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The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works 'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and disda……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of Kafka on the Shore with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami,……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of Homegoing with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, which tells the story o……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of All the Light We Cannot See with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of All the Light We Cannot See b……続きを見る

'Required reading.' - Cosmopolitan Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their……続きを見る

An intimate portrait of Patrick O’Brian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy. Patrick O’Brian was one of the greatest British novelists of the twentieth century, securing his place in literary hi……続きを見る

Conçu en 1509 et rédigé en latin la même année par Érasme, l’Éloge de la folie fut l’un des best-sellers européens de la Renaissance. La recherche d'authenticité et d'exactitude philologique, d'abor……続きを見る

This volume explores journeys across time and space in Greek and Latin literature, taking as its starting point the paradigm of travel offered by the epic genre. The epic journey is central to the d……続きを見る

This History offers a new and comprehensive picture of 1930s British literature. The '30s have often been cast as a literary-historical anomaly, either as a 'low, dishonest decade', a doomed experim……続きを見る

PIERRE BAYLE - FONTENELLE - LE SAGEーMARIVAUXーMONTESQUIEU - VOLTAIREーDIDEROTーJ.J. -ROUSSEAU - BUFFONーMIRABEAUーANDRÉ CHÉNIER.... Ce volume, comme ceux que j’ai donnés précédemment, s’adresse par……続きを見る

Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust. There have been hundreds of memoirs, histories and novels written about it, yet many fear that this important event may fall into oblivion. As Ho……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of Lincoln in the Bardo with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saund……続きを見る

The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and in……続きを見る

French thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society. Delivering a comprehensive history of thought in France from the Middle Ages to the present, th……続きを見る

The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary on "Piers Plowman" places the allegorical dream-vision of the poem within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval E……続きを見る

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, authorship and reading in Britain. This seventh and final volume surveys……続きを見る

Thomas Pynchon in Context guides students, scholars and other readers through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon's challenging, canonical work, providing the most up-to-date and au……続きを見る

This Handbook surveys the state of the art in literary authorship studies. Its 27 original contributions by eminent scholars offer a multi-layered account of authorship as a defining element of lite……続きを見る

Virgilio, "il Cigno di Mantova", evidentemente. Ma anche Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Stendhal, Dickens, Butor... Raccolte in ordine alfabetico, il lettore troverà nel presente volumetto notizie corredat……続きを見る

Penguin Classics have built their reputation as one of the largest and most successful modern imprints for 'classic' texts on the notion of 'the general reader'. Following an interrogation of this i……続きを見る

Geoffrey Chaucer is widely acknowledged as the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. His texts are studied extensively but, in order to be fully appreciated, they demand a nuanced understanding ……続きを見る

Suivant pas à pas la vie d’un essaim, depuis qu’il a quitté la ruche chaude et confortable pour affronter un monde plein de périls, Maeterlinck évoque « cette étrange petite république, si logique e……続きを見る

James Baldwin in Context provides a wide-ranging collection of approaches to the work of an essential black American author who is just as relevant now as he was during his turbulent heyday in the m……続きを見る

Leading scholars examine the history of climate and literature. Essays analyse this history in terms of the contrasts between literary and climatological time, and between literal and literary atmos……続きを見る

The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering cri……続きを見る

This materialist study of the short story’s development in three diverse magazines reveals how, at the dawn of modernism, commercial pressures prompted modernist formal innovation in popular magazin……続きを見る

This volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016). The full-length Introduction examines English Renaissance pastoral against the history of t……続きを見る

Sylvia Plath in Context brings together an exciting combination of established and emerging thinkers from a range of disciplines. The book reveals Plath's responses to the writers she reads, her int……続きを見る

Decadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered ……続きを見る

Ini adalah jawaban yang tangguh atas pelbagai buku yang menyerang dasar-dasar kekristenan secara keliru, terutama kematian dan kebangkitan Tuhan Yesus, doktrin Tritunggal, Kristologi, keabsahan Alki……続きを見る