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 ...

Erik Scherder leest. Veel. En hij zou nog veel méér willen lezen. En ook eens iets anders dan wetenschappelijke studies (hoe interessant ook), want hij merkt dat lezen hem uitdaagt, energie geeft, slimmer maakt, stimuleert. En Scherder is Scherder: dat wil hij natuurlijk voor iedereen! Hersenen willen lezen biedt inzicht in de belangrijkste wetenschappelijke bevindingen op het gebied van lezen. Daarnaast vertelt Scherder enkele mooie anekdotes over bijzondere lezers. Lees Scherder. Maar voo...

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 ...

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