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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170427Author Virginia WoolfImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1990 book Le Contrat Naturel , Serres calls for a natural contract to be negotiated between Earth and its...

Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning. Dillon and Craig provide a theory and practice for gathering narrative evidence that will complement and strengthen, not distort, other...

In this critical biography of Robert Desnos (1900-1945), Katharine Conley reevaluates the surrealist movement through the life and works of one of its founders. Desnos was as famous among the surrealists for his independence of mind as for his elaborate...

From dreams of Prince Charming or dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates, dependable family types, or simply good companions, female fantasies about men tell us a great deal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075835Author John HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

Completed just weeks before his death, the lectures in this volume mark a critical juncture in the career of Roland Barthes, in which he declared the intention, deeply felt, to write a novel. Unfolding over the course of two years, Barthes engaged in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060919887Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of...

Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the...

J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Stranger Shores opens...

This successful introduction to intertextuality deftly introduces this crucial area and relates its significance to key theories and movements in the study of literature. The third edition is updated to include a brand new chapter, looking at...

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well...

Eliot's Four Quartets is arguably the finest long poem in modern English literature. It is also one that presents considerable problems of interpretation. In Word Unheard, first published in 1969, Blamires aims to unravel some of these problems by...

Poet, Thomas Carper, and scholar, Derek Attridge, join forces in Meter and Meaning to present an illuminating and user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. They begin by showing the value of performing any poem aloud, so that we can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187059Author Tessa RoynonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

An intricate text filled to the brim with connotations of desire, home, and childhood-nests, food, beds, birds, fairies, bits of string, ribbon, goodnight kisses, appetites sated and denied-Reading Boyishly is a story of mothers and sons, loss and...

What makes a good manager? Though we can probably all point to someone we think of as a good manager, what precisely makes them so good at their job is a complex question - and one central to good business organization. Management scholar Douglas...

Poetry criticism is a subject central to the study of literature. However, it is laden with technical terms that, to the beginning student, can be both intimidating and confusing. Philip Hobsbaum provides a welcome remedy, illuminating terms ranging from...

The first full examination in English of the career and works of the most popular Welsh author of the twentieth century. Elis laid solid foundations for the contemporary novel in Welsh on which other writers were able to build in the 1960s and 1970s. In...

The remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt Bauman range across a large number of issues in sociology, politics, history, and cultural studies. This is the first collection of Bauman's writings that covers the entire breadth of his work, and includes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170892Author John BairdFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

In 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zurich on the French Romantic poet Gerard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval's visionary memoir, Aurelia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent...

Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous...

A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.About the AuthorPeter Brooks is...

* In size, price, and elegant packaging, these books will make ideal gifts * Beautiful 3-colour jacket designed to give a uniform look * Unique and highly distinctive black-and-white pattern on each spine * Full-cloth, flexible covers * Sewn bindings *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993218316Author David WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Red Axe BooksPublisher Red Axe BooksWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841058Author Emma DymockFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2021 Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789872330Author Edward J RuppeltFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)...

Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre.Damien Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded...

Routledge Translation Guides cover the key translation text types and genres and equip translators and students of translation with the skills needed to translate them. Concise, accessible and written by leading authorities, they include examples from...

What does reading mean in the twenty-first century? As other disciplines challenge literary criticism's authority to answer this question, English professors are defining new alternatives to close reading and to interpretation more generally. Further...

The essays in this volume have all been carefully chosen by Cynthia Chase to exemplify the most important strands in contemporary critical thought on Romantic literature, in particular the best of recent feminist, deconstructive, and new historicist...

This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs." That's how Edmund Gosse opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son" is,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385423397Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956470420Author Elizabeth WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Redwood Publishing, LLCPublisher Redwood Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...