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  • The Devil's Details

    A History of Footnotes

    par Chuck Zerby ...
    Footnotes have not had it easy. Their dominance of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century literature and scholarship was both hard-won -- following many years of struggle -- and doomed, as it led to belittlement in the twentieth century. In The Devil's Details, Chuck Zerby playfully explores footnotes' long and illustrious history and makes a clarion call to save them from the new world of the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Well-Educated Mind

    A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

    The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven’t because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise.Newly expanded and updated to include ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • How Literature Works

    50 Key Concepts

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Printer's Error

    Irreverent Stories of Books History

    Delve into the curious history of print and publishing—from the Gutenberg Bible and Shakespeare's folios to rare book forgers, literary scandals, and more.The printing press is one history's greatest achievements. It allowed us to record and spread some of humanity's most brilliant ideas. But let's not forget that humankind is also full of idiots. In Printer's Error, historian J.P. Romney and rare ... En savoir plus

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  • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

    How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • How to Think like Shakespeare

    Lessons from a Renaissance Education

    par Scott Newstok ...
    Collections series Skills for Scholars
    A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfullyHow to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun exploration of the craft of thought—one that demonstrates what we’ve lost in education today, and how we might begin to recover it. In fourteen brief chapters that draw from Shakespeare’s world and works, and from ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Portable Magic

    A History of Books and Their Readers

    par Emma Smith ...
    A history of one of humankind’s most resilient and influential technologies over the past millennium—the book. Revelatory and entertaining in equal measure, Portable Magic will charm and challenge literature lovers of all kinds as it illuminates the transformative power and eternal appeal of the written word.Stephen King once said that books are “a uniquely portable magic.” Here, Emma Smith takes ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Sincerity

    How a moral ideal born five hundred years ago inspired religious wars, modern art, hipster chic, and the curious notion that we all have something to say (no matter how dull)

    “A serious and engaging cultural history painted on an admirably large canvas.”—Laura Kipnis, New York Times Book ReviewWhat do John Calvin, Sarah Palin, Jean-Jacques Rosseau, and Bon Iver have in common? A preoccupation with sincerity. With deep historical perspective and a brilliant contemporary spin, R. Jay Magill Jr. tells the beguiling tale of sincerity’s theological past, its current ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $21.99 CAD Maintenant $12.99 CAD

  • Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

    What PC English professors don't want you to learn from . . .- Beowulf: If we don't admire heroes, there's something wrong with us- Chaucer: Chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness- Shakespeare: Some choices are inherently destructive (it's just built into the nature of things)- Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin- Jane Austen: Most men ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Pleasing Myself

    From Beowulf to Philip Roth

    par Frank Kermode ...
    Sir Frank Kermode is acknowledged as one of the greatest critics of our time, renowned for the wit humanity and good sense of his writing. Pleasing Myself brings together the very best of his shorter pieces, on topics ranging from Donne and Yeats to modern art and money. ... En savoir plus

    $7.89 CAD

  • English Lit 101

    From Jane Austen to George Orwell and the Enlightenment to Realism, an essential guide to Britain's greatest writers and works

    par Brian Boone ...
    Collections series Adams 101 Series
    A guide to the greats in British literature!From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Charles Dickens' Tiny Tim to Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy and Shakespeare's Juliet, British authors have created some of the most compelling characters in all of literature. But too often, textbooks reduce these vibrant voices to boring summaries that would put even an English dean to sleep.English Lit 101 is an engaging ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Children's Literature

    A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

    Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter.The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full ... En savoir plus

    $28.59 CAD