Literary theory

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  • 50 literature ideas you really need to know

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    50 literature ideas you really need to know

    This is a guide to all the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature. It contains concise essays on a wide variety of literary concepts among the 50 entries, and everything you need to know about literary techniques and genres.

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  • Bicycle

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    Bicycle

    ‘Object Lessons’ is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the bicycle promises to transform our lives and the world we live in, yet its time seems always yet-to-come or long-gone-by. Jonathan Maskit takes us on an interdisciplinary ride to see what makes the bicycle a magical machine that could yet make the world a safer, greener, and more just place.

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  • Character

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    Character

    What makes a character interesting? How do you build a convincing characer arc? Does every story have a hero? How many shades of villain are there? How does a writer bring their characers alive? In this timeless litle book, teacher Amy Jones describes the secret techniques that writers use to create their characers, along with their archetypes, backstories, motivations, modes of dialogue, habits, hopes, fears, faws, frustrations – and eventual resolutions and redemptions.

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  • Keats’s Odes

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    Keats’s Odes

    A fresh, radical assessment of Keats’s odes that meshes the intimate with the critical

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    £12.99
  • Literary Devices

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    Literary Devices

    What is the difference between literal and figurative writing? Is there really a secret set of tricks used by top authors to make their writing even better? Why not use these tricks all the time? This book, by English literature and creative writing tutor Amy Jones, provides a vital introduction to the essential literary devices used by writers for thousands of years to engage and charm their readers, and better describe their worlds in words.

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  • Pencil

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    Pencil

    ‘Object Lessons’ is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it. Pencils were used to sketch civilization’s greatest works of art. Pencils were there marking the choices in the earliest democratic elections. Even when used haphazardly to mark out where a saw’s blade should make a cut, a pencil is creating. ‘Pencil’ offers a deep look at this common, almost ubiquitous, object.

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  • The unknown storyteller

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    The unknown storyteller

    ‘The Unknowen Storyteller’ tells the untold story of how story works. Using just six primary symbols, author Leon Conrad outlines eighteen story structures and shows how they all optimally solve the problems which give rise to them. Te book also demonstrates the much wider application of story, presenting new insights into story as a dynamic force of life which allow the reader to access more harmony and fow in their life. Writers, storytellers, creative writing teachers, folklorists, narrative therapists, anthropologists, poets, and readers interesed in how story works will all fnd this book useful and informative. Rethink your idea of story.

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    £29.95