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  • Inventing English

    A Portable History of the Language

    by Seth Lerer ...
    A history of English from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem, "written with real authority, enthusiasm and love for our unruly and exquisite language" ( The Washington Post).Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Seth Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This edition of his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prospero's Son

    Life, Books, Love, and Theater

    by Seth Lerer ...
    In this "absorbing and moving" memoir, a scholar of children's literature considers the relationship between fathers and sons, and between literature and life (Kenneth Gross, author of Puppet).Through elliptical memories and reflections, Seth Lerer delves into his own evolution from boyhood to fatherhood, as well as his intellectual evolution through his lifelong love of reading. While presenting ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children's Literature

    A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

    by Professor Seth Lerer ...
    Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter.The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Consolation of Philosophy

    Translated by David R. Slavitt ...
    by Boethius ...
    In this highly praised new translation of Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy, David R. Slavitt presents a graceful, accessible, and modern version for both longtime admirers of one of the great masterpieces of philosophical literature and those encountering it for the first time. Slavitt preserves the distinction between the alternating verse and prose sections in the Latin original, ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Introducing the History of the English Language

    by Seth Lerer ...
    This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society. Introducing the History of the English Language first offers a rigorous, approachable introduction to the building blocks of language itself and then traces English language usage’s messy development in society, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Lyric Stage

    Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays

    by Seth Lerer ...
    What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances—which should invite consolation, revelation, and connection—somehow fall short of the listener's expectations?As Seth Lerer shows in this pioneering book, Shakespeare's late plays invite us to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chaucer and His Readers

    Imagining the Author in Late-Medieval England

    by Seth Lerer ...
    Challenging the view that the fifteenth century was the "Drab Age" of English literary history, Seth Lerer seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. Lerer shows how the poets, scribes, and printers of the period constructed Chaucer as the "poet laureate" and "father" of English verse. Chaucer ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Tradition: A Feeling for the Literary Past

    The Literary Agenda

    by Seth Lerer ...
    Series series The Literary Agenda
    The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Error and the Academic Self

    The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern

    by Seth Lerer ...
    How and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in medieval and Renaissance philology and, more specifically, in mistakes. For Lerer, erring is not simply being wrong, but being errant, and this book illuminates the wanderings of exiles, émigrés, dissenters, and the socially estranged as they helped ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Children's Literature

    A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter

    by Seth Lerer ...
    Narrated by Tony Craine ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 27 min

    Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter.The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children's literature in its full ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inventing English

    A Portable History of the Language

    by Seth Lerer ...
    Why is there such a striking difference between English spelling and English pronunciation? How did our seemingly relatively simple grammar rules develop? What are the origins of regional dialect, literary language, and everyday speech, and what do they have to do with you?Seth Lerer's Inventing English is a masterful, engaging history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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