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But it also explores contacts with literary textsthe present book is part of a large-scale reassessment of his roles in literary historybyatt, whose literary contacts with ford have been as his admiring readers and eloquent criticsone of the most striking features of his career is his close involvement with so many of the major international literary groupings of his timebut he was a prolific writer in many different modes, which include criticism of others' writing, and reminiscences of the many writers he had knownlawrence, and wyndham lewisafter the war he moved to france, founding the transatlantic review in paris, taking on hemingway as a sub-editor, discovering another generation of modernists such as jean rhys and basil bunting, and publishing them alongside joyce and gertrude steineach volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects of ford's work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his timehe spent more time in america from the later s, spending time with southern agrarians, and poets such as william carlos williams, charles olson, and robert lowellford is best-known for his fiction, especially the good soldier, long considered a modernist masterpiece; and parade's end, which anthony burgess described as 'the finest novel about the first world war'; and samuel hynes has called 'the greatest war novel ever written by an englishman'this series of international ford madox ford studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in himoxfam shop magdelen street the controversial british writer ford madox ford () is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literaturein edwardian london he founded the english review, publishing these writers alongside his new discoveries, ezra pound, dford has been described as 'a writer's writer'the first section on 'predecessors' considers the impact of ford's reading of trollope, george eliot, and turgenevin the south-east of england at the fin-de-siècle, he collaborated for a decade with joseph conrad, and befriended henry james, and hthis book takes ford's 'literary contacts' to include such creative friendships, editorial involvements, and influential biographical encounters; and they form the most substantial, central section on 'contemporaries and confrères', covering figures like proust, carlos williams, rebecca west, herbert read, and hemingwaythis volume reveals how true that has been, and in how many ways, as it sheds new light on his relationships with other writers, both familiar and surprisinghe was always a tireless promoter of younger writers, reading manuscripts and recommending them to publisherssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit includes two pieces published here for the first time: one by ford himself, on turgenev; the other a memoir about ford by his contemporary, marie belloc lowndes (the sister of hilaire belloc)the final section discusses 'successors': writers such as graham greene, burgess, and a
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Oxfam bookshop raeburn place this is a study of some of the central questions in literary publishing in mid-nineteenth-century north america and britain, addressed through examination of the unusually rich archives of a unique publishing firmboston-based ticknor and fields, one of the pre-eminent literary publishers of its time, enjoyed close links with britain, and also developed new production, distribution, and marketing skills as the settlement of north america pushed ever further westwinship goes on to explore the implications of the firm's work for the book trade in general, and to show how an investigation of ticknor and fields enriches our understanding of the literary and cultural history of britain and north americavery good condition - some sunning to dustjacketsee oxfam website for delivery information read moremichael winship has studied the firm's business records and publications in detail: he reveals what ticknor and fields published, its costs of production, the ways it marketed and distributed its books, and the profits it made
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This companion offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies, from scholarly editing and literary criticism, to interactive fiction and immersive environmentsa complete overview exploring the application of computing in literary studiesincludes the seminal writings from the fieldfocuses on methods and perspectives, new genres, formatting issues, and best practices for digital preservationexplores the new genres of hypertext literature, installations, gaming, and web blogsthe appendix serves as an annotated bibliography see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop victoria appear unread, pages pristine
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Covering the key theoretical approaches in modern literary theory, the text includes those essays and documents that are essential reading for students of critical theory, with sections on: formalism and structuralism; marxism; feminism; gender and subjectivity; histories and textuality; postmodernism; postcolonialismfor the first time, the reader also includes extracts from seminal texts by authors such as marx, freud, and de beauvoir - texts which do not necessarily focus on literature but which have had a fundamental influence on the development of literary theoryfocusing not on authors or approaches but rather on leading questions in critical debate, the extracts in this section present opposing points of view on the same issue: is literary criticism an ethical act? martha nussbaum vs emmanuel levinas: is the canon a timeless assembly of great works? terry eagleton vs harold bloom: is literature what the academy says it is? edward said vs stanley fish: literature and the philosophy of science: richard rorty vs donna harraway see oxfam website for delivery information read morein addition, the text now includes a section on issues and debatesoxfam shop hebden bridge the new edition of this core text has been thoroughly revised and updated in light of the latest developments in the fieldthe original structure of the book has been improved and new material has been added
