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1	How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines more books like this by Thomas C Foster add to wishlist A fun and practical introduction to literature and literary basics--symbols, themes, and contexts--shows how to make everyday reading experiences more rewarding and enjoyable. see all copies from £6.27! new only from £7.38! \| first editions
2	Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art more books like this by Scott McCloud add to wishlist This is an exploration of the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning. Using comics to examine the medium itself, the author takes the form of a cartoon character and explains the structure, meaning, and appeal of comics, and provides a running analysis of comics as art, literature, and communication. He reaches back to pre-Columbus ... see all copies from £8.67! new only from £10.97! \| first editions
3	How Fiction Works more books like this by James Wood add to wishlist What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions Wood answers in "How Fiction Works," a book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. see all copies from £5.17! new only from £5.17! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	A Poetry Handbook more books like this by Mary Oliver add to wishlist With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built--meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a short space. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.80!
5	Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxfo more books like this by Simon Winchester add to wishlist The fascinating true story about the relationship between the man who compiled the first Oxford English Dictionary and his major collaborator, an imprisoned murderer. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Then Sings My Soul: 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories more books like this by Robert J Morgan add to wishlist In this follow-up to the bestselling "Then Sings My Soul," devotional-style stories brim with emotion and drama about the people whose faith led them to write the the world's greatest hymns, and about the people whose lives were changed by them. see all copies from £6.71! new only from £10.24! \| first editions
7	A History of Western Music more books like this by Professor J Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Professor Claude V Palisca add to wishlist One of finest surveys of Western art music in the English language, now in its fifth edition and fully revised to incorporate recent scholarship. Includes a chapter added that is devoted to American music. see all copies from £17.55! new only from £30.91!
8	The DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe more books like this by Scott Beatty, Robert Greenburger, Phil Jiminez add to wishlist Described as a comic-book lover's dream ("Columbus Dispatch"), this revised and expanded encyclopedia offers even more incredible DC detail and imagery than the original. Exquisite new artwork will draw in new readers and delight die-hard fans.DK Publishing see all copies from £15.55! new only from £15.55! \| first editions
9	The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had more books like this by Susan Wise Bauer add to wishlist This book is a wonderful resource for anyone wishing to explore and develop the mind's capacity to read and comprehend the greatest works in fiction, autobiography, history, poetry, and drama. It offers brief, entertaining histories of the five literary genres, accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. see all copies from £11.70! new only from £14.62! \| first editions
10	Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing more books like this by Laurie G Kirszner add to wishlist This volume provides an introduction to literature; it contains a broad selection of literature - from the contemporary to the canonical, the serious to the humorous, and the poignant to the whimsical. It now includes a contemporary selection of stories, works by Gish Jen, Andrea Barret and Rick Bass as well as old favorites by Joyce, Hemingway, ... see all copies from £4.98! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
11 view cover	The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings more books like this by Bart D Ehrman add to wishlist Featuring vibrant full color throughout, this new edition of Bart Ehrman's highly successful introduction approaches the New Testament from a consistently historical and comparative perspective, emphasizing the rich diversity of the earliest Christian literature. Rather than shying away from the critical problems presented by these books, Ehrman ... see all copies from £7.45! new only from £25.49!
12 view cover	The Essential Theatre more books like this by Oscar Gross Brockett add to wishlist For courses in introduction to theatre or theatre appreciation, this text acquaints students with the theatre--its artistic and social functions, its development, and how each of the theatre arts functions as a unit. see all copies from £3.10! new only from £3.10! \| first editions
13 view cover	Through the Eyes of a Child: An Introduction to Children's Literature more books like this by Donna E Norton add to wishlist For courses in Children's Literature. This is a fresh, new edition of one of the most widely-respected sources for introducing future teachers to the wealth of literature available to children. The sixth edition is replete with expanded coverage of key topics, numerous new features, and an enhanced focus on multicultural literature. Its unique ... see all copies from £5.58! new only from £10.57! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales more books like this by Bruno Bettelheim add to wishlist The famous child psychologist, Bruno Bettelheim, explains how fairy tales educate, support, and liberate the emotions of children. see all copies from £5.87! new only from £7.06!
