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Literature: history & criticism
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Book reviews written in 2013 by Brendan Tripp. Titles covered in this volume are: Savage Anxieties Robert A. Williams, Jr. The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce A Writer's People V.S. Naipaul Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Hypnosis Treatment..
29.50£
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How muc..
26.25£
Brand: University of Texas Press
Winner, AAP/PSP Award for Excellence, Classics and Ancient History, 2006 Anyone who has even a passing acquaintance with Latin knows "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres" ("All Gaul is divided into three parts"), the opening line of De Bello Gall..
32.33£
Caledonia Tartan - The Waverley Scotland Tartan Cloth Commonplace Notebooks has 176 pages (left side blank, right side ruled), acid-free, and is threadsewn, with 80 gsm cream shade pages. It is bound in genuine Scottish tartan cloth over board, with..
17.63£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character r..
22.05£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Chaucer: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. It provides a clear critical analysis of the texts, while also providing some necessary background to key medieval ideas and the historical period in which he lived...
26.80£
Brand: Springer Publishing
Children's Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind explores ways in which children's literature becomes the object and catalyst of play that brings younger and older generations closer to one another. Providing..
123.07£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the sto..
11.42£
Brand: Lexington Books
Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World: Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation explores Chinua Achebe's literary works and how they communicated the Igbo-African world to readers. Engaging in the politics of representation, Achebe so..
104.62£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Organized by heretical movements and texts from the Gnostic Gospels to The Book of Mormon, this book uses the work of James Joyce - particularly Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake - as a prism to explore how the history of Christian heresy remains part of ..
96.66£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. In Ion, P..
12.67£
Brand: McFarland Publishers
The detective story-the classic whodunit with its time-displacement structure of crime-according to most literary historians, is of relatively recent origin. Early in its development, the whodunit was harshly criticized for its tightly formula-bound..
85.30£
Brand: Random House
Collected Essays contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four prolific decades. From Henry James and Somerset Maugham to Ho Chi Minh and Kim Philby, the range of subjects is e..
16.02£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Colloquial Afrikaans provides a step-by-step course in Afrikaans as it is written and spoken in South Africa and Namibia today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skill..
54.00£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) provides a step-by-step course in Levantine Arabic as it is used today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate co..
65.19£
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Colloquial Arabic of Egypt provides a step-by-step course in spoken Egyptian Arabic - the most widely understood dialect in the Arab world. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the ess..
69.93£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Colloquial Croatian provides a step-by-step course in Croatian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confid..
54.83£
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Colloquial Danish provides a step-by-step course in Danish as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidentl..
54.15£
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Colloquial French: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to French as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a method..
45.46£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken German. No prior knowledge of the language is required.What makes this new edition of Colloquial German your b..
46.03£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Colloquial Hindi: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Hindi as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodic..
54.59£
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Colloquial Icelandic provides a step-by-step course in Icelandic as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate conf..
62.02£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Colloquial Indonesian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Indonesian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with ..
65.68£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Lots of interest in the Irish language amongst 'heritage' learners in England and Scotland, and particularly in Ireland itselfRepresents the local dialect of East Connemara, rather than the 'Official Standard' which is not actually spoken by native ..
50.76£