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literary outlaw: the life & times of william spimlico books, pagesfascinating insight into one of the most original and innovative novelists of the 20th centurybuyer collects, but can postburroughs book definitive account of burroughs
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literary activism a symposium by amit chaudhuri (paperback, a %0a delivery%0a uk delivery is usually within 6 to 8 working days%0a international delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Mimesis, desire, and the novel rene girard and literary criticism by pierpaolo antonello (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 12 to 14 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Based on the novel by annie barrows and mary ann shaffer, the film follows juliet ashton (lily james), a journalist who forms a strong bond with members of the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society as she writes a book about their experiences during world war iisee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop carlisle brand new and sealed historical drama directed by mike newellas she gets to know the islanders better, juliet begins to form lifelong friendships as she learns about life on guernsey during its nazi occupation in the warthe cast also includes michiel huisman, matthew goode and jessica brown findlay
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Distant horizons digital evidence and literary change by ted underwood (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 8 to 10 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Wedding decor lot for 12 tables for a literary book themed weddingmilne is a table of children's books by various authors)tables are: burns, tolstoy, shelley, virgil, dickens, bronte, hemingway, shakespeare, christie, waugh, pratchett, milne - books are grouped in a theme based on genre (ieincludes 83 books in 12 'theme' groups with scrabble table names (2 per table)available for collection from headingley, leedsperfect for stacking and placing small flower arrangements on topx 24 scrabble rack table names (2 per table for 12 tables - table names below) x 1 ‘cards’ scrabble rack x 1 ‘cake’ scrabble rack x 83 books (more than enough for 12 tables, with a few extra for decorating around the venue) x 10 milk bottles with raffia (for flowers) x 15 small jars with led tea lights x 5 assorted medium jars with led tea lights x 1 message peg display board (x 40 pegs and x 40 message labels) x 1 chalkboard and easel x 3 medium vases for pictures of all items or further details, please send us a message or an email
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When dawsey reveals that he is a member of the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society, her curiosity is piqued and it&39;s not long before she begins to hear from other membersoxfam bookshop cheltenham it&39;s and author juliet ashton can&39;t think what to write nextsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreout of the blue, she receives a letter from dawsey adams of guernsey &45; by chance, he&39;s acquired a book that once belonged to her &45; and, spurred on by their mutual love of reading, they begin a correspondenceas letters fly back and forth with stories of life in guernsey under the german occupation, juliet soon realizes that the society is every bit as extraordinary as its name
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But when she receives a letter from dawsey adams of guernsey - a total stranger living halfway across the channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book - she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary guernsey literary and potato peel pie societydrawn into their irresistible world, juliet sets sail for the island, changing her life foreversee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop brigg to give them hope, she must tell their storythe war is over, and juliet ashton has writer's blockthrough their letters, the society tell juliet about life on the island, their love of books - and the long shadow cast by their time living under german occupation
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This book shows what the literary influence really or probably wassee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop wolverhampton what did dickens mean to dostoevsky, and what did the russian writer owe to england's greatest entertainer? many of dickens' readers have recognized that his achievement needs to be compared with dostoevsky's, and they have suspected, or assumed an influence
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When dawsey reveals that he is a member of the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society, her curiosity is piqued and it's not long before she begins to hear from other memberssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop ipswich it's and author juliet ashton can't think what to write nextout of the blue, she receives a letter from dawsey adams of guernsey - by chance, he's acquired a book that once belonged to her - and, spurred on by their mutual love of reading, they begin a correspondenceas letters fly back and forth with stories of life in guernsey under the german occupation, juliet soon realizes that the society is every bit as extraordinary as its name
