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Télécharger le livre :  How to Write Short Stories and Get Them Published
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How to Write Short Stories and Get Them Published


Ashley Lister


This book will help you plot like a pro, master the art of suspense like Poe, craft captivating dialogue like Twain and - most crucially - get your short stories published.How to Write Short Stories and Get Them Published is the essential guide to writing short fiction....

Parution : 2019-12-19
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Robinson
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Télécharger le livre :  The Canons of Fantasy
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The Canons of Fantasy


Patrick Moran


Despite publishing endeavours such as the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series in the 1970s and Fantasy Masterworks in the early 2000s, the canon of modern fantasy is still very much in flux. This Element examines four key questions raised by the prospect of a fantasy canon:...

Parution : 2019-12-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Christmas Books for Children
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Christmas Books for Children


Eugene Giddens


This Element traces the varied and magical history of Christmas publications for children. The Christmas book market has played an important role in the growth of children's literature, from well-loved classics to more ephemeral annuals and gift books. Starting with the...

Parution : 2019-11-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies
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The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies


Paul Eggert


By the late 1980s the concept of the work had slipped out of sight, consigned to its last refuge in the library catalogue as concepts of discourse and text took its place. Scholarly editors, who depended on it, found no grounding in literary theory for their practice....

Parution : 2019-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
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Young Adult Fantasy Fiction


Kim Wilkins


Young adult fantasy (YA fantasy) brings together two established genres - young adult fiction and fantasy fiction - and in so doing amplifies, energises, and leverages the textual, social, and industrial practices of the two genres: combining the fantastic with...

Parution : 2019-08-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The European Encyclopedia
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The European Encyclopedia


Jeff Loveland


First taking shape during the seventeenth century, the European encyclopedia was an alphabetical book of knowledge. For the next three centuries, printed encyclopedias in the European tradition were an element of culture and peoples' lives, initially just among Europe's...

Parution : 2019-07-04
Format(s) : PDF
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Télécharger le livre :  The Forever Fandom of Harry Potter
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The Forever Fandom of Harry Potter


Marianne Martens


Harry Potter fans contribute their immaterial and affective labor in multiple arenas: as peer-to-peer marketers via fan sites and social media; as participants in amateur fan festivals; or as activists for social change. Fans' participation in theHarry Potter universe...

Parution : 2019-06-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 7, The Twentieth Century and Beyond
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The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 7, The Twentieth Century and Beyond


Andrew Nash , Claire Squires , I. R. Willison


The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, authorship and reading in Britain. This seventh and final volume surveys the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a range of perspectives...

Parution : 2019-06-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Capital Letters
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Capital Letters


J. M. Hawker


Academic bookselling inhabits a landscape fundamentally impacted by legislative and political pressure, colonised by new textual forms and new publishing ventures, experiencing constant change. Capital Letters defines the academic bookshop, text, and market, examining...

Parution : 2019-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship
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The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship


Ingo Berensmeyer , Gert Buelens , Marysa Demoor


This Handbook surveys the state of the art in literary authorship studies. Its 27 original contributions by eminent scholars offer a multi-layered account of authorship as a defining element of literature and culture. Covering a vast chronological range, Part I...

Parution : 2019-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Anglo-Norman Historical Canon
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The Anglo-Norman Historical Canon


Jaakko Tahkokallio


This Element is a contribution to the ongoing debate on what it meant to publish a book in manuscript. It offers case-studies of three twelfth-century Anglo-Norman historians: William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth. It argues that the...

Parution : 2019-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The General Reader and the Academy
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The General Reader and the Academy


Leah Tether


Penguin Classics have built their reputation as one of the largest and most successful modern imprints for 'classic' texts on the notion of 'the general reader'. Following an interrogation of this idea, Leah Tether investigates the publication of medieval French...

Parution : 2019-05-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s
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Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s


Daniel Stein , Lisanna Wiele


This volume examines the emergence of modern popular culture between the 1830s and the 1860s, when popular storytelling meant serial storytelling and when new printing techniques and an expanding infrastructure brought serial entertainment to the masses. Analyzing...

Parution : 2019-05-24
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain
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The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain


David Rundle


What has fifteenth-century England to do with the Renaissance? By challenging accepted notions of 'medieval' and 'early modern' David Rundle proposes a new understanding of English engagement with the Renaissance. He does so by focussing on one central element of the...

Parution : 2019-05-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Children's Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China
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Children's Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China


Shih-Wen Sue Chen


This book examines the development of Chinese children’s literature from the late Qing to early Republican era. It highlights the transnational flows of knowledge, texts, and cultures during a time when children’s literature in China and the West was developing rapidly....

Parution : 2019-04-29
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Young People, Comics and Reading
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Young People, Comics and Reading


Lucia Cedeira Serantes


Scholars and professionals interested in the study and engagement with young people will find this project relevant to deepening their understanding of reading practices with comics and graphic novels. Comics reading has been an understudied experience despite its...

Parution : 2019-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Digital Authorship
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Digital Authorship


R. Lyle Skains


This Element looks at contemporary authorship via three key authorial roles: indie publisher, hybrid author, and fanfiction writer. The twenty-first century's digital and networked media allows writers to disintermediate the established structures of royalty publishing,...

Parution : 2019-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books
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Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books


Margaret Connolly


This innovative study investigates the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, 1470–1585, spanning the reigns of Edward IV to Elizabeth I. Members of the Tudor gentry family who owned these manuscripts had properties in Willesden and professional...

Parution : 2019-01-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Correcting the Scholarly Record for Research Integrity
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Correcting the Scholarly Record for Research Integrity


M. V. Dougherty


This volume is the first book-length study on post-publication responses to academic plagiarism in humanities disciplines. It demonstrates that the correction of the scholarly literature for plagiarism is not a task for editors and publishers alone; each member of the...

Parution : 2018-11-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Springer
Collection : Research Ethics Forum
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Télécharger le livre :  Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon
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Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon


Adam Roberts


Science fiction was being written throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it underwent a rapid expansion of cultural dissemination and popularity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. This Element explores the ways this...

Parution : 2018-11-08
Format(s) : PDF
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