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Literature: history & criticism
How did an ordinary, if intelligent, boy who wrote unremarkable poems become-with no help, and in record time-the author of one of the most significant and beloved poems of the twentieth century?T. S. Eliot's juvenilia show little inclination to que..
91.27£
How did an ordinary, if intelligent, boy who wrote unremarkable poems become-with no help, and in record time-the author of one of the most significant and beloved poems of the twentieth century?T. S. Eliot's juvenilia show little inclination to que..
37.91£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Introduces both both standards of Armenian (Eastern and Western) in a single volume reflecting the realities of the current Armenian world and culture. Communicative focus with a range of language activities designed around daily life topics th..
43.88£
Behind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory. Part history, part sociology, part biography, Frazier's work recreates the forces..
75.06£
Brand: Harvard University Press
Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize"This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways…African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett's analysis, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and others su..
20.78£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.This edition is twofold, for there..
13.96£
Brand: Baker Publishing Group
When a man becomes a dad, he takes on certain responsibilities: providing for his family, raising up his children to be good citizens--and telling the absolute worst jokes he can come up with. But dad jokes don't always come naturally, which is why ..
33.63£
We think we know Betty and Veronica from Archie comics, but we don't. Far more than just Archie's girlfriends, this book shows how the girls adapted to be compelling, relevant characters for each new generation over the past eighty years. Betty, Ver..
37.60£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each ..
26.45£
Beyond MAUS. The Legacy of Holocaust Comics collects 16 contributions that shed new light on the representation of the Holocaust. While MAUS by Art Spiegelman has changed the perspectives, other comics and series of drawings, some produced while the..
69.42£
Brand: OUP Oxford
In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Th..
20.02£
This cycling logbook/journal is a heart-warming gift to yourself or any cyclist, bicycle rider, and trainer. After every exercise session, keep track of the date, time, weather situations, length covered, route conditions, brainstorming, and note-ta..
13.16£
Brand: Springer Publishing
This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in anISBN: 9783030327941Publisher: Springer International PublishingImprint: Palgrave MacmillanPublished date: 24 Sep 2021DEWEY: 809.933628DEWEY edition: 23Language: EnglishN..
68.22£
In Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange between Black, Asian, and Asian American people and cultures to offer new insights into the relations..
122.02£
Brand: University of Toronto Press
In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shro..
67.26£
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . .A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Ma..
17.95£
Get straight to the good stuff and boost your book club's fun quotient today!Get your friends talking with over 100 suggestions for lively discussions- customized to each individual chapter of the intricately twisted comic fantasy FOOL'S PROOF by Ev..
9.92£
Brand: Springer Publishing
This book depicts the Early Modern book markets in Europe and colonial Latin America. The nature of book production and distribution in this period resulted in the development of a truly international market. The integration of the book market was f..
136.45£
Brand: Liverpool University Press
This collection places the fiction of Bram Stoker in relation to this life, career and status as a late Victorian. It centres on various aspects of his interests and career, such as politics, the legal system, his role as Irving's stage manager, and..
43.46£
Brand: Sarabande Books
The highly anticipated, first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino. Bright: A Memoir, the first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino, is a work of lyric nonfiction, offering glimpses of a life li..
20.12£
Art that Made Us: from the Dark Ages to the Present in 80 Masterworks A companion book to the landmark BBC television documentary series to be broadcast from April to June 2022, Brilliant Isles tells the turbulent story of British creativity through..
12.86£
Brand: Crown House Publishing
Foreword by Professor Emma Smith.The more you explore the plays of Shakespeare, the more you realise how they are an interrelated network of ideas and themes - linked to his context, his audience and his understanding of the world. In Bringing Forth..
25.42£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
In 1970 Katharine Briggs published in four volumes the vast and authoritative Dictionary of British Folktales and Legends to wide acclaim. This sampler comprises the very best of those tales and legends. Gathered within, readers will find an extrava..
21.42£
Brand: Orion
The Bronte sisters lives and works have become modern-day cultural touchstones.Emily Bronte, best known for her novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS, began writing poetry first and, before her untimely death, wrote some of the most touching and emotive poems whi..
10.30£