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Music, Words and Voice: A Reader is a new and exciting interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music and literature. It is the first primary and secondary source collection of its kind to focus on the relationships between words and...

After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues. These taped lectures and the question-and-answer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561841295Author Anthony PearsellFormat PaperbackPage Count 589Imprint New Falcon Publications,U.S.Publisher New Falcon Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 778g

The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writers, editors, publishers and reviewers, to shape and be shaped by the dynamics of a rapidly industrializing society. Many of these...

Walt Whitman created, in various editions of Leaves of Grass, what is arguably the most influential book of poems anywhere in the past 200 years. Whitman absorbed the world, transmuting it into poems that address a spectrum of topics--from democracy and...

The late thirteenth-century manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library Digby 86, contains a personal anthology of nearly 100 texts in French, English and Latin, including secular literature, devotional material, and texts with practical applications, ranging...

This study integrates Renaissance texts of classical and early modern geography, cartography, and travel writing with postmodern theory to challenge the long-standing tradition of Eastern European space as a distant land of elsewhere and to demonstrate...

Women Writing the Nation engages in recent discussions of the development of British nationalism during the eighteenth century and Romantic period. Leanne Maunu argues that women writers looked not to their national identity, but rather to their gender...

The subjects of the essays in Latin American Shakespeares range from the nineteenth century through the present; from high- to middle- to low-brow stories, plays, films, and poems; from Mexico to Argentina, Chile, Cuba, the U.S. barrio, and diverse...

An in-depth study to date of García Lorca's "dark period," this volume moves away from biographical criticism to relate the darkness to the duende's presence. It examines how Lorca meshes biblical apocalyptic discourse with his distinctively pantheistic...

In this book, Martin Wechselblatt explores Samuel Johnson's double professional self-construction as alternately Augustan sage and Grub Street hack: as the exemplary "Dr. Johnson" and as one of the many "authors to let" brought to life and just as...

This book explores how Head's writing is her idiosyncratic response to her personal life. Her desire to portray and yet subvert oppression that she encountered in South Africa and Botswana led to a romanticism born of her need to create an antithesis to...

Modernism was the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century. Yet despite its now-secure location in history, the radical experimental practices of modernism continue to bewilder as much as they excite. Beginning Modernism...

This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revised in light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of...

Like most authors, Mark Twain wrote from personal experience, but, unlike many authors, he left behind a wealth of autobiographical material recording those personal experiences. His autobiography, letters, speeches, and notebooks contain many...

Slow to rise in the literary world, Octavia Estelle Butler cultivated musings on earth's future, reaching massive critical acclaim in the process. This companion will complement book club discussions and classroom lessons for the closest possible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788420647500Author Martin HeideggerFormat PaperbackImprint Alianza (Buenos Aires, AR)Publisher Alianza (Buenos Aires, AR)

Since its founding at Northwestern University in 1964, TriQuarterly has remained one of the most widely admired and important literary magazines in the country. Under the editorial direction of poet Susan Firestone Hahn, TriQuarterly continues to publish...

This work examines the subtle changes in Taylor's attitudes toward the nature and purpose of his poetry, particularly in Series 1 of the Preparatory Meditations. Davis argues that Gods Determinations is the poem in which Taylor becomes a poet. The early...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808400189Author Mark TwainFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &...

The Norton Introduction to Literature offers the trusted writing and reading guidance students need, along with an exciting mix of the stories, poems, and plays instructors want. The Portable Fourteenth Edition is the most inclusive ever, with more...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808403463Author William BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808400172Author Herman MelvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808401322Author Constance Fenimore WoolsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman...

Censored Sentiments offers a new perspective on women as letter writers and on the eighteenth-century increase in, and subsequent decline of, epistolary fiction by tracing forms of censorship that affected female letters in England, France, Italy, and...

The Text in Play interrogates theatrical creativity by focusing on how twentieth-century playwrights have incorporated scenes of rehearsal into their dramatic texts. Contemporary theoretical perspectives, principally from Brecht, Bahktin, and Barthes,...

The OOcritical poemOO explains a poetry that is self-conscious about its inability to say what it means. This concept underlies and informs the work of eight Latin American poets, spanning three generations: Paz, Huerta, Borges, Juarroz, Pizarnik, Girro,...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780819139443Author A. L. RowseFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843919728Author Andrew BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 164g

The Norton Introduction to Literature offers the trusted writing and reading guidance students need, along with an exciting mix of the stories, poems and plays instructors want. The Shorter Fourteenth Edition is the most inclusive ever, with more...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990567394Author Sean Lee LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Meteor HousePublisher Meteor HouseWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

From Cinderella to The Boy Who Cried Wolf to The Dragon Slayer to the Judgment of Solomon, certain legends, myths, and folktales are part of the oral tradition in countries around the world. In addition to their pervasiveness, these stories show an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385344234Author Marc LeedsFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

Since its inception, the Nobel Prize for literature has given a very public voice to some of the world's greatest writers, and their responses to the honor--their acceptance speeches--have often been epochal. From the famed call to arms by William...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312324902Author Christopher GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm)...

Introduces key terms, quantitative and qualitative research, debates, and histories for Environmental and Nature Studies Understandings of "nature" have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues...

Provides readers with an overview of each of the major poets, dramatists, philosophers, and historians of ancient Greece and Rome. Including short bios of major figures and a list of suggested readings, this is unparalleled as a brief introduction to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788435026703Author Saul YurkievichFormat PaperbackPage Count 355Imprint EdhasaPublisher EdhasaWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm * 23mm