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178 books match the query 'Book' and 10 start with b
Behind the Book
Eleven Authors on Their Path to PublicationChris Mackenzie Jones
University of Chicago Press, 2018
Behind the Book explores how eleven contemporary first-time authors, in genres ranging from post-apocalyptic fiction to young adult fantasy to travel memoir, navigated these pathways with their debut works. Based on extensive interviews with the authors, it covers the process of writing and publishing a book from beginning to end, including idea generation, developing a process, building a support network, revising the manuscript, finding the right approach to publication, building awareness, and ultimately moving on to the next project. It also includes insights from editors, agents, publishers, and others who helped to bring these projects to life.
Unlike other books on writing craft, Behind the Book looks at the larger picture of how an author’s work and choices can affect the outcome of a project. The authors profiled in each story open up about their challenges, mistakes, and successes. While their paths to publication may be unique, together they offer important lessons that authors of all types can apply to their own writing journeys.
Between Pen and Pixel
Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the FutureAaron Jacob Kashtan
The Ohio State University Press, 2018
In Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future, Aaron Kashtan argues that paying attention to comics helps us understand the future of the book. Debates over the future of the book tend to focus on text-based literature, particularly fiction. However, because comics make the effects of materiality visible, they offer a clearer demonstration than prose fiction of how the rise of digital reading platforms transforms the reading experience. Comics help us see the effects of alterations in features such as publication design and typography, whereas in print literature, such transformations often go unnoticed.
With case studies of the work of Alison Bechdel, Matt Kindt, Lynda Barry, Carla Speed McNeil, Chris Ware, and Randall Munroe, Kashtan examines print comics that critique digital technology, comics that are remediated from print to digital and vice versa, and comics that combine print and digital functionality. Kashtan argues that comics are adapting to the rise of digital reading technologies more effectively than print literature has yet done. Therefore, looking at comics gives us a preview of what the future of the book looks like. Ultimately, Between Pen and Pixel argues that as print literature becomes more sensitive to issues of materiality and mediacy, print books will increasingly start to resemble to comic books.
Book Of The Incipit
Beginnings in the Fourteenth CenturyD. Vance Smith
University of Minnesota Press, 2001
An intriguing evaluation of the concept of beginnings in the medieval period.
Medieval Studies/Literary Theory
An intriguing evaluation of the concept of beginnings in the medieval period. In the first book to examine one of the most peculiar features of one of the greatest and most perplexing poems of England’s late Middle Ages-the successive attempts of Piers Plowman to begin, and to keep beginning-D. Vance Smith compels us to rethink beginning, as concept and practice, in both medieval and contemporary terms.The problem of beginning was invested with increasing urgency in the fourteenth century, imagined and grappled with in the courts, the churches, the universities, the workshops, the fields, and the streets of England. The Book of the Incipit reveals how Langland’s poem exemplifies a widespread interest in beginning in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, an interest that appears in such divergent fields as the physics of motion, the measurement of time, logic, grammar, rhetoric, theology, book production, and insurrection. Smith offers a theoretical understanding of beginning that departs from the structuralisms of Edward Said and the traditional formalisms of A. D. Nuttall and most medievalist and modernist treatments of closure. Instead, he conceives a work’s beginning as a figure of the beginning of the work itself, the inception of language as the problem of beginning to which we continue to return.ISBN 0-8166-3760-1 Cloth/jacket £24.50 $34.95x296 Pages 5 7/8 x 9 MayMedieval Cultures Series, volume 28Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press
Book and Verse
A Guide to Middle English Biblical LiteratureJames H. Morey
University of Illinois Press, 2000
Book and Verse is an indispensable guide to the variety and extent of biblical literature in England, exclusive of drama and the Wycliffite Bible that appeared between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries. Entries provide detailed information on how much of what parts of the Bible appear in Middle English and where this biblical material can be found. Comprehensive indexing by name, keyword, and biblical verse allows a researcher to find, for example, all the occurrences of the Flood Story or of the encounter between Elijah and the Widow of Sarephta. An invaluable resource, Book and Verse provides the first easy access to the "popular Bible" assembled before and after John Wyclif's translation of the Vulgate into English.
Book of Abraham Apologetics
A Review and CritiqueDan Vogel
Signature Books, 2021
Book of Appassionata
The Collected PoemsDavid Citino
The Ohio State University Press, 1998
Book of Beasts
A Facsimile of MS. Bodley 764Christopher de Hamel
Bodleian Library Publishing, 2008
Book of Healing
Joseph Odùmósù
University of Wisconsin Press, 2026
While the existence of Odùmósù’s massive work is well-known in southwestern Nigeria, it has not previously been available in English. Michael Ọládẹ̀jọ Afọláyan and Helen Tilley have translated the volume in its entirety, and here use it as an entrée into greater understandings of Yorùbá medicine, spirituality, and print culture during a time of rapid change under British colonialism and the spread of Christianity.
Book of the Disappeared
The Quest for Transnational JusticeJennifer Heath and Ashraf Zahedi, Editors
University of Michigan Press, 2023
Book of the Disappeared confronts worldwide human rights violations of enforced disappearance and genocide and explores the global quest for justice with forceful, outstanding contributions by respected scholars, expert practitioners, and provocative contemporary artists. This profoundly humane book spotlights our historic inhumanity while offering insights for survival and transformation.
Botany by the Book
Green Philology and the Textual Lives of PlantsJan Mieszkowski
University of Chicago Press, 0
Drawing on philosophers and poets with a passion for botany, this book shows that the study of plants has always been a study of language as much as of living things.
At a moment when environmental thought is struggling to move beyond inherited assumptions about nature and humanity’s place within it, Botany by the Book offers a new perspective on the history of ecological thinking. Bringing together a diverse range of writers, it uncovers a long and largely forgotten tradition of “green philology” in which empirical inquiry and literary reflection developed side by side. Figures such as Locke, Rousseau, Goethe, Mill, Dickinson, Akhmatova, Luxemburg, Celan, and Heidegger were avid botanizers, collecting specimens and in some cases meticulously curating herbaria. Spanning centuries, this hidden conversation links poets, philosophers, and naturalists whose intellectual kinship was often stronger than they themselves realized.
Tracing a line from Carl Linnaeus’s love of metaphor to Emily Dickinson’s adolescent herbarium to the contemporary politics of floral aesthetics, Jan Mieszkowski reveals how efforts to conceptualize plant life raise fundamental questions about power and knowledge. He also takes up contemporary writers, such as Hanif Abdurraqib and Ross Gay, whose flower poems refuse to play by the rules. Ultimately, Mieszkowski shows that botany has inspired a green philology, its distinctive reflections on language and epistemology offering fertile soil for ecocriticism today. Going beyond traditional distinctions between the sciences and the humanities, Botany by the Book argues that reckoning honestly with how we represent nature is inseparable from imagining more livable ecological futures.