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Save the Cat! Writes a Novel - The Last Book On Novel Writing You'll Ever Need

The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points need...

The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory

J. A. Cuddon was a writer, school teacher and academic. Best known for his Dictionary of Literary Terms, he also produced the large Dicti...

Great Novels - The World's Most Remarkable Fiction Explored and Explained

Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest novels. From medieval romances and tales of chivalry found in the ...

New Oxford Style Manual - The Wold´s Most Trusted Reference Books

Combining the recently updated editions of New Hart's Rules and the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors in a single volume, the...

The Literature Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

From the Iliad to The Great Gatsby, DK's The Literature Book is a fascinating graphic-led journey through the greatest works of literatur...

The Book at War - Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

'Rich, authoritative, and highly readable ... [a] tour de force' David Kynaston Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet...

Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

This text helps readers understand what narrative is, how it is constructed, how it is transmitted, and how it changes when the medium or...

Ex Libris - 100+ Books to Read and Reread

Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to h...

The Penguin Classics Book

Henry Eliot is the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics. Before joining Penguin he organized various literary tours, including a mass publ...

Books That Changed History - From the Art of War to Anne Frank's Diary

Featuring a foreword by James Naughtie. Turn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at the stories behind them. Over 7...

The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime

This Companion takes a unique approach, exploring manga and anime as two distinct but interrelated forms. Firmly based in Japanese source...

Literary Journeys - Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature

A beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twen...

German Literature - A Very Short Introduction

German writers, be it Goethe, Nietzsche, Marx, Brecht or Mann, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introdu...

Papyrus - The No 1 International Bestseller

The bestselling phenomenon - a 6,000-year adventure through the history of books and reading A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND MAIL ON SUN...

Nobody's Girl - A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

#1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The unforgettable memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who dared to take ...

Novelist as a Vocation

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller—and a unique look at the craft of writing from the ...

Lend Me Your Ears - Great Speeches in History

An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more t...

Libri-Fachkatalog Just the Best Januar - Juni 2017 - Neue englischsprachige Bücher - Bestseller aus Frankreich und Spanien

Postmodernizing the Holocaust - A Comparative Study of Chosen Novels

Marta Tomczok presents all Polish postmodern novels about the Holocaust, starting with "The First Splendor" by Leopold Buczkowski and end...

Articulations of the Nuclear - Postwar Japan under the Spell of the Atomic Age

The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 marked the beginning of a new era: the atomic age. Nuclear...

Always Connect - Transdisciplinarity and Intercultural Contact in Literary Discourse

Literature and its interactions with other disciplines such as history, philosophy, anthropology, the visual and multimedia arts, social ...

Adventure at Arms - On the Narrative Formation of Violence

Adventure fiction suggests that social conflicts can be displaced from the centre to the periphery of culture in order to be settled ther...

Alton Locke: Tailor and poet

Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory

Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory argues that the train is a loaded trope for reconfiguring narrative theories past...

Idylle und Geschichte - Studien zur europäischen Idylle von Vergil bis W. H. Auden

Die Gattung der Idylle, spätestens unter dem Druck des bürgerlichen Realitätspostulats seit ca. 1800 eher belächelt, hat seit geraumer Ze...

Animal Dreams in Aesthetic Media - Comparative Perspectives

Der Sammelband untersucht aus intermedialer und komparatistischer Perspektive die Funktion von Tierfiguren in Traumdarstellungen in Liter...

(Post-)Koloniale Welten - Umschreiben und Umkartieren hegemonialer Verhältnisse

Koloniale Verhältnisse und ihre postkolonialen Folgen prägen seit der Frühen Neuzeit die Welt und finden angesichts von Widerstandsbewegu...

Exil, Flucht, Migration - Konfligierende Begriffe, vernetzte Diskurse?

Begriffe wie Flucht, (Zwangs-)Migration, Vertreibung, Asyl oder Diaspora beschreiben Phänomene, die auch von der Exilforschung verhandelt...

Fear of Aging - Old Age in Horror Fiction and Film

In the genre of horror, elderly people are often used as a trope to evoke both a fear of death and a fear of aging. Old age is therefore ...

A Dramaturgy of Nostalgia - Film Adaptations of Picturebooks

This monograph explores for the first time the cinematic and serial adaptation of picturebooks and picturebook series as sources for live...

'Spectator'-Type Periodicals in International Perspective - Enlightened Moral Journalism in Europe and North America

As soon as the Spectator model spread from England to continental Europe and began to be incorporated in French, Dutch and German transla...

An Apology for Pictures - Studies in Popular Illustrated Narrative in Europe, 1918-1939

Illustrierte Bücher sind für viele Kinder der Einstieg ins eigene Lesen, nachdem Oma oder Papa ihnen vorgelesen und ihren 'Leseappetit' g...

Intra/Sections - Towards Post-Anthropocentric Concepts of Multiplicity

The global socio-ecological crisis is making it increasingly clear that 'we' do not only act in interpersonal social and political relati...

What Is Cultural Criticism?

