Kirjallisuudentutkimus
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Tales of Darkness and Light: Soso Tham's The Old Days of the Khasis
Tham, SosoOpen Book PublishersSoso Tham (1873–1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was one of the first writers to give written poetic form to the rich oral tradition of hi...
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Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays
Gabler, Hans WalterOpen Book PublishersThis collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic critici...
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The Red Countess: Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951)
Zur Mühlen, HermyniaOpen Book PublishersBorn into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with...
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101 amazing Harry Potter facts
Goldstein, Jack.; Taylor, FrankieAndrews UK 2012Through JK Rowling’s series of Harry Potter books and the eight films, we have been introduced to a fantastic and magical world that I’m sure many of us would like to visit. But wh...
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Adventurings in the Psychical
Bruce, H. AddingtonDuke Classics 2014Author H. Addington Bruce got his start working as a reporter for several newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. His series of books about ghosts and supernatural phenomena benefit fro...
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After Kathy Acker : A Biography
Kraus, ChrisPenguin Books Ltd 2017Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by A...
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Against all authority anarchism and the literary imagination
Shantz, JeffImprint Academic 2012This volume examines historical and contemporary engagements of anarchism and literary production. Anarchists have used literary production to express opposition to values and rela...
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Analytical Studies : Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life
De Balzac, HonoreDuke Classics 2014This section of The Human Comdedy, the multi-volume series of stories, tales, and essays that comprised most Honore de Balzac's life's work, focuses on love and marriage as they ex...
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The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts
Atkinson, DavidOpen Book PublishersThis is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad shoul...
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An Apartment on Uranus
Preciado, Paul B.Fitzcarraldo Editions 2020Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulr...
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The Art of Poetry : How to Read a Poem
Wolosky, ShiraOxford University Press 2008 1. painosPreface 1. Word Choice 2. Syntax and the Poetic Line 3. Images: Simile and Metaphor 4. Metaphor and the Sonnet 5. The Sonnet 6. Poetic Conventions 7. More Verse Forms 8. Pe...
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Arthurian romance a short introduction
Pearsall, DerekBlackwell 2005 Repr.This witty and accessible book traces the history of Arthurian romance from medieval to modern times, explaining its enduring appeal. Traces the history of Arthurian romance from m...
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At Large
Benson, Arthur ChristopherDuke Classics 2015Renowned essayist and fiction writer Arthur Christopher Benson had a unique way of looking at the world that never seemed to atrophy or stagnate. In the many collections he publish...
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Beatrix Potter
Norman, AndrewPen and SwordEven before she emerged from the cot in her nursery Beatrix Potter was up against it. With her prodigious memory she recalled being placed under the tyranny of a cross old nurse wh...
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Beauty and the Beast : An Essay in Evolutionary Aesthetic
McDowall, Stewart A.Duke Classics 2014What do we mean when we call an object or experience "beautiful"? What are the mental, cognitive, psychological and spiritual processes that transpire when we encounter something w...
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The Black Hole of Auschwitz
Levi, Primo; Belpoliti, Marco; Wood, SharonJohn Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2005 1. painosThe Black Hole of Auschwitz brings together Levi’s writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a write...
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Bluets
Nelson, MaggieWave Books 2009Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of...
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The book of thousand nights and one night . Vol I
Taylor & Francis 2004Rendered into english from the literal and complete french translation. - This first of four volumes accurately translating the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights
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The book of thousand nights and one night . Vol II
Taylor & Francis 2005Rendered into english from the literal and complete french translation. - The second volume of this accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian nights
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The book of thousand nights and one night . Vol III
Taylor & Francis 2005Rendered into english from the literal and complete french translation. - The third volume of this complete and accurate translation of the tales of the Arabian nights