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    Roads: From Roman Stone to the Ribbons of Asphalt That Bind the World

    by Martin Rocher ...
    Narrated by Martin Rocher ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 52 min

    Trace the epic history of human infrastructure and discover how ancient stone pathways forged the modern world. Perfect for your daily commute, this awe-inspiring narrative reveals how deliberate tracks of trade, culture, and conquest reshaped our civilization. Listen as the voices of weary pilgrims, ambitious engineers, and marching soldiers echo across the centuries.Whether you are navigating ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Angela Carter Translator and Translated

    In the Workshop of Creation

    Edited by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Marie Emilie Walz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Angela Carter Translator and Translated situates the British writer Angela Carter within a global framework by documenting how foreign languages and cultures played a key role in her work, before gaining attention internationally today, notably in translation. A published translator who used translation as a creative method to fashion her fiction, Carter has now been translated into multiple ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Reading, Translating, Rewriting

    Angela Carter's Translational Poetics

    by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère ...
    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    Uncovers the neglected role of translation in Angela Carter's fairy-tale-inspired fiction.In translating Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des Moralités into English, Angela Carter worked to modernize the language and message of the tales before rewriting many of them for her own famous collection of fairy tales for adults, The Bloody Chamber, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

    by Chris Baldick ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    The bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear and concise definitions of the most troublesome literary terms, from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. Now expanded and in its fourth edition, it includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, schools of ... Read more

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  • Once Upon a Time

    A Short History of Fairy Tale

    by Prof Marina Warner ...
    From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, ... Read more

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  • The Irresistible Fairy Tale

    The Cultural and Social History of a Genre

    by Jack Zipes ...
    A provocative new theory about fairy tales from one of the world's leading authoritiesIf there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread—or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what form it takes. ... Read more

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  • The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

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    by Roland Greene ...
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  • Fairy Tale

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Marina Warner ...
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    From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

    Edited by Jack Zipes ...
    Series series Oxford Companions
    In over 1,000 entries, this acclaimed Companion covers all aspects of the Western fairy tale tradition, from medieval to modern, under the guidance of Professor Jack Zipes. It provides an authoritative reference source for this complex and captivating genre, exploring the tales themselves, the writers who wrote and reworked them, and the artists who illustrated them. It also covers numerous ... Read more

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  • Context Collapse

    A Poem Containing a History of Poetry

    by Ryan Ruby ...
    One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2024Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom.Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet—from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafés of Grub Street and the ... Read more

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  • In Translation

    Translators on Their Work and What It Means

    Edited by Esther Allen, Susan Bernofsky ...
    The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice Kaplan, Peter Cole, Eliot Weinberger, Forrest Gander, Clare Cavanagh, David Bellos, and José Manuel Prieto. Discussing the process and possibilities of their art, they cast translation as a fine ... Read more

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