Literary companions books

Literary Awakenings collects eighteen essays published over the last three decades that celebrate the writer's relationship...  Read More >>

In doing so, Guare has created plays about the best and worst of humanity, about lost souls, and about delusional...  Read More >>

Andre Dubus (1936û1999), the author of short stories, novellas, essays, and two novels, is perhaps best known as...  Read More >>

In this book, all of the Arthurian places and names in Wales have been traced back to their original sources to...  Read More >>

A substantial introduction traces the Tristan and Isolde legend from the 12th century to 2001, emphasizing literary...  Read More >>

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 The essays in this volume represent the best of recent critical writing on Romantic literature, and include contributions...  Read More >>

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After the failure of the soixante-huitards, the collapse of European communism, and the fall around 1989 of various...  Read More >>

Postmodern Crises collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky's articles on Russian literature...  Read More >>

Hebrew literature, from the second half of the 19th century to well into the 20th, was unmistakably influenced in...  Read More >>

Superman is an icon of the American Way. Examining his many appearances over eighty years in comics, films, television...  Read More >>

Superman is an icon of the American Way. Examining his many appearances over eighty years in comics, films, television...  Read More >>

For too long, criticism of the Beat Generation has focused on the biographical exploits of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and...  Read More >>

First published in French in 1988, and in English in 1992, this companion explores the nature of the literary myth...  Read More >>

The definitive biography of the world's most popular novel.  Read More >>

For too long, criticism of the Beat Generation has focused on the biographical exploits of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and...  Read More >>

The Signifying Eye shows Faulkner's art take shape in sweeping arcs of social, labor, and aesthetic history. Steeped...  Read More >>

This analysis of five exemplary domestic plays offers a new approach to the emerging ideology of the private and...  Read More >>

Appalachian people are frequently depicted as poorly educated whites who isolate themselves in mountain hollows....  Read More >>

Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez has overseen several research projects aimed at documenting Chicana and Chicano reading...  Read More >>

Provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering...  Read More >>

Revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. Kilito brings...  Read More >>