Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 3, Essays

Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 3, Essays...

Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt ,  Joel Agee
ISBN: 9780226838328
Format: Paperback
$41.95

These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's essays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss...  Read More >>

Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 2, Fictions

Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 2, Fictions...

Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt ,  Joel Agee
ISBN: 9780226836690
Format: Paperback
$41.95

These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's fiction introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The...  Read More >>

The Real Aftermath: How COVID-19 Changed the Way Science Fiction is Conceived, Read, and Interpreted

The Real Aftermath: How COVID-19 Changed the Way Science...

Author: Riccardo Retez
ISBN: 9798881901035
Format: Hardback
$240.24

'The Real Aftermath: How COVID-19 Changed the Way Science Fiction is Conceived, Read, and Interpreted' offers a...  Read More >>

Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts: Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction

Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts:...

Author: David P. Rando ,  Richard Kerridge (Bath Spa University UK)
ISBN: 9781350356160
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Through readings of texts featuring creatures such as androids, aliens and ghosts, this book explores the boundaries...  Read More >>

The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida: The Last Sentence of the Law

The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida: The Last Sentence...

Author: Jeremy Tambling (Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781350354579
Format: Paperback
$59.99

In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively...  Read More >>

Prepossessing Henry James: The Strange Freedom

Prepossessing Henry James: The Strange Freedom

Author: Julián Jiménez Heffernan
ISBN: 9781032058665
Format: Paperback
$81.99

The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James’s fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English...  Read More >>

Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture: Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century

Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture: Pandemics,...

Author: Simon Bacon
ISBN: 9781350285491
Format: Hardback
$170.00

An innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up...  Read More >>

Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History

Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History...

Author: Dr. Toyin Falola (Professor; Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities; University Distinguished Teaching Prof., University of Texas at Austin, USA)
ISBN: 9798765118467
Format: Hardback
$180.00

An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary...  Read More >>

Best Debut Short Stories 2024: The PEN America Dau Prize

Best Debut Short Stories 2024: The PEN America Dau Prize...

Author: Sindya Bhanoo ,  Aysegul Savas
ISBN: 9781646222353
Format: Paperback
$32.99

""Best Debut Short Stories celebrates the most promising short story writers today. Selected by a panel of distinguished...  Read More >>

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas

Author: Isobel Sigley ,  Whitney Standlee
ISBN: 9781032532363
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Selected Amazon Reviews

Selected Amazon Reviews

Author: Kevin Killian ,  Wayne Koestenbaum
ISBN: 9781635902181
Format: Hardback
$77.63

A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on...  Read More >>

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century...

Author: Edwin Frank
ISBN: 9781911717218
Format: Paperback
$36.99

""A notable editor's survey of the defining novels of the twentieth century""--  Read More >>

You're Not Alone in the Dark

You're Not Alone in the Dark

Author: Eugene Johnson ,  Eric J Guignard
ISBN: 9781587679988
Format: Paperback
$50.11

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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century...

Author: Edwin Frank
ISBN: 9781911717201
Format: Hardback
$59.99

""A notable editor's survey of the defining novels of the twentieth century""--  Read More >>

Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28

Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28

Author: Dorothy Parker ,  Sloane Crosley
ISBN: 9781961341258
Format: Paperback
$50.16

Dorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing.  Read More >>

Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and Me

Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and Me...

Author: Douglas Field
ISBN: 9781526175175
Format: Hardback
$38.99

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Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined Lives

Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured...

Author: Deborah Weiss
ISBN: 9781526175717
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This book argues that early Romantic-Period women novelists used female madness to critique patriarchal structures...  Read More >>

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535879910
Format: Hardback
$1473.78

""This series presents critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction. Each volume includes...  Read More >>

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535879903
Format: Hardback
$1473.78

""This series presents critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction. Each volume includes...  Read More >>

Specters, Monsters, and the Damned: Fantastic Threats to the Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction

Specters, Monsters, and the Damned: Fantastic Threats...

Author: Wan Sonya Tang
ISBN: 9780826507129
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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