Posts from the ‘DVD, VHS and CD’ Category

New Books

• The pen and the sword : literature and revolution in modern China / Innes Herdan ; preface by Brian Power
• The art of Bible translation / Robert Alter
• Youth culture and the post-war British novel : from Teddy Boys to Trainspotting / Stephen Ross
• Words and the First World War : language, memory, vocabulary / Julian Walker
  ""The experiences could be understood only as being of such extremity that they stood beyond written words; it was not a failure of language, but a view that, for the individual, language, particularly written words, and the enormity of the experience were not matched." First World War expert Julian Walker looks at how the conflict shaped Engl […]
• Dickens's women : his great expectations / Anne Isba
  "On the bicentenary of his birth, this short account of the emotional life of Charles Dickens examines his relationships with some of the women to whom he was closest. They include the mother who failed to recognise his early promise, the young woman who spurned him before he was famous, the wife he cast aside in middle age, the benefactress for whom he […]