The crucial role language plays in constituting our reality, and in achieving political influence and control, has long been known in scholarship. However, appreciation of the role of language in u... Learn More
A spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays
An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state-our foremost p... Learn More
In Through the Language Glass, acclaimed author Guy Deutscher will convince you that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is - yes. A delightf... Learn More
How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Do we think in our mother tongue? Who decides what's correct English? How did language evolve?
In this landmark book, Pinker explains... Learn More
Words have power. Yet that power must be rooted in truth and justice. Words must never stand apart from those principles.
'You end this collection…vowing to never let life, or writing, get so co... Learn More
If Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well? Here starts the story of a long and incredible misunderstanding. Out of the hundreds of tragedies that were performed... Learn More
Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature
Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated... Learn More
A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners
Realist fiction is one of the most enduring artforms history has ever witnessed. By describin... Learn More
Šis ir pirmais obejktīvais pētījums latviešu valodā par 20. un 21. gadsimta literatūras teorijām. Šāda pētījuma neesamība bija milzīgs robs latviešu humanitārajās zinātnēs. Grām... Learn More
An enlightening study of the contradictory character of this canonical fourteenth-century Italian poet.
Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fat... Learn More