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Beyond Babar
The European Tradition in Children's Literature
2006 || Paperback || Sandra L. Beckett e.a. || Scarecrow Press
All too often, attention is paid only to those children's novels that were written in English, with non-English-language works being passed over and neglected. Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature examines eleven of the most celebrated European children's novels in substantial, critical essays written by well-known international scholars. This approach provides a comprehensive discussion of the selected works from a variety of theoretical perspectives.
Each essay offe...
A Little History of Poetry
2025 || Paperback || John Carey || Yale University Press
How Our Lives Become Stories
Making Selves
1999 || Paperback || Paul John Eakin || Cornell University Press
The popularity of such books as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, and Kathryn Harrison's controversial The Kiss, has led columnists to call ours "the age of memoir." And while some critics have derided the explosion of memoir as exhibitionistic and self-aggrandizing, literary theorists are now beginning to look seriously at this profusion of autobiographical literature. Informed by literary, scientific, and experiential concerns, How Our Lives Become Stories enhance...
Outline Of American Literature
2022 || Paperback || Kathryn Van Spanckeren || Orange Grove Books
A Little History of Literature
2025 || Paperback || John Sutherland || Yale University Press
Writers as Public Intellectuals
Literature, Celebrity, Democracy
2015 || Hardcover || Odile Heynders || Macmillan
This book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and devices in and beyond the text. Their assumed persona thereby reads the world as a book - interpreting it and offering alternative scenarios for understanding it.
Stalin's Library
A Dictator and his Books
2025 || Paperback || Geoffrey Roberts || Yale University Press
Literary Theory / 2nd edition
An Introduction
2008 || Paperback || Terry Eagleton || John Wiley and Sons Ltd
A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 70s, when it posed an unprecedented challenge to the literary establishment. Eagleton has added a new preface to this anniversary edition to address more recent developments in literary studies, including what he describes as "the growth of a kind of anti-theory", and the idea that literary theory has ...
Hello Everybody!
One Journalist's Search for Truth in the Middle East
2010 || Paperback || Joris Luyendijk || Profile Books Ltd || ook als eBook
In Hello Everybody! a bestseller in his native Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five yearsas a reporter in the Middle East. Young and inexperienced but fluent in Arabic, he speaks to stone throwers and soldiers, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors chronicling first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation and war. But the more he witnesses, the less he understands and he becomes increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he sees on the ground and wha...
Old and Middle English c.890-c.1450 / 3rd edition
An Anthology
2009 || Paperback || Elaine Treharne || John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Spanning almost seven centuries, this anthology encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English, culminating in some of the finest works produced in English in the high Middle Ages. New edition of this widely-used anthology of Old and Middle English literatureNow extended to include newly-edited versions of Old English Wonders of the East, of Poema Morale, extracts from Julian of Norwich and Margery KempeFull translations are offered for the Old and earlier Midd...