15 view cover	Women, Art & Society more books like this by Whitney Chadwick add to wishlist This groundbreaking book challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who 'transcended' their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been neglected, Chadwick's survey amounts to much more than an alternative canon ... see all copies from £2.86! new only from £7.37! \| first editions
16 view cover	Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama more books like this by X J Kennedy add to wishlist Literature, 7/e, the most popular introduction of its kind, is organized into three genres - Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. This edition reflects a balance of classic works along with contemporary and non-Western authors. As in past editions, the authors' collective poetic voice brings personal warmth and a human perspective to the discussion of ... see all copies from £4.98! new only from £8.13! \| first editions
17 view cover	Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples more books like this by Jeff Todd Titon add to wishlist New edition of a text that studies music as a way of life for people around the world. Rather than surveying all music, musicologists from leading universities discuss a small number of representative human groups. Through geographical and historical context, biography and autobiography, discussion see all copies from £5.61! new only from £35.95! \| first editions
18 view cover	Essentials of Children's Literature more books like this by Carol Lynch-Brown, Carl Tomlinson add to wishlist The fifth edition of Essentials of Children's Literature energizes children's literature study by offering a concise, straightforward presentation of children's literature and by engaging students to share literature with children. Written as a "facts-only" approach for students and their instructors, this lucid text offers an abundance of ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.35! \| first editions
19 view cover	He: Understanding Masculine Psychology more books like this by Robert A Johnson add to wishlist This popular analyst provides important reflections on what it means to be a man, how man develops into maturity, and what components make up man's complex personality. see all copies from £3.12! new only from £3.72!
20 view cover	History of the theatre more books like this by Oscar Gross Brockett add to wishlist First published in 1968, History of the Theatre is the most comprehensive and widely used survey of theatre history. The eighth edition retains all of the traditional features that have made History of the Theatre a classic for over thirty years, including over 530 photos and illustrations, useful maps, and the expertise of Oscar Brockett, one of ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £19.77! \| first editions
21 view cover	Exploring Literature: Writing and Arguing about Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay more books like this by Frank Madden add to wishlist Culturally rich and diverse literature, comprehensive coverage of the writing process, and strong coverage of arguing about literature describe this anthology. The first five chapters are dedicated to writing and arguing about literature followed by an anthology organized around five themes: Family and Friends; Innocence and Experience; Women ... see all copies from £6.67! new only from £43.61!
22 view cover	Mimesis : the representation of reality in Western literature more books like this by Erich Auerbach add to wishlist Auerbach traces the representation of reality with well-developed readings of major writers in Western literature from antiquity to the 20th century. His analysis of the development of realism in Stendahl, Balzac, Flaubert and Proust is especially worth noting. He ends his book with Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse". see all copies from £4.29! new only from £14.19! \| first editions
23 view cover	Aproximaciones Al Estudio de La Literatura Hispanica more books like this by Carmelo Virgillo add to wishlist This is an introduction to literary analysis with readings from Spanish and Spanish-American literature. It provides a selection of readings, organized by the genres of prose, poetry, drama and essay. Historical introductions to the genres are included, providing an overview of periods, movements, significant figures and literary currents both in ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £14.02!
24 view cover	Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson more books like this by Camille Paglia add to wishlist Is Emily Dickinson "the female Sade"? Is Donatello's David a bit of paedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis Presley, between the Medusa and Madonna? How do liberals and feminists - as well as conservatives - fatally misread human nature? This audacious and omnivorously learned work of guerilla scholarship offers ... see all copies from £2.48! new only from £8.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	The discarded image; an introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature more books like this by C. S. Lewis add to wishlist C. S. Lewis's The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later ages as 'the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organisation of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, ... see all copies from £8.21! new only from £11.34! \| first editions

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