Named by The Times as the all-time number one crime writer, Patricia Highsmith was an author who broke new ground and defied genre clichés with novels such as The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on……続きを見る
A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years
Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute……続きを見る
O narrador principal (mas não exclusivo) das centenas de fragmentos que compõem este livro é Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa. Soares escreve sem encadeamento narrativo……続きを見る
Die fünf Poetikvorlesungen von Michael Lentz legen den Bodensatz der Zwangsneurose frei, die wir Literatur nennen. Sie widmen sich Fragen des poetologischen Untergrunds, auf dem die Literatur sich b……続きを見る
Chez eux, il y a quatre chambres. Celle du frère, la sienne, celle
des parents. Et celle des cadavres. Le père est chasseur de gros
gibier. Un prédateur en puissance. La mère est transparente,
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A modern classic in Japan on par with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher in the Rye, Botchan is a very popular Japanese novel and still widely read decades after its first publication……続きを見る
In this thought-provoking book Lambert Wiesing asks simply: What is luxury? Drawing on a fascinating range of examples, he argues that luxury is an aesthetic experience. Unlike experience gained via……続きを見る
著者:Audrey Jaffe
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
Critical discussions of the Victorian realist novel tend to focus on its vivid representations of everyday life. The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real proposes that the genre is founded in desire, ……続きを見る
著者:Michael Germana
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2017年12月01日
Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist examines Ralph Ellison's body of work as an extended and ever-evolving expression of the author's philosophy of temporality-a philosophy synthesized from the wri……続きを見る
Singles K é uma série de ebooks semanais que traz para o leitor cotidiano as melhores crônicas de colunistas e escritores da KBR publicadas no blog da editora. Nesta edição, com 16 crônicas inéditas……続きを見る
'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . . . Fascinating.' Sunday Times
Once we've learned it……続きを見る
In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation ……続きを見る
著者:John Worthen
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan' and 'Christabel', and co-author with Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the great writers and thinker……続きを見る
著者:David Kurnick
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2011年12月05日
According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. Empty Houses challenges this consensus by reexamining the genre's developme……続きを見る
著者:no Yasumaro Ō
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2014年09月09日
Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs that h……続きを見る
Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology of "good wives, wise mothers" in support of male……続きを見る
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is the founder of modern theater, and his plays are performed all over the world. Yet in spite of his unquestioned status as a classic of the stage, Ibsen is often dismissed……続きを見る
Superhero adventure comics have a long history of commenting upon American public opinion and government policy, and the surge in the popularity of comics since the events of September 11, 2001, ens……続きを見る
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen provides a lively guide to film and television productions adapted from Shakespeare's plays. Offering an essential resource for students of Shakespea……続きを見る
" Dictionnaire est inspiré par l'amour des langues, qui est peut-être un des aspects de l'amour des gens".
Personne n'est indifférent aux langues humaines, dont l'apparition, aux aurores de notre es……続きを見る
Widely considered one of the leading experts on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Thomas Alan Shippey has informed and enlightened a generation of Tolkien scholars and fans. In this collection, friends a……続きを見る
The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In addition to providing a……続きを見る
In Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination: King Arthur and Don Quixote as National Heroes the author examines traditional Arthurian and Cervantine literary narratives to discuss how the tw……続きを見る
著者:Cesare Pavese
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2017年09月08日
On June 23rd, 1950, Pavese, Italy's greatest modern writer received the coveted Strega Award for his novel Among Women Only. On August 26th, in a small hotel in his home town of Turin, he took his o……続きを見る
The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and even interact……続きを見る
Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothingーsuch are the examples Kant's Critique of Judgment offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic beauty. Menninghau……続きを見る