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Middle English Literature
2023 || Paperback || Charles W. Dunn e.a. || Taylor & Francis
For the first time available in paperback, this classic anthology provides readers with important literary works composed during the Middle English period (1100-1500) in England, Scotland, and Ireland. The editors provide glosses for all unfamiliar words and obscure phrases and every selection refers to at least one definitive edition where details of recent scholarship can be found. Modern punctuation and capitalization are used throughout and variant spellings are kept to a minimum to avoid...
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Why Women Grow
Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
2024 || Paperback || Alice Vincent || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Twice Wainwright Prize-longlisted author Alice Vincent offers a stunning meditation on why women are drawn to the soil, featuring contributions from Ali Smith, Hazel Gardiner and Cosey Fanni Tutti
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Noise
2022 || Paperback || Daniel Kahneman e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The Sunday Times bestseller'A monumental, gripping book ... Outstanding' Sunday TimesWherever there is human judgement, there is noise.
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100 Novels That Changed the World
2023 || Hardcover || Colin Salter || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture.
Travelling
2024 || Paperback || Ann Powers || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Celebrated music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of the legendary Joni Mitchell
Japanese Literature: From Murasaki to Murakami
Paperback || Marvin Marcus || Association for Asian Studies
Japanese Literature: From Murasaki to Murakami provides a concise introduction to the literature of Japan that traces its origins in the seventh century and explores a literary legacyand its cultural contextsmarked by the intersection of aristocratic elegance and warrior austerity. Coverage extends to the present day with a focus on the complex twists and turns that mark Japans literature in the modern period. In under one-hundred pages of narrative, Marcuss account of Japanese litera...
Writers as Public Intellectuals
Literature, Celebrity, Democracy
2015 || Hardcover || Odile Heynders || Macmillan
This book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and devices in and beyond the text. Their assumed persona thereby reads the world as a book - interpreting it and offering alternative scenarios for understanding it.
European Literary History
An Introduction
2018 || Paperback || Maarten De Pourcq e.a. || Taylor & Francis
This clear and engaging book offers readers an introduction to European Literary History from antiquity through to the present day. Each chapter discusses a short extract from a literary text, whilst including a close reading and a longer essay examining other key texts of the period and their place within European Literature. Offering a view of Europe as an evolving cultural space and examining the mobility and travel of literature both within and out of Europe, this guide offers an introduc...
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Leonard Cohen
The Mystical Roots of Genius
2024 || Paperback || Harry Freedman || Bloomsbury Publishing