The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical nature of shishosetsu, and discusses its linguistic, literary and cultural contexts.

Mariamar, a woman whose sister was killed in a lioness attack, finds her life thrown into chaos when the outsider Archangel Bullseye, the marksman hired to kill the lionesses, arrives at the request of the village elders. Archangel tracks the lionesses in the wilderness, but the hunt grows more dangerous, until it's no safer inside Kulumani than outside it. As the men of Kuluma...(展开全部)

米亚·科托（Mia Couto）,莫桑比克诗人、小说家，当今非洲葡萄牙语文学的中坚力量。十四岁开始在报刊发表诗歌，已出版作品三十多部，译成二十三种语言，长篇小说处女作《梦游之地》入选“20世纪最伟大的12部非洲小说”，2013年获葡语文学最高奖项卡蒙斯文学奖，与萨拉马戈 同等殊荣；2014年击败村上春树，获得有“美国诺贝尔文学奖”之称的纽斯塔特国际文学奖；2015年凭《耶稣撒冷》入围布克国际文学奖，2017年，最新作品《母狮的忏悔》入选都柏林文学奖短名单，被认为是近年来诺贝尔奖最有力竞争者。他开创性地将葡萄牙语与莫桑比克民族性相融合，使非洲文学焕发出前所未有的新生机。

Mariamar, a woman whose sister was killed in a lioness attack, finds her life thrown into chaos when the outsider Archangel Bullseye, the marksman hired to kill the lionesses, arrives at the request of the village elders. Archangel tracks the lionesses in the wilderness, but the hunt grows more dangerous, until it's no safer inside Kulumani than outside it. As the men of Kuluma...(展开全部)

米亚·科托（Mia Couto）,莫桑比克诗人、小说家，当今非洲葡萄牙语文学的中坚力量。十四岁开始在报刊发表诗歌，已出版作品三十多部，译成二十三种语言，长篇小说处女作《梦游之地》入选“20世纪最伟大的12部非洲小说”，2013年获葡语文学最高奖项卡蒙斯文学奖，与萨拉马戈 同等殊荣；2014年击败村上春树，获得有“美国诺贝尔文学奖”之称的纽斯塔特国际文学奖；2015年凭《耶稣撒冷》入围布克国际文学奖，2017年，最新作品《母狮的忏悔》入选都柏林文学奖短名单，被认为是近年来诺贝尔奖最有力竞争者。他开创性地将葡萄牙语与莫桑比克民族性相融合，使非洲文学焕发出前所未有的新生机。

When Leviathan first appeared in 1651, it was recognized as a work of extraordinary scope, uniting metaphysical, theological, and political arguments into a single distinctive outlook. Contending that modern readers do the book an injustice by neglecting its metaphysical and theological themes, David Johnston supports his claim with a detailed examination of the text as a whole...(展开全部)

The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as "the implied au...(展开全部)

The first edition of "The Rhetoric of Fiction" transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms--such as "the implied...(展开全部)

A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. In this completely revised second edition, Deirdre N. McCloskey demonstrates how economic discourse employs metaphor, authority, symmetry, and other rhetorical means of persuasion. The Rhetoric of Economics shows economists to be human persuaders, poets of ...(展开全部)

Our communication is limitedby misunderstanding. Rhetoric, as Professor Richards defines it, is the study of misunderstanding and its remedies. The conventional rules of the old rhetoric and the formulations of scientific language have narrow application to conversational speech; Professor Richard's definition of rhetoric is based on a practical question: how do words work in d...(展开全部)