Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous poetry, especially English, relied on symbolism, allegory, and meditation on the religious and spiritual, Leaves of Grass exalted the body and the material world.

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A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

This edition of the bestselling guide retains the strong features of the original book; offering a comprehensive coverage of the main literary theories, further readings and bibliographies. At the same time, the new edition adds material on contemporary literary theories, such as: cultural materialism, post-colonial theory, feminist theory, black British, Afro-American, Asian, Caribbean theory, and gay, lesbian and queer theory. The book can be used in conjunction with Practising Theory and Reading Literature. 

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BBC History UK - May 2012

BBC History UK - May 2012
Publisher: BBC
Publication date: April 2012
Number of pages: 100
Format / Quality: PDF HQ
Size: 79,52 MB


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Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose

• Provides students with a systematic introduction to and explanation of the main features of 'style'
• Contains a series of close analyses of extracts from a wide range of novels and stories for great depth of coverage
• Includes an abundance of new material, addressing the massive changes in the discipline that have taken place over the last 25 years
• The ‘Further Reading’ section and the bibliographical references have been thoroughly update. 

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The Second Sex

The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe, June 1949) is one of the best-known works of the French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir. It is a work on the treatment of women throughout history and often regarded as a major work of feminist literature. 

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Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method

Gerard Genette, "Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method"
Cornell University Press | 1983 | ISBN: 0801492599 | 288 pages | PDF | 7.86 Mb

Gerard Genette builds a systematic theory of narrative upon an anlaysis of the writings of Marcel Proust, particularly 'Remembrance of Things Past.'
Adopting what is essentially a structuralist approach, the author identifies and names the basic constituents and techniques of narrative and illustrates them by referring to literary works in many languages. 

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Fiction & Diction

Gérard Genette, "Fiction & Diction"
Cornell Univ Press | 1993 | ISBN: 0801480868 | 176 pages | PDF | 29.05 Mb

One of the founders of structuralist literary theory, Gerard Genette here addresses the question of "literariness" -- of what it is that makes a text an aesthetic object. Published in French in 1991, Fiction and Diction explores the conditions under which a written or spoken text is perceived as "literature". With reference to writers and theorists from Aristotle to Moliere to Iris Murdoch, Genette investigates the different facets -- particularly "regimes", "criteria" and "modes" -- of literariness. 


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The Cultural Analysis of Texts

The Cultural Analysis of Texts By Mikko Lehtonen
Publisher: Sage Publications 2000 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 0761965505 , 0761965513 | File type: PDF | 1 mb 

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An Introduction to Literary Studies

In this volume, Mario Klarer provides the essential beginner's guide to English literary studies. Offering a concise, easy-to-understand discussion of central issues in the study of literary texts, 

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The Annotated Shakespeare

The annotated Shakespeare: three volumes in one illustrated: the comedies, the histories, sonnets, and other poems, the tragedies and romances I edited, with introductions, notes, a biography and bibliography by A.L. Rowse. 

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Poets & Writers - March/April 2011

Poets & Writers is a must have periodical for writers who are true students of their occupation. The magazine delivers its readers provocative essays on the literary life, practical guidance for getting published and pursuing a writing career, profiles of poets, fiction writers, and writers of creative nonfiction, and interviews between fellow professionals. 

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Poets & Writers - May/June 2011

Poets & Writers is a must have periodical for writers who are true students of their occupation. The magazine delivers its readers provocative essays on the literary life, practical guidance for getting published and pursuing a writing career, profiles of poets, fiction writers, and writers of creative nonfiction, and interviews between fellow professionals. 

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Literary Themes for Students: War and Peace

Literary Themes for Students: War and Peace
Publisher: Gale |  edition 2006 | PDF | 710 pages | 42 mb 

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Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, 1914-2000

Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, 1914-2000
Publisher: Greenwood | 2004 | 2,8 mb

The reading habits, intellectual development, and contributions of the cultural giants of the 20th century are traced. 

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Novels for Students - Volume 35

Each volume of Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 12 to 15 works from various cultures and time periods. 

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Leviathan Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications and new refutations in every generation.  


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Introducing Literary Theories

This volume is an ideal introduction for those coming to literary theory for the first time. It covers the major theoretical approaches: Bakhtinian Criticism, Structuralism, Feminist Theory, Marxist Literary Theories, Reader-Response Theories, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Deconstruction, Poststructuralism, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Postcolonial Theory, Gay Studies/ Queer Theories, Cultural Studies and Postmodernism. 


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An Outline of American Literature

A survey of the English prose, poetry and drama of the United States from Colonial times to the1980s.

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A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory, 2nd Edition

 

The liveliness of style and variety of subject-matter mean that Payne has succeeded where many have failed, namely in bringing the 'pleasure of the text' to some of the most difficult and complex writings of our age  

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Studying Shakespeare

This beginner’s guide to Shakespeare reminds us that the main reason people still watch and read Shakespeare’s plays is because they identify with the characters and situations depicted in them.
Drawing on all of Shakespeare’s plays, Laurie Maguire shows how they illustrate some of life’s most familiar stories – love and obsession, parents and children, sex and politics, suffering and revenge. 


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