Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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The Life of Herod the Great

The Life of Herod the Great

Author: Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9780008732745
Format: Paperback
$22.99

'The Life of Herod The Great – like Hurston herself – is a masterpiece, a miracle, and a marvel. In other words,...  Read More >>

The Color of Paper: Representing Race in the Comics Medium

The Color of Paper: Representing Race in the Comics...

Author: Chris Gavaler
ISBN: 9780814216040
Format: Hardback
$343.07

Analyzes the technical elements of racial representation in comics, demonstrating that the ink-on-paper materiality...  Read More >>

Heart Sick (Discreet Cover)

Heart Sick (Discreet Cover)

Author: Monica James
ISBN: 9781764477352
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Piano has always been my one true love. So when the music stops, I do whatever I can to hear it again. But...  Read More >>

Love Sick (Discreet Cover)

Love Sick (Discreet Cover)

Author: Monica James
ISBN: 9781764477369
Format: Paperback
$92.40

All I want is revenge. But I'm afraid it will destroy me because I'm not a monster. Or maybe I am. And...  Read More >>

Monstrosity, Alienation and Impossibility of Communication in J. M. Coetzee's Novels

Monstrosity, Alienation and Impossibility of Communication...

Author: Roohollah Datli Beigi ,  Pyeaam Abbasi
ISBN: 9783034354103
Format: Hardback
$237.47

In Monstrosity, Alienation and Impossibility of Communication in J. M. Coetzee's Novels, readers embark on a profound...  Read More >>

George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: A Critical Companion

George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: A Critical...

Author: Joseph Rex Young
ISBN: 9783032080226
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book provides a brief scholarly introduction to A Game of Thrones, the first volume of George R. R. Martin's...  Read More >>

African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing

African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism...

Author: Katherine Hallemeier (Associate Professor in the Department of English, Oklahoma State University)
ISBN: 9781399516174
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Demonstrates how African literature grapples with the enforced optimism of US empire that circulates in postcolonial...  Read More >>

Dissident Gut: Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt

Dissident Gut: Technologies of Regularity, Politics...

Author: Jean Walton (Professor Emerita in the Department of English, University of Rhode Island)
ISBN: 9781399532938
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

Borges Between Singularity and Sovereignty

Borges Between Singularity and Sovereignty

Author: Kate Jenckes (Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9798855805406
Format: Hardback
$316.80

A fresh look at how Borges's most celebrated stories critique various forms of sovereignty, from philosophical ideals...  Read More >>

Italian/American Fantastika: Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction from Pinocchio to Star Trek

Italian/American Fantastika: Fantasy, Horror, and Science...

Author: Marc DiPaolo (Assistant Professor of Humanities, Moraine Valley Community College) ,  Anthony Lioi (The Juilliard School)
ISBN: 9798855805635
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Delves into Italian contributions to these genres and what those contributions mean to global Italian cultural and...  Read More >>

Divine Representations: The Rise of the Mystical Novel in Twentieth-Century England

Divine Representations: The Rise of the Mystical Novel...

Author: Carla A. Arnell (Professor of English, Lake Forest College)
ISBN: 9798855805321
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Explores how Edwardian era writers used the mystical novel as a way to represent transcendent experiences within...  Read More >>

Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film

Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment and Vulnerability...

Author: Usha Vishnuvajjala
ISBN: 9781802704433
Format: Paperback
$100.19

This book examines feminist textual and cinematic engagements with the idea of the Middle Ages in the 19th and 20th...  Read More >>

Hannibal Lecter: A Life

Hannibal Lecter: A Life

Author: Brian Raftery ,  Brian Raftery
ISBN: 9781668116265
Format: Audio
$105.57

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Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion

Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf:...

Author: Marit Grøtta (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Oslo)
ISBN: 9781399526999
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers  Read More >>

J. M. Coetzee's Politics of Life and Late Modernism in the Contemporary Novel

J. M. Coetzee's Politics of Life and Late Modernism...

Author: Marc Farrant (Lecturer in English Literature, University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781399507790
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Argues that J. M. Coetzee's works constitute a form of late modernism that situates life at the heart of questions...  Read More >>

Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel: From Telepathy to the Network Novel

Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British...

Author: Mark Taylor
ISBN: 9781399524490
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Author: Sara Crangle (Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781399524339
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894

The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing,...

Author: Louis Kirk McAuley (Associate Professor in the Department of English, Washington State University)
ISBN: 9781399527156
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Advances our understanding of the literary legacy of contemporary ecological crises to investigate the interfaces...  Read More >>

Imprinted: A Social History of Caribbean Reading

Imprinted: A Social History of Caribbean Reading

Author: Schuyler Esprit
ISBN: 9781739130336
Format: Paperback
$33.61

'Imprinted' is a history of reading and the development of a literary culture in the Caribbean. It explores the...  Read More >>

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