Het bestel kraakt. Het systeem faalt. Er is veel efficiëntie, maar niet genoeg rechtvaardigheid. Er is veel technocratie, maar niet genoeg zeggenschap.

Economische groei is mooi, maar eigenlijk alleen als die gepaard gaat met duurzaamheid. Iedereen, ook wie wegkijkt, ervaart de ongelijkheid in de samenleving. We vinden allemaal dat er niet voldoende saamhorigheid is, maar wat doen we er zelf aan? Het opleidingsniveau is nog nooit zo hoog geweest. Al die diploma’s, maar gezond verstand? Wat...

The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon. Since F. N.

Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic increase in Chaucer scholarship. This has not only enriched our understanding of Chaucer's art, but has also enabled scholars, working for the first time with all the source-material, to recreate Chaucer's authentic texts. For the third edition,...

This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature. Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism to postmodernism, Theo Dhaen examines: the return of the term "world literature" and its changing meaning Goethes concept of Weltliteratur and how this relates to current debatestheories and theorists who have had an impact on world literaturenon-canonical and less-known litera...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.

In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite; a military hero whose dying wish was to ...

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Die Gedichtsammlung "Der ewige Brunnen" ist seit vielen Jahrzehnten ein Klassiker. Millionen von Leserinnen und Lesern haben hier die Welt der deutschen Lyrik entdeckt und erkundet. In diesem schier unerschöpflichen Lesebuch spiegeln sich die Lebenserfahrungen von Jahrhunderten. Jetzt erscheint es in einer Neuausgabe, in der Dirk von Petersdorff berühmte und kanonische Gedichte mit frischen Stimmen aus der Vergangenhei...

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at The Beginning and concluding with The End, chapters range from the familiar, such as Character, Narrative and The Author, to the more unusual, such as Secrets, Pleasure and Ghosts. Now in its sixth edition, Bennett and Royles classic textbook successfully illuminates complex ideas by engaging directly with literary works, so that a reading of Jane E...

A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 70s, when it posed an unprecedented challenge to the literary establishment. Eagleton has added a new preface to this anniversary edition to address more recent developments in literary studies, including what he describes as "the growth of a kind of anti-theory", and the idea that literary theory has ...

A new edition of Thomas More's Utopia—a 16th century socio-political critique made through a satirical account of an idealised fictional society. This edition is based on the first English translation of the text and provides novel insights into More's context and intentions, as well as the influence of the translator.

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Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States

In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and me...