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Literary Theory: The Basics
The Basics
2013 || Paperback || Hans Bertens || Taylor & Francis
This third edition of Hans Bertens bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism and new historicism Literary Theory: The Basics covers contemporary topics including:reception theory and reader response theorythe new criticism of postmodernismthe after theory debatepost-humanism, biopolitics and animal studiesaestheticsLiterary Theory: The Basics hel...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The international Classic and Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller
2020 || Paperback || Maya Angelou || Little, Brown Book Group
The international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA). 'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again' Maya Angelou In this first volume of her seven books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evoke...
Trask's Historical Linguistics / 4th edition
2023 || Paperback || Robert McColl Millar e.a. || Taylor & Francis
An approachable and engaging introduction to Historical Linguistics with up-to-date pedagogy including exercises, further reading and online support material.
Historical Linguistics is a core part of most linguistics programmes. With the more experienced linguistics student in mind, this book covers many subjects in considerable depth while not sacrificing an appreciation of the whole.
Includes examples and datasets from a wide variety of languages and language families, whereas most historic...
On Dialogue
2004 || Paperback || David Bohm e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Never before has there been a greater need for deeper listening and more open communication to cope with the complex problems facing our organizations, businesses and societies. Renowned scientist David Bohm believed there was a better way for humanity to discover meaning and to achieve harmony. He identified creative dialogue, a sharing of assumptions and understanding, as a means by which the individual, and society as a whole, can learn more about themselves and others, and achieve a renew...
Evicted / 1st edition
Poverty and Profit in the American City
2017 || Paperback || Matthew Desmond || Penguin Books
'Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable ... If you want a good understanding of how the issues that cause poverty are intertwined, you should read this book' Bill Gates, Best Books of 2017. Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her kids in Milwaukee's coldest winter for years. Doreen's home is so filthy her family call it 'the rat hole'.
Lamar, a wheelchair-bound ex-soldier, tries to work his way out of debt for his boys. Scott, a nurse turned a...
Deutsche Literaturgeschichte / 9th edition
Von den Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart
2019 || Hardcover || Wolfgang Beutin e.a. || Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Von den mittelalterlichen Sangern und Epikern uber Martin Opitz, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller und Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, uber Heinrich Heine, Georg Buchner und Bertolt Brecht bis Gunter Grass, Martin Walser, Uwe Tellkamp, Herta Muller und Ursula Krechel. Alle namhaften Schriftsteller sind erfasst: Die Literaturgeschichte fangt Lyrik, Roman, Prosa und andere literarische Gattungen und Stroemungen im Spiegel der Epochen ein, zeigt die Autorinnen und Autoren, ihr Schaffen un...
Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose
Learning About Language
1996 || Paperback || Mick Short || Taylor & Francis
Examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are generated in the three major literary genres, carrying out stylistic analysis of poetry, drama and prose fiction in turn. He analyses a wide range of extracts from English literature.
Old and Middle English c.890-c.1450 / 3rd edition
An Anthology
2009 || Paperback || Elaine Treharne || Wiley
Spanning almost seven centuries, this anthology encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English, culminating in some of the finest works produced in English in the high Middle Ages. New edition of this widely-used anthology of Old and Middle English literatureNow extended to include newly-edited versions of Old English Wonders of the East, of Poema Morale, extracts from Julian of Norwich and Margery KempeFull translations are offered for the Old and earlier Midd...
Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry / 2nd edition
A Student's Guide
1994 || Paperback || Isabel Rivers || Taylor & Francis
Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It:provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance;illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas;contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them;inc...
La Bete humaine
2009 || Paperback || Emile Zola || Oxford University Press
Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling...