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  • Cancer Poetry

    by Iain Twiddy ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry. In discussing works by major poets, including Paul Muldoon, Jo Shapcott and Christopher Reid, Cancer Poetry traces the complex ways in which poets represent cancer, and assesses how poetry can be instrumental to emotional recovery. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    The Human Search for Meaning

    by Richard Holloway ...
    Series series Canons
    Spirituality, like morality, has historically been tied to religion – and yet it is possible for one to exist without the other. In this meditative and highly personal account, Richard Holloway considers the nature of the spiritual, and what it means to live with the inevitability of death.Both celebration of the possibilities that life affords and an examination of how doubts and fears too often ... Read more

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  • Workbook

    Memos & Dispatches On Writing

    by Steven Heighton ...
    Since selections first appeared in the New Quarterly and the National Post as part of “The Afterword,” Steven Heighton’s memos and dispatches to himself — a writer’s pointed, cutting take on his own work and the work of writing — have been tweeted and retweeted, discussed and tacked to bulletin boards everywhere. Coalesced, completed, and collected here for the first time, a wholly new kind of ... Read more

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  • Textual analysis for English Language and Literature for the IB Diploma

    Skills for Success

    by Carolyn P. Henly, Angela Stancar Johnson ...
    Build confidence in a range of key textual analysis techniques and skills with this practical companion, full of advice and guidance from experienced experts.- Build analysis techniques and skills through a range of strategies, serving as a useful companion throughout the course - from critical-thinking, referencing and citation and the development of a line of inquiry to reflecting on the writing ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Every Third Thought

    On life, death and the endgame

    by Robert McCrum ...
    As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful'** Kate MosseIn 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke. Since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the shadow of death, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Reading Octavia E. Butler: Xenogenesis / Liliths Brood

    by John Lennard ...
    Octavia Butler's premature and sudden death in 2006 has been very widely lamented, unhappily confirming her influence as a vital African-American and female pioneer in SF. Xenogenesis (retitled Lilith's Brood in 2000) is one of Butler's most important works, and comprises the novels Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988), and Imago (1989). The Notes cover Octavia Butler's life and work; the ... Read more

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  • Summary and Analysis of How to Read Literature Like a Professor

    Based on the Book by Thomas C. Foster

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of How to Read Literature Like a Professor tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Thomas C. Foster's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This summary of How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster includes ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing

    Edited by David Morley, Philip Neilsen ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Creative writing has become a highly professionalised academic discipline, with popular courses and prestigious degree programmes worldwide. This book is a must for all students and teachers of creative writing, indeed for anyone who aspires to be a published writer. It engages with a complex art in an accessible manner, addressing concepts important to the rapidly growing field of creative ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Second Words

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    Series series A List
    Reissued in a handsome A List edition, the largest collection of critical prose to date from world renowned author and poet Margaret Atwood, featuring an introduction by Lennie Goodings.Originally published in 1982, Second Words brings together fifty of Margaret Atwood’s finest essays and reviews spanning two decades, beginning in 1962, with an introduction and commentary by the author.With her ... Read more

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  • Strong Words

    Modern poets on modern poetry

    by W.N. Herbert, Matthew Hollis ...
    Poetry has never been so rigorous and diverse, nor has its audience been so numerous and engaged. Strong words? Not if the poets are right. As Ezra Pound wrote: ‘You would think that anyone wanting to know about poetry would go to someone who knew something about it.’ That’s exactly what Bloodaxe has done with this judicious and comprehensive selection of British, Irish and American manifestos by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Poetry Handbook

    by John Lennard ...
    The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry from metre to gender offer a wide-ranging general account and end by looking at two or three poems from a small group (including works by Donne Elizabeth Bishop Geoffrey Hill and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott) to build up ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Fatal News

    Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature

    by Katherine E. Ellison ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    What was "information" in the early eighteenth century, and what influence did the emergence of information, as potential physical and psychological threat, have on readers of the period? Recent scholarship in eighteenth-century print culture and in twenty-first-century media studies and theory offers a unique opportunity to reconsider how and why information is figuratively imagined during the ... Read more

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