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This Book "Lady Athlyne" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has...

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This Book "J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and...

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This Book "Kittens and Cats: A First Reader" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations....

Creative Writing Practice: reflections on form and process explores the craft of creative writing by illuminating the practices of writers and writer-educators. Demonstrating solutions to problems in different forms and genres, the contributors draw on their professional and personal experiences to examine specific and...

Robert Burns. The flawed hero of Scottish culture, a poet who inspired a nation, a man loved by the ladies despite his debauchery, appreciated by the menfolk in the pubs with his songs and stories, a bankrupt, and a commentator for the common man...

"The papers in this book range widely over psychoanalysis, literature and philosophy. I will comment on several that grasped my attention. First 'Freud's "selected fact" His Journey of Mourning.' By identifying Freud's personal experiences of mourning, Schimmel is able to shine new light on...

A German twist on an Anglophone tradition, Science Fiktion provides a disturbing vision of the future from the other side of the Berlin Wall. When a young reader once asked Franz F?mann if he considered his work to be science fiction, he was quick...

Frank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann's collected diaries provide a candid account of life in socialist Germany. With an upbeat tempo and amusing tone, I Have No Regrets contains detailed accounts of the author's love affairs, daily life, writing, and reflections. Like the heroines in...

Collects 166 of Alexander Kluge's love stories previously concealed among his vast library of more than 2,000 texts. The latest offering from one of the greatest living German writers, The Labyrinth of Tender Force masterfully explores the greatest peaks and the most dreadful crevasses...

Taking a strikingly interdisciplinary and global approach, Postcolonialism Cross-Examined reflects on the current status of postcolonial studies and attempts to break through traditional boundaries, creating a truly comparative and genuinely global phenomenon. Drawing together the field of mainstream postcolonial studies with post-Soviet postcolonial studies...

King Arthur was not an Englishman, but a Celtic warrior, according to Loomis, whose research into the background of the Arthurian legend reveals findings which are both illuminating and highly controversial. The author sees the vegetarian goddess as the prototype of many damsels in...

Friendship as Social Justice Activism brings together academics and activists to have essential conversations about friendship, love, and desire as kinetics for social justice movements. The contributors featured here come from across the globe and are all involved in diverse movements, including LGBTQ rights,...

For many people today, the Hebrew Bible is the one supreme channel through which the Word of God was transmitted to humanity. In The Birth of God, Jean Bott駻o, one of the world's leading figures in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, approaches the Bible from...

Leads scholars and anyone who cares about the humanities into more effectively analyzing the fate of the humanities and digging into the very idea of the humanities as a way to find meaning and coherence in the world. The humanities, considered by many as...

This book examines the ways in which a writer's presentation of self can achieve or impede access to power. Conversations about written voice and style have traditionally revolved around the aesthetics of stylistic choice. These choices, while they help establish a writer's presence in...

Award-winning Filipino novelist, Linda-Ty-Casper -- the author of this biography says this book is the Memoir that her husband Leonard Ralph Casper did not get to write. Born in Fond du Lac Wisconsin in 1923, Leonard Casper had a full life as a writer,...

The Poetry Of Philip Larkin: A Study In Long PerspectivesBy: S. N. PrasadThe present book is an innovative attempt to give the Philip Larkin criticism a new direction. Early critical writings on Larkin for the most part tried to show him as a provincial...

One of Esquire's best books of spring 2022An extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York). How and when do artists and athletes know that their careers are coming to an end? What...

Horror fiction is an important part of the popular culture in many modern societies. This book compares and contrasts horror narratives from two distinct cultures--American and Japanese--with a focus on the characteristic mechanisms that make them successful, and on their culturally-specific aspects. Including a...

During the Great Depression, pulp fiction writers created a new, distinctly American detective story, one that stressed the development of fascinating, often bizarre characters rather than the twists and turns of clever plots. This new crime fiction adapted brilliantly to the screen, birthing a...

Like millions of other readers and moviegoers, as a youngster the late Robert W. Fenton loved swinging through the jungle with Tarzan. As an adult his interest was revived when he bought Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs' original office-estate in Tarzana, California, and began...

A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - With unwavering humanity and light-footed humor, this intimate account of the interminable year of 2020 offers commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice, the U.S. presidential election, and more, all with a miraculous...

This fully revised third edition of The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism provides the ideal introduction to postmodernist thought. Featuring contributions from a cast of international scholars, the Companion contains 19 detailed essays on major themes and topics along with an A-Z of key terms...

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume A offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the ancient world. Author: David Damrosch, David Pike, April AllistonISBN-10: 0205625959ISBN-13: 9780205625956Publisher: PearsonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2008Pages: 1376Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.40w x...

Epics of Disaffection is an exploration of the epic imagina-tion. It brings a historian's sensibility and expertise to bear on four eccentric works of literary genius, each of a differ-ent genre: The Lord of the Rings, War and Peace, and two books by the...

Four kilometers wide and stretching 250 km from the East Sea to the West Sea, the Korean Demilitarized Zone divides the Korean Peninsula roughly in half, with the Republic of Korea to the south and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north....

This book outlines the main features of political literature in modern times from Dostoevsky to Saul Bellow. It compares political literature from the USA and Western Europe with that from Russia and Eastern Europe. In comparing them, we must keep in mind Dan Jacobsen's...

The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology. Over the past two decades, musicians associated with this period have produced a large amount of important autobiographical writing. This book...

A powerful historical novel set in Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. "In Malambo . . . the Rimac proudly rubs elbows with the freedmen, the cimarrons, and smuggled slaves. . . It runs united to the other subterranean springs underneath Blanket Street,...

This book presents an extensive literary survey of the influence of ancient Chinese cultural classics around the globe, highlighting a mammoth research project involving over forty countries or regions and more than twenty languages. As the book reveals, ancient Chinese culture was introduced to...

Seventeen Years of Media Consumption (2002-2018): The books chronicles 875 books started and finished by the author between 1 January 2002 and 31 December 2018. All written material is cross-referenced with the other two volumes.Author: John W. FailISBN-10: 9526939514ISBN-13: 9789526939513Publisher: Scarlatti TiltLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2020Pages:...

This edited volume documents the state of the art in research on translation policies in both legal and institutional settings. Offering case studies of past and present translation policies from all over the world, it allows for a compelling comparison of attitudes towards translation...

"The Crescent Moon" is an incredible collection of introspective poems by Rabindranath Tagore. Originally written in Bengali, the poet himself translated the book into English. Most of the poems in 'The Crescent Moon' focus on the love in a mother-child relationship and itsgrowth over...

A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any susｬpicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at...

This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be, should be read at the end of the book. I have received a large amount of correspondence concerning this small work, and many reviews of it-some of them nearly as long as...

This book has been deemed as a classic and has stood the test of time. The book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations.Author: Havelock EllisISBN-10:...

This book has been deemed as a classic and has stood the test of time. The book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations.Author: Havelock EllisISBN-10:...

Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the book named Gitanjali. The translations are not always literal-the originals being sometimes...

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