Literary companions books

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Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and...  Read More >>

Deeds not words: an extraordinary ordinary life  Read More >>

First published in 1909, with a second edition in 1923, this concise and easily accessible overview of Shelley’s...  Read More >>

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Why is the story of romance in books, magazines, and films still aimed at women rather than at men? Even after decades...  Read More >>

Vital perspectives from leading critics and scholars on one of the most distinguished African American poets of...  Read More >>

""A fascinating look into the life and mind of poet and prose miniaturist Daniil Kharms ... Anemone and Scotto offer...  Read More >>

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Explores the ways in which William Faulkner's fiction addresses and destabilizes the concept of whiteness in American...  Read More >>

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At age twenty-three, Jack London sold his first story, and within six years he was the highest paid and most widely...  Read More >>

A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating...  Read More >>

Delves into the world of rapture, prophecy, and tribulation in order to account for the extraordinary cultural salience...  Read More >>

Presents a collection of essays on the status of memory - individual and collective, cultural and transcultural...  Read More >>

An essential chronological framework for students of Portuguese literature.  Read More >>

La pucelle d'Orleans poëme . Divisé en quinze livres. Par monsieur de V*** Date de l'édition originale: 1755 Le...  Read More >>

In the same way that the pattern-driven covers of the Penguin Classics seduced design bloggers and literature lovers,...  Read More >>

Susan Larson's revised and updated edition of The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans not only explores the legacy...  Read More >>

English translation and substantial revision of Global playing in der literatur: ein versuch u'ber die neue Weltliteratur....  Read More >>

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In this first interdisciplinary study of all nine of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber...  Read More >>

A new intertextual reading that shows Welty confronting one of western literature's major forces--the indomitable...  Read More >>

This is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques whiteness as...  Read More >>

A closer look at the poets and publishers who made the Black Arts Movement such an enduring cultural enterprise...  Read More >>