The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. But we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them ...Show more
London - Tanya Dalziell by Tanya Dalziell
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Joan London's remarkable body of work, including the award-winning novels and short fiction The Golden Age, Gilgamesh and Sister Ships, tells everyday stories of family, love and loss, with her signature poetic vision. London's stories portray how ordinary people get caught up in extraordinary circumst ...Show more
Mother Tongue - The Surprising History of Women's Words by Jenni Nuttall
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our lives.'Fascinating, intriguing, witty, a gem of a book' KATE MOSSE'Wonderful' DAILY TELEGRAPH'This superb book teems with historical marvels and their 21st century resonances.' REBECCA ...Show more
The Wife of Bath - A Biography by Marion Turner
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers-from Shakespeare and Voltaire to James Joyce, Passolini, and Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colorful li ...Show more
The Power of Language - Multilingualism, Self and Society by Viorica Marian
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Why should we learn more than one language? Can it change the way we think? Does it have the power to transform how we see the world? You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is interpreting multiple codes of communication. Some people speak Spanish, some Mandarin. Some speak poetr ...Show more
Ezra Pound's Cathay by Wai-lim Yip
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Wai-lim Yip's study of Ezra Pound's translation of the difficult Cathay poems also includes a discussion of the problems of translation from Chinese in general, and the effort by Pound in these poems in particular. Mr. Yip links Pound's principles of translation to his late pre-Raphaelite background, an ...Show more
Cathay - Ezra Pound's Orient by Ira Nadel
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
The English literati were fascinated by China at the turn of the century. London was a breeding ground for the avant-garde and modernist writers like Eliot, Yeats and Pound became infatuated--but only Pound set out to re-invent, re-connect and eventually "rethink the nature of an English poem." Publishe ...Show more
Meander, Spiral, Explode - Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 One of Poets & Writers' Best Books for Writers "How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read. . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in nature, and by defining these new styles she offers writers the freedom ...Show more
The Conscious Style Guide: A flexible approach to language that includes, respects, and empowers by Karen Yin
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Thankfully, The Conscious Style Guide provides a roadmap for communicating with sensitivity and awareness - no matter how the world around us progresses. Readers will learn- How to identify biased language How to implement the overarching principles that guide us toward conscious language How to ad ...Show more
All We Have Is the Story - Selected Interviews (1973-2022) by James Kelman
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Kelman Library
ALL WE HAVE IS THE STORY collects fifty years of interviews, both published and unpublished, revealing James Kelman s thinking on a breadth of topics from writing and literature to class and race to sports and philosophy.
Un soir de décembreroman by Delphine de Vigan
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
La 4e de couverture indique : "Un livre peut-il porter à ce point la trace d'une femme ? Peut-on écrire seulement pour ça, pour se rapprocher de quelq'un ou de manière plus juste pour l'attacher à soi ? Lorsqu'il écrit son premier roman, Matthieu Brin, quarante-cinq ans, est marié, père de deux enfants ...Show more
Slogans Galore! - Gaelic Words in English by George McLennan
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A handy reference guide to Gaelic-derived words and expressions in common usage in English. Like George McLennan's previously successful book "Scots Gaelic - An Introduction to the Basics", "Gaelic and English - Their Common Origins" and "A Gaelic Alphabet - A Guide to the Pronunciation of Gaelic Letter ...Show more