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The Resilient Apocalypse: Narrating the End from Early Spanish Visualizations to Twenty-First Century Latin American Articulations

The Resilient Apocalypse: Narrating the End from Early...

Author: Julia A. Kushigian
ISBN: 9781469681887
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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Restoring Relations Through Stories: From Dinétah to Denendeh

Restoring Relations Through Stories: From Dinétah to...

Author: Renae Watchman ,  Luci Tapahonso
ISBN: 9780816550340
Format: Paperback
$92.40

An insightful volume that delves into land-based Dine and Dene imaginaries as embodied in stories - oral, literary,...  Read More >>

The Playboy of the Western World—A New Version: A Critical Edition

The Playboy of the Western World—A New Version: A Critical...

Author: Bisi Adigun ,  Roddy Doyle
ISBN: 9780815638346
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Features the full text of the play, published for the first time, along with a collection of essays exploring the...  Read More >>

Choose Life. Choose Leith.: Trainspotting on Location

Choose Life. Choose Leith.: Trainspotting on Location...

Author: Tim Bell
ISBN: 9781804251096
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry

Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African...

Author: Susanna L. Sacks
ISBN: 9781625347671
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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The Playboy of the Western World - A New Version: A Critical Edition

The Playboy of the Western World - A New Version: A...

Author: Bisi Adigun ,  Roddy Doyle
ISBN: 9780815638339
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Features the full text of the play, published for the first time, along with a collection of essays exploring the...  Read More >>

Flying Adventurers: Juvenile Aviation Series Books in America, 1909-1964

Flying Adventurers: Juvenile Aviation Series Books in...

Author: David K. Vaughan
ISBN: 9781476688787
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Examines the 375 juvenile aviation series titles published between 1909 and 1964. The book weaves together several...  Read More >>

Heroes with a Hundred Names: Mythology and Folklore in the Early Fiction of Robert Penn Warren

Heroes with a Hundred Names: Mythology and Folklore...

Author: Leverett Butts
ISBN: 9781476684598
Format: Paperback
$93.50

Author Robert Penn Warren’s fiction captures centuries worth of mythology and folklore from all across the globe,...  Read More >>

Jules Verne Lives!: Essays on His Works and Legacy

Jules Verne Lives!: Essays on His Works and Legacy

Author: Gary Westfahl
ISBN: 9781476687735
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Offers a fresh examination of the works of Jules Verne, the pioneering and enduringly popular science fiction writer....  Read More >>

The (Un)Welcome Stranger: Intercultural Sensitivity in Six American Novels

The (Un)Welcome Stranger: Intercultural Sensitivity...

Author: Jeff Morgan
ISBN: 9781476685656
Format: Paperback
$77.00

An exploration of the possibilities of intercultural training through literature, especially related to collegiate...  Read More >>

Talking Vonnegut: Centennial Interviews and Essays

Talking Vonnegut: Centennial Interviews and Essays

Author: Charles D. Augello
ISBN: 9781476690704
Format: Paperback
$84.70

A collection of 29 interviews explores the outer reaches of the Kurt Vonnegut universe. A valuable resource for...  Read More >>

Disability in Wonderland: Health and Normativity in Speculative Utopias

Disability in Wonderland: Health and Normativity in...

Author: Amanda Martin Sandino
ISBN: 9781476683034
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Spanning from Lewis Carroll’s 1865 Alice in Wonderland to Jordan Peele’s 2019 film Us, this examination of the wonderland...  Read More >>

Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited: A Reader's Companion

Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited: A Reader's Companion...

Author: Ronald R. Gray
ISBN: 9781476689104
Format: Paperback
$84.70

A comprehensive and detailed encyclopedia for readers of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. It contains 175 entries...  Read More >>

In Search of The Thin Man: Dashiell Hammett, William Powell and the Classic Film Series

In Search of The Thin Man: Dashiell Hammett, William...

Author: Philip Zwerling
ISBN: 9781476686578
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Offers a complete history of The Thin Man series, covering the brightest stars, tastiest scandals, headlines and...  Read More >>

Nordic Sagas as Children's Literature: Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures

Nordic Sagas as Children's Literature: Victorian and...

Author: Velma Bourgeois Richmond
ISBN: 9781476691633
Format: Paperback
$127.60

Examines translations of Icelandic sagas and the Victorian and Edwardian children’s literature that they inspired,...  Read More >>

A Tale Told by a Machine: The AI Narrator in Contemporary Science Fiction Novels

A Tale Told by a Machine: The AI Narrator in Contemporary...

Author: Heather Duerre Humann
ISBN: 9781476689326
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Investigates key questions that arise from the use of AI narrators. The book describes how these narratives challenge...  Read More >>

The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and Transformation

The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and...

Author: Dina Schiff Massachi
ISBN: 9781476687971
Format: Paperback
$84.70

When L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he created an American myth that has endured the test of time....  Read More >>

James Fenimore Cooper: A Companion

James Fenimore Cooper: A Companion

Author: Signe O. Wegener
ISBN: 9781476682570
Format: Paperback
$84.70

This literary companion is a useful resource covering the major themes, characters, settings and more found in James...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar Culture

The Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar Culture...

Author: André Fischer
ISBN: 9780810146686
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Debunking myths plays a crucial role in media literacy, but doing so can let us overlook why myths are created and...  Read More >>

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long...

Author: Sandra Tomc
ISBN: 9780472074891
Format: Hardback
$211.20

In the late nineteenth century, the United States was known internationally as a place full of gaudiness and glitter....  Read More >>

The Prefaces

The Prefaces

Author: Henry James ,  Oliver Herford (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781107002685
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This is the first scholarly edition of an important group of critical writings by Henry James, the Prefaces to his...  Read More >>

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