History & Criticism

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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 ...

Pak Wan-so ; Translated By Yu Young-nan.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & CriticismComparative Literature

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...

Umberto Eco ; Translated By William Weaver. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [117]-119) And Index.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & ...

Kevin Mccabe, Editor. Includes Index.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Regional & CulturalCanadian

This Title Has Been Updated To Reflect The 2016 Mla Update. The Most Trusted Guide For Helping Students Read Critically And Write Carefully.Categories: Lite...

Adolescence is a trying time for both the child and the parents. So many changes are occurring physically, emotionally, and mentally. A teenager is learning...

Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter...

To find a personal style is, for a writer, to become adult; and to write one's first "perfect" poem—a poem that wholly and successfully embodies that sty...

The idea that prompted the conferenee for which many of these papers were written, and that inspired this book, is stated in the Editorial Introduction repr...

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

the Poems Are Drawn Chiefly From The Traditional manyoshu, kokinshu And hyakunin Isshu Collections, But There Are Also Examplaes Of Haiku And Other Later Fo...

The Cambridge Companion To Cervantes Offers A Comprehensive Treatment Of Cervantes' Life And Work.Categories: ReferenceWords, Language & Grammar

This critique of French philosophy and the history of German philosophy is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibility of the lecture form an...

it Is A Very Short List Of 20th-century American Plays That Continue To Have The Same Power And Impact As When They First Appeared—57 Years After Its Bro...

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to...

"But the point of Burke's work, and the significance of his achievement, is not that he points out that religion and language affect each other, for this ha...

Touching This Leviathan Asks How We Might Come To Know The Unknowable--in This Case, Whales. The Book Is Necessarily Interdisciplinary, Drawing On Biology, ...

[mitchell] Undertakes To Explore The Nature Of Images By Comparing Them With Words, Or, More Precisely, By Looking At Them From The Viewpoint Of Verbal Lang...

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An Eight-time Jeopardy! Champion Presents A Literary Companion And Guide That Describes The Mistakes, Epiphanies And Successes Of A Variety Of Writers, From...

Edited & Translated By Sam Hamill & J.p. Seaton. Originally Published: 2004. Translated From More Than One Language.Categories: Religion & Spiri...

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Be...

As a teenager during China’s Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People’s Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident...

From The Publisher: This Extraordinary Best-seller Is A Brilliant Evocation Of The Noted Scholar's Teachings On Mythology. Joseph Campbell And Bill Moyers O...

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When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fe...

“No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis,” Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrume...

For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Roman...

The Moral Compass, The Inspiring And Instructive Companion Volume To The Book Of Virtues, Offers Many More Examples Of Good And Bad, Right And Wrong, In Gre...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Homer's The Iliad, one of the earliest and most influential works of the...

Narratology Has Been Conceived From Its Earliest Days As A Project That Transcends Disciplines And Media. The Essays Gathered Here Address The Question Of H...

James M. Lellard uses Lacan's psychoanalytic theories to provide interpretations of lierary works including The Scarlet Letter, to The Lighthouse, and other...

Barbara Herrnstein Smith. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesPhilosophy

The Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition. Known only as the “Ex-...

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This book attempts to build a new assessment, demystifying traditional notions of assessment as a privatized technical apparatus and focusing on the role of...

This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of ling...

Spotlighting superb examples of classical Greek art in the context of recent findings in anthropology, social history, psychology, classics, and classical a...

The Cambridge Companion To Henry David Thoreau Is An Accessible Guide To Reading And Understanding The Works Of Thoreau. Presenting Essays By A Distinguishe...

A Mesmerizing And Essential Biography Of The Modernist Poet Marianne Moore The Marianne Moore That Survives In The Popular Imagination Is Dignified, White-h...

In this marvelous book, acclaimed around the world, Alberto Manguel takes us on a fascinating exploration of what it means to be a reader of books. A Histor...

Visionary thinker Jane Jacobs uses her authoritative work on urban life and economies to show us how we can protect and strengthen our culture and communiti...

greek Tragedies, Volume Iii Contains Aeschylus’s 'the Eumenides,' Translated By Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s 'philoctetes,' Translated By Davi...

The Dark Tower is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Inspired more than thirty years ago by works as diverse as J.R.R. Tolkien's epics, Rober...