Literary reference works books

An interdisciplinary examination that engages different modes of history making, history telling, and truth telling...  Read More >>

L'Etranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus is one of the most read twentieth-century novels and is studied in French-language...  Read More >>

Catch-22 is appreciated for its black humour, extensive use of flashbacks, contorted chronology, countercultural...  Read More >>

Alice Walker's The Color Purple is one of the most celebrated and influential novels in American and African American...  Read More >>

The religious texts in Aztec and Maya Apocalypses, many translated for the first time, reveal the influence of European,...  Read More >>

Offers an in-depth comparative study of two classic literary works, examining essential themes such as change, the...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary examination that engages different modes of history making, history telling, and truth telling...  Read More >>

The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you...  Read More >>

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The essays in this volume provide context for understanding the history of Asian immigrants to the United States...  Read More >>

Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in...  Read More >>

The book provides a comprehensive survey of Irish literature and its multi-faceted environmental themes. Lucid analyses...  Read More >>

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Analyses riot iconography and its usefulness as a political strategy of protestation. Through a mixed-methods approach...  Read More >>

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Each chapter of Indians Playing Indian showcases a different medium of contemporary indigenous art and explores...  Read More >>

Over the course of the twenty-one interviews included in the volume, Billy Collins discusses such topics as discovering...  Read More >>

Analyses riot iconography and its usefulness as a political strategy of protestation. Through a mixed-methods approach...  Read More >>

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Focusing on the ten most influential baseball books of all time, this volume explores how these landmark works changed...  Read More >>

THE BOMB THAT BLEW UP GOD is an adventurous collection of poetry. Freddy Niagara Fonseca weaves seven major threads...  Read More >>

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Discusses some of Amy Tan's key themes: communication across generations of a family when those generations have...  Read More >>