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Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky)(Paperback)

Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky)(Paperback)

A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect,

Tendencies (Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky)(Paperback)

Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 'the soft-spoken queen of gay studies' (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and

Reading Sedgwick (Berlant Lauren)(Paperback)

Over the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and performance have transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and identity. With marked

Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky)(Paperback)

Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The contributors to this volume navigate new territory in literary theory with essays that implicitly challenge the 'hermeneutic of suspicion' widespread in current critical theory. In a stunning introductory

Desire - 100 of Literature's Sexiest Stories(Paperback / softback)

100 of literature's sexiest stories, selected and introduced by Mariella Frostrup and the Erotic

The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain and Ireland (Carter Ronald)(Paperback)

The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain and Ireland provides an illustrated introduction to the work of the most important writers and their historical background from the year 600 to the end of the 20th century. It covers the works of novelists, dramatists, and poets from Chaucer to

Read My Desire - Lacan Against the Historicists (Copjec Joan)(Paperback / softback)

In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines--psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these modes of thinking only cross paths long enough for historicists to charge

How to Begin Studying English Literature (Marsh Nicholas)(Paperback)

How to Begin Studying English Literature has established itself as one of the most successful and popular introductory student guides in the field. This fourth edition has been fully revised and expanded throughout, and now includes more examples and commentary on texts as well as a third

Sunstroke and Other Stories (Hadley Tessa)(Paperback / softback)

Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach. These stories about family life are somehow

AQA English Literature A: A Level and AS (McBratney Luke)(Paperback / softback)

This book offers targeted support to meet the demands of the 2015 AQA A Level English Literature A specification. Offering entirely new material, and flagging AS specification requirements, it builds the skills students will be assessed on. From an experienced and trusted author team, this book

Cambridge International as & a Level Literature in English Coursebook (Whittome Elizabeth)(Paperback)

Updated and fully aligned to the new Cambridge International AS & A Level Literature in English 9695 syllabus for first examination 2021. This coursebook helps inspire a love of literature in English and builds greater confidence in analysing and writing about texts. Part 1 introduces students to

Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author: On Storytelling, Business, and Literature (Schonthaler Philipp)(Paperback)

What happens to the relationship between business and literature when storytelling becomes a privileged form of communication for organizations.Corporations love a good story. Microsoft employs a chief storyteller, who heads a team of twenty-five corporate storytellers. IBM, Coca-Cola, and the

Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students (Eaglestone Robert)(Paperback)

Doing English presents the ideas and debates that shape how we 'do' English today, explaining arguments about the value of literature, the canon, Shakespeare, theory, politics and the subject itself. In his lucid and engaging style, Robert Eaglestone: orients students by encouraging them to

South (Coverley Merlin)(Paperback)

Moving between geography and mythology, literature and history, South is the first book to look at all things Southern in one

Automatic Eve (Treyvaud Matt)(Paperback)

The political chess game between the shogunate and the empress has a new piece--a self-aware, autonomous entity named Eve. A mighty shogunate ruling the land from Tempu Castle. An imperial line with strict female succession. Caught between these two immense powers, the sprawling city of Tempu is

English Language and Literature for the Ib Diploma (Philpot Brad)(Paperback)

For students studying the new Language A Language and Literature syllabus for the IB Diploma. Written by an experienced, practising IB English teacher, this new title is an in-depth and accessible guide for Standard and Higher Level students of the new Language A Language and Literature syllabus

Memorial (Isherwood Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

The First World War is over. Tall, bony and awkward he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice, and resentment toward his father's roguish friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in

Early Modern English (Barber Charles)(Paperback)

This book describes the English language between the years 1500 and 1700 - the different varieties of the language, the attitudes of its speakers towards it, its pronunciation, vocabulary and

Revise AQA GCSE English Literature: Power and Conflict and Unseen Poetry Workbook - Upgrade Active Revision; (Elsdon Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Teaching Literature in the Real World: A Practical Guide (Collier Patrick)(Paperback)

Offering guidance and inspiration to English literature instructors, this book faces the challenges of real-life teaching and the contemporary higher education classroom head on. Whether you're teaching in a community college, a state school, a liberal arts college, or an Ivy League institution,

How To Teach English Literature - Overcoming cultural poverty (Webb Jennifer)(Paperback / softback)

A practical guide to pedagogy in the English classroom, supporting the teaching abstract, classic and challenging texts and

Wuthering Heights (Bronte Emily)(Paperback)

One of English literature's classic masterpieces--a gripping novel of love, propriety, and tragedy. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Emily Bront 's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is

Forget English!: Orientalisms and World Literatures (Mufti Aamir R.)(Paperback)

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year The idea of world literature has garnered much attention recently as a discipline that promises to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of 'national' literary traditions. In Forget English Aamir Mufti scrutinizes