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Based on the novel by annie barrows and mary ann shaffer, the film follows juliet ashton (lily james), a journalist who forms a strong bond with members of the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society as she writes a book about their experiences during world war iioxfam shop colne road historical drama directed by mike newellsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas she gets to know the islanders better, juliet begins to form lifelong friendships as she learns about life on guernsey during its nazi occupation in the warthe cast also includes michiel huisman, matthew goode and jessica brown findlay
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Oxfam bookshop chiswick kenneth burke--rhetorician, philosopher, linguist, sociologist, literary and music critic, crank--was one of the foremost theorists of literary formhe published widely, and is probably best known for two of his classic works, a rhetoric of motive and philosophy of literary formhis observations on myth, however, were never systematic, and much of his writing on literary theory and other topics cannot be fully understood without fleshing out his thoughts on myth and mythmakinghe did not fit tidily into any philosophical school, nor was he reducible to any simple set of principles or ideassee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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New possibilities emerged for cultural exchange and combination, social and political order, and literary expressionintegrating literary and historical analysis, and drawing on recent work in literary theory and cultural studies, literature and culture in early modern london provides a comprehensive account of the changing image and influence of london in lyrics, ballads, jests, epics, satires, plays, pageants, chronicles, treatises, sermons and official documentssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop raeburn place in the two hundred years from london was transformed from a medieval commune into a metropolis of half a million people, a capital city and a major european trading centrelawrence manley shows how the literature and culture of london contributed to the new structures of capitalism, the process of 'behaviour urbanisation', and a paradoxical liberation of the individual through the city's concentrated power
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On the evening that she is initiated as the tenth member of the local literary societyoxfam bookshop st albans there is a secret at the heart of a small finnish town, involving its most famous occupant, the world-renowned children's author laura white, and a strange literary gamesee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhite, who was its founder, disappears before everyone's eyesella is an unsettled young teacher and aspiring author, who returns to her hometown of rabbit backas ella makes unsettling discoveries about white's and the society's past, the novel explores the nature of literature, storytelling and truth itself
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Simultaneously a reprise, summation of, and advance on everything that he has done before, it is a literary colossus, equal to any (and surpassing most) of the vaulting novels which strive for the immensity of the american mythic' geoff dyer, sunday telegraph 'with underworld, delillo confirms himself in the select group of great american writers truly equal to the temper of very strange times' times literary supplement 'mr delillo writes beautifullyoxfam bookshop cheltenham 'extraordinarythe reward is its great depth, shimmering prose and the feeling when we've put it down that we're a little wiser than we were' peter mckay, daily mail 'don delillo's latest novel really is one of the finest of the century' john burnside, scotsman see oxfam website for delivery information read morein underworld we have a mature and hugely accomplished novelist firing on all cylinders, at the sophisticated height of his multifarious powersunderworld demands our full attentionunderworld is a rousingly impressive achievement in almost every novelistic department - dialogue, structure, timing, precise description, heartfelt veracity and the restreading the book is a charged and thrilling aesthetic experience and one remembers gratefully that this is what the novel can do, and indeed does, better than any other art form - it gets the human condition' william boyd, observer 'underworld is his biggest, most daring novel yet
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In a surrealist game, the author takes on several alter-egos that can change during the story and produce an ingenious literary conundruminteresting literary document from an interesting period in which claus was strongly committed to theatre innovation, the purpose of theatre and the poetry of ezra poundin addition to the number stamp (154 to 158) from claus' archives, the short story was also numbered in red felt pen as xdedeken, who has various characteristics of claus himself, and also makes statements that were originally made by claus - in a different contextmanuscript, 6 pages 4to, recto only, in black ink with several corrections and deletionsbut it's not as simple as that: dedeken is the author of a hermetic work in verses for theatre which in turn contains extensive references to the work of the controversial poet ezra poundour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikibetween the lines claus denounces the theatrical situation in flanders and puts unvarnished truths about claus and his work in the mouth of theatre criticspublished as a short story in the collection “natuurgetrouwer” (de bezige bij) inhere claus presents the unworldly playwright john wthe flemish critic guido spanoghe even publishes an interview with dedeken (claus), which is actually an adaptation of an earlier claus interviewplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitein this collection claus included a number of satirical stories, which can be counted among the genre of ‘grotesque’
