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Richardson and the Philosophes

Richardson and the Philosophes

Author: James Fowler
ISBN: 9781909662117
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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The ARC and the Machine: Narrative and New Media

The ARC and the Machine: Narrative and New Media

Author: Caroline Bassett ,  Bethan Hirst
ISBN: 9780719073434
Format: Paperback
$38.99

The Arc and the machine is an important and timely book. It insists on the centrality of narrative to informational...  Read More >>

Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick

Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick...

Author: Daniel Herman
ISBN: 9781611461565
Format: Hardback
$129.95

Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick examines how Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick may have been...  Read More >>

Cosmopolitanism and Place: Spatial Forms in Contemporary Anglophone Literature

Cosmopolitanism and Place: Spatial Forms in Contemporary...

Author: E. Johansen
ISBN: 9781137402660
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Cosmopolitanism and Place considers the way contemporary Anglophone fiction connects global identities with the...  Read More >>

Living Fiction: Reading the British Novel from Daniel Defoe to Julian Barnes

Living Fiction: Reading the British Novel from Daniel...

Author: William Hutchings
ISBN: 9781137298348
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Analysing a wide range of extracts from key works of British fiction from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century,...  Read More >>

Noon at Five O'Clock: The Short Stories of Arthur Yap

Noon at Five O'Clock: The Short Stories of Arthur Yap...

Author: Angus Whitehead
ISBN: 9789971697914
Format: Paperback
$31.90

A schoolboy time travels in a strange old shop house. A child with Down's Syndrome is run over chasing a balloon...  Read More >>

Antjie Krog: An Ethics of Body and Otherness

Antjie Krog: An Ethics of Body and Otherness

Author: Judith Lütge Coullie ,  Andries Visagie
ISBN: 9781869142537
Format: Paperback
$66.00

In this volume, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the many facets of Krog’s work. Essays focus on identity,...  Read More >>

Edith Bruck in the Mirror: Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives

Edith Bruck in the Mirror: Fictional Transitions and...

Author: Philip Balma
ISBN: 9781557536877
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This important new study is motivated by a desire to better understand and situate Bruck’s art as well as to advance...  Read More >>

Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain

Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and...

Author: Sara J. Brenneis
ISBN: 9781557536785
Format: Paperback
$104.00

While providing an up-to-date context for scholarly debates about Spain’s historical memory, Genre Fusion also expands...  Read More >>

The Musical Novel: Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction

The Musical Novel: Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance,...

Author: Emily Petermann
ISBN: 9781571135926
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Analyzes two groups of ""musical novels"" -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including...  Read More >>

The Foreigner: A Tale of Saskatchewan

The Foreigner: A Tale of Saskatchewan

Author: Ralph Connor ,  Daniel Coleman
ISBN: 9781554589449
Format: Paperback
$48.40

Tells the story of Kalman Kalmar, a young Ukrainian immigrant working in rural Saskatchewan. The book addresses...  Read More >>

Letters to J. D. Salinger

Letters to J. D. Salinger

Author: Chris Kubica ,  Will Hochman
ISBN: 9780299178048
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Despite J. D. Salinger’s many silences—from the publication of The Catcher in the Rye to his absence from the public...  Read More >>

Understanding Michael Chabon

Understanding Michael Chabon

Author: Joseph Dewey
ISBN: 9781611173390
Format: Hardback
$68.20

An exploration of Chabon's career-long fascination with the consolations--and dangers--of the imagination  Read More >>

Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground

Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground

Author: Elizabeth A. Blake
ISBN: 9780810129573
Format: Hardback
$261.36

While Dostoevsky's relation to religion is well-trod ground, there exists no comprehensive study of Dostoevsky and...  Read More >>

Memory Ireland: Volume 4: James Joyce and Cultural Memory

Memory Ireland: Volume 4: James Joyce and Cultural Memory...

Author: Oona Frawley ,  Katherine O’Callaghan
ISBN: 9780815633525
Format: Hardback
$80.30

In the fourth and final volume of the Memory Ireland series, Frawley and O’Callaghan explore the manifestations...  Read More >>

Joseph Conrad and the Anxiety of Knowledge

Joseph Conrad and the Anxiety of Knowledge

Author: William Freedman
ISBN: 9781611173062
Format: Hardback
$97.90

An alternate view of the perplexing and often contradictory fiction of an elusive author  Read More >>

Conversations with Ken Kesey

Conversations with Ken Kesey

Author: Scott F. Parker ,  Scott F Parker (USA)
ISBN: 9781617039706
Format: Hardback
$194.70

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Conversations with William Gibson

Conversations with William Gibson

Author: Patrick A. Smith
ISBN: 9781628460155
Format: Hardback
$194.70

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Faulkner and Mystery

Faulkner and Mystery

Author: Annette Trefzer ,  Ann J. Abadie
ISBN: 9781628460292
Format: Hardback
$194.70

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All-American Redneck: Variations on an Icon, from James Fenimore Cooper to the Dixie Chicks

All-American Redneck: Variations on an Icon, from James...

Author: Matthew J. Ferrence
ISBN: 9781621900078
Format: Hardback
$134.64

In contemporary culture, the stereotypical trappings of “redneckism” have been appropriated for everything from...  Read More >>

Peruvian Short Stories

Peruvian Short Stories

Author: Dorila A Marting
ISBN: 9781493199624
Format: Paperback
$190.05

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Human Nature in Gregory of Nyssa: Philosophical Background and Theological Significance

Human Nature in Gregory of Nyssa: Philosophical Background...

Author: Johannes Zachhuber
ISBN: 9789004274181
Format: Paperback
$161.04

This study in the thought of Gregory of Nyssa seeks to demonstrate in what sense and to what extent the philosophical...  Read More >>

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture: Static Heroes, Social Movements and Empowerment

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture:...

Author: Ana Manzanas (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain) ,  Jesús Benito Sanchez (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain)
ISBN: 9780415727525
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways...  Read More >>

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