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Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

Ekphrastic Approaches in Twenty-First-Century Poetry brings together poets and academics from around the world exploring the evolving practice of ekphrasis in the twenty-first century. With discussion of diverse media, the authors explore ways in which contemporary ekphrasis has evolved, embracing media such as film, music, dance, and the built environment. Against a backdrop of digital image saturation and expanding definitions of art, this collection investigates how contemporar...

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Eugen Bacon, Francesca Rendle-Short, David Carlin, Dominique Hecq, Quyen Nguyen-Hoang, Erin Latimer, Andrew Chin, Oz Hardwick, Aldegunda Matoyo, Clara Chow, Tamantha Smith, Clare Rhoden, Cheng Tim Tim, Stephen Embelton, Nicki Bacon, Seb Doubinski, Pandora, E. Don Harpe, Ramya Jirashinghe, Kyongmi Park, Zephyr Li, Nuzo Onoh, Andrew Hook, Sudeep Chatterjee

Languages of Water is a rare but intimate fusion of East, West and Africa, a stunning artefact of writerly immersion and cultural exchange. This child of digital collaboration brings together writers, illustrators and translators of poetry, fiction and essays, and refuses to be contained.In a playful interrogation of French literary theorist, critic and philosopher Roland Barthes' le plaisir du texte and death of the author, Languages of Water opens with the homing story 'When the ...

Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice vigorously engages with the Why? and the How? of prose poetry, a form that is currently enjoying a surge in popularity. With contributions by both practitioners and academics, this volume seeks to explore how its distinctive properties guide both writer and reader, and to address why this form is so well suited to the early twenty-first century. With discussion of both classic and less well- known writers, the essays both illuminate prose poetry’s distin...

Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions:What are the principle signifiers of theatrical presence?How is presence achieved through th...

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Matthew Reynolds

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Very Short Introductions

Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thought-provoking account of the field, from ancient Akkadian to World English, from St Jerome to Google Translate. He shows how...

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O-O Happiness

Remember trying to learn a language at school? Remember trying to get your head around conjugating verbs? Past tense, present tense, present participle, imperfect subjunctive? Yes, that's right, it was all mind numbing. Language is not about perfect grammar. Language is about communication. Why not try our system. Learn to communicate quickly and easily in another language.

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Peter Barry

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Beginnings

Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field.The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics and the theories they represent, Beginning theory all...

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Julie Sanders

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The New Critical Idiom

From the apparently simple adaptation of a text into film, theatre or a new literary work, to the more complex appropriation of style or meaning, it is arguable that all texts are somehow connected to a network of existing texts and art forms. In this new edition Adaptation and Appropriation explores:multiple definitions and practices of adaptation and appropriationthe cultural and aesthetic politics behind the impulse to adaptthe global and local...

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Kerry Butters

Basic Korean For Beginners. Basic Korean for Travel in Korea and China . Everyday words and useful phrases, words for Greetings,Shopping, eating out, Directions and lots more. English to Korean as well as the Korean pronunciation.

Essential and engaging essays about the joys and challenges of creative writing and teaching creative writing by a host of Canada’s leading writers.Writing Creative Writing is filled with thoughtful and entertaining essays on the joys and challenges of creative writing, the complexities of the creative writing classroom, the place of writing programs in the twenty-first century, and exciting strategies and exercises for writing and teaching different genre...

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Nicholas Humphrey

A radically new view of the nature and purpose of consciousnessHow is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? And why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust, the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, proposes a startling new theory. Consciousness, he argues, is nothing less than a magical-mystery show that we stage for ourselves inside our own heads. This self-made show lights up the world for us...

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Cambridge Companions to Literature

Creative writing has become a highly professionalised academic discipline, with popular courses and prestigious degree programmes worldwide. This book is a must for all students and teachers of creative writing, indeed for anyone who aspires to be a published writer. It engages with a complex art in an accessible manner, addressing concepts important to the rapidly growing field of creative writing, while maintaining a strong craft emphasis, analysing exemplary models of writing and provid...