Comparative Literature
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The Uses of Literature
$20.99 Add to cartIn these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself mad… [more below]
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0156932504
- Language: English
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How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry
$18.99 Add to cartA masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives.
How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented explorat… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Hirsch, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0156005662
- Language: English
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Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature
$29.95 Read moreA deep history of storytelling as a civic agency, recalibrating literature’s political role for the twenty-first century
Why did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly- Author: Fuchs, Florian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1942130740
- Language: English
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How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form
$17.99 Add to cartThe follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor–a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday re
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061340405
- Language: English
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Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries.
In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190076976
- Language: English
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The Epic Cosmos
$19.95 Add to cartLarry Allums, editor Louise Cowan, general editor The community of scholar-critics that brought out The Terrain of Comedy has produced the second volume in its studies of the four genres, with Larry A… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Genre
- Author: Allums, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: February 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0911005226
- Language: English
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Aspects of the Novel
$14.99 Add to cartE. M. Forster’s guide sparkles with wit and insight for contemporary writers and readers. With lively language and excerpts from well-known classics, Forster (author of A Passage to India, Howards En… [more below]
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 14 1956
- ISBN10: 0156091801
- Language: English
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The Seed Of Yggdrasill
$80.00 Add to cartThe most comprehensive guide to Norse literature, historical folk lore and more. Kvilhaug peels back the layers of the Eddas, Poems and Sagas to reveal hidden truths within Maria’s background in resea
- Author: Kvilhaug, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 646
- Publish Date: March 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1959350021
- Language: English
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature – New and Expanded Edition
$27.95 Add to cartThe classic book that has taught generations how to read Western literature
More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary crit- Series: Princeton Classics #1
- Author: Auerbach, Erich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: October 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160228
- Language: English
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A Room of One’s Own: The Feminist Classic
$13.00 Add to cartDiscover Virginia Woolf’s landmark essay on women’s struggle for independence and creative opportunity
A Room of One’s Own is one of Virginia Woolf’s most influential works and widely recognized for i
- Series: Capstone Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0857088823
- Language: English
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Wuthering Heights (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)
$14.99 Read moreDiscover the hauntingly beautiful tale of “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bront?. Immerse yourself in the dark and passionate world of the Earnshaw and Linton families, as love, revenge, and the superna
- Author: Bront?, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 8194898889
- Language: English
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The Bible and Poetry
$18.95 Read moreA fresh, provocative look at the link between poetry and Christianity, both as it relates to the Bible itself as well as to Christian and religious life, by an accomplished scholar.
The Bible is full- Author: Edwards, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1681376377
- Language: English
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
$26.00 Add to cartFor more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational to… [more below]
- Author: Lopate, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: January 15 1997
- ISBN10: 038542339X
- Language: English
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
$29.00 Read moreThe Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come.
The age of print is a grand exception in history. Fo- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394827
- Language: English
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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
$28.00 Read moreA history of one of humankind’s most resilient and influential technologies over the past millennium–the book. Revelatory and entertaining in equal measure, Portable Magic will charm and challenge li… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1524749095
- Language: English
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On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life
$17.99 Read moreTen brief essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.
How do we live successfully?
How do we live fully?
Identifying the meaning
- Author: Hutchinson, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0008588465
- Language: English
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100 Novels That Changed the World
$30.00 Add to cartA look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture.
Before the novel, the world of books was dominated by scientific tomes, religious tra
- Author: Salter, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 0008599084
- Language: English
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How to Read Now: Essays
$28.00 Add to cart“How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our burie
- Author: Castillo, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593489632
- Language: English
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How to Draw a Novel
$20.00 Read moreFrom the acclaimed author of The Black Minutes and Don’t Send Flowers, How to Draw a Novel is an ingenious and visually stimulating exploration of narrative and craft from master storyteller and forme
- Author: Solares, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0802159303
- Language: English