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literary experts: stamps are mnh, one or two vignettes with hinge remains please see the photos for all necessary details and your own impressionbelgium - blocks jordaens - van der weyden - van roey + diptychs literary experts - obp bl + bl blocks: stamps are mnh, only hinge remains in the block edgecatalogue value: € registered shipping / parcel with track & trace read moreour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham 'a stellar literary eventthe biggest risk of her literary life' margaret atwoodaccording to queeney is a masterly evocation of the last years of dr johnson, arguably britain's greatest man of letterstorn between his strict morality and his undeclared passion for mrs thrale, the wife of an old friend, according to queeney reveals one of britain's most wonderful characters in all his wit and glorythe time is the s and s and johnson, having completed his life's major work (he compiled the first ever dictionary of the english language) is running an increasingly chaotic lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreabove all, though, this is a story of love and friendship and brilliantly narrated by queeney, mrs thrale's daughter, looking back over her lifewritten with panache and an enviable economy
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the walter scott prize for historical fiction sunday times barry ronge fiction prize university of johannesburg english literary award nominated for the folio prize in , the ss birmingham approaches indiaat once a fictional exploration of the life and times of one of britain's finest novelists - his struggle to find a way of living and being - and a stunningly vivid evocation of the mysterious alchemy of the creative process, arctic summer is a literary masterpiece, by one of the finest writers of his generationthe seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty skyon board is morgan forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discoveryas morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreforster's great work of literature, is publishedduring these years, morgan will come to a profound understanding of himself as a man, and of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature, bringing these great insights to his remarkable novelit will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in india, before a passage to india, e
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Oxfam bookshop hexham why is it that all interpretations are possible, and none is true? that some interpretations are just, but some are false? lecercle draws on the resources of pragmatics, literary theory and the philosophy of language to propose a new theory of literary, but also of face-to-face, dialogue that charts the interaction between the five participants in the fields of dialogue and/or interpretation: author, reader, text, language and encyclopaediasee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinterpretation is taken through its four stages, from glossing and enigma solving to translation and intervention
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Oxfam shop macclesfield srimad-bhagavatam, an epic philosophical and literary classic, holds a prominent position in india's voluminous written wisdom" after compiling the vedas, srila vyasadeva was inspired by his spiritual master to present their profound essence in the form of srimad-bhagavatamoriginally preserved through oral tradition, the vedas were first put into writing by srila vyasadeva, the "literary incarnation of godbhaktivedanta swami prabhupada, the world's most distinguished teacher of indian religious and philosophical thoughtsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe timeless wisdom of india is expressed in the vedas, ancient sanskrit texts that touches upon all fields of human knowledgethis work is the product of the scholarly and devotional effort of his divine grace ahis sanskrit scholarship and intimate familiarity with vedic culture combine to reveal to the west a magnificent exposition of this important classicknown as "the ripened fruit of the tree of vedic literature," srimad-bhagavatam is the most complete and authoritative exposition of vedic knowledgethis edition of bhagavatam is the only complete english translation with an elaborate and scholarly commentary, and it is the first edition widely available to the english-reading public
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Addressing half-forgotten texts and events, this study engages with literary and cultural theory from walter benjamin to foucault and "new historicism" in order to contribute to a broader discussion of early modern "poetics of cultureoxfam shop billericay situated on the intersection of comparative literary criticism, political history and theory, and cultural analysis, terror and pity: aleksandr sumarokov and the theater of power in elizabethan russia offers an in-depth reading of early russian tragedy as a political genreimported to russia by aleksandr sumarokov around , tragedy reenacted and shaped the symbolic economy and the often disturbing historical experience of "absolutist" autocracy" see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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