The Uses of Literature, Paperback

Reducere. In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are ch...

From bottle gardens, batman and the bachelor pad to garden gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a range of objects to explore the meanings and...

An authoritative and accessible account of French literature from medieval romance to avant-garde poetry. It explores the medieval roots of modern ...

Explores the place and importance of literature in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its...

The Companion provides an introduction to the relationship between law and literature in medieval England. It will be of interest to advanced stude...

Reducere. Peter Robb's journey into the dark heart of Sicily uses history, painting, literature and food to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of politica...

Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory is a wide-ranging but accessible introduction to the key thinkers and theories integral ...

This Second Edition of Diana Ridley’s bestselling guide to the literature review outlines practical strategies for reading and note taking, and gui...

In this series of lectures, previously unpublished in English, and here translated from a French reconstruction and interpretation by noted scholar...

Reducere. In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and ...

Literature not only represents Canada as "our home and native land" but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that...

Exploring religion as a psychological factor in improving life, this book describes the pervasive and diverse uses of pleasure in religious literat...

Gossip - long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals - is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodriguez Navas reveals go...

DescriptionSynthetic Biology -- A Primer (Revised Edition) presents an updated overview of the field of synthetic biology and the foundational conc...

Covers the complexity of anxiety in everyday life, as well as its effect on happiness and achievement, told through the experiences of anxiety suff...

Reducere. In recent years, the development of narrative analysis has given life to the study of the narrative as a form of information for social research. T...

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

Model theory is used in every theoretical branch of analytic philosophy: in philosophy of mathematics, in philosophy of science, in philosophy of l...

Reducere. A thorough account of Africa's history and its lasting influence on Western culture told from the perspective of the disparate descendants who inhe...

Reducere. PilgrimagePointed RoofsBy Dorothy RichardsonIn a review of Pointed Roofs (The Egoist April 1918), May Sinclair first applied the term "stream of co...

Teaching and Learning at a Distance is written for introductory distance education courses for preservice or in-service teachers, and for training ...

The two essays in this classic work by sociologist Erving Goffman deal with the calculative, gamelike aspects of human interaction. Goffman examine...

Reducere. The rescue of a literary manuscript results in a war of words over the interpretation of 107 haiku about New York's Central Park. In the battle of ...

Reducere. Although research shows that there is a silent crisis in men's mental health, there remains surprisingly little literature on the subject. This imp...

Reducere. In this book, major American philosopher Richard Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to se...

A clear and practical guide to completing a literature review in nursing and healthcare studies. Providing students with straightforward guidance o...

Description Literature and Poverty offers an engaging overview of changes in literary perceptions of poverty and the poor. Part I of the book, from...

Contributor(s): Author: Russell CareyThis updated resource provides full support for the Cambridge IGCSE(R), IGCSE (9-1) and O Level Literature in ...

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Reducere. Uncle Wiggily Longears is one of the most beloved and enduring characters of children's literature. The creation of American author Howard R. Garis...

Reducere. . . . this is no doctrinaire tract but rather a concerted attempt to look at important cultural problems from a fresh perspective. . . . Chow's boo...

Reducere. Audacious experimentalist and self-declared anti-writer, Subimal Misra is the master of contemporary alternative Bengali literature and anti-establ...

Few critical terms coined by poets are more famous than "negative capability." Though Keats uses the mysterious term only once, a consensus about i...

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Reducere. Jewish Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuries examines the formative first five centuries of Christian history as experienced by individuals who w...

Reducere. DescriptionRhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry, making legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed...

The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the...

The first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated women writers in the world. In Bodily ...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, arguably the most famo...

John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled: fulfilled incest b...

Reducere. This is a thirty-year quest for the secret of UFOs-in Wisconsin cow pastures, the Pentagon, and the ivory towers of academia.These are true, person...

Reducere. In Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and her o...

Witch Tale: A Bewitching Brew of Homophones is a fantastical storyline that uses art and language to reinforce one of the primary canons of childre...

Reducere. Literary devices are the techniques used in the telling of a narrative. Literary devices are also known as fictional devices and are any of several...

Reducere. Set in 1884, Hell on the Border tells the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves at the peak of his historic career. Famous for being a crack sho...

DescriptionA little kid who wants to play with the big kids uses the alphabet to get his way in this classic story from Strega Nona author and illu...

Reducere. This book is intended to strip away the mythology that often colors the discussion regarding Congress' true role innational security decision makin...

Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topi...

This is the first new, full-scale edition of Cymbeline in 37 years. One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic...

DescriptionThough the "medieval" is often deployed as a stigmatic symbol of all that is retrograde, against modernity, and barbaric, the medieval i...

Reducere. Hunting Causes and Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, e...

Reducere. Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for th...

Contemporary children's picture books provide a rich domain for developing theory and analysis of visual meaning and its relation to accompanying v...

Reducere. Moral Repair examines the ethics and moral psychology of responses to wrongdoing. Explaining the emotional bonds and normative expectations that ke...

Reducere. The Poetics is a fundamental text that examines the development, production and effectiveness of poetry as it pertains to a writer and their intend...

Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of "The Call of the Wild" (1903), a short novel written by Jack London. Jack London (1876-191...

Contributor(s): Editor: Therese JonesEditor: Delese WearEditor: Lester D. FriedmanOver the past forty years, the health humanities, previously call...

Reducere. Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written and one of the best-selling books of all time. It is the tale of Victor Frankenstein,...

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One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina sets the impossible and destructive triangle of Anna, her husband Karenin, and her lover Vro...

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Reducere. Yi Kwang-su (1892-1950) was one of the pioneers of modern Korean literature. When the serialization of Muj ng (The Heartless) began in 1917, it was...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gaston BachelardTranslator: Edith And Frederick FarrellAir and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement - by Gaston ...

Reducere. In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Hol...

Reducere. This book is a translation of Maurice Blanchot's work that is of major importance to late 20th-century literature and philosophy studies. Using the...

Reducere. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, the Commonwealth Club Silver Medal for Literature 1984, and named one of the twentieth centu...

Reducere. This insightful and beautifully written work explores nonlinear processes of recovery of the loss of Self. The inherent healing power of hard-earne...

Liberating today's chicken from cartoons, fast food, and other demeaning associations, The Chicken Book at once celebrates and explains this noble ...