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Historical Fiction for Young Readers (Grades 4-8): An Introduction
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 65.00Enhance your historical fiction collection - and its popularity with readers and value in the classroom - with this wide-ranging guide. After discussion of various aspects of the genre (its importance, history, criteria for evaluation, and methods of presentation), the author takes an in-depth look at 80 of the best historical fiction novels published... more...
Language, Gender and Children's Fiction
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 140.00This is an original, scholarly yet accessible contribution to the field of children's fiction. It focuses on gender in relation to children's fiction and the role that language plays in this relationship. Girls' and boys' reading itself is looked at, as well as the books that they encounter – including the Harry Potter... more...
A Selection from Scrutiny, Volume 1
Cambridge University Press 1968; US$ 40.00Dr Leavis's Selection from Scrutiny gives in two volumes important material which is not easily available elsewhere. more...
Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 110.00Improvisation, despite its almost ubiquitous presence in many art forms, is notoriously misunderstood and mysterious. Although earlier strands of American philosophy and art emphasized what might be called improvisational practices, it was during the modernist period that improvisational practice and theory began to make a significant impact on art... more...
Formalism and the Freudian Aesthetic
Cambridge University Press 1984; US$ 46.00This work tackles the eternal theoretical debate regarding the designation of literary criticism as an objective or subjective activity, a science or the ultimate human and humane act. more...
Spanish Romantic Literary Theory and Criticism
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 42.00This study provides a fresh assessment of Spanish Romanticism through a sympathetic appraisal of its literary theory and criticism. more...
Literature and Rationality
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 34.00This interdisciplinary study establishes connections between divergent approaches to rationality in philosophy, social science, and literary studies. more...
Interpretation and Overinterpretation
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 34.00This book brings together some of the most distinguished figures currently at work in philosophy, literary theory and criticism to debate the limits of interpretation. more...
The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 42.00Mark Jancovich examines the development of the New Criticism during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and its establishment within the academy. more...
Islam and Postcolonial Narrative
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 27.00In Islam and Postcolonial Narrative, John Erickson examines four major authors from the 'third world'. more...









