Literary companions books

Challenges the persistent assumption that the first decades after the Great Irish Famine were marked by a pervasive...  Read More >>

This book explores how the Italian commedia dell'arte has profoundly affected the Russian artistic imagination for...  Read More >>

Offers a unique, passionate, and eclectic series of meditations on literature and history, covering over 150 important...  Read More >>

A new prose collection by Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa  Read More >>

A new prose collection by Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa  Read More >>

Contributes to the history of Middle Eastern narrative lore and its impact on Western tradition.  Read More >>

Ceci est une critique constructive a propos de la Constitution de la RD. Congo de 2006. Malgre la guerre après,...  Read More >>

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty...  Read More >>

In the South, one notion of “being ugly” implies inappropriate or coarse behaviour that transgresses social norms...  Read More >>

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"GIFT IDEAS COLOURING BOOKS FOR GROWN-UPS BEST GIFT IDEAS This incredible adult coloring book by best-selling...  Read More >>

The topics the essays focus on, as well as the perspectives of the contributors, range widely: genetics, cryonics,...  Read More >>

Thirteen new and challenging interpretations of trickster in American writing, including essays on works by African...  Read More >>

In searching American literary landscapes for what they can reveal about our attitudes toward nature and gender,...  Read More >>

This collection of fifteen original essays offers new perspectives on armed conflict as a central aspect of science...  Read More >>

A Century of Early Ecocriticism looks behind these recent developments to a prior generation’s ecocritical inclinations....  Read More >>

In this stimulating collection of essays, twenty scholars apply theoretical approaches to the fiction and poetry...  Read More >>

This milestone of feminist study by fourteen women writers breaks new ground in American literary study. The essays...  Read More >>

Taking her cue from Donald Barthelme’s 1967 portrayal of popular culture as “trash” and Don DeLillo’s 1997 description...  Read More >>

Jeff Abernathy assesses cross-racial pairings in American literature following Huckleberry Finn to show that this...  Read More >>

Topics discussed include O'Connor's early stories, her canonical status, the phenomenon of doubling, the feminist...  Read More >>

More than fifty writers, from Timothy Leary and Malcolm X to Helen Gurley Brown and Rachel Carson, are individually...  Read More >>

A guide to the notebook poems and published poems of Dylan Thomas, drawing on his newly-discovered fifth notebook...  Read More >>

Some of the most prominent figures in the Beat Movement were attracted to the new Cuba as a place where people would...  Read More >>

Offers insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine...  Read More >>