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La pensée a joué - et joue toujours - un rle vital dans le devenir de l'espèce humaine dont l'histoire se conçoit et se crée à travers elle. C'est par elle, également, que l'humanité a su pallier des faiblesses qui la rendent vulnérable aux phénomènes naturels. On peut donc s'attendre à en voir la trace dans la façon dont diverses sociétés ont projeté leur existence et assumé leur place dans le monde. Comment la pensée structure-t-elle,...
22) El polaco
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Daniel, por su apoyo, su inmenso cariño y por ser el único hombre que me hace reír de verdad. Mi Xiuma, por leerme y por ser mi fan número uno. Dayana Paradas, por ser la primera en leerme y siempre estar allí para mí. Mi mami, por impulsarme a creer en mí. Mis fieles lectoras. Gracias, chicas… muchas gracias. Mis hijos. Esto es para ustedes. Los amo con el alma y con todo mi corazón. Son mi más grande orgullo y espero ser la...
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Jorge Isaacs: El caballero de los enigmas está centrado en los grandes interrogantes que no han dejado de rodear a Jorge Isaacs, personaje envuelto en los velos de múltiples leyendas. Con celo admirable, movido por el deseo de indagar sobre el autor, o supuesto autor de María, Ramiro Martínez Gutiérrez se dio durante años a la tarea de reunir en esta publicación precisamente aquellos asuntos enigmáticos relativos a la vida y obra del escritor...
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El señor Sacramento Heredero ha mantenido por años algo que, dicho sin subentendidos malévolos, puede ser catalogado como "doble vida". Es así, es un hecho objetivo, no teñido de carga moral alguna. En efecto, a lo largo de su existencia ha logrado pulir, como si fuera una moneda sagrada, una reputación brillante de contador experto en asuntos tributarios. Es el lado visible de su luna. En su oficina, multiplicada como en espejos móviles por...
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The influential and controversial critic takes literary history out of the classroom and into the public
In the field of literary history and theory, Franco Moretti is synonymous with innovation. The cofounder of the Stanford Literary Lab, he brought quantitative methods into the study of the novel, enabling a "distant" reading that uses computation to analyze literary production over centuries. But at the same time, he was also teaching undergraduates...
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"Forming part of a fantastic series of kid's educational books, this bold and brilliant kid's encyclopedia uses ground-breaking CGI imagery to reveal the world as you've never seen it before. Informative, diverse in subject matter, easy-to-read and brimming with beautiful graphics, young learners can explore the incredibly detailed cross-sections and cutaways that reveal the inner workings of the world around them, featuring floods, hurricanes, volcanoes,...
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"Based on a true story, the author humorously recounts the time his grandfather got stranded with a friend on Surtsey, a brand new volcanic island in Iceland. The adventurers face epic challenges like molten lava, melted eyeglasses and scant supplies before finally getting rescued. Graphic novel-like layouts and spirited text invite readers to search for the one thing that's not actually true in this thrilling yet light-hearted tale of adventure....
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A 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 exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, National Book Critics Circle award-winning distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can...
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Critical Approaches to Joseph Conrad is a collection of essays directed to both new and experienced readers of Conrad. The book takes into account recent developments in literary theory, including the prominence of ecocriticism, ecopostcolonial approaches, and gender studies. Editor Agata Szczeszak-Brewer offers a comprehensive and comprehensible introduction to Conrad's most popular texts, also addressing the most recent academic debates as well...
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A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.
Breathing and its rhythms-liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous-have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath's punctuations, cessations, inhalations, or exhalations operate at the limits of meaningful speech, Stefanie Heine explores how literary texts reflect their own mediality,...
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Modern Literature has diversified into comparative literature and African Literature has become quite important in this field. This is because it not only tries to rewrite a lot about Africa which was biased according to Eurocentric writers but also because it incorporates a lot of issues uniquely African. These may have to do with the traditional African Societies as well as the evolution of new so-called modern African societies, more oriented to...
33) Why Poetry
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An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry's accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder
In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry-and poetry alone-can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding...
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This book is book is the third in a series that examines the novel, Fathers of Nations, by Paul B Vitta. The first booklet analyzes the plot and examines the characters and their roles. The second examines the important themes and the elements of style. This book looks at how to deal with questions set on this novel. It begins with how to interpret question words, recognizing that this is often the first hurdle standing in the way of a student's performance....
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A Student's Guide to Literature takes up these questions: In a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended? Why is literature so compelling? What should we read? Literary scholar R. V. Young addresses these timely issues in this guide to Western literature and poetry. He demonstrates that literature liberates the mind from cultural and temporal provincialism by expanding our intellectual and...
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The study of the Afican novel is often challenging to both the teacher and the student in high schools and colleges. This is because, apart from many modern African novels being multi-faceted, many teachers and students still use the traditional methods of analysis. Often, such methods leave the reader with a lot of knowledge about the particular text, but with few literary skills that can be used on other literary texts or even other genres. This...
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Following the first book on John Steinbeck's The Pearl which examined the PLOT of the novella and the CHARACTERS, this book examines the THEMES and ELEMENTS OF STYLE. This allows the critic of the novella to have a comprehensive view of what the novella is about, how it is crafted, who the players are and what kind of style the novelist adopts. This should prepare any student of john Steinbeck in general or of this novel in particular, to answer any...
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Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period.
Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties-"a stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records." A noted scholar of the "textual conditions" of literature, McGann investigates...
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The study of the modern African novel has been quite a challenge both at the high school and at the university level. This is especially so for novels that address traditional tenets of the African society. These novels, however, form a good corpus as a basis for comparative literature, especially looking at the African novel as compared to its European or the American counterpart. Still, the odinary critic is used to earlier African writers including...
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This book is intended to assist those students and teachers of the African novel who have a problem with question interpretation or in telling exactly how to arrive at a 10/10 mark. The book takes the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education's English papers 101/2 and 101/3 as its base. In these two papers, the student is supposed to answer an excerpt question - where an excerpt is taken from the studied novel and questions are set on it to test the...
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