complaint" Colonial Military Disease Narratives, Alan Bewell 24. Anna Barbauld and the Ethics of Free Trade Imperialism, E.J. Clery Part 7 Affects 25. Phantom Feelings, Emotional Occupation in The Mysteries of Udolpho, Adela Pinch 26. Female Authorship, Public Fancy, Julie Ellison 27. The Art of Knowing Nothing, Jacques Khalip 28. The Force off Indirection: ‘Tintern Abbey’ in the Literary History of Mood, David Collings Part 8 Religion and Secularization 29. The Unknown God, Robert Ryan 30. Wordsworth’s Chastened Enthusiasm, Jon Mee 31. Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and the Legacies of Dissent, Daniel E. White 32. The Entangled Spirituality of ‘The Thorn’, Colin Jager Part 9 Modernity and Postmodernity 33. The Romantic Movement at the End of History, Jerome Christensen 34. Everyday War, Mary Favret 35. Modernity’s Other Worlds, Ian Duncan 36. The Two Pipers: Romanticism, Postmodernism, and the Cliché, Orrin N. C. Wang Part 10 Sciences of Mind, Body, and Nature 37. Coleridge and the New Unconscious, Alan Richardson 38. John Clare’s Dark Ecology, Timothy Morton 39. The Monster in the Rainbow: Keats and the Science of Life, Denise Gigante 40. Romantic Transformation: Literature and Science, Sharon Ruston Part 11 Literature, Media, Mediation 41. Ballads and Bards: British Romantic Orality, Maureen McLane 42. Processing, Andrew Piper 43. If This is Enlightenment Then What is Romanticism?, Clifford Siskin and William Warner 44. Romantic Long Poems in Victorian Anthologies, Tom Mole
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Queer Studies Reader
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field.The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The collection is edited by leading scholars in the field and presents: individual introductory notes that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary and theoretical contexts essays grouped by key subject areas including Genealogies, Sex, Temporalities, Kinship, Affect, Bodies, and Borders writings by major figures including Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, David M. Halperin, Josà Esteban MuÃoz, Elizabeth Grosz, David Eng, Judith Halberstam and Sara Ahmed. The Routledge Queer Studies Reader is a field-defining volume and presents an illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to Queer Studies.Trade Review'It is hard to imagine a volume that could represent the field more knowingly!' Robyn Wiegman, Duke University, USA'This fresh, innovative, and significant volume demonstrates convincingly the queer moment is by no means over.' Laura Doan, University of Manchester, UK'Get prepared to enter a scene of provocation, a sexy sort of maelstrom, where trans meets butch meets brown meets "quare" meets intersex, racial, post-colonial, and disabled matters in juxtaposition, in telling combinations. Even subtleties and biting formulations appear side by side, in a queer cubism, leading both students and scholars to thoughts that will startle and seduce them.' Kathryn Bond Stockton, University of Utah, USA"The Queer Studies Reader will serve as an official and unofficial textbook for those interested in overthrowing the patriarchal gender binary and interrupting heteronormativity." — Rachel Wexelbaum, Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources, Vol 34 No 3-4 2013Table of ContentsPart 1: Genealogies 1. Queer And Now Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 2. Critically Queer Judith Butler 3. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and The Transubstantiation Of Sex Jay Prosser 4. The Queer Intervention Steven Angelides 5. Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? Cathy J. Cohen 6. ‘Quare’ Studies, Or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother E. Patrick Johnson 7. Introduction: Queer of Color Critique, Historical Materialism, And Canonical Sociology Roderick A. Ferguson 8. The Material of Sex (Excerpts) Rosemary Hennessy 9. Lacan Meets Queer Theory Tim Dean Part 2: Sex 10. Sex in Public Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner 11. Viral Sex and The Politics Of Life Gregory Tomso 12. Experimental Desire: Rethinking Queer Subjectivity Elizabeth Grosz 13. Dinge Robert Reid-Pharr Part 3: Temporalities 14. Do you want queer theory or do you want the truth? Intersections of punk and queer in the 1970s Tavia Nyong’o 15. Turn the Beat Around: Sadomasochism, Temporality, History Elizabeth Freeman 16. How to Do the History of Male Homosexuality David M. Halperin 17. The Future Is Kid Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification and the Death Drive Lee Edelman Part 4: Kinship 18. Transnational Adoption and Queer Diasporas David Eng 19. Making Queer Familia Richard T. Rodríguez 20. Romancing Kinship: A Queer Reading of Indian Education and Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories Mark Rifkin 21. Notes on Gridlock: Genealogy, Intimacy, Sexuality Elizabeth A. Povinelli Part 5: Affect 22. AIDS Activism And Public Feelings Ann Cvetkovich 23. Archiving Queer Feelings in Hong Kong Helen Hok-Sze Leung 24. Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Latina Affect, the Performativity of Race, And the Depressive Position José Esteban Muñoz 25. Queer Feelings Sara Ahmed Part 6: Bodies 26. What can queer theory do for intersex? Iain Morland 27. Transgender Butch: Butch/ FTM Border Wars And The Masculine Continuum Judith Halberstam 28. Compulsory Able-Bodiedness And Queer/Disabled Existence Robert McRuer 29. Hypothalamic Preference: Levay’s Study Of Sexual Orientation Elizabeth A. Wilson Part 7: Borders 30. Queer Times, Queer Assemblages Jasbir Puar 31. Queer Intersections: Sexuality and Gender In Migration Studies Martin F. Manalansan IV 32. Border/line Sex: Queer Postcolonialities or How Race Matters Outside the U.S. Anjali Arondekar 33. Transgender without Organs? Mobilizing a Geo-affective Theory of Gender Modification Lucas Cassidy Crawford
