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Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In Men at War, Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creations and their impact on our understanding of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-06
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Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death--and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can prove daunting...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-08-01
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Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of...
Editeur :
Cassell
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2012-01-10
Collection :
1001
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A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOKA COMPANION TOTHE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose “As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer.” Choice “If you want to understand how...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-24
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go of what had become...
Editeur :
Two Roads
Parution :
2011-06-09
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The invention of writing was one of the most important technological, cultural, and sociological breakthroughs in human history. With the printed book, information and ideas could disseminate more widely and effectively than ever before -- and in some cases, affect and...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-07-22
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The first of three volumes charting the history of the Modernist Magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection offers the first comprehensive study of the wide and varied range of 'little magazines' which were so instrumental in introducing the new...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-26
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Distinguished scholar and library systems innovator Frederick Kilgour tells a five-thousand-year story in this exciting work, a tale beginning with the invention of writing and concluding with the emerging electronic book. Calling on a lifetime of interest in the growth...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1998-04-23
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This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2016-06-30
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The first collection of critical essays devoted to the study of English-Canadian literary anthologies brings together the work of thirteen prominent critics to investigate anthology formation in Canada and answer these key questions: Why are there so many literary...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace brings to light the relationship between writers in Canada and the marketplace within which their work circulates. Through a series of conversations with both established and younger writers from...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-06-15
Collection :
TransCanada
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Autobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity (the person in the world and the character in the text) and call into question what we believe, what we doubt, and how we receive...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-04-20
Collection :
Life Writing
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As a comparative study which includes the analysis of both English-Canadian and Quebec novels, this book provides an overview of the novel as it has developed in this country since the Second World War. Focusing on narratological rather than thematic elements, the book...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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Nana von Émile Zola – Endlich verständlich mit der Lektürehilfe von derQuerleser! Diese klare und zuverlässige Analyse von Émile ZolasNana aus dem Jahre 1880 hilft Dir dabei, den Klassiker schnell in seinen wichtigsten Punkten zu erfassen. Die KurtisaneNana manipuliert...
Editeur :
derQuerleser.de
Parution :
2019-11-15
Collection :
Lektürehilfe
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