 | Lloyd Alexander: A Bio-Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in Women's Studies)
Publication Date: February 28, 1991 ...
 |  | Mary Mapes Dodge (Twayne United States Authors Series)
...
|  | Masterwork Studies Series: Wind in the Willows (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)
...
|  | Laura Ingalls Wilder: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical, Biographical, and Teaching Studies (Bibliographies and Indexes in American Literature)
Publication Date: January 30, 1997| ISBN-10: 0313299994 | ISBN-13: 978-0313299995| Edition: annotated edition With the publication of her first book, The Little House in the Big Woods (1932), Laura Ingalls Wilder became an almost overnight success as a writer of children's literature. This reference is a comprehensive compilation of works and research done on her from the first appearance of commentary to mid-1995. Citations are included for books, booklets, articles, theses, dissertations, and book reviews, and the annotations discuss the contents of these works. Entries are grouped in ...
|  | Opening The Nursery Door
Publication Date: May 7, 1997| ISBN-10: 0415148995 | ISBN-13: 978-0415148993| Edition: 1 Opening the Nursery Door is a fascinating collection of essays inspired by the discovery of a tiny archive: the nursery library of Jane Johnson 1707-1759, wife of a Lincolnshire vicar. It has captured the scholarly interest of social anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, educationalists and archivists as it has opened up a range of questions about the nature of childhood within English cultural life over three centuries: the texts written and read to children, the multifarious ways childhoo...
|  | Mary Poppins and Myth (Skrifter Utgivna Av Svenska Barnboksinstitutet, Nr. 8.)
...
|  | The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
Publication Date: April 14, 2008Peter Mark Roget-polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado-was a complicated man. He was an eminent scholar who absorbed himself in his work, yet he also possessed an allure that endeared him to his mentors and colleagues-not to mention a host of female admirers. But, most notably, Roget made lists.From the age of eight, Roget kept these lists with the intention of ordering the chaotic world around him. After his father's death, his mother became overbearing and despondent. Soon, his sister also descended into mental illness. Despite these tragedies, Roget l...
| | Lecturas y lectores del discurso narrativo dieciochesco (Teoria literaria, texto y teoria) (Teoria literaria, texto y teoria) (Spanish Edition)
...
|  | Masterwork Studies Series: A Little Princess (cloth) (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)
...
|  | The Library of Alexandria: Rediscovering the Cradle of Western Culture
Publication Date: March 16, 2000| ISBN-10: 1860644287 | ISBN-13: 978-1860644283The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world. It contained thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature, as well as art and artifacts of ancient Egypt. This book brings together a distinguished array of scholars to bring this great institution--tragically destroyed--back to life. ...
|  | A A Milne (Young at Heart)
Publication Date: September 1992| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Los libros del gran dictador (Coleccion Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition)
...
|  | The Orwell Mystique: A Study in Male Ideology
Publication Date: October 4, 1984Historical perspective on the writings of George Orwell and the study in make ideology. ...
| | Literature in the Modern World: Critical Essays and Documents
Publication Date: January 17, 1991| ISBN-10: 019871114X | ISBN-13: 978-0198711148This book offers a unique combination of English, European, feminist and "new writing" or "Commonwealth" perspectives upon literary studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is designed to enable students to gain an understanding of the main theoretical issues involved in the study of modern literary texts - chiefly but not exclusively in English. It includes the views of leading critics and theorists such as Marilyn Butler, Frank Kermode, Helene Cixous and Edward Said, as well as the originating voices of Wol...
|  | The Marks in the Fields: Essays on the Uses of Manuscripts (Houghton Library Publications)
Publication Date: February 1992| Series: Houghton Library Publications In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Harvard's Houghton Library in 1992, Curator of Manuscripts Rodney Dennis asked a stellar cast of critics, historians, and curators to write on items selected from the library's rich trove of manuscripts, which ranges from the papyrus fragments and ostraca of Antiquity to the papers of such modern figures as Elizabeth Bishop and Leon Trotsky. The result was Marks in the Fields, an extraordinary collection of essays by the likes of Helen Vendler, Christopher Ricks, and Lawrence Buel...
|  | Little House On The Prairie (Masterwork Studies Series)
...
|  | Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading
Publication Date: December 31, 2002"Persuasive, instructive, and revisionary. Serves as complementary, complicating, or corrective to much of the scholarship on Melville, especially to very recent scholarship. . . . I will never teach or discuss Melville's texts in exactly the same ways again."--Jamie Barlowe, University of ToledoBy delineating the connections between nineteenth-century penitentiary reforms and the narrative structures and strategies of Herman Melville's fictions, this book explores the ways literature reflects and refracts ideas about the influence of reading on m...
|  | 'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675 (Studies in Book and Print Culture)
Publication Date: September 3, 2005| ISBN-10: 0802038840 | ISBN-13: 978-0802038845| Edition: 1 The mass production and dissemination of printed materials were unparalleled in England during the 1640s and 50s. While theatrical performance traditionally defined literary culture, print steadily gained ground, becoming more prevalent and enabling the formation of various networks of writers, readers, and consumers of books.In conjunction with an evolving print culture, seventeenth-century England experienced a rise of political instability and religious dissent, the closing of the theatres, ...
|  | Mother Was a Lady: Self and Society in Selected American Children's Periodicals, 1865-1890 (Contributions in American Studies)
...
|  | Paper Empires: A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005
Publication Date: July 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0702235733 | ISBN-13: 978-0702235733Will Australia’s once booming book industry be replaced by e-publishing? Are independent publishers and booksellers on the way out? In a world where one ‘mega-author’ can sell millions of books, can anyone else compete?Paper Empires tells the inside story of Australian publishing over the past half-century. It begins with the larrikin pioneers of the 1950s and 60s and follows the fortunes of the independents and multinationals that followed in their wake. Two fascinating local successes includ...
|
Data Source by Amazon.com |
留言列表
