Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Liminality and the Short Story: Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Writing

Liminality and the Short Story: Boundary Crossings in...

Author: Jochen Achilles ,  Ina Bergmann
ISBN: 9780415738910
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book is a study of the short story, one of the widest taught genres in English literature, from an innovative...  Read More >>

The Creation of the Cowboy Hero: Fiction, Film and Fact

The Creation of the Cowboy Hero: Fiction, Film and Fact...

Author: Jeremy Agnew
ISBN: 9780786478392
Format: Paperback
$43.95

""As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created a compelling...  Read More >>

Reading Across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference

Reading Across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and...

Author: J. Procter ,  B. Benwell
ISBN: 9781137276391
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary...  Read More >>

The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature

The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in...

Author: Abir Hamdar
ISBN: 9780815633655
Format: Hardback
$53.90

Examines the absence of representations of female illness in Arab literature, exploring how both literary and cultural...  Read More >>

Yosef Haim Brenner: A Life

Yosef Haim Brenner: A Life

Author: Anita Shapira ,  Anthony Berris
ISBN: 9780804785273
Format: Hardback
$152.95

""Originally published in Hebrew in 2008 under the title Brenner: Sippur hayim.""  Read More >>

Contemporary British Literature and Urban Space: After Thatcher

Contemporary British Literature and Urban Space: After...

Author: K. Duff
ISBN: 9781137429346
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines...  Read More >>

Understanding Dave Eggers

Understanding Dave Eggers

Author: Timothy W. Galow
ISBN: 9781611174274
Format: Hardback
$65.97

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Index of Middle English Prose: Index to Volumes I to XX

Index of Middle English Prose: Index to Volumes I to...

Author: Kari Anne Rand
ISBN: 9781843843832
Format: Hardback
$633.60

This volume provides a combined index to the first 20 volumes of Index of Middle English Prose. In the absence of...  Read More >>

The Canadian Fantastic in Focus: New Perspectives

The Canadian Fantastic in Focus: New Perspectives

Author: Allan Weiss
ISBN: 9780786495924
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Bringing together papers presented at the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy from 2005...  Read More >>

Ken Follett and the Triumph of Suspense: A Popular Writer Transcends Genres

Ken Follett and the Triumph of Suspense: A Popular Writer...

Author: Carlos Ramet
ISBN: 9780786495986
Format: Paperback
$71.50

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The Midwestern Novel: Literary Populism from Huckleberry Finn to the Present

The Midwestern Novel: Literary Populism from Huckleberry...

Author: Nancy L. Bunge
ISBN: 9780786494354
Format: Paperback
$43.95

With Huckleberry Finn, American fiction changed radically and shifted its setting to the middle of the country....  Read More >>

The Waves

The Waves

Author: Virginia Woolf ,  David Bradshaw (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199642922
Format: Paperback
$18.95

Regarded by many as Woolf's greatest achievement, The Waves follows a set of six friends from childhood to middle...  Read More >>

Westeros: Il Trono di Spade dal romanzo alla realta

Westeros: Il Trono di Spade dal romanzo alla realta...

Author: Luigi Toto ,  Fabiola Cannata
ISBN: 9788898891108
Format: Paperback
$31.26

Il Trono di Spade e il fenomeno fantasy degli ultimi anni che conta milioni di appassionati in tutto il mondo. Per...  Read More >>

Orlando

Orlando

Author: Virginia Woolf ,  Michael H. Whitworth (Merton College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199650736
Format: Paperback
$18.95

Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through history first as a man, then as a woman....  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales

The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales

Author: Maria Tatar (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781107634879
Format: Paperback
$64.69

A lively account of the historical origins, evolution, dissemination and influence of some of the simplest and most...  Read More >>

A Conrad Chronology

A Conrad Chronology

Author: O. Knowles
ISBN: 9781137452382
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway

Author: Virginia Woolf ,  Anne E. Fernald (Fordham University, New York)
ISBN: 9781107028784
Format: Hardback
$331.20

This edition of Mrs Dalloway includes substantial explanatory notes compiling past scholarship while identifying...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales

The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales

Author: Maria Tatar (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781107031012
Format: Hardback
$201.83

A lively account of the historical origins, evolution, dissemination and influence of some of the simplest and most...  Read More >>

Mechademia 9: Origins

Mechademia 9: Origins

Author: Frenchy Lunning
ISBN: 9780816695355
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Nido de Avispas

Nido de Avispas

Author: Agatha Christie ,  Malkiel Rubin
ISBN: 9781505672510
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Nido de Avispas de Agatha Christie Una tarde sentado en la terraza del jardin de su casa John Harrison recibe a...  Read More >>

Memoirs of a Cavalier

Memoirs of a Cavalier

Author: Daniel Defoe ,  Elizabeth O'Neill
ISBN: 9781107451001
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Originally published in 1908 as part of the English Literature for Schools series, this book contains the 1922 reprint...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Cats: The Complete Sonnets for the Literary Cat-Lover

Shakespeare's Cats: The Complete Sonnets for the Literary...

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Maria Llorens
ISBN: 9781633530270
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Join a band of curious cats for an adorable reading of William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets.  Read More >>

Powers of Possibility: Experimental American Writing since the 1960s

Powers of Possibility: Experimental American Writing...

Author: Alex Houen (University Lecturer in Modern Literature, and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780198719922
Format: Paperback
$124.95

By outlining a novel concept of literary practice, 'potentialism', this book shows how opening up literary possibilities...  Read More >>

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