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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Miscellany in the Roman Empire
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Reading Miscellany in the Roman Empire


Scott J. Digiulio


Most classists have viewed Aulus Gellius' second-century text, the Noctes Atticae, as little more than a haphazard collection of short essays and excerpts by an amateur scholar. Often called a "miscellany," the Noctes Atticae collects vast amounts of otherwise lost...

Parution : 2024-05-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Wastepaper Modernism
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Wastepaper Modernism


Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg


From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that...

Parution : 2021-04-16
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Wastepaper Modernism
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Wastepaper Modernism


Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg


From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that...

Parution : 2021-04-16
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Book Ownership in Stuart England
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Book Ownership in Stuart England


David Pearson


This volume provides a wide-ranging account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth century, based upon many kinds of evidence, including examination of thousands of books, and a list of over 1,300 known owners...

Parution : 2021-01-26
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Book Ownership in Stuart England


David Pearson


This volume provides a wide-ranging account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth century, based upon many kinds of evidence, including examination of thousands of books, and a list of over 1,300 known owners...

Parution : 2021-01-26
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Mind of the Book
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The Mind of the Book


Alastair Fowler


Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. He examines pictorial title-pages in the context of the History of the Book for the first time. The first part of The Mind of the Book...

Parution : 2017-02-16
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Mind of the Book
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The Mind of the Book


Alastair Fowler


Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. He examines pictorial title-pages in the context of the History of the Book for the first time. The first part of The Mind of the Book...

Parution : 2017-02-09
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century
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Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century


Maryanne Wolf


The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What...

Parution : 2016-07-21
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century


Maryanne Wolf


The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What...

Parution : 2016-06-24
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Diverting Authorities
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Diverting Authorities


Jane Griffiths


Diverting Authorities examines the glossing of a variety of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century texts by authors including Lydgate, Douglas, Chaloner, Baldwin, Bullein, Harington, and Nashe. It is concerned particularly with the use of glosses as a means for authors to...

Parution : 2014-12-11
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford History of the Novel in English
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English


J. Gerald Kennedy , Leland S. Person


The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars.The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just...

Parution : 2014-06-26
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Télécharger le livre :  A History of Children's Reading and Literature
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A History of Children's Reading and Literature


Alec Ellis


A History of Children's Reading and Literature presents the pattern of educational activity in relation to the methods undertaken in the schools, and the extent to which books are used in the advancement of literacy. This book describes the factors that are contributory...

Parution : 2014-05-16
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Éditeur : Pergamon
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Télécharger le livre :  In Search of Jane Austen
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In Search of Jane Austen


Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade


Along with Shakespeare, Jane Austen (1775-1817) can be said to be the most widely studied author in the history of English literature. But unlike Shakespeare, her language has received little scholarly attention. This is especially true for the language of her letters....

Parution : 2014-01-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Dive Deeper
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Dive Deeper


George Cotkin


Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death--and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can prove daunting...

Parution : 2012-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  A Companion to the History of the Book
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A Companion to the History of the Book


Simon Eliot , Jonathan Rose


A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOKA COMPANION TOTHE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose “As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer.” Choice “If you want to understand how...

Parution : 2011-08-24
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Éditeur : Wiley-Blackwell
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines
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The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines


Peter Brooker , Andrew Thacker


The first of three volumes charting the history of the Modernist Magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection offers the first comprehensive study of the wide and varied range of 'little magazines' which were so instrumental in introducing the new...

Parution : 2009-03-26
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Evolution of the Book
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The Evolution of the Book


Frederick G. Kilgour


Distinguished scholar and library systems innovator Frederick Kilgour tells a five-thousand-year story in this exciting work, a tale beginning with the invention of writing and concluding with the emerging electronic book. Calling on a lifetime of interest in the growth...

Parution : 1998-04-23
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