Enjoying More Poetry

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9780333356555

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24 cm.: 246 p.

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821.008 SAD e

Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games (copy)

Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension.

Cliffs Notes on Garcia Marquez 100 Years of Solitude (copy)

This history of a family is an amalgamation of Garcia Marquez's shorter fiction, American fiction, biblical parables, and quixotic experiences of his own unique life story. His is a community crowded with people and personal narratives, confusion, and progressive decline. The novel is a journey through life, caught on paper, so real that you'll swear you can smell it.

The Hero With a Thousand Faces (copy)

Joseph Campbell's classic cross-cultural study of the hero's journey has inspired millions and opened up new areas of research and exploration. Originally published in 1949, the book hit the New York Times best-seller list in 1988 when it became the subject of The Power of Myth, a PBS television special. Now, this legendary volume, re-released in honor of the 100th anniversary of the author's b…

Wordplay and the Discourse of Video Games Analyzing Words, Design and Play (c…

In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a particular way of gaming by focusing on how games create meaning, lead to identification and division, persuade, and circulate ideas. Paul examines the broader social discourse about gaming, including: the way players are socialized into gam…

Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem …

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1429514574

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29 cm. + 113 p.

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820 MIL d

Macbeth: New Critical Essays (copy)

This volume offers a wealth of critical analysis, supported with ample historical and bibliographical information about one of Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular and globally influential plays. Its eighteen new chapters represent a broad spectrum of current scholarly and interpretive approaches, from historicist criticism to performance theory to cultural studies. A substantial section add…

Of Philosophers and Kings: Political Philosophers in Shakespeare's Macbeth an…

This innovative work argues that Shakespeare was as great a philosopher as he was a poet, and that his greatness as a poet derived even more from his power as a thinker than from his genius for linguistic expression. Accordingly, Leon Craig's interpretation of the plays - focusing primarily on Macbeth and King Lear, but including extensive comments on Othello, The Winter's Tale, and Measure for…

Orientalism: Modern Classics (copy)

"Orientalism" is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influence becomes if anything even greater. To mark its 25th anniversary, "Orientalism" rightfully takes its place as a Pengun Modern Classic.

Equivocal Endings in Classic American Novels (copy)

An original approach to four mainstream texts for the study of American literature and the novel in general. It examines the strangely equivocal nature of the vision with which each of them ends, with the central protagonists illogically clinging to their own transcendent image of selfhood.

In Essay Writing: A Guide to Text Types (copy)

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1876367709

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64p.: ill.; 29cm.

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808.4 LYN i

Success in English Literature : a Practical Guide to Working With Unseen Tex…

A practical guide to working with unseen texts at A Level. Studying unseen texts is essential for all English literature courses - and students often find this the most demanding task. Success in English literature will fully prepare students for their unseen work through developing the skills and confidence needed for success. The book offers: · Advice on close reading · Mini anthologies of …

Macbeth - The Annotated Shakespeare (copy)

Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs its readers in the ruinous journey of surrender to evil as does Macbeth. A timeless tragedy about the nature of ambition, conscience, and the human heart, the play holds a profound grip on the Western imagination. This extensively annotated edition makes Macbeth completely accessible to twenty-first-century readers and provides a rich resource for…

Toward a Feminist Poetics

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9780300084580

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29 p. + 719 p.

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820 GIL t

The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us―And How …

Proteus, the mythical sea god who could alter his appearance at will, embodies one of the promises of online games: the ability to reinvent oneself. Yet inhabitants of virtual worlds rarely achieve this liberty, game researcher Nick Yee contends. Though online games evoke freedom and escapism, Yee shows that virtual spaces perpetuate social norms and stereotypes from the offline world, transfor…

Critical Theory Today: A User Friendly Guide Second Edition (copy)

Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary anal…

Universal Library (copy)

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29 cm. + 257 p.