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Taylor & Francis The Medusa Reader
Book SynopsisRanging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics, and anyone interested in mythology.Trade Review"A valuable addition to all mythology and folklore collections and even art collections." -- Library Journal"Marjorie Garber and Nancy J. Vickers have assembled an anthology of seventy-three references to Medsa in literature, philosophy, advertising, and eclectic...the choice of images and artifacts is creative, provocative, and playful." --Woman's Art JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 HOMER 2 HESIOD 3 PINDAR 4 EURIPIDES 5 PALAEPHATUS 6 APOLLODORUS 7 DIODORUS SICULUS 8 OVID 9 LUCAN 10 LUCIAN 11 PAUSANIAS 12 ACHILLES TATIUS 13 FULGENTIUS 14 JOHN MALALAS 15 DANTE ALIGHIERI 16 PETRARCH 17 COLUCCIO SALUTATI 18 CHRISTINE DE PIZAN 19 LEONE EBREO 20 GIORGIO VASARI 21 NATALE CONTI 22 VINCENZO CARTARI 23 JOHN HARINGTON 24 FRANCIS BACON 25 WILLIAM DRUMMOND 26 JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE 27 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 28 KARL MARX 29 DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 30 FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 31 DAVID STARR JORDAN 32 LOUISE BOGAN 33 SIGMUND FREUD 34 SÁNDOR FERENCZI 35 COUNTEE CULLEN 36 WALTER BENJAMIN 37 PHILIP WYLIE 38 JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 39 JAMES MERRILL 40 ERICH NEUMANN 41 SYLVIA PLATH 42 ROGER CAILLOIS 43 DARYL HINE 44 MAY SARTON 45 JOHN FRECCERO 46 JO SPRINGER 47 HAZEL BARNES 48 JACQUES DERRIDA 49 ROLAND BARTHES 50 HÉLÈNE CIXOUS 51 COLLEEN J. MCELROY 52 LOUIS MARIN 53 ANN STANFORD 54 STEPHEN HEATH 55 SARAH KOFMAN 56 GANANATH OBEYESEKERE 57 NEIL HERTZ 58 TOBIN SIEBERS 59 TERESA DE LAURETIS 60 PATRICIA KLINDIENST JOPLIN 61 CRAIG OWENS 62 JEAN-PIERRE VERNANT 63 NANCY J. VICKERS 64 EMILY ERWIN CULPEPPER 65 AMY CLAMPITT 66 MARJORIE GARBER 67 RITA DOVE 68 BARBARA FRISCHMUTH 69 SANDER GILMAN 70 FRANÇOISE FRONTISI-DUCROUX 71 DIANA FUSS AND JOEL SANDERS 72 LIZBETH GOODMAN 73 GIANNI VERSACE
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Middle English Dictionary
Book SynopsisThe most important modern reference work for Middle English studies.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press An Emotional State The Politics of Emotion in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs a literary-historical study of postwar Germany, this book makes a substantial contribution to German Studies, offering a much-needed critique of ‘melancholic scholarship’ in favour of work that wrestles with the often complex emotionality of the postwar era."" - German History""An Emotional State thus innovatively presents highly productive building blocks toward a complexified historical study of emotion"" - The Germanic Review""Offers a truly original, even pathbreaking, contribution to the study of postwar West German culture, while making a very important intervention in the theoretical debate on the study of emotions. Its potential audience includes not only historians and literary critics but the rapidly growing, strongly interdisciplinary community of ‘emotion scholars"" - Frank Biess, University of California, San Diego.
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The University of Michigan Press The Sound of Listening Poetry as Refuge and
Book SynopsisGathering a decade of writing on poetry, Philip Metres widens our sense of poetry as a way of being in the world, proposing that poems can offer a permeability to marginalized voices and a shelter from the imperial noise and despair that can silence us.Trade ReviewPhilip Metres's poetry speaks to us all, in ways critical, vital, profound, and brilliant."" - Lawrence Joseph""Milosz talks about books that can save nations. Sand Opera is just such a book."" - Sean Thomas Dougherty
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The University of Michigan Press Collecting Lives
Book SynopsisHow a group of modernist writers used their training as empiricists to create a data-driven aestheticTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction “More nearly a transcript of life”: Collecting Lives and Narrating Selves in Early 20th Century U.S. Literatures Chapter One “Such a body of information”: W. E. B. Du Bois, Data, and the Re-assemblage of Race and Self Chapter Two The Educations of Henry Adams and the Anxieties of Assemblage Selfhood Chapter Three To Tell a Story Wholly: Gertrude Stein, “Melanctha,” and Self as Data Collection Chapter Four To Reproduce a Record: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the Labor of Data Collection Coda Data-Driven Modernism Against Algorithmic Identity Works Cited
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The University of Michigan Press Condition Red
Book SynopsisCollects writing by one of America's most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist.Trade Review[Komunyakaa] has not only displayed a profound understanding of the human condition, but also a craftsman's ability to durably articulate it . . . a major poet of our generation."" - Laurence Goldstein, in Callaloo
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