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Discusses more than 80 writers of children's fantasy books, mostly from the past half century, and shows why their tales have proved so compelling. From William Steig's small picture books to J.R.R. Tolkien's epic series; from utopias to dystopias; from less known works like Patricia Wrightson's to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter.

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Reading Adaptations provides an original introduction to the widespread and extremely popular practice of stage adaptation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. -- .

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This essential discussion of Amy Tan's life and works is a necessity for high school students and an enriching supplement for book club members.

A tour-de-force in Asian American writing, Amy Tan has created works that are essential to high school and undergraduate literature classes and are often book club selections.

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Shakespeare and Montaigne are the English and French writers of the sixteenth century who have the most to say to modern readers. This fascinating and rigorous book explores the relationship between the work of these great writers in the light of their rhetorical training.

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Shakespeare and Montaigne are the English and French writers of the sixteenth century who have the most to say to modern readers. This fascinating and rigorous book explores the relationship between the work of these great writers in the light of their rhetorical training.

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This bookasks why reading matters so much to so many people. Its answer is that reading is a philosophical activity: a way of working through, and taking a stand on, fundamental questions about who and what we are, how we should live, and how we relate to other things.

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Reading and Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and the reading strategies that arise from them. It explores the relationship between democracies that are perpetually in crisis and the seemingly unlimited freedom of our reading practices.

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How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read What holds them together to constitute a tradition What distinguishes this tradition from the 'mainstream' canon and other 'minority' literatures This book explores their implications for the multiculturalist agenda.

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Showing how audiobooks affect literary culture, this book provides new insights into reader behaviour, effects of the audiobook boom, and business models for digital publishing and distribution.

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"An innovative reading of Baudelaire's poetry and criticism in dialogue with the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno"--

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Directly responding to Western feminist criticism written about Emecheta, this study argues that Emecheta herself is not a feminist in the Western sense and that her novels should not be construed as reflecting this political interest.

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This book covers several distinctive moments of the post-civil rights era; the black power period, the affirmative action period, and the neoliberal period. It inspects representative texts and critical approaches associated with each period, covering a variety of authors and genres from Toni Morrisons mythic fiction to Wahida Clarks street lit.

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This book covers several distinctive moments of the post-civil rights era; the black power period, the affirmative action period, and the neoliberal period. It inspects representative texts and critical approaches associated with each period, covering a variety of authors and genres from Toni Morrisons mythic fiction to Wahida Clarks street lit.

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Chapters include sidebars of interesting information, along with questions to stimulate book club discussions and student research.

One of today's most important novelists, Cormac McCarthy is at the peak of a long and productive career.

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This collection aims to show that David Foster Wallaces work originates from and functions in the space between philosophy and literature. New essays by prominent and promising Wallace scholars explore the many ways these two discursive modes serve as always already intertwined ways of experiencing and expressing the world in Wallaces oeuvre.

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This collection aims to show that David Foster Wallaces work originates from and functions in the space between philosophy and literature. New essays by prominent and promising Wallace scholars explore the many ways these two discursive modes serve as always already intertwined ways of experiencing and expressing the world in Wallaces oeuvre.

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Integrating analysis and a honed interpretation of the near-total gamut of the oeuvre to-date of Professor Fiona Sampson, the book synthesizes its rigorous discussions of the poetry, prose in different genres, and literary practices of Professor Sampson over a decades-long and much-lauded literary career to date. Including biographical insights.

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The book goes on to show how the oeuvre of a contemporary poet and writer evinces a vital literary intelligence and a vision of literary practice on and for the contemporary literary scene.