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Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising
Literary Places by Sarah Baxter
Literary Places (Inspired Traveller’s Guides) by Sarah Baxter
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Overview: Inspired Traveller’s Guides: Literary Places takes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature’s best and brightest authors, movements and moments-brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork.
Travel journalist Sarah Baxter provides comprehensive and atmospheric outlines of the history and culture of 25 literary places around the globe, as well as how they intersect with the lives of the authors and the works that make them significant. Full-page colour illustrations instantly transport you to each location. You’ll find that these places are not just backdrops to the tales told, but characters in their own right.
Travel to the sun-scorched plains of Don Quixote’s La Mancha, roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Cathy and Heathcliff or view Central Park through the eyes of J.D. Salinger’s antihero. Explore the lush and languid backwaters of Arundhati Roy’s Kerala, the imposing precipice of Joan Lindsay’s Hanging Rock and the labyrinthine streets and sewers of Victor Hugo’s Paris.
Delve into this book to discover some of the world’s most fascinating literary places and the novels that celebrate them.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
Literary Places (Inspired Traveller’s Guides)
TTC – Literary Modernism: The Struggle for Modern History
TTC – Literary Modernism: The Struggle for Modern History
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Introducing Literary Criticism: A Graphic Guide (Introducing…
Introducing Literary Criticism: A Graphic Guide (Introducing Graphic Guides)
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Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination: King Arthur and Don Quixote as National Heroes
Literary Knits by Nikol Lohr
Literary Knits: 30 Patterns Inspired by Favorite Books by Nikol Lohr
Requirements: .PDF reader, 12 MB
Overview: 30 projects inspired by classic literature
For pattern information and photos, visit the Literary Knits pattern page on ravelry.
Literary Knits features 30 knitting patterns inspired by beloved characters from classic books; from Pride and Prejudice to Moby Dick, The Catcher in the Rye to The Chronicles of Narnia–and many more in between.
Inspired by some of the most beloved characters from favorite books, the projects in this unique collection will inspire knitters and book lovers alike.
Each knitting pattern includes precise instruction and robust information on yarn selection and substitution
Beautiful photography throughout offers ideas and inspiration for all ages and skill levels, including supporting photos for tricky or less commonly-known techniques
Diagrams, assembly instructions, and schematic illustrations ease completion of each project
A generous mix of knitting patterns for women, men, and kids
If you’re a book lover who knits, or a knitter with an appreciation for vintage patterns, Literary Knits is a timeless collection of one-of-a-kind knitting projects.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
TTC – Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition
TTC – Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition
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Literary Narratives by Maria Odette Canivell Arzu
Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination: King Arthur and Don Quixote as National Heroes by María Odette Canivell Arzú
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Overview: In Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination: King Arthur and Don Quixote as National Heroes the author examines traditional Arthurian and Cervantine literary narratives to discuss how the two literary figures became paladins of their respective nations. Whereas the former bestows upon the homeland a positive image of Britain, based on military might, a glorious past and a promise of return, the latter contributes to a negative image of Spain based on a narrative of defeat and faded glory. In the analysis of the political intentions behind the literature that gave wings to the rise as paragons of these very famous literary characters, a semblance of the national imaginaries of the countries of their birth appears. Indeed, the tradition of Waterloo and the tradition of La Mancha are polar opposites in their Weltanschauung, and they only have in common that both heroes, Arthur and Quijote, are depicted as paladins of justice, benefactors, and redeemers of their land of birth. It is this idealized view of what is possibly the figment of a writer’s (or many different writers) pen that astonishes the reader, for behind it lies an intention to market (for internal and external consumption) both literary creations, exceeding the boundaries of the creative fiction that invented them to transform them into myths and political symbols of their respective nations.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
Shakespeare and the 99%: Literary Studies, the Profession, and the Production of Inequity
Plagiarism and Literary Property by Tilar J. Mazzeo (.AZW3)+
Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period by Tilar J. Mazzeo
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Overview: In a series of articles published in Tait’s Magazine in 1834, Thomas DeQuincey catalogued four potential instances of plagiarism in the work of his friend and literary competitor Samuel Taylor Coleridge. DeQuincey’s charges and the controversy they ignited have shaped readers’ responses to the work of such writers as Coleridge, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, and John Clare ever since. But what did plagiarism mean some two hundred years ago in Britain? What was at stake when early nineteenth-century authors levied such charges against each other? How would matters change if we were to evaluate these writers by the standards of their own national moment? And what does our moral investment in plagiarism tell us about ourselves and about our relationship to the Romantic myth of authorship?
In Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period, Tilar Mazzeo historicizes the discussion of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century plagiarism and demonstrates that it had little in common with our current understanding of the term. The book offers a major reassessment of the role of borrowing, textual appropriation, and narrative mastery in British Romantic literature and provides a new picture of the period and its central aesthetic contests. Above all, Mazzeo challenges the almost exclusive modern association of Romanticism with originality and takes a fresh look at some of the most familiar writings of the period and the controversies surrounding them.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational > Literary Criticism
Romanticism: A Literary & Cultural History by Carmen Casaliggi
Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History by Carmen Casaliggi, Porscha Fermanis
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Overview: The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a primitivist return to nature. As a broad global movement, Romanticism strongly impacted on the literature and arts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in ways that are still being debated and negotiated today.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
