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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

'An indispensable work of reference' Times Literary Supplement<BR><BR>The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary T...

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

The Literature Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

Learn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.<BR><BR>Part of th...

Modernism - A Literature in Crisis

An engaging, approachable introduction to literary modernism Modernism represented an astonishing outbreak of cultural innovation, spanni...

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...

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

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...

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

Star Wars The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire

A history of the dark times<BR><BR>"So this is how liberty dies-with thunderous applause."<BR>-Senator Padmé Amidala&lt...

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

Imagine a world without Principia Mathematica, Rights of Man, the Bible, Shakespeare, or the Mahabharata.<BR><BR>Books that C...

Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in lite...

Literary Witches

An NPR Best Book of 2017<BR><BR>Celebrate the witchiest women writers with an inventive guidebook that pairs imaginative vign...

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 writin...

Papyrus - The No 1 International Bestseller

The bestselling phenomenon - a 6,000-year adventure through the history of books and reading<BR><BR>A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOM...

German Literature - A Very Short Introduction

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...

The Penguin Classics Book

**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**<BR><BR>The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest libr...

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...

On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction

A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to includ...

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 ...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

Culture and Economics in Contemporary Cosmopolitan Fiction

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

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...

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 ¿ ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Myth, Philosophy, and Literature - Exploring Thought, Story, and Culture

This book explores significant literary and critical thinking achievements that have shaped our world. This slim yet comprehensive guide ...

Literary Autobiography - Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations

Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality? Why is it often ...

Blythe Spirit - The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe

'Moving, candid, vivid, it is all that we could hope for in a memoir of this unique and treasured writer' ROWAN WILLIAMS 'An unusually in...

Corporeality in the Novels of Gabriel García Márquez and Sony Labou Tansi - Bodies in (Con)texts

.- 1 Introduction.- 2 On Beginning/Ending: In‘carn’ations of Atavism and Apocalypse.- 3 The War Dialectic and the Genealogy of Postcoloni...

The Complete Poems of John Donne - Epigrams, Verse Letters to Friends, Love-Lyrics, Love-Elegies, Satire, Religion Poems, Wedding Celebrations, Verse Epistles to Patronesses, Commemorations and Anniversaries

The Poems of John Donne is one volume paperback edition of the poems of John Donne (1572-1631) based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of ...

Den Kanon 'canceln'? - Alteritätskonstruktionen in frühneuzeitlicher Literatur - Adaptionen, Appropriationen und Aktualisierungen

Wie umgehen mit kanonisierten Texten, deren Alteritätsdarstellungen heutigen Maßstäben 'politischer Korrektheit' widersprechen? Die Beitr...

Bookish - a witty, warm-hearted mystery perfect for book lovers

Based on Mark Gatiss's brand new TV series set in post-war London in 1946, Bookish follows an enigmatic independent bookshop owner who h...

100 Novels That Changed the World

Refuge

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

Koloniale Verhältnisse und ihre postkolonialen Folgen prägenseit der Frühen Neuzeit die Welt und finden angesichtsvon Widerstandsbewegung...

Trace and Learn Handwriting Russian Alphabet - Russian Alphabet Tracing Workbook

Colorful activity book for learning how to read, pronounce & write Russian Alphabets. This Book is aimed to make Learning easy for first ...

Dictionary of Fine Distinctions - Nuances, Niceties and Subtle Shades of Meaning

A charmingly illustrated and witty stocking filler for language lovers

(Im-)Mobilität und Exil

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...

Stand, Beruf(ung), Geschlecht - Umbrüche und Transformationsprozesse im gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Wandel

Transformationen beginnen oft im Verborgenen, bevor sie als Umbrüche sichtbar werden. Der Sammelband vereint interdisziplinäre Beiträge z...

The Key to Everything - May Swenson, a Writer's Life

"One of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century, May Swenson (1913-1989) was born in Utah to Swedish immigrant par...

Poems for a world gone to sh*t - the amazing power of poetry to make even the most f**ked up times feel better

This uplifting, entertaining and accessible anthology featuring inclusions by voices ranging from Kate Tempest to Walt Whitman amounts to...

Discovering Stephen King's the Shining

This comprehensive survey delves into the varied critical perspectives surrounding Stephen King's The Shining and Stanley Kubrick's iconi...

Kulturen des Urteilens - Prozesse und Konstellationen der Urteilsbildung in Texten der Frühen Neuzeit

Der Band bietet einen Einblick in frühneuzeitliche Kulturen des Urteilens und deren Darstellung. In der Frühen Neuzeit wurde das Urteil z...

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

The crisis afflicting political discourse in many western democraciestoday is often explained in terms of a fragmentation of thepublic sp...

Auerbach's Renaissance - Rebirths of an Aesthetic from Shakespeare to Ferrante

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Brilliant Modernism - Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry

Illuminates how the power of light shaped early twentieth-century art, culture, and poetry.

Return of the Gods - Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature

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

Rewritable media, typically used for learning to write, taking notes, and running accounts, have important implications for many aspects ...