Literary studies: general Books
Cornell University Press Moral Apostasy in Russian Literature
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£24.69
Cornell University Press Form and Society in Modern Literature
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£23.39
Cornell University Press Remizovs Fictions 19001921
Book SynopsisStartlingly original artist and writer, Aleksei Remizov began to make his mark on Russian literature at the turn of the century. Inextricably tied to the rich culture of the Russian Silver Age, Remizov shunned association with any single school, yet his work reflects the many trends and transitions that characterized this exceptionally creative and turbulent time in Russia's cultural history. Slobin's study is the first in English to address Remizov's fiction in its cultural and historical context. A chronological reading of Remizov's early work reflects the novel's transition in Russia from the realist to the modern tradition. Slobin's focus on Remizov's development as a writer also illuminates his experimental explorations of the interaction between Russia's literary and nonliterary heritage, including medieval texts, folklore, and popular culture. In addition to providing extensive analysis of Remizov's longer fiction, considered in stages representative of his artistic and phil
£23.39
Cornell University Press Vessels of Meaning
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£26.35
Cornell University Press A Nation Astray
Book SynopsisThe metaphor of the nomad may at first seem surprising for Russia given its history of serfdom, travel restrictions, and strict social hierarchy. This book traces the image of the nomad and its relationship to Russian national identity through the debates and discussion of works by writers like Karamzin, Pushkin, Goncharov, and Dostoevsky.Trade ReviewThis monograph makes an important contribution to scholarship on classical Russian literature and thought. * Slavonic and East European Review *A Nation Astray shows that normative ideas of civilization, originating in Western Europe, put Russia in a difficult situation, from which the road and the nomad offered one, sometimes elusive, escape. * The Russian Review *
£38.25
Cornell University Press Siberia on Fire Stories and Essays
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£18.89
Taylor & Francis Ltd Children and Disasters Series in Trauma and Loss
Book SynopsisWhen disaster strikes, survivors suddenly find themselves in a world that has become confusing and unfamiliar. Such traumatic events impose severe psychological strain on every member of a community, but children are a particularly vulnerable group requiring special attention. Children and Disasters addresses the needs of this specific population by examining the impact of major disasters on the mental health and emotional functioning of children.The programs described in this book are designed to provide early intervention to children and families undergoing stress reactions to a catastrophic event. The authors offer interventions aimed at enhancing the skills of mental health professionals, educators, and peer counselors in responding to the intensified demands of disasters. These intervention approaches provide information regarding the event itself, reinforce the legitimacy of the anxieties and fears that children and their families are experiencing, and encourage the expreTable of ContentsPreface. Perspectives on Disaster. Helping Communities-in-Crisis. Caregiving after a Disaster. Program Design and Training Issues. Children's Reactions to Disaster. Helping Children and Families in Disasters: A Crisis Intervention Approach. The Competent Community. References. Index.
£123.50
Temple University Press,U.S. Black Women Writing Autobiography
Book SynopsisArgues for a redefinition of the genre of black American autobiography to include the images of women as well as their memoirs, reminiscences, diaries, and journals - as a corrective to both black and feminist literary criticism.Trade Review"In this illuminating study Joanne Braxton shows the continuity and tradition in the writing of Afra-American women. An important work for teachers and students of Literature, History, and Women's Studies."—Gerda Lerner"Braxton's book is scrupulously researched. She has been creative in finding resources and courageous in analyzing and interpreting her finds. This is the word of a diligent mind. The material is mountainous, yet the book sings. Braxton is a poet. Thank goodness."—Maya Angelou"Joanne Braxton's essays on black women's autobiographies delineate and illuminate the personal and historical dimension of an important literary tradition. Emphasizing the distinct character of Afra-American women's experience and relations with each other, she ground their writing of their lives in the struggles and triumphs of the lives they actually led."—Elizabeth Fox-GenoveseTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Tradition Within a Tradition Part I: Making a Way Out of No Way 1. Outraged Mother and Articulate Heroine: Linda Brent and the Slave Narrative Genre 2. Fugitive Slaves and Sanctified Ladies: Narratives of Vision and Power Part II: Emerging from Obscurity 3. A Poet's Retreat: The Diaries of Charlotte Forten Grimke 4. Crusader for Justice: Ida B. Wells Part III: Claiming the Afra-American Self 5. Motherless Daughters and the Quest for a Place: Zora Neale Hurston and Era Bell Thompson 6. A Song of Transcendence: Maya Angelou A Circle Closing and Expanding References Index
£23.39
University of Iowa Press A Poetry Criticism Reader
Book SynopsisBrings together eleven essays and reviews that constitute some of the poetry criticism. This book gives an overview of poetry criticism and its pluralistic traditions after the high modernist years of T S Eliot. It offers students - the next generation of poets and critics - and their teachers exemplary models of critical writing and thought.
