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  • Rumors of War and Infernal Machines

    Technomilitary Agenda-setting in American and British Speculative Fiction

    This provocative and unique work reveals the remarkably influential role of futuristic literature on contemporary political power in America. Tracing this phenomenon from its roots in Victorian Britain, Rumors of War and Infernal Machines offers a fascinating exploration of how fictional speculations on emergent or imaginary military technologies profoundly influence the political agendas and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Understanding Children's Literature

    Edited by Peter Hunt ...
    Edited by Peter Hunt, a leading figure in the field, this book introduces the study of children’s literature, addressing theoretical questions as well as the most relevant critical approaches to the discipline.The fourteen chapters draw on insights from academic disciplines ranging from cultural and literary studies to education and psychology, and include an essay on what writers for children ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms

    Edited by Peter Childs, Roger Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Dictionaries
    A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels.With over forty newly commissioned entries, this essential reference book includes:an exhaustive range of entries, covering ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Neil LaBute

    A Casebook

    Series series Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
    Neil LaBute: A Casebook is the first book to examine one of the most successful and controversial contemporary American playwrights and filmmakers. While he is most famous, and in some cases infamous, for his early films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, Labute is equally accomplished as a playwright. His work extends from the critique of false religiosity in Bash to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Routledge Book of World Proverbs

    by Jon R. Stone ...
    The Routledge Book of World Proverbs invites the reader to travel the globe in search of the origins of such words of wisdom, experiencing the rich cultural traditions reflected in each nation’s proverbs. This collection contains over 16,000 gems of humour and pathos that draw upon themes from our shared experiences of life. And we are not just invited to learn about other cultures; proverbs are ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • 500 Great Books For Teens

    by Anita Silvey ...
    If you are looking for a book to give to a teenage reader, here's the reference you've been waiting for. Until now, there's been no accepted guide to what's good, bad, or indifferent in the flood of books coming off the presses in the hot new category of young-adult publishing. If it's true that you can't judge a book by its cover, it is especially true for teen books, as publishers take aim at a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

    Edited by Elizabeth Knowles ...
    Series series The Oxford Reference Collection
    This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. What is a ham-and-egger? What are Anglo-Saxon attitudes? Who or what is liable to jump the shark? Who first tried to nail jelly to the wall? The answers to these and many more questions ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies

    Edited by Gaetana Marrone, Paolo Puppa ...
    The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, ... Read more

    $475.99 USD

  • The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s

    by Winnie Chan ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    This materialist study of the short story’s development in three diverse magazines reveals how, at the dawn of modernism, commercial pressures prompted modernist formal innovation in popular magazines, whilst anti-commercial opacity paradoxically formed the basis of an effective marketing strategy that appealed to elitism. Integrating methods of cultural studies with formal analyses, this study ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Triumph of the Thriller

    How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction

    There’s been a revolution in American popular fiction. The writers who dominated the bestseller lists a generation ago with blockbuster novels about movie stars and exotic foreign lands have been replaced by a new generation writing a new kind of bestseller, one that hooks readers with crime, suspense, and ever-increasing violence. Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post’s man on the thriller beat, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Die berühmtesten Dichter und Schriftsteller Europas

    Series series marixwissen
    Schriftsteller und Dichter prägen unsere Kultur, unser Denken, unser Reden, unser Sein. Die Namen bedeutender Poeten führt jeder im Mund. Aber wer genau war Charles Baudelaire? Warum ist Mary Shelleys Frankenstein zu einem modernen Mythos geworden? Was hat Dantegeschrieben? Und was machte William Shakespeare zum Inbegriff des Dichters? – Das vorliegende Buch geht solchen Fragen nach, indem es die ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fous, prodigues et ivrognes

