Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Frecuencia Paranormal

Frecuencia Paranormal

Author: Salva Valero
ISBN: 9781539900184
Format: Paperback
$41.74

¿Existe el más allá?, ¿pueden los muertos regresar para comunicarse con nosotros?, ¿son reales las leyendas urbanas...  Read More >>

Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace

Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary...

Author: Jeremy Rosen
ISBN: 9780231177443
Format: Hardback
$107.95

Jeremy Rosen traces the recent surge books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the...  Read More >>

Violence de l'interprétation (XVIe-XVIIe s.): Le texte devant l'inquisition

Violence de l'interprétation (XVIe-XVIIe s.): Le texte...

Author: Anne Duprat
ISBN: 9789004328822
Format: Hardback
$343.20

This collective essay examines the violence, both present and past, inherent in the act of interpreting texts produced...  Read More >>

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the...

Author: Helena Feder
ISBN: 9781138249851
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Arguing that the Bildungsroman is humanist culture's own origin story, Feder draws on the work of biologists in...  Read More >>

Conversations with William Gibson

Conversations with William Gibson

Author: Patrick A. Smith
ISBN: 9781496809681
Format: Paperback
$53.90

Interviews with the author of Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History  Read More >>

'Inspiring a Mysterious Terror': 200 Years of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

'Inspiring a Mysterious Terror': 200 Years of Joseph...

Author: Eamon Maher ,  Jarlath Killeen
ISBN: 9783034322232
Format: Paperback
$127.56

To mark the bicentenary of Sheridan Le Fanu’s birth, this collection brings together established scholars and emerging...  Read More >>

American Imperialism's Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism

American Imperialism's Undead: The Occupation of Haiti...

Author: Raphael Dalleo
ISBN: 9780813938943
Format: Paperback
$72.60

Without acknowledging the significance of the occupation of Haiti, our understanding of Atlantic history cannot...  Read More >>

Bernard Malamud: A Centennial Tribute

Bernard Malamud: A Centennial Tribute

Author: Victoria Aarons ,  Gustavo Sánchez Canales
ISBN: 9780814341148
Format: Paperback
$63.80

A fresh and engaging international tribute to Bernard Malamud, a major American Jewish novelist in the postwar era...  Read More >>

Key West Hemingway: A Reassessment

Key West Hemingway: A Reassessment

Author: Kirk Curnutt ,  Gail D. Sinclair
ISBN: 9780813062365
Format: Paperback
$53.90

Conventional wisdom holds that Hemingway's Key West years were among his least productive, and many are dismissive...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen 

Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen 

Author: Jacquelyn Y. McLendon
ISBN: 9781603292207
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Nella Larsen’s novels Quicksand and Passing, published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, fell out of print...  Read More >>

Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America

Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin...

Author: Ilan Stavans
ISBN: 9780826354952
Format: Paperback
$62.70

Jewish identity and magical realism are the themes of the tales of adventure and cultural alienation collected here...  Read More >>

Understanding Susan Sontag

Understanding Susan Sontag

Author: Carl Rollyson
ISBN: 9781611176803
Format: Hardback
$303.57

With the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic...  Read More >>

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Author: Thomas Horan
ISBN: 9781682171189
Format: Hardback
$277.20

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Ambrose Bierce and the Period of Honorable Strife: The Civil War and the Emergence of an American Writer

Ambrose Bierce and the Period of Honorable Strife: The...

Author: Christopher K. Coleman
ISBN: 9781621901792
Format: Hardback
$131.87

In the spring of 1861, Ambrose Bierce, just shy of nineteen, became Private Bierce of the Ninth Indiana Volunteer...  Read More >>

Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible

Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible

Author: Georgina Colby
ISBN: 9780748683505
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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The Many Voices of Lydia Davis: Translation, Rewriting, Intertextuality

The Many Voices of Lydia Davis: Translation, Rewriting,...

Author: Jonathan Evans
ISBN: 9781474400176
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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Katherine Mansfield and Psychology

Katherine Mansfield and Psychology

Author: Gerri Kimber ,  Todd Martin
ISBN: 9781474417532
Format: Hardback
$245.81

In line with the recent surge of critical interest in early psychology, the contributors of this volumeread Mansfield's...  Read More >>

American Imperialism's Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism

American Imperialism's Undead: The Occupation of Haiti...

Author: Raphael Dalleo
ISBN: 9780813938936
Format: Hardback
$152.90

Without acknowledging the significance of the occupation of Haiti, our understanding of Atlantic history cannot...  Read More >>

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Author: Meredith L. Goldsmith ,  Emily J. Orlando
ISBN: 9780813062815
Format: Hardback
$141.90

Hailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of privileged Americans, Edith...  Read More >>

Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art

Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early...

Author: Philipp Schweighauser
ISBN: 9780813939032
Format: Hardback
$92.40

The art of the early US republic abounds in representations of deception. Yet, as Philipp Schweighauser points out...  Read More >>

Margaret Garner: The Premiere Performances of Toni Morrison's Libretto

Margaret Garner: The Premiere Performances of Toni Morrison's...

Author: La Vinia Delois Jennings ,  Denyce Graves
ISBN: 9780813938677
Format: Hardback
$101.20

Their essays position her libretto within the African American...  Read More >>

Cormac McCarthy's Literary Evolution: Editors, Agents, and the Crafting of a Prolific American Author

Cormac McCarthy's Literary Evolution: Editors, Agents,...

Author: Daniel Robert King
ISBN: 9781621902478
Format: Hardback
$110.88

Traces Cormac McCarthy’s journey from cult figure to literary icon. Drawing extensively on McCarthy’s papers and...  Read More >>

The Hobbit

The Hobbit

Author: Mildred R. Mickle
ISBN: 9781682171202
Format: Hardback
$185.90

In-depth critical discussions of J.R.R. Tolkien's novel - Plus complimentary, unlimited online access to the full...  Read More >>

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