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  • The Sense of Style

    The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

    by Steven Pinker ...
    Bad writing can't be blamed on the Internet, or on 'the kids today'. Good writing has always been hard: a performance requiring pretense, empathy, and a drive for coherence. In The Sense of Style, cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker uses the latest scientific insights to bring us a style and usage guide for the 21st century. What do skilful writers know about the link between syntax and ... Read more

    RM 45.49

  • How to Write Like a Writer

    A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging writing guide.Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing—and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher—retired ... Read more

    RM 50.09

  • I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like

    A Comprehensive Compilation of History’s Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes

    by Mardy Grothe ...

    RM 55.09

  • Bilder - Schilder - Sprache

    Empirische Studien zur Text-Bild-Semiotik im öffentlichen Raum

    by Ilona Schulze ...
    Series Book 567 - Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik (TBL)
    Die Monografie beinhaltet die erste umfassende qualitative und quantitative Untersuchung zu zwei semiotischen Landschaften in München (Fußgängerzone Innenstadt und Olympia Einkaufszentrum). Untersucht wird, wie und mit welchen Mitteln hier die öffentliche Kommunikation mit Passanten erfolgt, welche Arten von Zeichensystemen (Bild, Schild, Sprache) hierfür eingesetzt werden und wie sich diese ... Read more

    RM 170.39 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Edging Women Out

    Victorian Novelists, Publishers and Social Change

    by Gaye Tuchman ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, "men of letters" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist Gaye Tuchman examines how men succeeded in redefining a form of culture and in invading a white-collar ... Read more

    RM 258.72

  • Brevveksling 1821-1859

    by B.S. Ingemann ...
    En yderst interessant brevudveksling mellem to af dansk litteraturs hovedskikkelser inden for kulturarv; Grundtvig og Ingemann. Et betydningsfuldt stykke litteraturhistorie for eftertiden med blandt andet Grundtvigs læsning af Ingemanns "De sorte riddere".Bernhard Severin Ingemann, 1789- 1862, nationaldigter fra den danske guldalder, hvis betydning for danskernes læselyst, nationalitetsfølelse og ... Read more

    RM 46.19

  • La femme ou l’idole

    Étude d’un roman de Zola

    by Jean-Michel René SOUCHE ...
    La femme ou l’idole. Étude d’un roman d'Emile ZOLA (L’OEuvre) par Jean-Michel René Souche.www.pinterest.com/tarnhelm_editionsExtrait :Christine - Entends-tu, je t’aime, je t’aime, et il n’y a rien de plus, c’est assez, je t’aime !Claude - Non, ce n’est point assez… Je ne veux pas m’en aller avec toi, je ne veux pas être heureux, je veux peindre.Zola. L’OEuvre.Le quatorzième roman du cycle des ... Read more

    RM 27.48

  • Literarische Dimensionen der Menschenwürde

    Exemplarische Analysen zur Bedeutung des Menschenwürdebegriffs in der deutschsprachigen Literatur seit der Frühaufklärung

    by Max Graff ...
    Der für den heutigen Wertekanon zentrale Begriff der Menschenwürde wird zwar kontrovers diskutiert, bleibt aber unscharf. Die Literatur als Medium, das in der Uneindeutigkeit und in der Doppelbödigkeit erst seine vollen Sinnpotentiale entfaltet pflegt spätestens seit der Frühaufklärung einen eigenen Menschenwürdediskurs, der nicht bloß außerliterarische Argumentationen reproduziert, sondern die ... Read more

    RM 282.89 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At a Theater or Drive-in Near You

    The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film

    by Randall Clark ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    Millions of Americans have been thrilled, scared, titillated, and shocked by exploitation movies, low budget films with many scenes of sex, violence, and other potentially lurid elements. The term derives from the fact that promoters of such films exploit the contents in advertising that plays up the sexual or violent aspects of the films. This is the first comprehensive study of the American ... Read more

    RM 262.64

  • Effective Communication in a Global Context

    Interconnectivity – Interculturality – Interdisciplinarity

    Edited by Thomas Tinnefeld ...
    We're happy to announce the forthcoming release of "Effective Communication in a Global Context: Interconnectivity - Interculturality - Interdisciplinarity." This book presents a diverse range of chapters exploring global communication skills, cross-cultural education challenges, and practical aspects of intercultural communication. It critically examines the intersection of language, culture, and ... Read more

    RM 186.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Living Milton (Routledge Revivals)

    Essays by Various Hands

    by Sir Frank Kermode ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Various aspects of Milton are explored in this collection of essays by scholars whose reputations were, at the time of publication in 1960, perhaps largely based on their writings on more modern subjects. This had the advantage of demonstrating that Milton as a poet is "alive" and that other attempts to represent him as irrelevant to the interests of the modern reader had failed. The essays offer ... Read more

    RM 258.72

  • Infographic Guide to Literature

    by Joanna Eliot ...
    Series series Infographic Guides
    100 stunning, ingenious and absorbing infographics all about literature, featuring your favourite books and authors!Infographic Guide to Literature presents unique, witty and surprising facts about literature, from Shakespeare and Austen to Nabakov and Orwell, to George R. R. Martin and E. L. James. Fascinating stats and all the facts on your favourite writers, poets and playwrights, it features ... Read more

    RM 53.29

  • The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 7

    by Duncan Wu, Tom Paulin, David Bromwich, Stanley Jones, Roy Park ...
    William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form. ... Read more

    RM 290.09

  • A Multilingual Nation

    Translation and Language Dynamic in India: With a New Foreword by Professor Christi Merrill

    by Rita Kothari (Ed) ...
    How does India live through the oddity of being both a nation and multilingual? Is multilingualism in India to be understood as a neatly laid set of discrete languages or a criss-crossing of languages that runs through every source language and text? The questions take us to reviewing what is meant by language, multilingualism and translation. Challenging these institutions,A Multilingual Nation ... Read more

