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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

  • I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like

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

    by Mardy Grothe ...

    RM 55.09

  • 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

  • A leitura, outra revolução 2ª edição

    by María Teresa Andruetto ...
    Translated by Newton Cunha ...
    Esta obra reúne uma série de palestras e conferências sobre literatura infantil proferida por María Teresa Andruetto nos anos 2000, todas elas ligadas ao livro, à leitura, à poesia e à linguagem. Para a autora, a questão não é se hoje em dia existem mais ou menos leitores, mas o que fazer para melhorar a qualidade de leitura, uma tarefa que envolve não só as famílias e as escolas, mas espaços de ... Read more

    RM 15.64

  • Andere Welten - Interviews zur Science Fiction - Band 1

    Die weibliche Perspektive

    by Usch Kiausch ...
    Usch Kiausch lernte in ihrer langen Karriere als Journalistin, Autorin und Übersetzerin viele bedeutende Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller sowie Kolleginnen und Kollegen kennen und führte zahllose Interviews. Der erste Band der drei Bände umfassenden Reihe präsentiert vier Essays über bedeutende Autorinnen wie Doris Lessing und Margaret Atwood, zwölf Interviews, Buchrezensionen sowie eine ... Read more

    RM 35.29

  • Baiern und Romanen

    Zum Verhältnis der frühmittelalterlichen Ethnien aus der Sicht der Sprachwissenschaft und Namenforschung

    by Peter Wiesinger, Albrecht Greule ...
    Immer wieder wird versucht, die im 6. Jahrhundert auftretenden Baiern auf romanische Herkunft zurückzuführen, obwohl ihre Sprache und Dialekte germanischen Ursprungs sind. Als angebliche Zeugnisse dienen meistens die eingedeutschten Gewässer- und Ortsnamen antik-romanischer Herkunft. In dem bis 488 n. Chr. römischen Voralpenraum südlich der Donau vom Lech bis zur Enns in Bayern, Salzburg und ... Read more

    RM 141.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures

    Edited by Greg Barnhisel ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature, this handbook surveys the way in which the Cold War shaped literature and literary production, and how literature affected the course of the Cold War. To do so, in addition to more 'traditional' sources it uses institutions like ... Read more

    RM 184.09

  • All the World's a Stage

    A Guide to Shakespearean Sites

    by Joseph Rosenblum ...
    William Shakespeare wrote during a great age of exploration, of not only England but around the globe. The locales featured in the playwright’s works are crucial to the drama that unfolds in each of his plays. Though England figures in many of his works, his vision encompassed countries all over Europe—from Shylock’s house in The Merchant of Venice to Kronberg castle in Hamlet.In All the World’s a ... Read more

    RM 357.49

  • Das Gilgamesch-Epos

    die älteste überlieferte Dichtung der Welt – Literatur-Klassiker mit Einleitung und Kommentar

    Translated by Sabina Franke ...
    by Sabina Franke, Wolfgang Röllig ...
    Series series Reclams Universal-Bibliothek
    Aus dem heutigen Irak stammt die älteste schriftlich überlieferte Dichtung der Welt, das Gilgamesch-Epos. Gilgamesch, König von Uruk, schließt Freundschaft mit Enkidu, Sohn der Steppe, und gemeinsam bestehen sie viele Abenteuer. Aber nach dem Tod Enkidus stürzt Gilgamesch in tiefe Verzweiflung und macht sich auf die Suche nach dem ewigen Leben: eine zeitlose Geschichte.Die bewährte Übersetzung von ... Read more

    RM 24.69

  • Gender, Genre & Narrative Pleasure

    Edited by Derek Longhurst ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    Recent years have witnessed important new initiatives in the study of popular fictional modes of writing. At one time the field could have been described with reasonable accuracy by two traditions: one that analyzed the production and distribution of popular fiction as commodities; and one whose proponents regarded popular fiction as the negative which offered definition to the exposure of the ... Read more

    RM 258.72

  • Die Weltdeutung im Silmarillion von J. R. R. Tolkien

    Eine Untersuchung zur Funktionalität und zu den ethischen Prinzipien des Textes im Werk-Kontext mit Mythen-Bezug

    by Holger Vos ...
    Das Werk von J. R. R. Tolkien erfreut sich durch die Verfilmung des Herrn der Ringe von Peter Jackson (wieder) größter Beliebtheit. Nicht zuletzt fasziniert der Herr der Ringe deshalb die Leserschaft, weil bei der Lektüre der Eindruck von Echtheit entsteht, von einer wahrhaft existierenden Welt, in der das Gute gegen das Böse kämpft und jedes Geschöpf ihren Platz in der Geschichte hat. Einen ... Read more

