Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Hergé face à son fétiche: Allers-retours entre réalité et fiction

Hergé face à son fétiche: Allers-retours entre réalité...

Author: Patrice Guérin ,  Renaud Monfourny
ISBN: 9782494744202
Format: Paperback
$46.12

Volé, rendu, copié, brisé, le fétiche arumbaya est au coeur de L'Oreille cassée, le sixième album de Tintin. Pourtant,...  Read More >>

In the Forest

In the Forest

Author: Edna O'Brien
ISBN: 9780571397495
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A young mother, her infant son and a Catholic priest are all murdered by a delusional young man.  Read More >>

The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow

The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ,  Eileen M. Hunt (University of Notre Dame)
ISBN: 9780198892793
Format: Paperback
$24.95

Mary Shelley's The Last Man is a novel set in the aftermath of climate disaster and a war between Greece and Turkey...  Read More >>

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Author: Willa Cather ,  Catherine Morley (University of Leicester)
ISBN: 9780192849250
Format: Paperback
$23.95

The story of two missionary priests, travelling through the American Southwest in the aftermath of the Mexican American...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context

Tom Stoppard in Context

Author: David Kornhaber (University of Texas, Austin) ,  James N. Loehlin (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9781108413046
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded...

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien ,  Humphrey Carpenter
ISBN: 9780008628772
Format: Hardback
$165.00

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now...  Read More >>

Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic: Testimony, Cultural Memory and Global Literary Perspectives

Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic: Testimony, Cultural Memory...

Author: Stuart Lindsay
ISBN: 9781839990649
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986...  Read More >>

Christopher Isherwood Inside Out

Christopher Isherwood Inside Out

Author: Katherine Bucknell
ISBN: 9781529932348
Format: Paperback
$49.99

""Originally published in 2024 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain""--Title page verso.  Read More >>

Wise Women for Loving Nature: Or, Femopolitical Ecology

Wise Women for Loving Nature: Or, Femopolitical Ecology...

Author: Dr Rod Giblett (Deakin University, Australia)
ISBN: 9798765142097
Format: Hardback
$180.00

From Rachel Carson and Julia Kristeva to Rebecca Solnit and Nandi Chinna, the writers and artists featured here...  Read More >>

Short Story as World Literature: The Deep History and Modern Lives of an Impure Genre

Short Story as World Literature: The Deep History and...

Author: Prof Delia Ungureanu (Harvard University, USA) ,  Dr. Amândio Reis (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
ISBN: 9798765126738
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an ""impure"" genre by challenging...  Read More >>

Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Author: Professor Sarah D. Phillips (Indiana University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765132203
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era,...  Read More >>

Rethinking Feeling: On the Renegotiation of Emotions in German Novels at the Fin de Siècle

Rethinking Feeling: On the Renegotiation of Emotions...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Holly A. Yanacek (James Madison University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765158395
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An interdisciplinary study of the literary representation and exploration of emotions and moral values in German...  Read More >>

Evelyn Waugh's Exterior Modernism: Cinema, Satire, Comedy

Evelyn Waugh's Exterior Modernism: Cinema, Satire, Comedy...

Author: Yuexi Liu (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)
ISBN: 9781350551985
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first to systematically examine Waugh’s relationship with cinema in the context of modernism, this book examines...  Read More >>

Agatha Christie's London: A Historical Guide to the Queen of Crime's Capital

Agatha Christie's London: A Historical Guide to the...

Author: Tina Hodgkinson
ISBN: 9781837050796
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Bloke of All Ages: Persepectives on Bloke Modisane

Bloke of All Ages: Persepectives on Bloke Modisane

Author: Bloke Modisane ,  Siyabonga Njica
ISBN: 9781776149759
Format: Paperback
$74.80

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Reading Espionage Fiction: Narrative, Conflict and Commitment from World War I to the Contemporary Era

Reading Espionage Fiction: Narrative, Conflict and Commitment...

Author: Martin Griffin (Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Tennessee)
ISBN: 9781399520805
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores how espionage fiction captures the most significant political conflicts and crises of the last hundred...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene

Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene

Author: Peter Adkins (Lecturer in Modernist Literature, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781399516693
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

Rachel Bowlby – Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories

Rachel Bowlby – Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood,...

Author: Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative Literature, University College London)
ISBN: 9781399528412
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense

The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense

Author: Anna Barton (Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of Sheffield) ,  James Williams (Lecturer in English, University of York)
ISBN: 9781399557382
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the...  Read More >>

Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller

Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis...

Author: Helen Tyson (Senior Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century British Literature, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781399522106
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century  Read More >>

The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader

The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader...

Author: Peter D McDonald (Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford, St Hugh’s College)
ISBN: 9781399524414
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic...  Read More >>

The Reader in Modernist Fiction

The Reader in Modernist Fiction

Author: Brian Richardson (Professor in the English Department, University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9781399528375
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

The Korean War Novel: Rewriting History from the Civil War to the Post-Cold War

The Korean War Novel: Rewriting History from the Civil...

Author: Suk Koo Rhee (Professor of English, Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea)
ISBN: 9781399524537
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Uncovers how historical novels rewrite the history of the Korean War  Read More >>

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