With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Despite cultural traditions depicting black people and the documented presence of black Iranians, many have insisted that race...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300284409)
An enchanting history of the otherworld of elves and fairies, from the nature spirits of Iceland and Ireland to Avalon and Middle Earth Originating in Norse and Celtic mythologies, elves and fairies are a firmly established part of W...Loe edasi...
A collection of poems by Richard Siken-- I Do Know Some Things is a brave book, both in content and method. It is brave to write about childhood scars and the heartbreak the dead leave behind. It is brave to recon...Loe edasi...
Platos Charmides is a rich mix of provocative drama and intricate argument. This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of its disparate elements. Paying close attention to its complex structure, and to the methodology of reading Plato, Raphael...Loe edasi...
Sari: Understanding Contemporary American Literature
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Apr-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643365770)
New insights into the work of an acclaimed science fiction author. Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), a pioneer of science fiction and foremother of Afrofuturism, is among the most influential science fiction writers of all time. Her work blurs the boun...Loe edasi...
A vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today’s graphic novels. John Sutherland, who has researched, taught and written on th...Loe edasi...
A vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present “( A) fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London“Delightful.’”—New York Times Book Review Poetry is...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300244434)
A fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Italy and Tudor England, great rulers,...Loe edasi...
Charles Baudelaire, Nathan Brown, Nathan Brown, Nathan Brown
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781804296608)
Baudelaires infamous book brings to the surface a new understanding of evil, of eroticism, and of social life through an astonishing variety of poetic forms and styles. This edition adds the poems banned from the original 1857 publication to the ex...Loe edasi...
Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsigs unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsigs thought: “Quality”...Loe edasi...
Octavia E. Butler is widely recognized today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butlers complete works from the bestselling novel Kindred, to h...Loe edasi...
It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism - the real motives for which despotic governments act Shooting an Elephant was the first piece of writin...Loe edasi...
A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business and politics Since the days of the dot-com bubble in t...Loe edasi...
A beautiful and profound narrative poem set in a magic realist version of the West Country by musician and writer PJ Harvey. Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of UNDERWHELEM. Next to the farm is Gore Wood...Loe edasi...
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakamis extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public....Loe edasi...
Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.She plays many roles round here. And neverScared to tell the whole of her truth, whetherOr not anyone wants to hear it. WifeOf Willesden: pissed enough to tell her lifeStory to who...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478014621)
Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Sōseki (1867&;1916), widely celebrated as Japans greate...Loe edasi...
Nordic Literature of Decadence discusses literature from five Nordic countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia and offers alternative perspectives to the cosmopolitan traffic and cultural exchanges of literary decadence that h...Loe edasi...
Unravel the fundamental ingredients of visual storytelling and discover how top children’s illustrators portray narrative, intrigue, and suspense through art. In this visually captivating volume, a vibrant selection of loved and revered child...Loe edasi...
The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate crisis activist who has become the voice of a generation.Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swed...Loe edasi...
A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki MurakamiA Penguin ClassicThis fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the...Loe edasi...
A captivating selection of short stories in the original Japanese alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories celebrates some of the v...Loe edasi...
Peter Handke, a giant of Austrian literature, has produced decades of fiction, poetry, and drama informed by some of the most tumultuous events in modern history. But even as these events shaped his work, the presence of his mother—a woman...Loe edasi...
Sari: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jan-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Rochester Press, ISBN-13: 9781580469265)
Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer. Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European t...Loe edasi...
Its a dark and stormy night. Jim, the inn-keepers granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailors feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in - and her dangerous voyage begins....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Oct-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: Alma Classics, ISBN-13: 9781847493316)
This collection, the first and only edition of Marais poems in the English language - here presented in John Ridlands and Peter V. Czipotts brilliant verse translation - offers a comprehensive selection spanning the authors whole career and e...Loe edasi...
On the Edge of a Sword is a selection of Kristiina Ehins latest work - deeply personal, unflinchingly honest, autobiographical poems which, at the same time, are also a heartfelt defense of the right of the Estonian language to exist and flourish in...Loe edasi...
101 Jamaican Love Poem is the comprehensive anthology of love poems by Jamaican author and poet Denise N. Fyffe. Her whimsical, witty anecdotal writing is oft to engage the minds of her readers. She uses her words to illuminate the canvas of her read...Loe edasi...
Announcing the first expansion in more than 40 years of the venerable New Penguin Parallel Text series. Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary Japanese fiction. Featuring many stories appearing in English for the first...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2011, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780007902095)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wret...Loe edasi...
The Dedalus Book of Estonian Literature offers a wide-ranging selection of fiction from the end of the nineteenth century until the present day, including work by Estonia s classic and most important contemporary authors. This is the most important s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Mar-2004, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781578065592)
American Literature -- Literary Criticism--> There are three wars in the mind and in the art of William Faulkner--the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II. Although he did not fight in any war, he postured as a...Loe edasi...
Poems by Welsh poet Tony Curtis illustrating the 25 surreal collages by Jon Digby. Twenty-five surreal collages by John Digby, set in an ornate arch from the Albambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives, and provide provocative starting poi...Loe edasi...
Includes:Ice Cream, Mad Forest, The Shriker, Lives of the Great Poisoners and A Mouthful of Birds, as well as an introduction by the author....Loe edasi...
Asks important questions about the very nature of stories--examines why we read stories rather than just learning the endings. Asks important questions about the very nature of stories and examines why we read stories rather than just learnin...Loe edasi...
