The Politics Book charts the development of long-running themes, such as attitudes to democracy and violence, developed by thinkers from Confucius in ancient China to Mahatma Gandhi in 20th-century India.
Unlike Sartre , Adorno is less concerned with generating specific disclosure or implementing change than with disrupting fundamental attitudes . His own aesthetic theory sees the representation ( " gesture toward reality " ) achieved by ...
How Literature Works is an indispensable book for any reader seeking a greater appreciation of their favorite novel, poem, or play.
Or was that Oprah? This quirky work is filled with entertaining literary trivia fora unique perspective on writers’ lives and inspirations, from thedrinks they imbibed to the books they penned.
In her collection A Street in Bronzeville (1945), the poet Gwendolyn Brooks includes a sonnet sequence titled “Gay Chaps at the Bar,” dedicated as a “souvenir for Staff Sergeant Raymond Brooks and every other soldier.
Designed for literature-based writing courses, Text Book introduces students to the idea that literary texts and ordinary spoken and written language share many of the same features.
The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts.
Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. Explores issues of ethnicity and culture in the lives of immigrants in Louisiana in the nineteenth century, with special emphasis on people of mixed race.
This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the body in literature, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
For the devoted reader, By the Book is a way to invite sixty-five of the most interesting guests into your world. It's a book party not to be missed.