Literary companions books

This book combines the methodologies of history and literary criticism, reading colonial and post-colonial novels...  Read More >>

By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen, Stephenie Meyer,...  Read More >>

Introduces critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda: a principal source for Old Norse cosmography...  Read More >>

Examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national...  Read More >>

Examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national...  Read More >>

This book consists of translations of fourteen Japanese short stories from the experiment modernist tradition by...  Read More >>

Uncovers the lived experience of breast cancer through autobiographical and photographic narratives  Read More >>

In this expansive study, Bryan Giemza recovers a neglected subculture and retrieves a missing chapter of Irish Catholic...  Read More >>

A Political Companion to John Steinbeck examines the most contentious political aspects of the author's body of...  Read More >>

This comprehensive introduction to Percy's American Thomismis an indispensable resource for students of American...  Read More >>

Examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within itself...  Read More >>

Performance poetry, identity, and nationality throughout American history  Read More >>

This scholarly close reading of Allen Ginsberg's ""Howl"" considers the iconic poem through a four-part trickster...  Read More >>

First published in 1991, Romantic Ecology reassesses the poetry of William Wordsworth in the context of the abiding...  Read More >>

Voices from the borderlands push against boundaries in more ways than one, as Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara ably demonstrates...  Read More >>

Throughout history, from at least as far back as the Epic of Gilgamesh, mankind has shown a fascination with physical...  Read More >>

This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including...  Read More >>

Highlights the philosophical and literary idea of apocalypse within key examples in the Slavic world during the...  Read More >>

In this collection, historians and literary scholars explore an enduring dynamic between history, literature, and...  Read More >>

In this groundbreaking study, Kathaleen Amende considers the works and lives of late-twentieth-century southern...  Read More >>

""Muses India attempts a contrapuntal reading of Indian English Literature with what Ranjan Ghosh, taking a step...  Read More >>

Life magazine described the Shaver Mystery as ""the most celebrated rumpus that rocked the science fiction world.""...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter,...  Read More >>

Delivers a long-overdue analysis of the works of Ann Petry, a major mid-twentieth-century African American author....  Read More >>

This updated edition introduces students to the literature of Anglo-Saxon England in a collection of seventeen essays....  Read More >>