In What Is Cultural Criticism?, two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice. The debate o...

Love Among the Poets - The Victorian Poetics of Intimacy

British literature of the Victorian period has always been celebrated for the quality, innovativeness, and sheer profusion of its love po...

Baltic Peripeties - The Power of Narration and the Making of Regions

In Aristotle's Poetics, the well-constructed turning point, peripeteia, makes a story by unfolding its tragic - or, more broadly, literar...

Alice in Transmedia Wonderland - Curiouser and Curiouser New Forms of a Children's Classic

Part of Alice's appeal is her ambiguity, which makes possible a range of interpretations in adapting Lewis Carroll's classic Wonderland s...

Anthropocene Poetry - Place, Environment, and Planet

Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment and Planet argues that the idea of the Anthropocene is inspiring new possibilities for poetry. It...

Literature and Botany

This volume explores the deep connections between literature and botany, examining how plants shape cultural narratives, ecological thoug...

Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner as Music Critics

The music reviews of Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner are central documents of 19th-century German musical culture. This book takes a c...

Culture and Economics in Contemporary Cosmopolitan Fiction

This book investigates how culture and economics define novel forms of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan fiction. Tracing cosmopolitanism'...

Readaptation Narratives in 'Sojourner Literature' - The Dis- and Re-Orientation of Returning Home

This Palgrave Pivot makes a case for ‘sojourner literature’, a new literary genre within transnational literature, parallel to ‘immigrant...

The Other-Conscious Ethics of Innovative Black Poetry

This monograph identifies and investigates the ¿other-conscious¿ ethics in black avant-garde poetry since the 1980s. Drawing on a long tr...

Women of the Left Bank - Paris, 1900-1940

Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating...

Theorizing Literature - Literary Theory in Contemporary Novels - and Their Analysis

This book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels ¿ American, English, French, German, and Italian ¿ ...

Zwischen Theorie und Fiktion - Hermann Brochs essayistisches Werk zwischen Literatur(theorie) und Philosophie

Der Gegenstand dieser Studie ist Hermann Brochs Verhältnisbestimmung von Erkenntnis, Ästhetik und Wert. Sie diskutiert Brochs entscheiden...

Re-imagining the Public Sphere in the Long Nineteenth Century - Literatur, Theater und das soziale Imaginäre

The crisis afflicting political discourse in many western democracies today is often explained in terms of a fragmentation of the public ...

Erasing and Rewriting in Manuscript Cultures - Practices of Text Obliteration and Manuscript Reuse in a Global Perspective

Across the most diverse societies, the reuse of writing surfaces in contexts such as learning to write, note-taking, literary creation, a...

Unsettled - American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine

Examines how young Jewish Americans' fundamentally Jewish values have led them to organize in solidarity with Palestinians Unsettled digs...

The New Woman Student in Fact and Fiction, 1880-1914

This book explores the representation of the first generations of women who studied at Oxford and Cambridge in popular fiction of the lat...

Wyndham Lewis and British Art Rock - A Practicological Modernism

This study connects the idiosyncratic modernism of Wyndham Lewis, co-founder of the Vorticist art movement, with works of several artists...

Schichtungen des Urbanen / Urban Layers - Rust Belt and the Ruhr

Durch Prozesse der Deindustrialisierung haben sich im Ruhrgebiet und im Rust Belt nicht nur die wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen der beiden Re...

Cosmoliteratures: Cosmopolitanisms in Literatures, Literatures in Cosmopolitanisms

Cosmopolitanism aspires to openness and universality, yet it is fraught with contradictions. While seeking to transcend borders, it has o...

Set: Jiddisch lesen

"Jiddisch lesen" in zehn Bänden - Bestseller und Highlights in einem Set Die zehn Bände des Sets präsentieren die Vielfalt jiddischer Lit...

Carl Hanser Verlag as an intermediary of Polish literature in West Germany between 1945 and 1990

The Munich-based Carl Hanser Verlag was one of the most important publishers in the 1950s and 1960s when it came to promoting Polish lite...

Virtuosität in der Krise - Techniken der Selbstbehauptung im 17. Jahrhundert

Virtuosität in der Frühen Neuzeit ist eine komplexe ästhetische Praxis, die in der Kunst über die Politik bis hin zur Ökonomie Wirkung ze...

Culinary Crossroads - Language, Culture, and Cuisine in Global Perspective

Food studies: from the local to the global

Countering Anthropocentrism - Vegetarian Vampires, Ecology, and Non-Human Subjects

This volume offers an eco-critical and post-humanist deconstruction of ecologies, environmentalisms, trans- and post-humanisms represente...

The Theatre of Milo Rau - Aesthetics - Ethics - Politics

This book offers a comprehensive study of one of the most influential political directors of our times, Milo Rau. It offers a critical vi...

Cultural Ways of Worldmaking - Media and Narratives

Taking as its point of departure Nelson Goodman¿s theory of symbol systems as delineated in his seminal book ¿Ways of Worldmaking¿, this ...