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Book connoisseur Tom Nissley has combed literary history to capture the stories that make writers' lives perennially fascinating: their epiphanies, embarrassments and achievements. Each handsome page in A Reader's Book of Days is devoted to a day of the...

Yi Kwang-su (1892-1950) was one of the pioneers of modern Korean literature. When the serialization of Mujong (The Heartless) began in 1917, it was an immediate sensation, and it occupies a prominent place in the Korean literary canon. The Heartless...

It is not surprising that visitors to Blake's cosmology - the most elaborate in the history of British text and design - often demand a map in the form of a reference book. The entries in this volume benefit from the wide range of historical information...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156008723Author Gianni GuadalupiFormat PaperbackPage Count 776Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams)...

The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within...

First Impressions explores the former homes of some of Britain's most famous authors. An exciting journey of discovery where the world's greatest literary figures drew inspiration for their work.

Kerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation, but in fact they were only the front line of a much more wide-ranging literary and cultural movement. This critical history takes readers through key works by these...

First published in 1916, The Textual Tradition of Chaucer's Troilus compares the best unprinted manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus with the printed texts. The purpose of the volume is to evaluate eighteen manuscripts, to determine so far as may be their...

This fully updated new edition of The Routledge Companion to World Literature contains ten brand new chapters on topics such as premodern world literature, migration studies, world history, artificial intelligence, global Englishes, remediation, crime...

More than just a walking guide, The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce's Dublin provides a guide to James Joyce's novel Ulysses by following its eighteen episodes on their original locations, and recreating the Dublin of 1904 against the background of...

Provides new definitions of the Gothic in a variety of artistic contexts Explores a range of Gothic from architecture through literature to music and the technological artsProvides an opportunity to hear new thinking from established scholars as well...