Literary reference works books

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other...  Read More >>

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This is a comprehensive guide to writing research proposals covering every aspect from design to ethics and empowering...  Read More >>

Proposes a new way to read one of the most significant works of the New Negro Renaissance, Jean Toomer’s Cane. John...  Read More >>

Examines the works of contemporary writers from eight Caribbean countries. Authors from Anglophone, Francophone,...  Read More >>

Drawing on excerpts from numerous letters and material from interviews with family members and friends, Larry Brown:...  Read More >>

Modernism cannot be reduced to a rejection of established norms. This book spotlights Russian modernist poets’ and...  Read More >>

Presents alternative categories of fiction through which to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged Africa’s...  Read More >>

Arguably, all of Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon’s works deal with quandaries of translation. Only after returning...  Read More >>

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Examining contemporary Afro-German artists’ use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history. Rather...  Read More >>

A collection of innovative examinations of embodiment in Milton’s oeuvre that challenge assumptions about disciplinary...  Read More >>

Arguably, all of Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon’s works deal with quandaries of translation. Only after returning...  Read More >>

Examining contemporary Afro-German artists’ use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history. Rather...  Read More >>

Stop what you are doing, take a deep breath and get yourself a cuppa! Release yourself from the worldly affairs...  Read More >>

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A stunning gift edition of the indispensable and comprehensive handbook to the geography of Middle-earth from acclaimed...  Read More >>

A newly discovered manuscript believed to be the first known novella written by a woman in Florida. In 2015, an...  Read More >>

“This collection feels medicinal and miraculous all at once. . . This is not just ‘nature writing.’ This is cosmic...  Read More >>

Investigates how writers from across East, South, and Southeast Asia and their diasporas have engaged with the struggle...  Read More >>

Investigates how writers from across East, South, and Southeast Asia and their diasporas have engaged with the struggle...  Read More >>

The Hobbit Encyclopedia is a comprehensive A-Z companion to The Hobbit and Tolkien's universe.  Read More >>

An in-depth analysis of poetry, short stories, and one of the first novels written by a Maya Tsotsil writer of Chiapas...  Read More >>

This volume addresses integrating into the classroom Beat authors, texts, and themes associated with Beat writing,...  Read More >>