    Was RM 18.27 Now RM 16.42

  • Englisch ab Klasse 1 - Grundlage für kontinuierliches Fremdsprachenlernen

    Edited by Annika Kolb, Michael K. Legutke ...
    Series series Giessener Beiträge zur Fremdsprachendidaktik
    Fünf Jahre lang haben Forscher und Forscherinnen und Lehrerinnen und Lehrer in dem Projekt Englisch ab Klasse 1 (PEAK1) in einer deutschen Großstadt zusammengearbeitet. Dieser Band erörtert verschiedene Dimensionen des Projekts und diskutiert seine Erträge aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Im Einzelnen handelt es sich um forschungsmethodologische und ethische Aspekte kooperativer Forschung, um ... Read more

    RM 141.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The William Makepeace Thackeray Library

    Volume III - Thackeray by Anthony Trollope

    Edited by Richard Pearson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
    First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This third volume contains Anthony Trollope’s volume on Thackeray from John Morley’s series entitled The English Men of Letters. The work signifies Thackeray’s move to perceived respectability, placing him as part of the literary establishment, alongside writers such as ... Read more

    RM 152.86

  • Little Universe

    by Natalie Ann Holborow ...
    The poems in Natalie Ann Holborow's third collection, Little Universe, are an exploration of tumultuous human emotions and nature's ever-present rhythms. Lives bustle within a busy hospital's walls, humming against the Gower landscape that stretches beyond its windows. The tiny worlds of a wide cast unfold as they deal with their own emergencies, losses, recoveries, hopes and histories. Medical ... Read more

    RM 26.49

  • "WHEN CHILDREN ARE BEING KILLED IN UKRAINE, YOU CALL IT A GENOCIDE.

    BUT WHEN OVER 7,700 CHILDREN HAVE BEEN KILLED BY ISRAEL IN GAZA, YOU APPLAUD IT."

    by Heinz Duthel ...
    "WHEN CHILDREN ARE BEING KILLED IN UKRAINE, YOU CALL IT A GENOCIDE. BUT WHEN OVER 7,700 CHILDREN HAVE BEEN KILLED BY ISRAEL IN GAZA, YOU APPLAUD IT." Israel's Far-Right Government is a Gift to Settlers. CNN Discovers Israeli Settlers Are Ethnically Cleansing West Bank. 'Gaza has been a humanitarian and diplomatic disaster' 13 YEAR OLD GIRL RAPED IN PRISON BY IOF SOLDIERS. A friend of mine lives in ... Read more

    RM 21.19

  • Southern Postcolonialisms

    The Global South and the 'New' Literary Representations

    Edited by Sumanyu Satpathy ...
    Southern Postcolonialisms is an anthology of critical essays on new literary representations from the Global South that seeks to re-invent/reorient the ideological, disciplinary, aesthetic, and pedagogical thrust of Postcolonial Studies in accordance with the new and shifting politico-economic realities/transactions between the North and the South, as well as within the Global South, in an era of ... Read more

    RM 270.48

  • Famous Reviews, Selected and Edited with Introductory Notes by R. Brimley Johnson

    Enriched edition. Exploring Literary Criticism Through Famous Reviews

    by Various, Megan Ross ...
    In "Famous Reviews, Selected and Edited with Introductory Notes," R. Brimley Johnson compiles a rich tapestry of critical reflections drawn from a diverse array of literary works, weaving together pivotal insights that illuminate the metamorphosis of literary critique. This anthology exhibits a wide-ranging literary style'—ranging from passionate endorsements to scathing critiques'—that reflects ... Read more

    RM 7.80 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited

    A Reader's Companion

    by Ronald R. Gray ...
    This is a comprehensive and detailed encyclopedia for readers of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed novels of the twentieth century. It contains 175 entries on all aspects of the novel, covering such topics as the novel's main characters; cultural, literary, and political references; themes; organization; homosexuality; the novel's critical ... Read more

    RM 96.49

  • Halleck's New English Literature

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Depths of English Literature: A Scholarly Journey Through Classic Works and Literary Movements

    by Reuben Post Halleck, Owen Bradshaw ...
    In "Halleck's New English Literature," Reuben Post Halleck offers a comprehensive overview of English literature, tracing its evolution from its origins to contemporary works. The book is distinguished by its pedagogical approach, utilizing clear language and structured analyses that make complex literary concepts accessible to readers. Halleck contextualizes literature within historical, social, ... Read more

    RM 7.80 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mary Magdalen

    Truth and Myth

    by Susan Haskins ...
    A dramatic, thought-provoking portrait of one of the most compelling figures in early Christianity which explores two thousand years of history, art, and literature to provide a close-up look at Mary Magdalen and her significance in religious and cultural thought. ... Read more

    RM 78.99

  • Die Leseliste

    Kommentierte Empfehlungen

    Edited by Sabine Griese, Hubert Kerscher, Albert Meier ...
    Series series Reclams Universal-Bibliothek
    Immer wieder wird über den ›Kanon‹ gestritten, darüber, was in ein gut sortiertes Bücherregal gehört. Reclams »Leseliste« bietet hier eine pragmatische Hilfestellung: Der Band nennt auf aktuellstem Stand rund 600 Titel der deutschen und der Weltliteratur – vom »Hildebrandslied« bis zu Juli Zehs »Unterleuten«, vom »Gilgamesch-Epos« bis Saša Stanišićs »Herkunft« – und gibt mit Stichworten und Daten ... Read more

    RM 31.79