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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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'Fascinating. It blew my mind!' - Malcolm Gladwell

Wonderworks reveals that literature is among the mightiest technologiesthat humans have ever invented, precision-honed to give us what ourbrains most want and need.

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Designed for teachers, this is a comprehensive book of lesson plans, projects, discussion questions, reproducible worksheets and more.

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Records details of all seperately published creative literature by Australian writers over the last two centuries. Genres covered are poetry, drama, fiction and children's writing.

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Women know that books are more than a way to kill time on the bus--they're therapy in a bag. The authors of the chick-flick bible "Cinematherapy" prescribe the best of classic and contemporary literature for every stage of a woman's life from "Bridget Jones's Diary" to "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and "Gone with the Wind". 25,000.

Maps the state of popular literature and reading in America, including the growth of blogs, interactive fiction, and other electronic media. This book includes entries, which provides a definition of the genre, its history, trends and themes, a discussion of how the literary form engages contemporary issues, and the genre's critical reception.

What is it about some books that makes them timeless Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.

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This book proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in the Middle Ages and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dantes masterpiece. It also unveils new biographical data from Italian state archives (published in English for the very first time) about important poets from medieval Italy.

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Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives examines a burgeoning genre of ethnic American literature and film called phantasmic trauma narratives, which use culturally specific modes of the supernatural to connect readers to historical traumas in ways that encourage empathic responses.

This book conveniently surveys the lives and works of African American women writers.

Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 150 African American women novelists, poets, playwrights, short fiction writers, autobiographers, essayists, and influential scholars.

Details the lives and works of Caribbean authors in the context of Caribbean history and culture. This encyclopedia includes more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries written by more than 20 expert contributors. These entries cover authors, works, genres, historical and cultural figures, themes, and various topics.

In this two-volume work, hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries survey contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer American literature and its social contexts.

Offers reference articles on over 70 women writers who have an international reputation, together with discussions on some 20 related topics, including domesticity, friendship, Gothic and spirituality.

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Modernism is still widely acknowledged as perhaps the most important and influential artistic and cultural phenomenon of the 20th century. Covering hundreds of different topics in a clear, incisive and critical manner, this reference maps the complex field of modernism.

From Isabel Allende to Emile Zola and from Shakespeare to Sartre, literary works have often engaged political issues, and many political writings give close attention to literary concerns.

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This book studies the development of expressions of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from 1850 to 1965. It suggests that during this time, adolescent girls went from being perceived as innocent, asexual beings to beings that were considered primarily sexual in nature.

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Feminist Ecocriticism examines the interplay of women and nature as seen through literary theory and criticism, drawing on insights from such diverse fields as chaos theory and psychoanalysis, while examining genres ranging from nineteenth-century sentimental literature to con...

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Jane Austen lived in an exciting age for travel. Improvements to roads and carriages meant that more people than ever were taking journeys for pleasure, to view picturesque scenery, to visit a spa town or the seaside, or to stay with distant relations.

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The biggest names in Steinbeck studies share both personal and critical views on Steinbeck's concept of fiction, his spirituality, his vast international appeal, his ambiguous portrayal of women, and the future of Steinbeck criticism.

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A comprehensive illustrated biography of Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction The Prophet.

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Designed for teachers, this is a comprehensive book of lesson plans, projects, discussion questions, reproducible worksheets and more.

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This book examines, from the angle of more than a dozen perspectives, the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin, one of the most prominent thinkers and influential literary figures of the twentieth century. It opens a new critical discourse that reshapes our current understanding of Bakhtin.

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The opening essay, by Brian Attebery, sets the agenda for the book in its forthright rebuttal of fantasy's critics, who see it as either politically naive or even pernicious: rather, Attebery argues, fantasy is a radical mode of perception that contests every form of political orthodoxy.

The book is divided into six large sections.