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  • Dickens the Novelist

    by F. R. Leavis ...
    In The Great Tradition, published in 1948, F. R. Leavis seemed to rate the work of Charles Dickens - with the exception of Hard Times - as lacking the seriousness and formal control of the true masters of English fiction.By 1970, when Dickens the Novelist was published on the first centenary of the writer's death, Leavis and his lifelong collaborator Q. D. (Queenie) Leavis, had changed their minds ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Great Tradition

    George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad

    by F. R. Leavis ...
    'The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.'So begins F. R. Leavis's most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for an author's inclusion in any list of the finest novelists. In the course ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • In Search of the Swan Maiden

    A Narrative on Folklore and Gender

    by Barbara Fass Leavy ...
    A study of the meaning of gender as framed by a story found in the folklore of virtually every culture."In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds." — The New York Times Book ReviewThe swan maiden is a ... Read more

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  • The Common Pursuit

    by F. R. Leavis ...
    F. R. Leavis was the chief editor of Scrutiny, which between 1932 and 1953 had some claim on being the most influential literary journal in the English-speaking world.The Common Pursuit is a selection of Leavis's essays from Scrutiny, including his robust defence of Milton against T. S. Eliot, his deeply-felt engagement with Shakespeare, and his severe strictures on attempts to import sociology ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • New Bearings in English Poetry

    by F. R. Leavis ...
    It is difficult now to imagine the shock that this book caused when it was first published in 1932. The author was a teacher at a Cambridge college, an intensely serious man who had been seriously wounded by poison gas on the Western Front, and he was not disposed to suffer foolishness gladly. His opening sentences were arresting: 'Poetry matters little to the modern world. That is, very little of ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Two Cultures?

    The Significance of C. P. Snow

    by F. R. Leavis ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In this first annotated edition of F. R. Leavis' famous critique of C. P. Snow's influential argument about 'the two cultures', Stefan Collini reappraises both its literary tactics and its purpose as cultural criticism. The edition will enable new generations of readers to understand what was at stake in the dispute and to appreciate the enduring relevance of Leavis's attack on the goal of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Arts-Based Research

    Edited by Patricia Leavy, PhD ...
    The first methods handbook devoted solely to arts-based research (ABR) is now in a thoroughly updated second edition, featuring a new section on global perspectives plus new chapters on critical approaches and documentary film. The volume explores the synergies between contemporary artistic and research practices and addresses issues in designing, implementing, evaluating, and publishing ABR ... Read more

    $109.59 CAD

  • Make Me Commissioner

    I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It

    by Jane Leavy ...
    “Make Jane Commissioner… Leavy has a voice demanding to be heard—and Major League Baseball should listen.”— THE WALL STREET JOURNALA New York Times bestselling biographer and lifelong baseball devotee takes readers on an epic journey through the game that baseball has become— a heartfelt manifesto that's perfect for lovers of the sport.Jane Leavy has always loved baseball. Her grandmother lived ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Sandy Koufax

    A Lefty's Legacy

    by Jane Leavy ...
    “The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed…. This is an absorbing book, beautifully written.” —Wall Street Journal“Leavy has hit it out of the park…A lot more than a biography. It’s a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero’s self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory… a remarkably rich portrait.” — TimeThe instant ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Big Fella

    Babe Ruth and the World He Created

    by Jane Leavy ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive Babe Ruth biography—the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:The Boston Globe | Publishers Weekly | Kirkus | Newsweek | The Philadelphia Inquirer | The ProgressiveWinner of the 2019 SABR Seymour Medal | ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Privilege Through the Looking-Glass

    Edited by Patricia Leavy ...
    Privilege Through the Looking-Glass, Third Edition is a revised and expanded collection of essays that explore privilege and status characteristics in daily life.This collection seeks to make visible that which is often invisible. It seeks to sensitize us to things we have been taught not to see. Privilege, power, oppression, and domination operate in complex and insidious ways, impacting groups ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adam Bede

    by George Eliot, Regina Barrecca ...
    Hailed for its sympathetic and accurate rendering of nineteenth-century English pastoral life, Adam Bede was George Eliot’s first full-length novel and a bestseller from the moment of publication. Eliot herself called it “a country story—full of the breath of cows and scent of hay.” Adam Bede is an earnest and virtuous carpenter who is betrayed by his love, Hetty Sorrel, a pretty yet foolish ... Read more

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