Award-winning novelist and critic Andre Alexis explores worlds with names such as Henry James, Maupassant, and Kawabata, trying, like any traveller, to faithfully convey what he sees and feels in those places while giving a convincing...
Literary arts
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Author:Alexis, AndreSummary: - Author:Tanti, Melissa, Haynes, Jeremy, Coleman, Daniel, York, Lorraine, Bucknor, Michael, Collett, Anne, Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar, Fraile-Marcos, Ana María, Ivanovici, Cristina, Kalicanin, Milena, Kamboureli, Smaro, Kürtösi, Katalin, Lopicic, Vesna, Martín-Lucas, Belén, Omhovère, Claire, Otrísalová, Lucia, Sparling, Don, Verduyn, Christl, Yeoman, ElizabethSummary:
The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by...
- Author:Edwards, Jim, Vitale, JoeSummary:
How to write and publish your own OUTRAGEOUSLY Profitable eBook in as little as 7 days even if you can't write, can't type and failed high school English class! Discover the secrets to having your own, outrageously profitable ebook...
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Acclaimed writers, industry experts, and mentors provide instruction and advice in Creative Coaching, Poetry, Songwriting, Screenwriting, and Musical Theater in this collection of interviews and self-authored essays. Each section...
- Author:Smith, DouglasSummary:
Take your first step to becoming a professional short fiction writer—Buy this book! In an engaging and conversational style, award-winning author Douglas Smith teaches you how to market and sell short stories—and much, much more. Even...
- Author:Gabaldon, DianaSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - For writers looking to make sure their next physical interlude on the page inspires readers to share the moment rather than to laugh at it, bestselling author Diana Gabaldon divulges the writing secrets...
- Author:Barrett, PaulSummary:
Contributor List Paul Barrett, University of Guelph Michael Bucknor, University of West Indies Austin Clarke (1934 – 2016) George Elliott Clarke, University of Toronto Patrick Crean, Toronto, Cyril Dabydeen, Ottawa André Forget, Toronto...
- Author:Provost, GarySummary:
This is the one guide that anyone who writes-whether student, business person, or professional writer-should keep with them whenever they begin to write. Filled with professional tips and a wealth of instructive examples and prompts,...
- Author:Harvey, Hannah B.Summary:
In The Children's Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales, Dr. Hannah Blevins Harvey unpacks more than 60 of our most beloved stories, fables, fairy tales, and songs from around the world-providing you with a fascinating, in-depth view...
- Author:Lamp, Kathleen S.Summary:
In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to...
- Author:Graves, DianneSummary:
A Crown of Life tells the story of John McCrae, the soldier-doctor-poet who wrote "In Flanders Fields," the best know poem to emerge from the First World War, and which inspired the adoption of the poppy as the symbol of remembrance....
- Author:Forth, GregorySummary:
The Nage people of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores refer to someone who begins something but is regularly distracted by other matters as "a dog pissing at the edge of a path." In this first comprehensive study of...
- Author:Polson, ThorSummary:
Franz Kafka's writings are characterized by an extreme sensitivity manifested in absurdity, alienation, and gallows humor. These two particular collections of short pieces, A Country Doctor (1919) and A Hunger Artist (1924), newly...
- Author:Skallerup Bessette, LeeSummary:
This book traces the remarkable journey of Hébert’s shifting authorial identity as versions of her work traveled through complex and contested linguistic and national terrain from the late 1950s until today. At the center of this...
- Author:Cusk, RachelSummary:
Cusk, a best-selling novelist, is acclaimed for her humorous works. Her account of a year of modern motherhood becomes many stories: a farewell to freedom, sleep and time; a lesson in humility and hard work; a journey to the roots of...
- Author:Fingeroth, DannySummary:
The comprehensive biography of STAN LEE, father of SPIDER-MAN and THE AVENGERS, beloved comic book writer and editor, and former president and publisher of Marvel Comics, by Lee's colleague of over four decades. Stan Lee co-created...
- Author:Austen-Leigh, James EdwardSummary:
James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir...
- Author:Lewis, C. S.Summary:
C. S. Lewis's reflections on Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis's own.
- Author:Brenner, MarieSummary:
Now a major motion picture starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci, and Jamie Dornan, A Private War is the story of legendary war correspondent Marie Colvin, who died in 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war. In February 2012, Marie...
- Author:Donskis, LeonidasSummary:
To entail, scan and embrace more knowledge of what is and what ought to be done in fewer words to make a statement as short, concise, terse and pithy as possible while rendering the sights it opens as vast as possible is the principal...
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