Janet Holmes

In this best-selling introductory textbook, Janet Holmes and Nick Wilson examine the role of language in a variety of social contexts, considering b

For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice

Sociolinguistics is the study of the interaction between language and society. In this classic introductory work, Janet Holmes and Nick Wilson examine

'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' The author asks at the beginning of this work of literary biography and investigativ

This work celebrates composers and creators such as Harry Partch, Raymond Scott, Leon Theremin, and George Ives, who had to invent new instruments to

Johnson, a poet, simply removed the words he did not wish to use as if whiting them out - the remaining words stood in the same relationship to each o

This work celebrates composers and creators such as Harry Partch, Raymond Scott, Leon Theremin, and George Ives, who had to invent new instruments to

Introduces Emily Dickinson as the iconic female writer who, unread in her time, is frequently misinterpreted and unheard. This work relates Dickinson'

How do we decide which animals are family and which are food? Why are we surprised to see a rooster gazing out the kitchen window or a hen studying he

Introduced by Claire-Louise Bennett, experience onenew mother's psychological journey in this lost 1930foremother of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar.

Op sommige dagen gelooft Marthe Gail dat ze God is; op andere dagen Jezus Christus. Haar baby is dood, denkt ze. Het rode licht schijnt. Er zitten tra

Janet Malcolm's gripping investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud's legacy endeavours to untangle the causes of their rivalry and sou

The author was a novelist, poet, and short-story writer whose literary career spanned almost the entire twentieth century. Born and educated in Chicag

In this new edition of Janet Lewis's classic short novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre, Swallow Press executive editor Kevin Haworth writes that Lewis's