Posts Tagged ‘literature’
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface — a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character — and there’s that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you.In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is…
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A Commonplace Blog: Five Books of immigrants
A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without …
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Literary License (short reviews, real opinions): Packing Books
At Publishing Perspectives, Erin Cox talks about packing books for a summer vacation. Like Erin, I cultivate my stack of books “like some people cultivate gardens.” Her post started me thinking about my own book -packing habits. …
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favorite org theory books of the last twenty years « orgtheory.net
Some think that newspapers and books may soon become a thing of the past due to the onslaught of free information on the net. The current economy hasn’t helped any. As Andy noted on Scatterplot, university presses are cutting back on …
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Books 4: Keep Your Sunnyside Up « shadowplay
It’s possible I haven’t read enough of it to really have many favourites, and maybe also because I’m a filmmaker I gravitated more as a youth to how-to guides, biographies and autobiographies, histories and interview books — stuff that …
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A Journey Round My Skull: Bente's Vintage Books
A Journey Round My Skull. “Unhealthy book fetishism from a reader, collector, and amateur historian of forgotten literature.” Recent obsessions: illustration and graphic design.
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A Commonplace Blog: Five Books of Jewish fiction
A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without …
Preserving Book Culture, Promoting Book Collecting | NIGEL BEALE …
Met yesterday afternoon with Terry Belanger, founding director of The Rare Book School (Michael Suarez will be taking over in September) in Charlottesville,
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A Beatiful 'books' Shot | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Patrick Shanks steps up to the plate with a beautiful ‘ books ‘ shot.The flip-flop does it for me.
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The Lady Killers: books you must read
Sharan here, taking a minute from the Apocalypse to reflect on this weeks Newsweek magazine.
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The Lady Killers: books you must read