Literary companions books

Offers a new interpretation of the transformation of Anglo-American intellectual and aesthetic culture since 1890....  Read More >>

Nearly all black female novelists of twentieth-century America have found the essential substance of their art in...  Read More >>

Argues that the novels of the period 1969-1988 served as a dialogue among women authors and their readers as they...  Read More >>

Engagements with the entire body of the National Book Award winner's work  Read More >>

Influenced by trends in medicine, town planning and social etiquette, Madrid's middle class viewed urban growth...  Read More >>

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To the end of his life Richard Wright attempted to discover and to express the force between black artistic creation....  Read More >>

In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of...  Read More >>

Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Includes all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events. Cram101 Just the...  Read More >>

In this innovative work, twelve leaders in this emerging interdisciplinary field explore the long engagement of...  Read More >>

Showcases a diverse range of modern Jewish writers from one of South America's most vibrant, multicultural communities....  Read More >>

The first collection of interviews with the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Kindred, Parable of the Sower,...  Read More >>

The first full-length study of its type highlighting over 150 fictional villains, many famous through their film...  Read More >>

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When his boat engine failed him in March 2002, Tahitian fisherman Tava'e Raioaoa was cast adrift in the currents...  Read More >>

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In this captivating work, Carmen Trammell Skaggs examines the discourse of opera - both the art form and the social...  Read More >>

Provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Robert Paul Lamb locates Hemingway's...  Read More >>

His final chapter explores the broad themes running though Lovecraft's fiction, arguing that these themes in themselves...  Read More >>

This collection of fourteen essays by American and English scholars -- many of them hitherto unpublished and all...  Read More >>

whereas a work of praise usually held up the superiority of its patrons, the good women in Lanyer's poem exemplify...  Read More >>

Crossfire should revolutionize thinking about the Generation of '98 and the Generation of '14 by identifying the...  Read More >>

Despite critical acclaim for Robert Penn Warren's later poetry, much about this large body of work remains unexplored,...  Read More >>

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Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) gained national attention upon release of The Business of Fancydancing, his first collection...  Read More >>