Reading(1st Edition) von PhilipDavis, Fiona Magee Paperback, 184 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2020 von Emerald Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-83867-308-6, ISBN: 1-83867-308-3
"Can reading literature really help our mental health? This book shows how and why,not by instruction or prescription, but by emotion and exploration."
Reading and the Reader(1st Edition) The Literary Agenda von PhilipDavis Paperback, 160 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-968318-5, ISBN: 0-19-968318-2
"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 sceptically challenged from within, for exa ..."
Reading for Life (Hardback) von PhilipDavis Hardcover, 320 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2020 von Oxford University Press, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-0-19-881598-3, ISBN: 0-19-881598-0
"children's librarian, Sylvia Blackwell, newly employed in a small provincial town
in the late 1950s. She was missing it. It had been connected, she told me, to her
own childhood reading under the guidance of the local librarian in Chiswick ..."
"Heralding a new era in literary studies, the "Oxford English Literary History" breaks the mould of traditional approaches to the canon, by focusing on the contexts in which the authors wrote and how their work was shaped by the times in which they lived. Each volume offers a fresh, ground-breaking re-assessment of the authors, their works, and the events and ideas, which shaped the literary voice of their age. Written by some of the lea ..."
"Winner of the 1983 National Book Award!"...a perfectly marvelous book about the Queen of Sciences, from which one will get a real feeling for what mathematicians do and who they are. The exposition is clear and full of wit and humor..." - The New Yorker (1983 National Book Award edition)Mathematics has been a human activity for thousands of years. Yet only a few people from the vast ..."
"Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers a model of human mentality that can be shown through the dense immediacy of dramatic thinking, as embodied above all in Shakespeare's working method. Shakespeare Thinking discusses the positioning of Shakespeare as the paradigm of fully human mental creativity from the Romantics to the la ..."
"Hester tells the story of the aging but powerful Catherine Vernon, and her conflict with the young and determined Hester, whose growing attachment to Edward, Catherine's favorite, spells disaster for all concerned. Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world as head of the family bank. She thinks she sees through everyone and rules over a family of dependents with knowing cynicism. But there are two pe ..."
Bernard Malamud(1st Edition) A Writer's Life von PhilipDavis Paperback, 400 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-957147-5, ISBN: 0-19-957147-3
"Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period. The time is ripe for a revival of interest in a man who at the peak of his success stood alongside Saul Bellow and Philip Roth in the ranks of Jewish American writers. Nothing came easily to Malamud: his family was poor, his mother pr ..."
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos Ser. Why Victorian Literature Still Matters von PhilipDavis 184 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von John Wiley & Sons Inc (E) ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-0462-6, ISBN: 1-4443-0462-3
"But that it would have been better for me if my wife could have helped me more,
and shared the many thoughts in which I had no partner; ... It is the world of
realism inhabited by such as Tolstoy's Levin in Anna Karenina, living a sort of
everyman's life ... Whatever the ideas held beforehand, or the names given from
outside, it is different inside – the golden rule of nineteenth-century experiential
realism."
Shakespeare Now! Shakespeare Thinking von PhilipDavis 128 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von Continuum ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-2903-1, ISBN: 1-4411-2903-0
"Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers a model of human mentality that can be shown through the dense immediacy of dramatic ..."
Experience Of Reading von PhilipDavis 336 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-134-91200-1, ISBN: 1-134-91200-5
"Philip Davis, Reader in English Literature Philip Davis. still before it ... She
remembered the sensation of knowledge, of grasping an argument, seizing an
illustration, seeing a link, a connection, between this ancient Greek idea here and
this ..."
All the Days of My Life Verse to Console and Inspire: Poems to Console and Inspire von PhilipDavis Hardcover, 474 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1999 von Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN-13: 978-0-460-87967-5, ISBN: 0-460-87967-7
In Mind of Johnson A Study of Johnson the Rambler (Paperback) von PhilipDavis Paperback, 328 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3379-3, ISBN: 0-8203-3379-4
"It was said of the learned Bishop Sanderson, that, when he was preparing his
lectures, he hesitated so much, and rejected so often, that, at the time of reading,
he was often forced to produce, not what was best, but what happened to be at
hand. ... For Hebraism as Arnold defines it Culture and Anarchy, in opposition to
Hellenism, puts conscience before consciousness, the rigour of moral rules and
laws before the flexibility of dis ..."
The Basic Photo Book(1st Edition) von PhilipDavis Paperback, 160 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1991 von Mcgraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages ISBN-13: 978-0-697-11480-8, ISBN: 0-697-11480-5
"This book provides the basic knowledge needed to make effective, attractive photographs in black and white. It focuses on the essential steps in camera handling, film, exposure and development, printing and presentation. A great number of photographs are used as examples and illustrate various process steps. The chapters are short, easy to follow, and devoted to specific subjects. A full glossary is also included."
SongBird Adult Coloring Book An Adult Coloring Book Featuring Beautiful Songbirds, Exquisite Flowers and Relaxing Nature Scenes (Paperback) von PhilipDavis Paperback, Veröffentlicht 2021 von Independently Published ISBN-13: , ISBN:
City Slicker Slim Jr. Basement Monsters (Paperback) von PhilipDavis Paperback, 34 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2020 von Independently Published, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-70813-728-1, ISBN: 1-70813-728-9
"One sunny day, City Slicker Whiz Jr. went to the Ogre Prince cave kingdom for an adventure or two."
Street-Land Its Little People and Big Problems (Classic Reprint) (Paperback) von PhilipDavis Paperback, Veröffentlicht 2019 von Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-332-20094-8, ISBN: 1-332-20094-X