Bringing together a wide selection of work on cultural linguistics and pragmatics, this comprehensive handbook offers global, comparative insights into the field. Diversity does not always imply differences, but it also offers insights into surpri...Loe edasi...
This edited collection offers an in-depth exploration of the role of landscape and place as literary ‘settings’. It examines the multifaceted relationships between authors, narrators, and characters to their locales, as well as broader considerati...Loe edasi...
How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action? Storying the Ecocatastrophe attempts to answer this question while interrogating the potential of narrative to become a viable polit...Loe edasi...
This collection explores topical and current issues in indigenous African language literature of South Africa. These include narratological elements of literature, language usage, poetry analysis, and song lyrics....Loe edasi...
This book provides comprehensive guidelines on important aspects of isiXhosa orthography such as word division, spelling and capitalisation. Authors’ primary focus has been those challenging areas of standardisation which have not yet been attende...Loe edasi...
This book presents an overall picture of the constraints faced at different stages of the translation process, providing a more scientific approach to descriptive translation studies.The study investigates translation constraints at three d...Loe edasi...
This book offers an in-depth study of the quasi-political, self-deprecating and parodic buzzwords and memes prevalent in Chinese online discourse....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780197625873)
This collection of eight essays by world-renowned philosophers and literary critics thoroughly examines the philosophical perspectives of Leo Tolstoys immortal novel War and Peace. By examining the narrative structure, as well as the strugg...Loe edasi...
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life...Loe edasi...
Award-winning poet and author Maggie Smith offers a lush, heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age - an instant New York Times bestseller...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197681800)
This volume of newly commissioned essays marks a collaborative effort among scholars of ancient Greece and early China to investigate discourses of emotions in ancient philosophy, medicine, and literature from c. 5th century BCE-2nd century CE. The a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198754640)
From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I tells the story of the troubled accession of Englands first Scottish king and the transition from the age of the Tudors to the age of the Stuarts at the dawn of the sevente...Loe edasi...
Sari: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198893790)
This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the medical humanities, focussing on the idealized doctor-patient relationship and the medical encounter. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241623893)
On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmars complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing achievement Joanna Lumley In 2016, while wor...Loe edasi...
A masterful new translation of Suetonius renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detail The ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice bu...Loe edasi...
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from nature In Bite by Bite, poet and essay...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032205915)
This book critically analyses classical Indian literature and explores the philosophical, literary, and cultural landscapes which have emerged in response to ancient Indian texts. This book critically analyses classical Indian liter...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781625347862)
Literary realism rose to prominence in postbellum America with bold and accurate depictions of the world. This style became more popular than sentimentality--an earlier form of writing often associated with women readers and high emotions, seemingly...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781625347855)
Literary realism rose to prominence in postbellum America with what the realists heralded as artful and accurate depictions of the world. Realism is thought to have replaced sentimentality—an earlier mode of writing the realists disparaged,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Murray Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781399818377)
Radiant poems that celebrate Black Southern womanhood and the many ways magic lives in the bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters, from the bestselling author of Memphis...Loe edasi...
The third collection from firebrand poet, essayist, and editor Karen McCarthy Woolf whose volumes Bittersweet and Kin introduced a generation of readers to Black British Poets in the Nineties A true writer. Vulnerable, hilarious and wise...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643364834)
A primary source collection that offers a window into the mind of nineteenth-century author and public intellectual, William Gilmore Simms. William Gilmore Simms was in his lifetime considered the Souths preeminent man of letters, a...Loe edasi...
Five years after her first book, Kate Bradbury has a new, slightly bigger garden two miles away. Kates garden hosts red mason bees, bumblebees, house sparrows and dragonflies. Hedgehogs, hoverflies and lots more birds regularly visit. The...Loe edasi...
The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his plays? ...Loe edasi...
Bringing together a wide selection of work on cultural linguistics and pragmatics, this comprehensive handbook offers global, comparative insights into the field. Diversity does not always imply differences, but it also offers insights into surpri...Loe edasi...
Last Poems is a posthumous volume assembled by the poets daughter a few months after the authors death. It contains some magnificent late poems that can stand alongside the best of his earlier work. This is the first complete translation....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780197625873)
This collection of eight essays by world-renowned philosophers and literary critics thoroughly examines the philosophical perspectives of Leo Tolstoys immortal novel War and Peace. By examining the narrative structure, as well as the strugg...Loe edasi...
This book offers an in-depth study of the quasi-political, self-deprecating and parodic buzzwords and memes prevalent in Chinese online discourse....Loe edasi...
This book presents an overall picture of the constraints faced at different stages of the translation process, providing a more scientific approach to descriptive translation studies.The study investigates translation constraints at three d...Loe edasi...
This book provides comprehensive guidelines on important aspects of isiXhosa orthography such as word division, spelling and capitalisation. Authors’ primary focus has been those challenging areas of standardisation which have not yet been attende...Loe edasi...
This collection explores topical and current issues in indigenous African language literature of South Africa. These include narratological elements of literature, language usage, poetry analysis, and song lyrics....Loe edasi...
How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action? Storying the Ecocatastrophe attempts to answer this question while interrogating the potential of narrative to become a viable polit...Loe edasi...
This edited collection offers an in-depth exploration of the role of landscape and place as literary ‘settings’. It examines the multifaceted relationships between authors, narrators, and characters to their locales, as well as broader considerati...Loe edasi...
Sari: Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512826081)
Four years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a collected works of William Shakespeare, not in an imposingly large format but as a series of more humble quarto pamphlets. Fo...Loe edasi...
Sari: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198893790)
This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the medical humanities, focussing on the idealized doctor-patient relationship and the medical encounter. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198754640)
From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I tells the story of the troubled accession of Englands first Scottish king and the transition from the age of the Tudors to the age of the Stuarts at the dawn of the sevente...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197681800)
This volume of newly commissioned essays marks a collaborative effort among scholars of ancient Greece and early China to investigate discourses of emotions in ancient philosophy, medicine, and literature from c. 5th century BCE-2nd century CE. The a...Loe edasi...
McSweeneys three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly returns with our 73rd issue, a guest-edited, year-end themed issue, more details coming soon. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have...Loe edasi...
Award-winning poet and author Maggie Smith offers a lush, heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age - an instant New York Times bestseller...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2024, Jigsaw, Kirjastus: Laurence King Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781399620000)
Piece together one of Jay Gatsbys notorious parties, where figures both real and fictional from Fitzgeralds life and work are hidden among the enigmatic guests. Find Daisy Buchanan weeping over a pile of silk shirts, Gatsby gazing towards the gree...Loe edasi...