Product Description: The edited volume Motifs in Language and Text is the first collection of original research in the area of the quantitative analysis of motifs. It hosts a collection of contributions that give insight to linguistic motifs theoretically across different languages, text genres, and structural levels, such as lexical, syntactic, semantic etc...read more

Hundreds of quotations by authors throughout the centuries about the glory of the bound book. The book industry is changing at digital speed. This compendium of more than three hundred quotations reminds us that centuries of treasured tradition are threatened by our current obsessions with e-books and other gadgets. "A room without books is a body without a soul."―Cicero "If you go into a room filled with books, even without taking them down from their shelves, they seem to speak to you, to welcome you."―William Gladstone "If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them. . . . Let them be your friends."―Winston Churchill "There's something special about people who are interested in the printed word. They are a species all their own-learned, kind, knowledgeable, and human."―Nathan Pine, bookseller "Books deserve more than digital gas."―Bill Henderson, from the introduction 10 black-and-white line drawings

Product Description: Short Story Criticism assembles critical responses to the writings of the worlds most renowned short fiction writers and provides supplementary biographical context and bibliographic material to guide the reader to a greater understanding of the genre and its creators...read more

Product Description: Short Story Criticism assembles critical responses to the writings of the worlds most renowned short fiction writers and provides supplementary biographical context and bibliographic material to guide the reader to a greater understanding of the genre and its creators...read more

Childrens Literature Review assembles critical responses to the writings of the worlds most renowned childrens writers and provides supplementary biographical context and bibliographic material to guide the reader to a greater understanding of the genre and its creators. Each entry includes a set of previously published reviews, essays, and other critical responses from sources that include scholarly books and journals, literary magazines, interviews, letters, and diaries, carefully selected to create a representative history and cross-section of critical responses.