Literary companions books

Words and pictures that show the South's imprint on the life and works of the great playwright  Read More >>

Included in this book are eight essays from women writers in contemporary China. They talk about marriage, children,...  Read More >>

Graphic novels have found a place on library shelves but many...  Read More >>

Offers historical and theoretical readings of Caribbean and African American interaction from the 1700s to the present....  Read More >>

Several of Robert Burns' poems deal with the supernatural. This book intends to help celebrate the 250th anniversary...  Read More >>

Examines a wide array of African American novels written during the last half of the twentieth century, demonstrating...  Read More >>

Joyce Carol Oates is America's most extraordinary and prolific woman of letters. Gavin Cologne-Brookes illuminates...  Read More >>

Announces a revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary...  Read More >>

Examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting...  Read More >>

Presents the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between Canadian literature and globalisation. This book...  Read More >>

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

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From 1943 to 1953, William Styron wrote over one hundred letters to William C. Styron, Sr, detailing his adventures,...  Read More >>

Eugene O'Neill is widely considered the greatest American dramatist. This book covers O'Neill's works, as well as...  Read More >>

This intense examination of the writings of Tillie Olsen shows Elaine Neil Orr's deeply sympathetic passion for...  Read More >>

This collection of essays about the writings of Eudora Welty reflects a range of Welty criticism. Themes, forms,...  Read More >>

As William Faulkner himself and the authors of these essays insist, the South is part of the United States and ultimately...  Read More >>

Readers know that humour abounds in the writings of William Faulkner, but the thousands of articles and hundreds...  Read More >>

The Ring of Words describes the unique relationship between Tolkien's creative use of the English language in his...  Read More >>

Provides the first major study of the Bluebeard tale and its many variants in English: from the eighteenth- and...  Read More >>

Provides the first major study of the Bluebeard tale and its many variants in English: from the eighteenth- and...  Read More >>

Have you ever tried to read The Scarlet Letter but realized midway through the second sentence that you were already...  Read More >>