£19.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Susan Sontag
Book SynopsisA collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Giving attention to Sontag's education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontag's rich career as a distinguished writer, filmmaker, dramatist, and cultural critic.
£22.46
Hebrew Union College Press Early Synagogue Poets Balkans
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£33.95
David R. Godine Publisher Inc Fiedler on the Roof Essays on Literature and
Book SynopsisTwelve iconoclastic and eye-opening essays on life and culture.
£11.12
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Controversial Sholem Asch An Introduction to
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£15.26
University of Wisconsin Press Heroes and Humanities Detective Fiction and Crime
£9.98
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Cooking by the Book
£16.10
Prometheus Make Em Laugh
Book SynopsisDiscusses about the art of comedy. This book includes examples of the author's unique humour. It laces his formal instruction with written jokes, TV comedy sketches, satires, song parodies, humorous essays, amusing autobiographical reminiscences, one-act plays, witty speeches, and stand-up monologues from his comedy concerts.Trade Review"... a chuckle-a-minute sequel to How to be Funny." -- San Francisco Examiner
£22.00
HarperCollins Selected Poems
£12.80
East European Monographs Balkan Cultural Legacies Historical Literary and
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£42.00
State University Press of New York (SUNY) The Literary Absolute The Theory of Literature in
Book SynopsisThe first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism.The Literary Absolute is the first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism. The authors trace this concept from the philosophical crisis bequeathed by Kant to his successors, to its development by the central figures of the Athenaeum group: the Schlegel brothers, Schelling, and Novalis.This study situates the Jena romantics'' fragmentary model of literature-a model of literature as the production of its own theory-in relation to the development of a post-Kantian conception of philosophy as the total and reflective auto-production of the thinking subject. Analyzing key texts of the period, the authors articulate the characteristics of romantic thought and at the same time show historical and systematic connections with modern literary theory. Thus, The Literary Absolute renews contemporary scholarship, showing the romantic origins of some of the leading issues in current critical theory.
£22.30
MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press When the Other is Me Native Resistance Discourse
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£23.96
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada Ivan Illich in Conversation
Book SynopsisFor more than fifteen years, iconoclastic thinker Ivan Illich refused to be interviewed. Finally, in 1988, CBC''s David Cayley persuaded Illich to record a conversation. This first interview led to additional sessoins that continued until 1992 and are now gathered in Ivan Illich in Conversation.In these fascinating conversations, which range over a wide selection of the celebrated thinker''s published work and public career, Illich''s brilliant mind alights on topics of great contemporary interest, including education, history, language, politics, and the church.
£14.39
House of Anansi Press Educated Imagination
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£11.69
PONTIFICAL INST OF MEDIEVAL ST Henry Constable The Complete Poems
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£86.40
Mosaic Press Investigating Sherlock Holmes
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£15.99
Undena Publications,U.S. Rhetoric and Poetic in Thomas Mores utopia Humana
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£10.87
LUP - University of Michigan Press Thai and Indic Literary Studies
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£39.52
The University of Michigan Press A Glossary of Words and Phrases in the Oral
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£56.95
Slavica Publishers The Russian Context The Culture Behind the
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£46.31
Wildside Press Pocketbook Writer Confessions of a Commercial Hack
£15.73
The Borgo Press Opening Minds Essays on Fantastic Literature IOEvans Studies in the Philosophy Criticism of Literature
£11.87
Academy Chicago Publishers The Children of Dickens
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£12.56
New Rivers Press Traffic New and Selected Prose Poems Marie
Book SynopsisAn amsusing, energetic, and engaging book of prose poetry.