    Familles et déviance à Montréal au XIXe siècle

    Series Book 20 - Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec
    À travers l’analyse de près de 500 procédures d’interdiction engagées entre 1820 et 1895, Fous, prodigues et ivrognes examine les interactions entre les acteurs impliqués dans la régulation de la déviance : familles, système judiciaire, institutions asilaires et médecins. Tournant le dos à l’approche institutionnelle classique, Thierry Nootens considère la famille – et non l’État, la profession ... Read more

    $112.99 USD

  • Little Eurekas

    A Decade's Thoughts on Poetry

    by Robyn Sarah ...
    A reader-friendly miscellany of essays, appreciations, reviews, and conversations, published in newspapers and literary magazines over the past ten years, these are pieces that will resonate equally with the lay poetry lover and the specialist. This collection explores all aspects of a life in poetry: reading it, writing it, teaching it, editing it, publishing it, reviewing it. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945

    Series series The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945
    The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 challenges the conventional belief that the English-language literary traditions of East Africa are restricted to the former British colonies of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Instead, these traditions stretch far into such neighboring countries as Somalia and Ethiopia.Simon Gikandi and Evan Mwangi assemble a truly inclusive list of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Madness Unchained

    A Reading of Virgil's Aeneid

    Madness Unchained is a comprehensive introduction to and study of Virgil's Aeneid. The book moves through Virgil's epic scene by scene and offers a detailed explication of not only all the major (and many minor) difficulties of interpretation, but also provides a cohesive argument that explores Virgil's point in writing this epic of Roman mythology and Augustan propaganda: the role of fury or ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Narnia

    Unlocking the Wardrobe

    Whether in books or on the big screen, the Chronicles of Narnia reflect the Christian worldview of C. S. Lewis. Every story offers fresh perspective on the kingdom of God and the character of Christ. Narnia is an accessible guide to the Christian symbolism and powerful lessons found in all seven Narnia books. Each of the seven chapters corresponds to one of the books in the series. Narnia helps ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to the World of Harry Potter

    by Tere Stouffer ...
    For fans of all ages.Here is an entertaining and easily referenced presentation of insider information to the world that J. K. Rowling has created in her spellbinding series of novels. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to the World of Harry Potter explores all aspects of the wizarding world and explains them in terms of their relationship to historical, literary, religious, scientific, or mythological ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English Since 1945

    by Adrian Roscoe ...
    Series series The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945
    Columbia's guides to postwar African literature paint a unique portrait of the continent's rich and diverse literary traditions. This volume examines the rapid rise and growth of modern literature in the three postcolonial nations of Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia. It tracks the multiple political and economic pressures that have shaped Central African writing since the end of World War II and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Die großen Literaten der Welt

    Amerika und Asien

    Series series marixwissen
    Osten und Westen haben den Europäer seit jeher gleichermaßen fasziniert. Und wodurch lässt sich eine Kultur besser verstehen als durch die Werke ihrer großen Dichter und Schriftsteller? Das vorliegende Buch möchte schlaglichtartig sowohl die amerikanische als auch die uns bei weitem ferner liegende asiatische Literatur be- leuchten, indem es deren berühmteste Vertreter vorstellt – von dem großen ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rhetoric

    Rhetoric has shaped our understanding of the nature of language and the purpose of literature for over two millennia. It is of crucial importance in understanding the development of literary history as well as elements of philosophy, politics and culture. The nature and practise of rhetoric was central to Classical, Renaissance and Enlightenment cultures and its relevance continues in our own ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Book of Lost Books

    An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read

    by Stuart Kelly ...
    In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books is the first guide to literature’s what-ifs and never-weres.In compulsively readable fashion, Stuart ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Teaching Stories

    An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature

    In this remarkable anthology, some of the world’s greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize—winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and poets “render school life in all its complexity and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists

    Edited by Tim Woods ...
    Taking in novelists from all over the globe, from the beginning of the century to the present day, this is the most comprehensive survey of the leading lights of twentieth century fiction. Superb breadth of coverage and over 800 entries by an international team of contributors ensures that this fascinating and wide-ranging work of reference will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in modern ... Read more

    $125.99 USD