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  • The Short Story

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Kahn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and seen more as entertainment than art. However it has become far more than that, and this Very Short Introduction considers afresh the form's ongoing innovations in plot construction, capacity for ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • All the World on a Page

    A Critical Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry

    by Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky ...
    The rich and ongoing development of Russian lyric poetry, explored through close readings of thirty-four poems by poets ranging from Alexander Blok to Maria StepanovaThe Russian cultural tradition treats poetry as the supreme artistic form, with Alexander Pushkin as its national hero. Modern Russian lyric poets, often on the right side of history but the wrong side of their country’s politics, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A History of Russian Literature

    by Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, Stephanie Sandler ...
    Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. The volume proceeds chronologically in five parts, ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Mandelstam's Worlds

    Poetry, Politics, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age

    by Andrew Kahn ...
    Rightly appreciated as a 'poet's poet', Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is 'as firmly rooted in both an historical and cultural context as real as Joyce's Ulysses or Eliot's Waste Land.' Great lyric poets offer a cross-section of their times, and Mandelstam's poems represent the worlds of politics, history, art, and ... Read more

    $81.29 CAD

  • Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence

    by Andrew Kahn ...
    Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia's greatest poet, a 'founding father' of modern Russian literature, and a major figure in world literature. His poetry and prose changed the course of Russian culture, and his works inspired operas by Musorgsky and Tchaikovsky (as well as Peter Shaffer's Amadeus). Ceaselessly experimental, he is the author of the greatest body of lyric poetry in the language; ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • A Hero of Our Time

    by Mikhail Lermontov, Andrew Kahn ...
    Translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?' Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Caucasus, where his adventures - amorous and reckless - do nothing to alleviate his boredom and cynicism. World-weary and self-destructive, Pechorin is alienated from those around him yet he is full of passion and romantic ardour, sensitive as well as ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Audiobook

    The Short Story

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Kahn ...
    Narrated by Mike Cooper ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 19 min

    What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and seen more as entertainment than art. However it has become far more than that, and this Very Short Introduction considers afresh the form's ongoing innovations in plot construction, capacity for ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Raise Your Voices

    Inquiry, Discussion, and Literacy Learning

    In a collection of chapters from high school teachers and university researchers, Raise Your Voices offers English language arts teachers “one-stop shopping” to learn how to foster dialogic classrooms and how to prompt, sustain, connect, and assess classroom discussions, especially discussions about issues that adolescents find consequential. The chapters explore both the basics for facilitating ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Inquiry Units for English Language Arts

    Inspiring Literacy Learning, Grades 6–12

    Inquiry Units for English Language Arts is an engaging and relevant collection of instructional units that delve into contemporary problems related to equity, justice, identity, freedom, and social reform. Designed by practicing classroom teachers, these units integrate reading, writing, speaking, and listening as modes of investigation in the Language Arts classroom. Each chapter provides ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Inquiry Paths to Literacy Learning

    A Guide for Elementary and Secondary School Educators

    Inquiry Paths to Literacy Learning, a collection of chapters from secondary teachers and university researchers, offers English language arts teachers several models and considerations for how to design and implement inquiry-based teaching and learning. As the contributors demonstrate, an inquiry approach can significantly boost student achievement, understanding, and transfer of learning. The ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin

    Edited by Andrew Kahn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and intellectual contexts. In the first part of the book individual chapters analyse his poetry, his theatrical works, his narrative poetry and historical writings. The second section explains and samples Pushkin's ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow

    Translated by Irina Reyfman, Andrew Kahn ...
    by Alexander Radishchev ...
    Series series
    Alexander Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. An account of a fictional journey along a postal route, it blends literature, philosophy, and political economy to expose social and economic injustices and their causes at all levels of Russian society. Not long after the book’s ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD