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This Collection Of Essays Probes The Ways In Which Classic Children's Literature Tends To Undermine, Rather Than Support, Respectable Adult Values. Subversi...

Presents The Original Text Of Shakespeare's Play Side By Side With A Modern Version, With Marginal Notes And Explanations And Full Descriptions Of Each Char...

Slight shelf wear on covers w/tight binding...Former owner's name stamped on title page and bottom of pages (when closed)...I scanned/flipped through pages ...

Widely Regarded As The World's First Modern Novel, And One Of The Funniest And Most Tragic Books Ever Written, Don Quixote Chronicles The Famous Picaresque ...

Unrivaled In Its Scope And Depth, The Columbia History Of Twentieth-century French Thought Assesses The Intellectual Figures, Movements, And Publications Th...

'The white dolphin is a sign that Mum's out there . . .' When they first meet, Kara and Felix can't stand each other. But on discovering an injured dolphin ...

This book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology...

metaphor Is A Central Concept In Literary Studies, But It Is Also Prevalent In Everyday Language And Speech. Recent Literary Theories Such As Postmodernis...

Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order f...

Art history gets a fun feline makeover with 21 purr-fectly cultured cats in the styles of ancient and modern masters.Become litter-ate in the basics of imp...

From one of Canada's most respected and high-profile health professionals (and former federal Minister of Health), a timely, practical, ambitious, and deepl...

A preeminent medievalist presents a wonderful catalog of real and fanciful beasts, including the manticore, griffin, phoenix, amphivius, jaculus, and many o...

Tomson Highway is one of Canada's foremost playwrights and novelists. In Comparing Mythologies he addresses a theme that is central to much of his work: the...

One of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern W...

The Author Draws Parallels Between The Odyssey And The Experiences Of Vietnam Veterans After Returning To The United States. Introduction -- Odysseus Among ...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of King Lear on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each ...

Read Shakespeare’s plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means! Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make...

Studies major works by important sculptors since Rodin in the light of different approaches to general sculptural issues to reveal the logical progressions ...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on ...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Hamlet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No ...

SparkNotes Literature Guides: Making the reading experience fun! When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to su...

Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'...

This Study Of Early Greek Lyric Provides Portraits Of Archilochus, Alcaeus And Sappho And Their Poetry. It Looks At Their Social Setting, And Their Purposes...

Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In this volume...

Winner of the 2018 City of Vancouver Book AwardFrom Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about hom...

A powerful political critique of postmodernism. Melancholic and introspective,ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time. In this origin...

Although utterly convinced of the truth of Christianity, Anselm of Canterbury struggled to make sense of his religion. He considered the doctrines of faith ...

Jeffrey Burton Russell. Includes Index.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies Theology ChristianAngelology & Demonology

Gathers two collections of Lennon's drawings, poems, and short stories that make use of wordplay and nonsensical phrasesCategories: Literature & Fiction...

This issue of Beatdom takes a look at the tricky topic of Religion, examining the role belief played in the lives and literature of the Beat Generation. Fro...

The Goal Of The Middle English Texts Series Is To Make Available To Teachers And Students Texts Which Occupy An Important Place In The Literary And Cultural...

Ovid Is, After Homer, The Single Most Important Source For Classical Mythology. The Metamorphoses, Which He Wrote Over The Six-year Period Leading Up To His...

Communications, Philosophy, Film And Video, Digital Culture: Media Studies Straddles An Astounding Array Of Fields And Disciplines And Produces A Vocabulary...

The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of cinema; art and revolution in Russia and in Mexico; the avant...

Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, w...

Writings by leading critics survey the history of literary analysis from classical antiquityCategories: Literature & Fiction History & CriticismMove...

Analyzes Samuel Beckett's Novels, Mallarme's Poetry, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Film Salo, Assyrian Palace Reliefs, And Writings By Henry James In Terms Of Freud...

According To Harold Bloom, The Best Of Alvin Feinman's Poetry Is As Good As Anything By A Twentieth-century American. His Work Achieves The Greatness Of The...

This edition is the first to reproduce John Addington Symonds's Memoirs in its entirety. It offers a panoramic view of middle-class Victorian life, shedding...

For Students Trying To Make Sense Of The Performativity And Related Concepts Such As The Speech Act, 'ordinary Language', And Iterability, And For Those See...

A Dialogue Between Two Shepards, Uttered In A Pastoral Show -- Two Songs For An Accession Day Tilt -- Philisides, The Shepard Good And True -- Sing, Neighbo...

This Important New Work Brings A Fresh And Carefully Elaborated Theory Of The Literary Work Of Art To The Current Rediscovery Of The Reader?that Of The Conc...

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest g...

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest g...

Dorothy L. Sayers Took Her Inspiration From A Monk's Account Of The Fire Of 1174, And The Subsequent Rebuilding Of Canterbury Cathedral Quire. She Portrays ...

This Book Offers A Short, Spirited Defense Of Rhetoric And The Liberal Arts As Catalysts For Precision, Invention, And Empathy In Today's World. The Author,...

Having Engineered The Marriage Of The Governess, Emma Now Turns Her Attention Towards Making A Match For Mr. Elton, The Local Vicar. Emma's One Voice Of Rea...

Originally published in English in 1978, this full-scale examination of the philosophy of metaphor from Aristotle to the present, brings together and discus...