In this classic beginner's guide to English literature, Mario Klarer offers a concise and accessible discussion of central issues in the study of literary texts, looking at:definitions of key terms such as literature and textthe genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and filmperiods and classifications of literaturetheoretical approaches to text the use of secondary resourcesguidelines for writing research essays. The new and expanded edition is fully updated to include:a wider range of textual ex...

In this brilliant selection of essays—including three new pieces—the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as...

• Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? Including thoughts on the writing of The Handm...

'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers' Observer

Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding and provocative essays from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson

Drawing on her years of thinking and reading about Artificial Intelligence in its bewildering manifestations, Jeanette Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, politics and, of course, computer science, to help us understand the radic...

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhat begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms.

Eind oktober 1918 trok Paul van Ostaijen weg uit Antwerpen. De aftocht van het Duitse leger betekende ook zijn aftocht uit België, waar het hem net te heet onder de voeten was geworden. In 1921 dacht hij terug aan die tijd en schreef hij zijn avant-gardistische meesterwerk Bezette Stad, met ‘De Aftocht’ als indrukwekkend slotgedicht.

Nu de wereld de aftocht uit de eerste coronacrisis meemaakt, stellen we ons dezelfde vragen als Van Ostaijen toen. Wat volgt er op deze crisis? De bevrijdin...

Ieder jaar viert de stad Groningen op 28 augustus Groningens Ontzet om te herdenken dat de stad in 1672 standhield in de bezetting door 'Bommen Berend', de bisschop van Mu¨nster. Inmiddels is de feestdag ook het vieren van de vrijheid - de 'ontzetting' - in het algemeen gaan betekenen. Maar hoe ervaren Stadjers die dag eigenlijk? En zijn ze zelf wel eens 'gelukkig ontzet'?Op de 'Achtentwintigsten' in 2014 opende Uitgeverij Palmslag een schrijfwedstrijd waarmee ze schrijfliefhebbers opriep ee...

An essay on the nature of human revolt, this book makes a critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It also questions two events held sacred by the left wing, the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Offers a collection of wit and wisdom that demonstrates the author's vision and his style.

Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It's a recurring pattern in my life. An instinct.