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Poetry Reading And Understanding
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Author: Cross MarshBinding: HardbackPublished: F.W. Cheshire, 1966Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Some moisture damageMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: No dust jacket, cloth cover back has light water mark stain; previous owner name and...
Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery
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Author: Marvin MudrickBinding: HardbackPublished: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous...
Whole Lives: Shapers Of Modern Biography
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Author: Reed WhittemoreBinding: HardbackPublished: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic text presents a critical examination of the art and practice of modern biography...
Nature And Salvation In Piers Plowman
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Author: Hugh WhiteBinding: HardbackPublished: D.S.Brewer, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: DJ - Faded with some marks. This academic text offers a profound analysis of...
The Voice that Thunders
A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker 'His work has a symphonic quality unique in fiction' THE TIMES 'The autobiography of one of...
The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies
The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies presents a renewed look at elegy as a long-standing tradition in the literature of loss, exploring recent shifts in the continuum of...
John Keats: His Life And Poetry, His Friends, Critics, And After-Fame
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Author: Sidney ColvinBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1920Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly biography chronicles the life and literary contributions of the revered Romantic poet, John...
Aboriginal Writers and Popular Fiction: The Literature of Anita Heiss
Wiradjuri woman, Anita Heiss, is arguably one of the first Aboriginal Australian authors of popular fiction. A focus on the political characterises her chick lit; and her identity as an...
Books that Made Us: The companion to the ABC TV series
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Wilder Shores: Women's Travel Stories of Australia and beyond
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Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine
As the streetlamps flickered out and lights were obscured behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy sitting rooms, London's young...
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine
As the streetlamps flickered out and lights were obscured behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy sitting rooms, London's young...
"Romeo and Juliet"
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BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE
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The Turtle Beach
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The Homecoming
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Lyceum Ink: 100 Years of Writing
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The Word: How We Translate the Bible--And Why It Matters
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From a distinguished Oxford scholar and the author of A History of the Bible , an examination of how biblical translation works and why it matters Throughout history, most Jewish...
How Fiction Works
A deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the...
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023 * * THE FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS...
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than
One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on science, history and humanity One of our most beloved...
Books that Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure
A profound, funny and uplifting collection of reminiscences about a life in books Here are forty texts to read at some stage in your life- forty texts that can enrich...
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP ACROSS THIS LINE From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie,...
Mao's Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free. A new edition of the phenomenal international bestseller. From bitter poverty to the stardom of the West - this is the...
The Bookseller's Tale
A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller 'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.' This is the story of our...
Classical Literary Criticism
Recently updated and expanded volume of the landmarks of ancient literary criticism The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world- they...
Poetics
Penguin Classics relaunch A penetrating account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle combine to produce 'pity and fear' - and why we derive...
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling: First Nations Classics
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction by Fiona Foley, Finding Eliza is a vital Indigenous perspective on colonial storytelling. Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa...
AZADI: Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus
With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is...
Idle Talk: Gwen Harwood, Letters 1960-1964
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Shakespeare: For All Time
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Strong Man from Piraeus and Other Stories
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After the War
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Reading the Seasons: Books Holding Life and Friendship Together
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and
'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms...
Scene of the Crime: A Guide to the Landscapes of British Detective Fiction
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Heroines: The essential feminist manifesto and 'One of the 50 greatest
'I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order - pretending...
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies
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Papyrus: THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER
The bestselling phenomenon - a 6,000-year adventure through the history of books and readingA FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK...
Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South
Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. The contributors to Speaking of the Self challenge this presumption by examining a wide...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and
'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms...
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The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends
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Shakespeare on Love
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Ghost Season
With supreme skill and reverence, capturing shards, stillness and chaos, Fatin Abbas delivers a novel that gallops close and parallel to current events in Sudan.A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel...
Oppositions: Selected Essays
'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought...
Language, History and Style: Leo Spitzer and the Critical Tradition
Author: James V. Catano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 In 1925, Spitzer called for a science of style that described literary texts in terms of philology and comparative linguistics....