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  • Literature of Suburban Change

    Narrating Spatial Complexity in Metropolitan America

    by Martin Dines ...
    Series series Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century

    $38.39 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory

    by J. A. Cuddon, M. A. R. Habib, Matthew Birchwood, Martin Dines, Shanyn Fiske, Vedrana Velickovic ...
    With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon’s indispensable dictionary firmly in the 21st Century.Written in a clear and highly readable styleComprehensive historical coverage extending from ancient times to the present dayBroad intellectual and cultural rangeExpands on the previous edition to incorporate the most recent literary terminologyNew material is ... Read more

    $226.99 CAD

  • Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

    War Minus the Shooting?

    Edited by Martin Hurcombe, Philip Dine ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This volume of wide-ranging essays by sport historians and sociologists examines the complex relations of war, peace and sport through a series of case studies from South and North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia and New Zealand.From formal military training in the late nineteenth century to contemporary esports, the relationship between military and sporting cultures has endured across ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • New Suburban Stories

    Edited by Dr Martin Dines, Timotheus Vermeulen ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in the City
    Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, New Suburban Stories brings together new research from leading international scholars to examine cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a rapidly increasing proportion of the world's population. Focussing in particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to suburbia, the book ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD

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    $15.99 CAD

  • How Literature Works

    50 Key Concepts

    by John Sutherland ...
    How Literature Works is an indispensable book for any reader seeking a greater appreciation of their favorite novel, poem, or play. It offers a lively and straightforward guide to literary thinking. With a series of compact essays, the renowned literary critic John Sutherland--widely admired for his wit and clear reasoning--strips away the obscurity and pretension of literary study. His book ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Vimy Trap

    or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War

    by Ian McKay, Jamie Swift ...
    The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • A Poet's Glossary

    by Edward Hirsch ...
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    $18.99 CAD

  • The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

    Fourth Edition

    by Roland Greene ...
    Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated ... Read more

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  • The Games

    A Global History of the Olympics

    by David Goldblatt ...
    “A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book ReviewA Boston Globe Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics ... Read more

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  • Literature

    A Student's Guide

    by Louis Markos, David S. Dockery ...
    Series series Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition
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  • Gaming the World

    How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture

    by Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann ...
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    $36.29 CAD