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820 EMP u

Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexual…

Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in its filmic fare and its image. From Aladdin and Pocahontas to the Asian American boy Russell in Up, from the first African American princess in The Princess and the Frog to "Spanish-mode" Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3, Disney films have come to both …

Agency and Media Reception: Experiencing Video Games, Film, and Television (F…

What happens to our sense of agency, our general ability to perform actions in our life worlds, in the course of media reception and appropriation? Whilst considering media communication as a special form of social action, this work reconsiders the key concepts of social action theory, pragmatism, communication theory as well as film, game, and television theory. It thus integrates agency as th…

Deconstructing Disney (copy)

Demonising Disney is nothing new. Disney films have long been synonymous with a certain conservative, patriarchal, heterosexual ideology, occupying a centre-stage position at the heart of the evil empire. Deconstructing Disney takes issue with knee-jerk polarities, overturning classical oppositions and recognising that, just as the Disney ‘text’ has changed, so too must the terms of critica…

Shakespeare's Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Cae…

This volume explores the influences of Catholicism and Protestantism in a trio of Shakespeare's tragedies: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet. Bypassing the discussion of Shakespeare's personal religious beliefs, Batson instead focuses on distinct footprints left by Catholic and Protestant traditions that underlie and inform Shakespeare's artistic genius.

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (copy)

Expanded second edition of this hugely successful introduction to literary theory, a book which has already proven itself as the first port of call for students - Two new chapters added which take account of the changes since the first publication (1995), and all bibliographies have been updated - Given approval by academics and teachers the world over as the clearest and most concise introduct…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Great Hispanic Heritage) (copy)

These riveting personalities each achieved excellence, but even greater than their individual accomplishments is the positive Hispanic image they collectively represent to the world. Photographs, illustrations, and lively text tell the stories ot these fascinating historical figures.

Mythologies (copy)

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29 cm. + 164 p.

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820 BAR m

Image Music Text (copy)

ESSAYS SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY STEPHEN HEATH 'Image-Music-Text' brings together major essays by Roland Barthes on the structural analysis of narrative and on issues in literary theory, on the semiotics of photograph and film, on the practice of music and voice. Throughout the volume runs a constant movement 'from work to text': an attention to the very ‘grain’ of signifying activity an…

S/Z New Edition (copy)

S/Z is the linguistic distillation of Barthes's system of semiology, a science of signs and symbols, in which a Balzac novella, Sarrasine, is dissected semantically in order to uncover layers of unsuspected meanings and connotations. In the process, Barthes reveals the immeasurably fecund nature of language. His interpretation of language and meaning within the structuralist mode offers an alto…

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini's (Bloom's Guides Comprehensive Research & …

In The Kite Runner, history and personal responsibility come together in the story of Amir, an Afghan boy who is haunted by the guilt of betraying his childhood friend Hassan, the son of his father’s servant. In the background loom the many tumultuous changes that have gripped Afghanistan in the years since Amir’s carefree kite-flying childhood. From the fall of the monarchy through the Sov…

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez's (Bloom's Guides Comp…

In a single, informative volume, One Hundred Years of Solitude presents a helpful literary guide to Gabriel García Márquez's famous epic. This multigenerational tale tells the story of one family's struggle to cope with their once insular town becoming less isolated as it faces the challenges of modernization. Filled with both beauty and tragedy, Márquez's book has become representative of m…

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald's (Bloom's Guides Comprehensive Resear…

In a single, engaging volume, The Great Gatsby presents a helpful literary guide to one of America's most prized classic novels. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the Jazz Age and examined the American obsession with love, wealth, material objects, and class. Considered one of the great novels of the 20th century, Fitzgerald's famous work rem…

Manhood and Masculine Identity in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth

Maria Howell's, Manhood and Masculine Identity in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, is an important and compelling scholarly work which seeks to examine the sixteenth century's greatest concern, echoed by Hamlet himself, "What is a man?" In an attempt to analyze the concept of manhood in Macbeth, Howell explores the contradictions and ambiguities that underlie heroic notions of masc…