Literary companions books

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Across two decades of intense creativity, David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) crafted a remarkable body of work that...  Read More >>

Mary Shelley is best known for her classic novel Frankenstein, a literary masterpiece that remains one of the most...  Read More >>

The CliffsNotes study guide on Shaffer and Barrows' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society supplements...  Read More >>

Just as the art of the table became a centrepiece of French mores, Balzac used it as a connecting thread in his...  Read More >>

The tragic mulatta was a stock figure in nineteenth-century American literature, an attractive mixed-race woman...  Read More >>

A long-overdue collection of the great fiction writers who have been associated with Louisiana State University....  Read More >>

Explores the virtual reinvention of the novel of manners in America out of the same subjectivity that charged the...  Read More >>

Traces the history of spy writers and their fiction from creator William Le Queux, of the Edwardian age, to John...  Read More >>

A searching contribution to the study of what gurative language is and how it works, this book is a guide to the...  Read More >>

Offers a comparative analysis of fiction from across the pan-Caribbean. Engaging with the historical and political...  Read More >>

Best known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, illustrated fiction, and graphic novels, the art...  Read More >>

Collects eleven essays presented at the Thirty-fifth Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Contributors...  Read More >>

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In the 400 years since Othello was written, thousands of critics have expended millions of words arguing about it....  Read More >>

In a major reinterpretation, Resisting History reveals that women, as subjects of writing and as writing subjects...  Read More >>

In this study, Richard Lehan demonstrates how and why the “originary vision” of modernism changed radically after...  Read More >>

This valuable study of Flannery O'Connor's style uses reader-response theory to dissect the author's use of hyperbole,...  Read More >>

Argues that the language of William Faulkner's fiction is replete with the voiced conflicts that shaped America...  Read More >>

In this unique work, twelve prominent Kate Chopin scholars reflect on their parts in the Kate Chopin revival and...  Read More >>

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Considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect...  Read More >>

Conversations with the author of such acclaimed works as American Tabloid, L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia...  Read More >>

J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the most popular writers of the 20th century. In addition, Tolkien was a celebrated scholar,...  Read More >>