Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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The Ethical Dimension of the 'Decameron'

The Ethical Dimension of the 'Decameron'

Author: Marilyn Migiel
ISBN: 9781442631885
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Marilyn Migiel returns to Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices...  Read More >>

Comics as History, Comics as Literature: Roles of the Comic Book in Scholarship, Society, and Entertainment

Comics as History, Comics as Literature: Roles of the...

Author: Annessa Ann Babic ,  Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoàng
ISBN: 9781611478525
Format: Paperback
$166.29

This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic...  Read More >>

Politics and Literature at the Turn of the Millennium

Politics and Literature at the Turn of the Millennium...

Author: Michael Keren
ISBN: 9781552387993
Format: Paperback
$62.70

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Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life

Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal,...

Author: Derek Ryan
ISBN: 9781474402347
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Derek Ryan demonstrates how materiality is theorised in Woolf's writings by focusing on the connections she makes...  Read More >>

Milosz and the Problem of Evil

Milosz and the Problem of Evil

Author: Lukasz Tischner ,  Stanley Bill
ISBN: 9780810131774
Format: Paperback
$100.32

While scholars have chronicled Czeslaw Milosz's engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment...  Read More >>

Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors

Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The...

Author: Doris Bargen
ISBN: 9780824851545
Format: Paperback
$211.20

Literary critiques of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century The Tale of Genji have often focused on the amorous adventures...  Read More >>

W. Adolphe Roberts, These Many Years: An Autobiography

W. Adolphe Roberts, These Many Years: An Autobiography...

Author: Peter Hulme
ISBN: 9789766405113
Format: Paperback
$80.30

W. Adolphe Roberts (1886-1962) was a prolific writer —poet, novelist, journalist, historian. As a political activist...  Read More >>

The Ecology of Finnegans Wake

The Ecology of Finnegans Wake

Author: Alison Lacivita
ISBN: 9780813060620
Format: Hardback
$133.10

This work defies the popular critical view of James Joyce as a thoroughly urban writer and demonstrates his consistent...  Read More >>

Milosz and the Problem of Evil

Milosz and the Problem of Evil

Author: Lukasz Tischner ,  Lukasz Tischner
ISBN: 9780810130821
Format: Hardback
$316.80

While scholars have chronicled Czeslaw Milosz's engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment...  Read More >>

Les Parisiennes de Paris

Les Parisiennes de Paris

Author: Theodore De Banville
ISBN: 9781910220733
Format: Paperback
$60.72

Les Parisiennes de Paris par Theodore de Banville. Theodore de Banville etait un poete, dramaturge et critique...  Read More >>

Herodotea: Studies on the Text of Herodotus

Herodotea: Studies on the Text of Herodotus

Author: N. G. Wilson (Fellow and Tutor in Classics (Emeritus), Fellow and Tutor in Classics (Emeritus), Lincoln College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199672868
Format: Hardback
$245.00

Written to accompany the new Oxford Classical Texts edition of the Histories, this volume takes account of discussion...  Read More >>

Serial Crime Fiction: Dying for More

Serial Crime Fiction: Dying for More

Author: Carolina Miranda ,  Jean Anderson
ISBN: 9781137483683
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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'Odour of Chrysanthemums' D H Lawrence: Text and Analysis

'Odour of Chrysanthemums' D H Lawrence: Text and Analysis...

Author: David Wheeler ,  D H Lawrence
ISBN: 9781517426507
Format: Paperback
$15.81

This book contains the complete text of Lawrence's famous short story followed by a 7,815 word analysis of the story...  Read More >>

Twisted Worlds

Twisted Worlds

Author: Deanna Anderson
ISBN: 9781530228669
Format: Paperback
$18.48

Formerly titled Retorta Mundis (Twisted Worlds) A curse handed down from the time of the Greek Gods upsets a woman's...  Read More >>

Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction

Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction

Author: M.C. Rintoul
ISBN: 9780415867658
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This Dictionary explores the identities of fictional people and places in over 1,000 English language novels and...  Read More >>

J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face to Face with Time

J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face to Face...

Author: David Attwell
ISBN: 9781925240610
Format: Paperback
$32.99

J. M. Coetzee—winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, twice winner of the Man Booker Prize—is one of the world’s...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to ‘Emma'

The Cambridge Companion to ‘Emma'

Author: Peter Sabor (McGill University, Montréal)
ISBN: 9781107082632
Format: Hardback
$201.83

This collection of essays on Jane Austen's Emma, her last novel published in her lifetime, offers both close readings...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony

Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony...

Author: Natasha Duquette ,  Elisabeth Lenckos
ISBN: 9781611462005
Format: Paperback
$75.95

This book presents Jane Austen as a self-conscious artist, a woman keenly aware that literature and aesthetics were...  Read More >>

The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television: Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture

The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television:...

Author: Kirk Boyle ,  Daniel Mrozowski
ISBN: 9781498520621
Format: Paperback
$150.00

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The Gospel According to the Novelist: Religious Scripture and Contemporary Fiction

The Gospel According to the Novelist: Religious Scripture...

Author: Dr Magdalena Maczynska (Marymount Manhattan College, USA)
ISBN: 9781780936239
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Why have so many prominent literary authors—from Philip Pullman and José Saramago to Michèle Roberts and Colm Tóibím—recently...  Read More >>

Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States: Written Discourse and the Experience of Depression

Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States: Written...

Author: Dr Zsófia Demjén (Lecturer (English Lang/App Linguistics), University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781474212663
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Focusing on the first journal in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, this book writes a convincing case for...  Read More >>

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