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Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018This book contains all the advice and support you need to revise successfully for your National 5 exam. It combines an overview of the course syllabus with advice from a...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
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2018-04-09
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This book explores the idiosyncratic effects generated as fairytale and gothic horror join, clash or merge in cinema. Identifying long-held traditions that have inspired this topical phenomenon, the book features close analysis of classical through to contemporary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-06
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I go down to the shore in the morningand depending on the hour the wavesare rolling in or moving out, andI say, oh,I am miserable,what shall-what shouldI do? And the sea saysin its lovely voice:Excuse me,I have work to do.Whether studying the leaves of a tree or...
Editeur :
Corsair
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2018-04-05
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Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually.Maybe the desire to make something beautifulis the piece of God that is inside each of us.In this stunning collection, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life's work. Herons, sparrows, owls and kingfishers...
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Corsair
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2018-04-05
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'And just like that, like a simpleneighbourhood event, a miracle istaking place.''If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,' Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver's love...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2018-04-05
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In Pop-Feminist Narratives, Emily Spiers explores the recent phenomenon of 'pop-feminism' and pop-feminist writing across North America, Britain, and Germany. Pop-feminism is characterised by its engagement with popular culture and consumerism; its preoccupation with...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1:The Middle Ages explores the richness and variety of life-writing from late Antiquity to the threshold of the Renaissance. During the Middle Ages, writers from Bede to Chaucer were thinking about life and experimenting with...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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This book explores how a group of Victorian liberal writers that included George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold became attracted to new theories of religion as a function of race and ethnicity. Since the early modern period, British liberals had typically...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension describes the development and proliferation of the idea of higher dimensional space in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth century was a moment of extraordinary mathematical innovation, witnessing the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth century was a moment of extraordinary mathematical innovation, witnessing the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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This book explores how a group of Victorian liberal writers that included George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold became attracted to new theories of religion as a function of race and ethnicity. Since the early modern period, British liberals had typically...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension describes the development and proliferation of the idea of higher dimensional space in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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Sleep and the Novel is a study of representations of the sleeping body in fiction from 1800 to the present day which traces the ways in which novelists have engaged with this universal, indispensable -- but seemingly nondescript -- region of human experience. Covering...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-04
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This book attempts to solve Aristotle's definition of arthron in the XX chapter of the Poetics by seeing it in a new light.This definition has always been considered an unsolvable problem. Starting with a detailed analysis of the Greek text, and of the various attempts...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-04-03
Collection :
UNIPA Springer Series
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How do novels travel through time?How might they endure in a changing world and reach the readers of an unknowable future? Modernist writers were eager to think of their books as reaching audiences they could not yet imagine. In recent years however, scholars of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-04-03
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An indispensable reference for scholars and students of eighteenth-century English literature This addition to the celebrated Wiley-Blackwell Keywords series explores the meanings of fifty-eight of the most important words in British literature of the period 1640-1789....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-04-03
Collection :
Keywords in Literature and Culture (KILC).
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This collection examines the presence of minority communities and dissident voices in Ireland both historically and in a contemporary framework. Accordingly, the contributions explore different facets of what we term “Irish minority and dissident identities,” ranging...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-03
Collection :
New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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This book offers a unique argument for the emergence of a post-9/11 vampire that showcases changing perspectives on identity and religion in American culture, offering a look at how cultural narratives can be used to work through trauma. Cultural narratives have long...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-03
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