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  • The Literature of Hell

    par Dr. Margaret Kean, Dr. Jonathan R. Olson, David Almond, Helen Appleton, Dr. Charlotte Jones, Jeya Ayadurai, Dr. Laura Seymour, Dr. Hannah Silverblank, Lisa Dwan, Professor Rachel Falconer0 ...
    Narratives of a descent to the underworld, of the sights to be seen and the punishments meted out there, have kept a hold on the popular imagination for millennia. The legacy from doctrinal warnings and the deep-set literary markers that identify a place of suffering and alienation continue to stimulate creative exchange and critical thinking. Such work takes risks: it braves the dark and ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Art and Mysticism

    Interfaces in the Medieval and Modern Periods

    Modifié par Louise Nelstrop, Helen Appleton ...
    Collections series Contemporary Theological Explorations in Mysticism
    From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards, images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition. Not only did these artistic representations provide images through which to find God, they also held mystical potential, and likewise mystical writing, from the early medieval period onwards, is also filled with images of God that likewise refracts and reflects His ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

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  • On Writers and Writing

    par Margaret Atwood ...
    A brilliant, ambitious, insightful inquiry into the art of writing from the legendary Margaret Atwood.What do we mean when we say that someone is a writer? Is he or she an entertainer? A high priest of the god of Art? An improver of readers' minds and morals? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood addresses the riddle of her own art.Her wide ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Book of Lost Books

    An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read

    par Stuart Kelly ...
    A " clever and highly entertaining" look at books through history that were stolen, went missing, or just never got written ( The New York Times).In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it's sobering to realize that some of the world's great prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history, part ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • A Little History of Literature

    par John Sutherland, John ...
    Collections series Little Histories
    A much-loved author brings the world of literature alive for all agesThis 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infectious passion for books and ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Poet's Glossary

    par Edward Hirsch ...
    A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over.Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Wife of Bath

    A Biography

    par Marion Turner ...
    From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

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  • Romanticism

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Michael Ferber ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    What is Romanticism? In this Very Short Introduction Michael Ferber answers this by considering who the romantics were and looks at what they had in common -- their ideas, beliefs, commitments, and tastes. He looks at the birth and growth of Romanticism throughout Europe and the Americas, and examines various types of Romantic literature, music, painting, religion, and philosophy. Focusing on ... En savoir plus

    $7.19 CAD

  • Poetry

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Bernard O'Donoghue ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this--such as Shelley's that the poets 'are the unacknowledged ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Managing Monsters

    par Marina Warner ...
    In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC. In a series of six lectures, she takes areas of contemporary concern and relates them to stories from mythology and fairy tale which continue to grip the modern imagination.She analyses the fury about single mothers and the anxiety about masculinity in the light of ideals about male heroism and control; the current ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Monuments And Maidens

    The Allegory of the Female Form

    par Marina Warner ...
    'Why should Truth be a woman? Or Nature? Or Justice? Or Liberty? Not, certainly, because women have been more free, just, truthful, nor even (though this one has a double edge) more natural. Marina Warner sets out to breathe some life into the army of petrified personages that litters western cityscapes... As her book shows, these stony ladies can be persuaded to yield surprisingly interesting ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD