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Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel

Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time,...

Author: Gary Saul Morson
ISBN: 9781618118097
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Develops the concept of """"prosaics"""", which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique...  Read More >>

Chapaev and his Comrades: War and the Russian Literary Hero Across the Twentieth Century

Chapaev and his Comrades: War and the Russian Literary...

Author: Angela Brintlinger
ISBN: 9781618118226
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Across the twentieth century, war was the experience of the Russian people, and it became a dominant trope to represent...  Read More >>

Silent Love: The Annotation and Interpretation of Nabokov's ""The Real Life of Sebastian Knight""

Silent Love: The Annotation and Interpretation of Nabokov's...

Author: Gerard Vries
ISBN: 9781618118332
Format: Paperback
$47.99

In this study the numerous literary and autobiographical allusions in Nabokov's novel are annotated and analyzed,...  Read More >>

The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien

The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien

Author: Flann O'Brien ,  Maebh Long
ISBN: 9781628971835
Format: Paperback
$68.64

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The Phony Reformer: Greed, Status, and Patronage in Late Qing China

The Phony Reformer: Greed, Status, and Patronage in...

Author: Luke S. K. Kwong
ISBN: 9781538112397
Format: Hardback
$158.00

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Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

Author: Gary Westfahl
ISBN: 9780252083594
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Already renowned for his science fiction and scientific nonfiction, Arthur C. Clarke became the world's most famous...  Read More >>

Persuasion

Persuasion

Author: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780008296476
Format: Paperback
$9.99

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Borges' Classics: Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman Past

Borges' Classics: Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman...

Author: Laura Jansen (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781108418409
Format: Hardback
$335.28

Reads the oeuvre of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges as a radically globalized model for reimagining our relationship...  Read More >>

Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century

Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century...

Author: Katrina O'Loughlin (University of Western Australia, Perth)
ISBN: 9781107088528
Format: Hardback
$335.28

A wide-ranging study of women's travel writing between 1714 and 1789, including the writings of elite women on sensitive...  Read More >>

The Value of Style in Fiction

The Value of Style in Fiction

Author: Garrett Stewart (University of Iowa)
ISBN: 9781107193857
Format: Hardback
$147.84

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The Brontës Treasury

The Brontës Treasury

Author: Jane O'Neill
ISBN: 9780233005546
Format: Hardback
$39.47

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The Cyberpunk Nexus: Exploring the Blade Runner Universe

The Cyberpunk Nexus: Exploring the Blade Runner Universe...

Author: Joe Bongiorno ,  Jean-Francois Boivin
ISBN: 9781940589183
Format: Paperback
$52.77

In 1982, a new benchmark was set for science-fiction film with the release of Blade Runner. Based on the book Do...  Read More >>

The Politics of 1930s British Literature: Education, Class, Gender

The Politics of 1930s British Literature: Education,...

Author: University of St. Andrews, UK Natasha Periyan (Falmouth University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350019843
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Winner of the 2018 International Standing Conference for the History of Education’s First Book Award Drawing on...  Read More >>

Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll

Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and...

Author: Florence Dore
ISBN: 9780231185233
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Novel Sounds shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies—tape, radio, vinyl—to develop...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature: Texts, Territories, Globalizations

Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature:...

Author: Baidik Bhattacharya
ISBN: 9781138559950
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book explores the debates surrounding postcolonial studies & world literature. It asserts that as an analytical...  Read More >>

Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll

Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and...

Author: Florence Dore
ISBN: 9780231185226
Format: Hardback
$165.95

Novel Sounds shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies—tape, radio, vinyl—to develop...  Read More >>

The Radical Enlightenment in Germany: A Cultural Perspective

The Radical Enlightenment in Germany: A Cultural Perspective...

Author: Carl Niekerk
ISBN: 9789004362192
Format: Hardback
$403.92

This volume investigates the impact of Radical Enlightenment thought on German culture during the eighteenth century....  Read More >>

The Mythology of Tourism: The Works of Sir Walter Scott and the Development of Tourism in Scotland

The Mythology of Tourism: The Works of Sir Walter Scott...

Author: Klaus Peter Müller ,  Lingwei Meng
ISBN: 9783631756201
Format: Hardback
$200.66

Scott’s influence on Scottish tourism is widely discussed. However, only a few scholars have provided a holistic...  Read More >>

Popular Genres and Their Uses in Fiction

Popular Genres and Their Uses in Fiction

Author: Marek Wilczynski ,  Jadwiga Węgrodzka
ISBN: 9783631677117
Format: Hardback
$151.24

The book focuses on popular genres of romance, fantasy, science fiction, dystopia, thriller, and What-if historical...  Read More >>

America's Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King

America's Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination...

Author: Douglas E. Cowan
ISBN: 9781479894734
Format: Hardback
$64.99

Illuminating the religious and existential themes in Stephen King's horror stories Who are we? Why are we here?...  Read More >>

Mysterious Tales From Turton Tower

Mysterious Tales From Turton Tower

Author: Peter Stuart Farley
ISBN: 9780993282447
Format: Paperback
$35.64

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Celebration: Anniecat Chronicles Ii

Celebration: Anniecat Chronicles Ii

Author: Joan Rust
ISBN: 9781984532909
Format: Paperback
$36.10

...the splendid humor and devotion to narrrative of the popular Anniecat Chronicles in a new book by Joan Rust,...  Read More >>

The Smart Core Manifesto: Speculative Fiction In The Universe We Perceive

The Smart Core Manifesto: Speculative Fiction In The...

Author: Robert Maas
ISBN: 9781983360053
Format: Paperback
$34.29

"""There is no definition of science fiction that excludes fantasy, other than prescriptive definitions so narrow...  Read More >>

Mark X: Who Killed Huck Finn’s Father?

Mark X: Who Killed Huck Finn’s Father?

Author: Yasuhiro Takeuchi
ISBN: 9781138616752
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The key to the mystery of Twain’s writings, as this book contends from a broader perspective, is also such an absence....  Read More >>

Die Geschichte Des Kriminalromans: Entstehung, Gattung Und Autoren

Die Geschichte Des Kriminalromans: Entstehung, Gattung...

Author: Andrea F
ISBN: 9781722277529
Format: Paperback
$30.36

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