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En Abime: Listening, Reading, Writing
An Archival Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
En Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. It introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically defined cultural experience, and contributes with previously unexplored references to the emerging area of listening...
by Sara Cone Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Within this book, beloved children's author Sara Cone Bryant offers advice on how to convert fidgety listeners into enthralled ones in a few simple, easy-to-follow lessons. Covering such subjects as selecting, adapting, and voicing stories, this concise guide will teach you how to grab and hold children's...
The Secret Life of Stories
From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of reading
Narrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their “well-formedness” within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some...
Controlling Readers
Guillaume de Machaut and His Late Medieval Audience
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) was the master poet of fourteenth-century France. He established models for much of the vernacular poetry written by subsequent generations, and he was instrumental in institutionalizing the lay reader. In particular, his longest and most important work, the Voir dit,...
by Barbara M. Benedict, Thomas Van der Goten, David Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts. Previous studies of annotation have revealed the margins as dynamic textual spaces both shaping and shaped by diverse aesthetic, historical, and political sensibilities. Yet previous...
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Reproducing the English Lyric from Tottel to Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In the latter half of the sixteenth century, English poets and printers experimented widely with a new literary format, the printed collection of lyric poetry. They not only investigated the possibilities of working with a new medium, but also wrote metaphors of human reproduction directly into their...
by Salman Elawad
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
The book Reading The Easy Way is composed of short articles intended to educate the public in an easy-to-read way. The articles cover a variety of topics such as nutrition and healthy eating, biology of human diseases, environmental concerns, raising our children, good leadership, effective college...
Ecstasy and Terror
From the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
This collection of essays exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made Daniel Mendelsohn “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). Here Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his...
Study Guide for Book Clubs: The Overstory
Study Guides for Book Clubs, #38
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
Designed for reading groups, this is a comprehensive guide to Richard Powers's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory. This discussion aid includes a wealth of information: thirty-two thought-provoking discussion questions; useful literary and historical context; an author biography; a plot summary;...
Wonderfully Wordless
The 500 Most Recommended Graphic Novels and Picture Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Wonderfully Wordless: The 500 Most Recommended Graphic Novels and Picture Books is the first comprehensive best book guide to wordless picture books (and nearly wordless picture books). It is an indispensable resource for parents and teachers who love graphic storytelling or who recognize the value...
by Patrick M. Valentine
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
While the importance of writing has often been recognized, the role of books and especially that of libraries has just as often been slighted. Knowledge, once generated, has to be communicated, preserved, and accessible. Books in their varying formats—from clay tablets to scrolls and manuscripts...
The Literature Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
A global look at the greatest works of Eastern and Western literature and the themes that unite them, for students and lovers of literature and reading.
The Literature Book is a fascinating journey through the greatest works of world literature, from the Iliad to Don Quixote to The Great Gatsby....
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Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Sixty-five of the world's leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to them
Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By...
by Anais Nin
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Anais Nin's first book, published in 1932 by Edward Titus in Paris, was a critical examination of the work of controversial British author D. H. Lawrence. Of all the books written about Lawrence, his widow Frieda said this one "was the best." Nin was inspired to do the book after Lawrence...