The Event of Literature

Reducere. Part fun- and information-filled almanac, part good book guide, the Children's Book-a-Day Almanac is a new way to discover a great children's book-...

Reducere. In the Image is an extraordinary first novel illuminated by spiritual exploration, one that remembers "a language, a literature, a held hand, an en...

Reducere. A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

Students and scholars will be challenged to reconsider the experiential context in which early Christian literature was received and interpreted. U...

Reducere. This is a unique work. It is one of the first books written for young readers describing the early days of the event that has since come to be know...

Reducere. The trial of Cultural Revolution leaders, including Mao's widow and her Gang of Four, was the signal event in China's post-Mao transition. In its w...

Winner of the 1985 National Book Award--from the author of Zero K Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, h...

Reducere. DescriptionWhile humans have used their hands to engage in combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancient Greece as an Olympic event. I...

Reducere. Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's mo...

DescriptionWorld-famous duck-tective Miss Mallard crosses snowy scenery to track down a captured canine in this engaging Aladdin QUIX mystery. Miss...

Ten years ago, a distraught freelance writer locked himself in a room and furiously scribbled his way out of a cataclysmic week. Though Mikel Jolle...

This book argues that the realist novel compresses the duration of aging into descriptive intervals, constructing senescence as a shameful event to...

The Taverna by the Sea - an enchanting travel memoir about a once-in-a-lifetime experience of running a Greek beach taverna for an event-filled sum...

Reducere. When John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head. Barth's writing was not a response to the realist...

Reducere. In a recent National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) report, about one out of every 7 fatalities on the road involved a motorcycle. I...

Reducere. Rabbinic literature includes hundreds of stories and brief narrative traditions. These narrative traditions often take the form of biographical ane...

Reducere. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon was the first book to be awarded the Newbery Medal for an outstanding contribution to children's li...

Reducere. In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Yukio Mishima, one of the leading figures in modern literature, The Death of a Man pre...

Reducere. A major literary event, the publication of the second volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towe...

For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust a...

Reducere. PoemZ 4 U AND YourZ by Zo-Alonzo Gross, a Rap music inspired poetry and art/photo event where the blues street meets the neo-classical, on the wing...

Logic of Sense is one of Deleuze's seminal works. First published in 1969, shortly after Difference and Repetition, it prefigures the hybrid style ...

Reducere. Greg Johnson's Graduate School with Heidegger is unique in the vast literature on Heidegger. Written by a self-proclaimed "failed academic" for int...

Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeb...

Reducere. Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event o...

Reducere. "Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era could as well be known as the Kenner era, for there is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuable...

Reducere. Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits tha...

Reducere. Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable s...

Reducere. The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is a collection of eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, affidavits, and other documents on the activi...

Reducere. All of the monologues in this book are from recently produced plays by award-winning, well-known, and emerging new playwrights. These challenging c...

DescriptionWe live in a golden era of protest; from the Extinction Rebellion protests in the UK to the anti-gun rallies in the US, people are takin...

An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in March 2017 An American journalist and revolut...

Reducere. Since the dawn of civilization, the vampire has danced through the dreams and nightmares of every culture, expressed in folklore, literature, and a...

This is a unique work. It is one of the first books written for young readers describing the early days of the event that has since come to be know...

Written during the final stages of the Indian Independence movement, between the gloom and angst of the interwar period and at the cusp of the begi...

Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Leaves o...

This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy...

Reducere. The appearance of David R. Slavitt's translation of Orlando Furioso ("Mad Orlando"), one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissa...

Two seminal figures of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, discuss literary influences and personal history in a never-befo...

Reducere. She (1887), an intoxicating mix of adventure, fantasy, and romance, is an underappreciated classic of English literature. Among his most successful...

Reducere. In 1982, following the relaxation of access restrictions to Tibet, six climbers set off for the Himalaya to explore the little-known Shishapangma m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Maurice BlanchotAuthor: Jacques DerridaTranslator: Elizabeth RottenbergThis volume records a remarkable encounter in critic...

Description Essentials of Holocaust Education: Fundamental Issues and Approaches is a comprehensive guide for pre- and in-service educators prepari...

DescriptionFor the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and ...

DescriptionTormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill.The stark immediacy ...

Contemporary Photography and Theory offers an essential overview of some of the key critical debates in fine art photography today. Building on a f...

Reducere. Introducing a practical model of play therapy for traumatized children Some of the most rewarding work a therapist can do is help a child recover f...

DescriptionFew would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely...

Reducere. While on vacation with her family in Valencia, Claire Halde witnesses a shocking event that becomes the catalyst for a protracted downward spiral a...

Reducere. "Such things may have attached to them heaven knows what spooks and spirits." - The IkonOn the evening of Saturday, 28 October 1893, Cambridge Univ...

DescriptionThe Story of Mankind was written and illustrated by Dutch-American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon and publish...

Reducere. What do a short car trip, a pandemic, the wood-wide fungal web, a challenging learning experience, a storm, transport logistics, and the language(s...

Reducere. Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching traces the reaction of activists, artists, writers, and local residents to the brutal lynching of a pregnant...

Reducere. World War II was the most lethal event in human history, which explains why its history has been so often explored in film and literature. THE VARS...

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his...

Reducere. In this innovative guidebook Julie Baretz takes readers to twenty-one off-the-beaten-path locations in Israel where Bible stories are said to have ...

Reducere. The earthly King Pururavas rescues the celestial nymph Urvashi from a demon, and thus begins a majestic love story that brings heaven and earth tog...

Reducere. Nominated for a 2014 Lime Award for Excellence in Fiction Named a Best Book of Summer 2014 by Publishers Weekly Named a Pick of the Week for the we...

Reducere. World Literature Today Editor's Pick "Enchanting. . . . The Poetic Species is a wonderful read in its entirety, short yet infinitely simulating." -...

Reducere. After the Ashes is more than a typical survival hand guide. Because of the realization that atomic warfare is likely inevitable, it seeks to both i...

Krissy Hancock's bookstore-café in Pine Hills, Ohio, is teaming up with the local library for a seasonal celebration, but someone is spiking the re...

Reducere. DescriptionHave you ever wanted to write a song? - For a band or concert? - For a significant other? - To express your sentiment? - To memorialize ...