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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Catalogue of a portion of the ... library of ... James Crossley ... comprising works of ... local interest ... to be sold by auction
Author: Brill's Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic
Author: Robert C SimmsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004360921
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
The epics of ancient Greece and Rome are unique in that many went unfinished, or if they were finished, remained open to further narration that was beyond the power, interest, or sometimes the life-span of the poet. Such incompleteness inaugurated a tradition of continuance and closure in their reception. Brill’s Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic explores this long tradition of continuing epics through sequels, prequels, retellings and spin-offs. This collection of essays brings together several noted scholars working in a variety of fields to trace the persistence of this literary effort from their earliest instantiations in the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer to the contemporary novels of Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood.
Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading
Author: Eve Tavor BannetPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108317774
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The market for print steadily expanded throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world thanks to printers' efforts to ensure that ordinary people knew how to read and use printed matter. Reading is and was a collection of practices, performed in diverse but always very specific ways. These practices were spread down the social hierarchy through printed guides. Eve Tavor Bannet explores guides to six manners or methods of reading, each with its own social, economic, commercial, intellectual and pedagogical functions, and each promoting a variety of fragmentary and discontinuous reading practices. The increasingly widespread production of periodicals, pamphlets, prefaces, conduct books, conversation-pieces and fictions, together with schoolbooks designed for adults and children, disseminated all that people of all ages and ranks might need or wish to know about reading, and prepared them for new jobs and roles both in Britain and America.
The Monthly Literary Advertiser
Author: The Book Buyer
Author: The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine
Author: A Monthly List of All New Books Published in Great Britain
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
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