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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...

Anatomy of Criticism - Four Essays

Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth ...

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...

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...

Literary Witches

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

Novelist as a Vocation

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 Penguin Classics Book

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

Alton Locke: Tailor and poet

A history of literature

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

The Trouble in Room 519: Money, Matricide, and Marginal Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century

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...

Saint Perpetua across the Middle Ages - Mother, Gladiator, Saint

This study traces the genealogy of Saint Perpetuäs story with a straightforward yet previously overlooked question at its center: How was...

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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Transgressing Boundaries in Jeanette Winterson¿s Fiction

The subsequent chapters of the book deal with selected questions from Jeanette Winterson's fiction, such as gender issues, love and eroti...

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...

Pandemic Protagonists - Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions

During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to »pandemic fictions« or started to produce the...

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...

Small World - Ireland, 1798-2018

A survey of 200 years of Irish writing, this book offers analytic accounts of key Irish works and authors.

With the Face of the Enemy - Arab American Literature Since 9/11

Terrorist, Ölscheich, voll verschleierte Frau - Stereotype über Araber sind seit dem 11. September in den US-Medien und der Populärkultur...

Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Literary Multiculturalism

Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Multiculturalism in which ethnic literary modernists of the 1930s play a crucial role. Focusing on ...

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...

Teaching the Global South - Pedagogical Approaches to a Decolonizing Curriculum in Literary and Cultural Studies

The Koran - Or, Essays, Sentiments, Characters, and Callimachies, of Tria Juncta in Uno, M.N.a. Or Master of No Arts. Three Volumes Complete in One

The River Fans Out - Literature and its Theories in China

This book presents 18 highly influential essays on Chinese literature and semiotics by Professor Zhao Yiheng, including his analysis and ...

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...

Ezra Pound and the Spanish World

This collection gathers for the first time criticism on Ezra Pounds lifelong involvement with Spain and Spanish culture, from his early v...

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...

Clever Betsy; A Novel

The book, "" Clever Betsy; A Novel "" , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgot...

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.

Global Trespassers - Sanctioned Mobility in Contemporary Culture

Global Trespassers explores contemporary representations of minoritised migrants permitted to remain in the Global North. With reference ...

The Collected Poems of Henry Kirke White

This is the first scholarly edition of one of the best-selling poets of the nineteenth century -- a poet influential on Keats, Shelley an...

Recipes and Book Culture in England, 1350-1600

Thirteen essays providing new perspectives on medieval and early modern recipes - short instructional texts on a variety of topics includ...

The Entremés for Performance - Translations of One-Act Plays from Golden Age Spain

These comic interludes highlight the politics, social commentary, and brilliant comedy of Spain's classical theater period. With many app...

Out of This World: Gnostic Encounters in Modern French Literature and Thought

How to escape this world, this body? How can one invent a world parallel to this one? How do language and literature strive for a heterot...

David Peace

Providing the first analysis of screen and stage adaptations of Peace's writings, and featuring an exclusive interview with the author, t...

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...