Classic English Literature – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 6

Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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Chris Holmes,
Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature

A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them.How has a writer known princip…

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities

Puffin Clothbound Classics, Puffin Classics

A gorgeously giftable special hardback edition of A Tale of Two Cities, abridged for readers aged 9-12 years.Bound in high-quality cloth with a dazzling new foil-stamped cover design, Puffin's Clothbound …

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Ruth Mack
Handicraft Philosophies

"The term "Enlightenment" still carries its tie to a grand philosophical tradition that in Britain moves through Bacon, Locke, and Hume. But the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenme…

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Ruth Mack
Handicraft Philosophies

"The term "Enlightenment" still carries its tie to a grand philosophical tradition that in Britain moves through Bacon, Locke, and Hume. But the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenme…

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Eleanor Atkinson
Greyfriars Bobby

Puffin Classics

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of Greyfriars Bobby. Relive the classic Scottish tale, based on a true sto…

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Rhodri Lewis
Shakespeare's Tragic Art

A new account of Shakespearean tragedy as a response to life in an uncertain worldIn Shakespeare's Tragic Art , Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as Shakespeare wrote it---…

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Valérie Bénéjam
Joyce's Theatrical Poetics

Looking beyond the view of James Joyce as a failed playwright to uncover how Joyce's modernist breakthroughs are grounded in theatrical techniquesIn this book, Valérie Bénéjam argues that the success of J…

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Stephanie Bird
Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction

Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies this book analyses representations of Nazi perpetration and complicity.

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Beyond Modernism

Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism?Seeking an alternative history of British litera…

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Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Puffin Classics

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this epic edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, abridged for younger readers.A missi…

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Lewis Carroll,
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated Edition

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Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this enchanting illustrated edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Follow Alice down. . . …

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Roald Dahl,
Matilda. Film Tie-in

*Features lyrics from a brand-new song by Tim Minchin - written especially for the new Matilda the Musicalfilm!* Read it before you see the film - hitting cinemas in October, and starring Emma Thompson, S…

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David Sergeant
The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these disparat…

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Talia Schaffer
Communities of Care

What we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novelIn Communities of Care , Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups th…

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Mark Twain,
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Oxford World's Classics

Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put …

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Oliver Rendle
Cosmic Humour and Philosophical Pessimism in Contemporary Culture

An in-depth look at the concept of cosmic humour, a politically influential, philosophically pessimistic form of humour, this book explores the popularity of this comedic form across Anglophone culture si…

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Heidi Craig
Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

"Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the "death" of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renai…

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