Literary companions books

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A revised and expanded reissue containing over 1,200 brain-teasing questions on the legendary works of J.R.R. Tolkien,...  Read More >>

Examines a recurring figure that appears in French, British, and German drama between 1789 and 1830: the woman warrior....  Read More >>

Identifying a line of writing from Emerson's Conduct of Life to Hawthorne's posthumously published Elixir of Life...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking introduction to Inuit literary criticism.  Read More >>

In recent years, Italian cinema has experienced a quiet revolution: the proliferation of films by women. But their...  Read More >>

Explores some of the specific ideologies at work in William Faulkner's historical and socioeconomic moment, as well...  Read More >>

Focuses on two connected issues: representations of lynching in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American photographs,...  Read More >>

A disproportionate number of male writers continue to be credited for constructing the iconic and ideological foundations...  Read More >>

Contributors explore Edgar Allan Poe's anti-nationalistic Americanism as they redefine the outlines of antebellum...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of Pauline Hopkins’s major fiction, this book offers a sustained analysis of motherlessness...  Read More >>

An absorbing dictionary that clearly explains the meanings of references and allusions that are likely to be encountered...  Read More >>

European medieval art, philosophy and literature were significantly shaped by French culture and its intellectual...  Read More >>

Examines a recurring figure that appears in French, British, and German drama between 1789 and 1830: the woman warrior....  Read More >>

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Photographs, lumber, airplanes, hand-hewn coffins - in every William Faulkner novel and short story worldly material...  Read More >>

In addition to detailed discussions of all of Tim O'Brien's work, the sixteen interviews and profiles in Conversations...  Read More >>

This collection of twenty original essays will expand the critical contexts in which Antony and Cleopatra can be...  Read More >>

This text helps introduce to borrowers and book purchasers novelists whose work is new to them. Over 1970 authors...  Read More >>

Este libro recoge algunas cuestiones generales sobre Educación...  Read More >>

One of the most influential modern poets, Anthony Hecht (1923–2004) was awarded virtually every major American prize...  Read More >>

Established in 1630, Watertown was among the original six towns of Massachusetts. In recounting the story of Watertown's...  Read More >>

From Tobacco Road to Route 66: The Southern Poor White in Fiction  Read More >>

Leyburn shows the evolution in the early works of Henry James's power of relating comedy and tragedy and then analyses...  Read More >>

The discussions of Church in this discerning study indicate precisely how an author's concept of time influences...  Read More >>