£10.44
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Libro de Buen Amor Studies
Book SynopsisJuan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor is one of the major literary accomplishments of the Iberian middle ages, and has generated an extensive secondary bibliography. Its uniqueness and diversity have thrilled and perplexed readers, and its influence continues to be reflected in modern letters.
£63.00
Kahn & Averill Russian Literature An Introduction
Book SynopsisThis work encompasses Russian poetry, prose and theatre.
£22.81
Maney Publishing Cousins at One Remove AngloGerman Studies
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays is a sequel to Anglo-German Studies published in 1992 by the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. The emphasis of this volume is on the English reception of German literature.Table of ContentsSchiller, Kleist and Wagner - a great British tradition?, Fred Bridgham; a romantic in Ratzeburg - Coleridge's debt to North German "Provinz", Ingo Cornils; William Poel's "Wallenstein" - moment, Joyce Crick; "Our wretched German cousins" - A.R. Orage and Germany, Diane Milburn; Mephisto in modern English guise, Richard F.M. Byrn; Shakespeare into Celan - sonnets 1, 105 and 107, Raymond Hargreaves; rewriting, recycling - Friedrich D'rrenmatt and "The Tragedy of King John", Sydney G. Donald; Josephine Butler's campaign against the double moral standard and its repircussions in Germany, Ingrid Sharp; three letters to Jethro Bithell from the correspondence held in the Brotherton Library Bithell Collection - from Alfred Mombert (6/9/1909) edited by Susan Bollinger, from Franz Werfel (4/4/1940) edited by John Hogg, from Hans Carossa (9/5/1949) edited by Claire Harder.
£37.02
Lincoln Record Society The Printed Maps of Lincolnshire 15761900 A
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£31.50
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton
Book SynopsisBishop Sutton's ordination-lists, in common with the rest of his register, were kept on rolls for the first ten years of his episcopate. None of these rolls has survived, and the records therefore begin with the Whitsun ordinations of the eleventh year of Sutton's episcopate (which ran from May 19, 1290, to May 18, 1291) and continue until his death on November 13, 1299.
£28.50
National University of Ireland Douglas Hyde
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£23.75
Thimble Press Signs of Childness in Childrens Books
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£9.95
Thimble Press Book Talk Occasional Writing on Literature and
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£9.30
Five Leaves Publications This is No Book A Gay Reader
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£6.95
Poetry Wales Press The Presence of the Past Essays on Modern British
Book SynopsisThis new collection of essays explores such urgent concerns in late twentieth century poetry as national and personal identity, and the relationship of history and the present. Jeremy Hooker takes a variety of poets and poems and sets them against each other to produce illuminating insights into the condition of modern poetry as a whole. Hooker also adds his thoughts on the present practice of literary criticism and the philosophies which form it. Drawing on poets from the English, American and Anglo-Welsh traditions, Hooker''s subjects include Eliot, Bunting, Hill, Oppen, Wainwright, John Matthias, Roland Mathias, Gillian Clarke, John Ormond, and John Tripp. Almost all of the essays have been written since the publication of Hooker''s last book of general criticism, the much admired Poetry of Place (1982).Jeremy Hooker was born in Hampshire in 1941. He was a lecturer at University College, Aberystwyth, for nineteen years, and is the author of several volumes of poetry, included a selected, A View from the Source. He has recently begun teaching at the University of Glamorgan.
£11.66
Bluewood Books,U.S. 100 Authors Who Shaped World History
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£7.50
Sourcebooks Explore 100 Books That Shaped World History 100 Series
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£7.95
McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S. Antiphonal Swing Selected Prose 19621987
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£18.05
McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S. Sheer Fiction: v. 1
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£9.00
Harvard University Press The Life of Paisij Velyckovskyj
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the first English translation of Paisij Velyckovs'kyj's unfinished autobiography, as well as a biography of the elder by his disciple Mytrofan. Tachiaos's introduction discusses both works against their historical and generic background.
£14.36
Coffee House Press Surfaces and Masks
Book SynopsisA book-length poem by an African-American author that uses the city of Venice as its backdrop, considering issues of racial and national identity. By the author of My Amputations.
£8.25
