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My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams

My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams...

Author: William Jay Smith ,  Suzanne Marrs
ISBN: 9781617031755
Format: Hardback
$73.92

A comrade and confidant reveals the early years of the young playwright's life  Read More >>

Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction

Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction

Author: Wendy Knepper
ISBN: 9781617031540
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today....  Read More >>

Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace: Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth-Century America

Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace: Writers and...

Author: David Dowling
ISBN: 9780807138472
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Twenty-One Grams of Spirit and Seven Ounces of Desire

Twenty-One Grams of Spirit and Seven Ounces of Desire...

Author: Maria Isabel Garcia
ISBN: 9789715506021
Format: Paperback
$102.96

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The Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature

The Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature...

Author: Tara Powell
ISBN: 9780807138984
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Never in its long history has the South provided an entirely comfortable home for the intellectual. In this thought-provoking...  Read More >>

Skelton's Magnyficance and the Cardinal Virtue Tradition

Skelton's Magnyficance and the Cardinal Virtue Tradition...

Author: William O. Harris
ISBN: 9780807878699
Format: Paperback
$105.47

This skilfully set forth argument convincingly demonstrates that Skelton's morality Magnyfycence, one of the most...  Read More >>

Profane Scriptures: Reflections on the Dialogue with the Bible in Modern Hebrew Poetry

Profane Scriptures: Reflections on the Dialogue with...

Author: Ruth Kartun-Blum ,  Menoshe Kadishman
ISBN: 9780878200559
Format: Paperback
$44.75

The modern Hebrew poet uses a new midrashic method that seeks to neutralize the Bible's sway over modern Israeli...  Read More >>

Booker Memorial Studies: Eight Essays on Victorian Literature in Memory of John Manning Booker, 1881-1948

Booker Memorial Studies: Eight Essays on Victorian Literature...

Author: Hill Shine
ISBN: 9780807868287
Format: Paperback
$105.47

These eight studies in Victorian literature, a memorial to Dr. Booker, do not attempt to suggest the breadth of...  Read More >>

Before Sherlock Holmes: How Magazines and Newspapers Invented the Detective Story

Before Sherlock Holmes: How Magazines and Newspapers...

Author: LeRoy Lad Panek
ISBN: 9780786467877
Format: Paperback
$65.95

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Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century

Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth...

Author: John Crace
ISBN: 9780099505457
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Casts a critical eye on the classics of the last century, offering bite-sized pastiches from Mrs Dalloway to ""Trainspotting...  Read More >>

Advanced Placement Classroom: King Lear

Advanced Placement Classroom: King Lear

Author: R. Brigham Lambert
ISBN: 9781593638351
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz

Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem...

Author: Ken Frieden ,  Ken Frieden
ISBN: 9780815632917
Format: Paperback
$30.80

Two early works by S.Y. Abramovitsh, . Sholem Aleichem s Tevye reemerges from new translations of ""Hodel"" and...  Read More >>

People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange

People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural...

Author: Kevin Meehan
ISBN: 9781617032011
Format: Paperback
$53.90

Throughout this book, Kevin Meehan offers historical and theoretical readings of Caribbean and African American...  Read More >>

Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African...

Author: Eric Gardner
ISBN: 9781617032110
Format: Paperback
$53.90

Recovers the work of early African American authors and editors such as Elisha Weaver who have been left off maps...  Read More >>

The Written Word and Other Essays

The Written Word and Other Essays

Author: Hardin Craig
ISBN: 9780807868584
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Craig discusses the impact of modern thought and invention upon literature's essential business of communication;...  Read More >>

A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires

A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures -...

Author: Prem Poddar ,  Rajeev S. Patke
ISBN: 9780748644827
Format: Paperback
$82.80

The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural...  Read More >>

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twilight: Studies in Fiction, Media & a Contemporary Cultural Experience

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twilight: Studies in...

Author: Mariah Larsson, Ph.D. ,  Ann Steiner
ISBN: 9789185509638
Format: Hardback
$139.79

The Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer have developed from a book series into a powerful phenomenon with an astonishing...  Read More >>

Critical Companion to Tim O'Brien

Critical Companion to Tim O'Brien

Author: Susan Elizabeth Farrell
ISBN: 9780816078707
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Tim O'Brien is the one of the greatest living American authors. He was drafted for service in Vietnam as soon as...  Read More >>

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Street Literature

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Street Literature

Author: Vanessa Irvin Morris ,  Terri Woods
ISBN: 9780838911105
Format: Paperback
$126.72

Street lit, also known as urban fiction, addresses with unflinching grit the concerns and problems of city living....  Read More >>

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Cross Creek Sampler: A Book of Quotations

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Cross Creek Sampler: A Book...

Author: Brent E. Kinser ,  Rodger L. Tarr
ISBN: 9780813037240
Format: Hardback
$59.40

Bon mots from one of the twentieth century's most beloved writers ""These impeccably chosen passages are a trenchant...  Read More >>

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