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'Gay has an ability to blend the personal and political in a way that feels simultaneously gentle and brutal . . . you look at a cultural moment through Gay's eyes and, by the end, you see the world differently' Arwa Mahdawi, GuardianSince the publication of the...
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Corsair
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2023-10-10
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Dilly's Story
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From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again...
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Algonquin Books
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2023-09-19
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GMA’s 15 Spectacular New Books to Read in September Ms. Magazine’s September 2023 Reads for the Rest of UsThe Millions “Most Anticipated” Books of 2023LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023Never-before-seen unpublished works by...
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Legacy Lit
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2023-09-12
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WINNER, 2024 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS, NON FICTION
WINNER, 2024 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS, INDIGENOUS WRITING
SHORTLISTED, 2024 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS, INDIGENOUS WRITERS' PRIZE
This book is a collected works of one of Australia’s most...
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Magabala Books
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2023-09-01
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The Irish writer and Nobel Prize winner, Samuel Beckett, assembled for himself a history of western philosophy during the 1930s, just at the point at which his first novel, Murphy, was coming together.The 'Philosophy Notes', together with related notes taken at that...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-25
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William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets. His early friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge andWilliam...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-07-26
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«Paul Butler’s monograph is a wonderful illustration of how a visual reading of McGahern can reveal previously undiscovered aspects of the writer’s aesthetic approach. ‘The Deep Well of Want’ of the title is an expression that captures the pain and hurt at the core of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2023-07-17
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In June 1948, the SS Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, carrying with it the hopes and dreams of hundreds of young men and women from the Caribbean.Their arrival was to have far-reaching effects on Britain, signalling not only the beginning of mass migration to the UK,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2023-06-22
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James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) is still highly valued as a judge, as the historian of the criminal law of England, and as the author of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a forthright disagreement with John Stuart Mill. Stephen's weekly journalism established him as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-19
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This book brings together writing by Ralph Russell, the eminent 20th century scholar of Urdu, which illuminates his life-long engagement with Urdu speakers and their literature. It showcases his lifelong commitment to Urdu as a language, a history, and culture. Written...
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OUP India
Parution :
2023-05-24
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In the essays of this volume, Michael Putnam shows how seriously Statius pays homage to his canonical predecessor, Virgil, how thoroughly he interprets the complexities of Virgilian poetry, and how he often, by placing a Virgilian reference in a different social and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-17
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In the essays of this volume, Michael Putnam shows how seriously Statius pays homage to his canonical predecessor, Virgil, how thoroughly he interprets the complexities of Virgilian poetry, and how he often, by placing a Virgilian reference in a different social and...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-03
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This book introduces the origin, development and current state of American nature writing. It organizes many representative authors and works of American nature writing into such categories as the influence of transcendentalism, the wilderness complex, the English...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-04-18
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The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation for readers of Homer's Iliad, ever since Simone Weil famously proclaimed it as the poem's main subject. This book seeks to address that problem through a full-scale treatment of the language of force in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-04-15
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The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation for readers of Homer's Iliad, ever since Simone Weil famously proclaimed it as the poem's main subject. This book seeks to address that problem through a full-scale treatment of the language of force in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-04-05
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'The greatest writer of his time.' (George Orwell)The author of 20 much-loved novels and novellas, Charles Dickens combined humour and pathos to explore Victorian society in all its shades. Widely praised for his rich narratives and larger-than-life characters, he was...
Editeur :
OH
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2023-03-30
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'these letters thus far have remained unsent, i want you to change that for me.' Embrace honesty and heal beautifully.In the letters i will never send, TikTok poet Isabella Dorta urges you to leave nothing unsaid and take comfort in moving poems on love, heartbreak,...
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Ebury Digital
Parution :
2023-03-16
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In classical Latin, luxuria means 'desire for luxury'; it is linked with the ideas of excess and deviation from a standard. It is in most cases labelled as a vice which contrasts with the innate frugal nature of the Romans. Latin authors do not see it as endemic but as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-02
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In classical Latin, luxuria means 'desire for luxury'; it is linked with the ideas of excess and deviation from a standard. It is in most cases labelled as a vice which contrasts with the innate frugal nature of the Romans. Latin authors do not see it as endemic but as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-15
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This monograph is focused on the fictional works of Arnold Bennett whose literary role was very important in the history of the late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury novel in light of the debate between modernism and the traditional approach to the craft of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-02-03
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