    RM 38.79

  • Chicano Images

    Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film

    by Christine List ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    Providing textual analysis of 12 feature films written and directed by filmmakers who explore aspects of the Chicano cultural movement, this book discusses films including Cheech and Chong's Still Smokin' (1983), El Norte (1985), and Break of Dawn (1988). The text analyzes the portrayal of Chicano, or Mexican American, identity in films by chicanos. Part historiography, part film analysis, part ... Read more

    RM 168.55

  • American Political Movies

    An Annotated Filmography of Feature Films

    by James Combs ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    Essays here explore the relationship between politics and explicitly political feature films from the beginning of the movie industry to World War I, and for each decade through to the 1980's. The included filmography is particularly useful. Originally published in 1990, the method of inquiry put forward in this text is nonetheless extendable to the decades following its publication. ... Read more

    RM 250.88

  • Shelf Discovery

    The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading

    by Lizzie Skurnick ...

    RM 60.39

  • The Poetry Reader

    An Anthology

    Edited by Professor Mark Yakich ...
    You have picked up this book because you are a poetry reader. Or you are about to be one. Because as soon as you read a poem, that's what you are.Filled with the profound, the lyrical, the consoling, and the curious, The Poetry Reader: An Anthology is the book you would hope to find if you washed up alone on a deserted island: this companionable collection shows how poetry itself is a discussion, ... Read more

    Was RM 86.79 Now RM 78.09

  • Sherlock Holmes

    by Mark Campbell ...
    Who is Holmes? The world's most famous detective? A drug addict with a heart as cold as ice? A millstone around the neck of his creator? He's all of these things and much, much more.Sherlock Holmes was the brainchild of Portsmouth GP Arthur Conan Doyle. A writer of historical romantic fiction, Doyle became unhappy that the detective's enormous success eclipsed his more serious offerings. But after ... Read more

    RM 41.39 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms

    Edited by Peter Childs, Roger Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Dictionaries
    A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels.With over forty newly commissioned entries, this essential reference book includes:an exhaustive range of entries, covering ... Read more

    RM 219.51

  • Gestos hurtados

    by Esther Fleisacher ...
    …Una bolsa azul es olvidada. Recuerdos, pequeñas cuitas, hechos fortuitos son convocados en Gestos Hurtados en el tono menor de una poesía mayor. Estos relatos que parecen crónicas y a la vez poemas o las páginas de un diario, son el testimonio de lo que ocurre a un escritor, aun lo cotidiano, lo rutinario, está lleno de sentido. ... Read more

    RM 15.64 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828

    Edited by William Huntting Howell, Greta LaFleur ...
    Series series Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition
    This volume presents a complex portrait of the United States of America grappling with the trials of national adolescence. Topics include (but are not limited to): the dynamics of language and power, the treachery of memory, the lived experience of racial and economic inequality, the aesthetics of Indigeneity, the radical possibilities of disability, the fluidity of gender and sexuality, the depth ... Read more

    RM 411.59

  • Satire and the Postcolonial Novel

    V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie

    by John Clement Ball ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fiction. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial comparative theories to revisit Western formulations of "satire" and the "satiric." ... Read more

    RM 266.56

  • Il Mito di Dracula: dall’oscurità delle origini, ai meandri dell’inconscio, al buio delle sale cinematografiche

    by Edvige Gioia ...
    Un saggio che rilegge il vampirismo in una chiave nuova e completa, analizzandolo dal punto di vista storico, antropologico, religioso e psicoanalitico. Un'ampia sezione è dedicata all'approfondimento del genere letterario che ha dato vita a Dracula e alla ricca produzione cinematografica in tema di vampiri: vengono analizzati sei film famosi, dall'opera espressionista di Murnau, al Nosferatu di ... Read more

    RM 15.64 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Merchant of Venice

    by William Shakespeare ...
    A peculiar projection of prejudice and vengeance, The Merchant of Venice is a tale of a young man’s compassion leading him to dreadful consequences. Shakespeare’s writing inspires young minds to contemplate concepts represented by the comic interplay of wise characters, emotional conflicts, and fatal realities. The tale has been retold using simple language and beautiful to make it easier for the ... Read more

    RM 7.80

  • Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English

    Edited by Paul Delaney ...
    Series series Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

    RM 746.59

  • Literarische Grundbegriffe

    [Kompaktwissen XL] – May, Yomb – sicher durch Abitur und Matura – Oberstufenwissen

    by Yomb May ...
    Series series Kompaktwissen XL
    Das erfolgreiche und vielgenutzte Nachschlagewerk bietet knappe und verständliche Definitionen zu Epochen, Gattungen, Erzähltechniken, rhetorischen Gestaltungsmitteln, kurz: zu den relevanten Fachbegriffen für die Analyse und Interpretation literarischer Texte. Mit nützlichen Querverweisen und vielen Textbeispielen zur Veranschaulichung. Geeignet für den Unterricht in der Oberstufe oder das ... Read more

    RM 31.79