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In Passions of the Mind, A.S. Byatt writes as an artist and scholar taking the reader on a journey of discovery as she explores the ideas, images and attitudes to language underpinning some of her own fiction, and also the work of Great Victorians and a varied range of...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-10-26
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In her powerful opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors' - A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; the surprising variety of distant pasts that British writers have...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-10-22
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-08
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-03
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Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. He examines pictorial title-pages in the context of the History of the Book for the first
time. The first part of The Mind of the Book...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-16
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Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. He examines pictorial title-pages in the context of the History of the Book for the first
time. The first part of The Mind of the Book...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-09
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'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ... like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future. ...
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Penguin
Parution :
2016-08-04
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-21
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-24
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Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell’s entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of...
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Penguin
Parution :
2014-10-30
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars.The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-06-26
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Along with Shakespeare, Jane Austen (1775-1817) can be said to be the most widely studied author in the history of English literature. But unlike Shakespeare, her language has received little scholarly attention. This is especially true for the language of her letters....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-22
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Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In Men at War, Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creations and their impact on our understanding of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-06
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Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine he shows us how it's done....
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Penguin
Parution :
2013-11-07
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Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death--and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can prove daunting...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-08-01
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There they sit, the great tomes of classical literature, taunting you with their length and difficulty, as you ask: which books are the most important and why - and what's actually any good? Why does most writing about the classics have words like 'seminal' or 'oeuvre'...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2012-04-05
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Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2012-01-10
Collection :
1001
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A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOKA COMPANION TOTHE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose “As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer.” Choice “If you want to understand how...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-24
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go of what had become...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2011-06-09
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In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way.
In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-05-26
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