The Leading eBooks Store Online
for your Apple or Android device, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
The Great War and Modern Memoryby Paul Fussell
Oxford University Press, USA 2000; US$ 13.45The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively... more...
Fighting Songs and Warring Wordsby Brian Murdoch
Routledge 1990; US$ 148.00The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb. more...
Cognitive Poetics in Practiceby Joanna Gavins; Gerard Steen
Routledge 2003; US$ 41.95Cognitive poetics involves the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This student-friendly book provides case studies to help students understand the theory and master the practice of cognitive poetic analysis. more...
Twentieth-Century Poetryby Peter Verdonk
Routledge 1993; US$ 49.95This textbook, based on extensive teaching experience,makes new insights from linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their daily practice of reading, analysing and evaluating literary texts. more...
International Who's Who in Poetry 2005by Europa Publications
Europa Publications 2003; US$ 240.00The 13th Edition of the INTERNATIONAL WHO?S WHO IN POETRY provides biographical information on over 4,000 poets. The biographies include, where available, personal and contact details, information on career and honours, as well as poets? own publications, their contributions to anthologies, periodicals and, increasingly, to other forms such as online publications and poetry events. For each edition existing entrants are given the opportunity to make necessary amendments and additions to their biographies. Supplementary research is done by the Europa Publications editorial department in order to ensure that the book is as up to date as possible on publication. more...
Kim Van Kieu of Nguyen Du: 1765-1820by Vladislav Zhukov
Pandanus Books 2005; US$ 16.00Kim Vān Kieu is an epic poem of wanderings and hardships written by exiled Vietnamese official, Nguyen Du 1765-1820. Translated with the intention of appealing to the more general reader. more...
A Companion to Ancient Epicby John Miles Foley
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 199.95A Companion to Ancient Epic presents for the first time a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of ancient Near Eastern, Greek and Roman epic. It offers a multi-disciplinary discussion of both longstanding ideas and newer perspectives. A Companion to the Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman epic traditions Considers the interrelation between these different traditions Provides a balanced overview of longstanding ideas and newer perspectives in the study of epic Shows how scholarship over the last forty years has transformed the ways that we conceive of and understand the genre Covers recently introduced topics, such as the role of women, the history of reception, and comparison with living analogues from oral tradition The editor and contributors... more...
How to Write a Poemby John Redmond
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2009; US$ 99.95An innovative introduction to writing poetry designed for students of creative writing and budding poets alike. Challenges the reader’s sense of what is possible in a poem. Traces the history and highlights the potential of poetry. Focuses on the fundamental principles of poetic construction, such as: Who is speaking? Who are they speaking to? Why does their speaking take this form? Considers both experimental and mainstream approaches to contemporary poetry. Consists of fourteen chapters, making it suitable for use over one semester. Encourages readers to experiment with their poetry. more...
Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseauby Simon Haines
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 109.00This accessible and jargon-free book features readings of over 20 key texts and authors in Western poetry and philosophy, including Homer, Plato, Beowulf, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Rousseau. Haines presents a theoretically aware account of Western literature and philosophy. Haines from Australian National University, ACT. more...
Gods and Mortalsby Nina Kossman
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 50.00This anthology gathers the great 20th-century myth-inspired poems from around the world, by the likes of Valery, Yeats, Lawrence, Rilke, Akhmatova, and Auden writing in the first half of the century to contemporary poets such as Lucille Clifton, Derek Walcott, Rita Dove and Wislawa Szymborska. more...