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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 ...

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...

Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth

Catalogue published for the exhibition at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (2018), and at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York...

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...

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...

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...

Novelist as a Vocation

Literary Witches

LITERARY WITCHES celebrates the most witchy women of the literary world with beautiful illustrations and mini creative bios. Gorgeous, ee...

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...

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

Ethical Narratives - Reauthorization of Authorial Agency and Articulation of Authenticity in Post-Postmodern Novels

The authors analyze selected English post-postmodern novels by Zadie Smith, Arundhati Roy and Jonathan Franzen to demonstrate that a para...

Tolkien and Alterity

This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien's fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism. It critica...

Tolkien, Self and Other - "This Queer Creature"

This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien¿s life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particular...

Portrait

Künstlerportrait/artist portrait bilingual: German/English

The Meaning of the Photographs in the Novel "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: 2,0, Fontys University of Applied Sciences Venlo (...

Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative

Beyond Borders - Transgressions in European Literatures

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Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy

This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with 'infancy' during the Romantic pe...

Animal Dreams in Aesthetic Media - Comparative Perspectives

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

Der Traum vom Berg - Bergvisionen zwischen Symbolik und Erfahrungsraum

Der vorliegende Band untersucht das Zusammenwirken von Bergdarstellungen und Traumnarrativen in Literatur und Film aus epochen- und kultu...

My Little Black Book: A Blacktionary - The pocket guide to the language of race

Through their work with organisations and companies across the world, Maggie Semple and Jane Oremosu found that there was a need to help ...

Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea as a Hypertext of Bronte's Jane Eyre - A Post-modern Perspective

Hypertextuality provides a comprehensive system of analyzing any relationship between literary texts. It is a generic architext which enc...

Geographies of Perpetration - Re-Signifying Cultural Narratives of Mass Violence

This volume maps cultural representations of Mass Violence from the perpetrators' perspective. It analyzes spaces where political crimes ...

Grave

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Grave takes a ground-level vie...

Mushroom

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. They are the things we step on...

Political Changes and Transformations in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Children's Literature

Tying in with political and cultural changes in Europe, this volume focuses on current discourses on the significance of democratic syste...

Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy - Beckett, Barthes, Nancy, Stevens

This book discusses the elusive centrality of silence in modern literature and philosophy, focusing on the writing and theory of Jean-Luc...

Russian Formalism and Anglo-American New Criticism - A Comparative Study

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. MARKING THE BOUNDARIES -- 1. RUSSIAN FORMALISM -- 2. NEW CRITICISM -- II. THE...

Making Hamlet German - Forms of Translation and Recreation

This book examines the retranslation of Hamlet in Germany in the 20th and the early 21st century. It adopts a comparative approach, juxta...

Saying the Unsayable: - Poethics of Silence in Contemporary North American Novels

Im Kontext nordamerikanischer Literatur bieten Schriftsteller*innen aus marginalisierten Gruppen Gegenerzählungen an, um dem Schweigen, d...

Kreativität - Schöpferischer Wille und (Über-)Lebensstrategie

Die Studie fasst Kreativität als Kunstprinzip, kulturelles Phänomen und genuines Prinzip der Existenz. Als Begriff für beobachtete Phänom...

Object Studies - Introductions to Material Culture

Object Studies: Introductions to Material Culture is a textbook that introduces students to an interdisciplinary approach to material cul...

In the Beginning were Puppets: Towards a Poetics of Puppetry - Towards a Poetics of Puppetry

The study privileges the puppet as a new and revealing point of access to contemporary critical debates regarding performance, genre, aff...

Pastures of the Empty Page - Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry

A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America's preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a panth...

1,000 Books to Read Before You Die - A Life-Changing List

The best and most significant books across genres, nations and history, from Grimm to Grisham, Aeschylus to Edwidge Danticat.

The German Model in Romanian Culture / Das deutsche Vorbild in der rumänischen Kultur

The book contains contributions on the significance of German culture for Romanian art, language, and literature. Not only will the direc...

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...

Jenseits der Grenze: De-/Re-Lokalisierung | Hybridisierung

Während die künstlerische Praxis paradigmatisch auf Andersheit zielt, stellt sich für die Wissenschaft die Frage nach dem Neuen in der We...

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

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

Treading Paths - Lemko Literature in the Years 1848-1918

The monograph is a presentation of the writings of the stateless people called Lemkos-Rusyns, from the earliest awareness of their own cu...

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...

British Romanticism in Asia - The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia

This book examines the reception of British Romanticism in India and East Asia (including China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan). Building on re...

Happy in Berlin? - English Writers in the City, The 1920s and Beyond | Englische Autor*innen der 1920er und 30er Jahre

Faszination, Inspiration und sexuelle Freiheit - ein neuer Blick auf englische Autor*innen und ihr Berlin der Goldenen Zwanziger. John Ch...

A Book of Verses

A Book of Irish Verse

The book "" A Book of Irish Verse , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten ...

Bird

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famou...

Literature, Translation, and the Politics of Meaning - Polish, American, and German Literary Traditions

This book deals mostly with American avant-garde literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the present-day practice and...

(Inter)Cultural Dialogue and Identity in Lithuanian Literature

This book illustrates that the idea of a 'national' literature is profoundly problematic. Chapters on boundaries and crisscrossing show h...

Popular Theatre in Early Modern England, Germany and Italy (1570-1640) - A Study in Incultural Theatricality with an Analysis of 'Engelische Comedien und Tragedien' (1620)

This study explores the influence of English and Italian itinerant companies on early modern German theatre. A central aspect that mediat...

A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies

This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of "cultural memory studies" for the first time in one volume. Art...

Paris, a New Rome

However shared the Roman inheritance may be, it hardly unifies. Which Rome is the model, the Republic or the Empire? The Rome of imperial...

Exil in Kinder- und Jugendmedien

Das Jahrbuch Exilforschung 2023 widmet sich der Vermittlung von Exil- und Migrationserfahrung in Kinder- und Jugendmedien aus kindlicher ...

With Bodies - Narrative Theory and Embodied Cognition

We read not only with our eyes and minds, but with our entire body. In With Bodies, Marco Caracciolo and Karin Kukkonen move systematical...

All the Knowledge in the World - The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good ...

Around the World in 80 Books - A Literary Journey

'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen Green...

Consistent Democracy - The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth-Century America

Consistent Democracy offers an intellectual history of democracy and the so-called woman question from the 1830s through the 1890s. It sh...

Translating Myself and Others

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a...