Literary companions books

An alternative look at Japanese life, history and culture  Read More >>

Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring...  Read More >>

Analyzing the work of canonical as well as popular writers - including Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, Julia Peterkin,...  Read More >>

The Bible is one of the masterpieces of world literature. This book examines the Bible as a work of literature,...  Read More >>

Collects nineteen interviews conducted over more than two decades on both sides of the Atlantic and in the Caribbean....  Read More >>

Collects nineteen interviews conducted over more than two decades on both sides of the Atlantic and in the Caribbean....  Read More >>

Through a series of interviews with nine acclaimed authors, Conversations with Mexican American Writers explores...  Read More >>

Through a series of interviews with nine acclaimed authors, Conversations with Mexican American Writers explores...  Read More >>

Dannie Abse, whose career as a poet spans sixty years, has made a huge contribution to the literature and literary...  Read More >>

John Vickery continues the work he began in The Modern Elegiac Temper  Read More >>

Offers a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction. This book provides: key authors and themes within...  Read More >>

A probing of the many ways Faulkner interacted with the world's economies  Read More >>

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded...  Read More >>

Jane Austen is the most influential English novelist of all time, and yet each of us relates to her in our own private...  Read More >>

Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring...  Read More >>

Alan Moore is an acclaimed and controversial writer to emerge since the late 1970s. This volume argues that Moore...  Read More >>

Today recognised as a major innovator of American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt is an important contributor to de-romanticizing...  Read More >>

Although she is eminent primarily as the prize-winning author of classic works of fiction, Eudora Welty is notable...  Read More >>

Eclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge...  Read More >>

Collects eighteen interviews, conducted over nearly three decades, by journalists and correspondents throughout...  Read More >>

A study of how excess has proved to be the intended norm in the work of major women poets  Read More >>

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Presents an exploration of Iranian literature and society. This book warns against the rise of what the author calls...  Read More >>

A study of the impact of German Pietism on the life and literature of one of the 20th century's most influential...  Read More >>

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