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Bibliotherapy
The Healing Power of Reading
2023 || Hardcover || Bijal Shah || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In Bibliotherapy, bibliotherapist and counsellor Bijal Shah draws on her personal experience, work with clients and research to explore the healing power of reading.
From the history of how therapeutic reading evolved - and the important role played by great writers such as the Stoics, Montaigne, Eliot and Wordsworth in its popularisation - to first-hand stories from clients who have struggled with grief, relationships and illness, this book explores just how comforting and life-changing read...
The Riverside Chaucer / 3rd edition
Reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon
2008 || Paperback || Geoffrey Chaucer e.a. || Oxford University Press
The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon. Since F. N.
Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic increase in Chaucer scholarship. This has not only enriched our understanding of Chaucer's art, but has also enabled scholars, working for the first time with all the source-material, to recreate Chaucer's authentic texts. For the third edition,...
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The Written World and the Unwritten World
Collected Non-Fiction
2024 || Paperback || Italo Calvino || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The Routledge Concise History of World Literature
2011 || Paperback || Theo D'haen || Taylor & Francis
This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature. Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism to postmodernism, Theo Dhaen examines: the return of the term "world literature" and its changing meaning Goethes concept of Weltliteratur and how this relates to current debatestheories and theorists who have had an impact on world literaturenon-canonical and less-known litera...
Literary Theory: The Basics
The Basics
2013 || Paperback || Hans Bertens || Taylor & Francis
This third edition of Hans Bertens bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism and new historicism Literary Theory: The Basics covers contemporary topics including:reception theory and reader response theorythe new criticism of postmodernismthe after theory debatepost-humanism, biopolitics and animal studiesaestheticsLiterary Theory: The Basics hel...
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All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
2023 || Paperback || Douglas Wolk || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”—and to the past sixty years of American culture—from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale
“Brilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful. . . . Wolk proves to be the perfect guide for this type of adventure: nimble, l...
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The Novel Cure
An A to Z of Literary Remedies
2024 || Paperback || Ella Berthoud e.a. || Canongate Books
A quirky popular reference book for literature lovers weary in brain and body and in need of a novel cure . . .
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The Dark Powers of Tolkien
An illustrated Exploration of Tolkien's Portrayal of Evil, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History
2024 || Paperback || David Day || Octopus Publishing Group
An in-depth and illustrated guide to Tolkien's dark powers.
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Leonard Cohen
The Mystical Roots of Genius
2021 || Paperback || Harry Freedman || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Leonard Cohen taught us that even in the midst of darkness there is light, in the midst of hatred there is love, with our dying breath we can still sing Hallelujah.' - The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
'Among the finest volumes on Cohen's life and lyrics ... An exploration which would have intrigued and engaged Leonard himself.' - John McKenna, writer and friend of Leonard Cohen
Harry Freedman uncovers the spiritual traditions that lie behind Leonard Cohen's profound and unmistakable lyrics
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Exploring Children's Literature
Reading for Knowledge, Understanding and Pleasure
2019 || Paperback || Nikki Gamble || SAGE
This book explores the rich and varied world of children's literature and how it can be used in teaching to promote reading for pleasure and create lifelong readers.