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Joy of Reading
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2008; US$ 24.95Like a professor whose enthusiasm enwraps his students, Van Doren explains what's wonderful in the books you've missed and awakens your desire to reopen the books you already know. more...
An Introduction to Narratology
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 27.95An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature. In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines: the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of narrative forms narratological approaches to interpretation and the linguistic... more...
How to Read Novels Like a Professor
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age throughout... more...
Empathy and the Novel
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 23.99Acknowledgements. Preface. 1. Contemporary Perspectives on Empathy. 2. The Literary Career of Empathy. 3. Readers' Empathy. 4. Empathy in the Marketplace. 5. Authors' Empathy. 6. Contesting Empathy. Appendix: A Collection of Hypotheses about Narrative Empathy. Work Cited. Index more...
Don't Know Much About Literature
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99From Homer to Harry Potter, from Chaucer to Charlotte's Web , acompelling book of quizzes on history's most influential literary worksand writers Did a whale named "Mocha Dick" inspire Melville's masterpiece? Who was the first poet to speak at a presidential inauguration? Which French-speaking high school football star shook up the literary world?... more...
Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 133.00In this new book, Noga Applebaum surveys science fiction novels published for children and young adults from 1980 to the present, exposing the anti-technological bias existing within a genre often associated with the celebration of technology. Applebaum argues that perceptions of technology as a corrupting force, particularly in relation to its use... more...
The Romantic Manifesto
Penguin Group US 1971; US$ 7.99In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The... more...
Literature, Science, and a New Humanities
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 32.00Literature, Science, and a New Humanities challenges dominant modes of literary analysis and sketches outlines of a new paradigm, theory, method, and ethos inspired by scientific models. more...
Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 31
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 110.99Part of the "Blue Ribbon Paper Series", this book contains papers that cover theory and research presented at the Couch-Stone Spring Symposium, and the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. It includes theoretical developme more...
Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 32
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 110.99Contains five papers which examine the future of symbolic interaction. This work features additional essays that offer theoretical developments in the areas of social work, race, media, identity, and politics. more...









