Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing: A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own

Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris...

Author: S. Jansen
ISBN: 9781137386229
Format: Paperback
$116.41

In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private...  Read More >>

Assembling Flann O'Brien

Assembling Flann O'Brien

Author: Dr Maebh Long
ISBN: 9781441187055
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Winner of the International Flann O'Brien Society Award for Best Book-Length Study 2014 Flann O’Brien - also known...  Read More >>

Jolly Good Detecting: Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age

Jolly Good Detecting: Humor in English Crime Fiction...

Author: Bruce Shaw
ISBN: 9780786478866
Format: Paperback
$71.50

""This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humor in English detective/crime fiction,...  Read More >>

Mathematical Practices, Mathematics for Teachers: Activities, Models, and Real-Life Examples

Mathematical Practices, Mathematics for Teachers: Activities,...

Author: Ron Larson (The Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College) ,  Robyn Silbey
ISBN: 9781285447100
Format: Hardback
$686.27

Helps students aspire to be the best educators they can be. This book includes Classroom Activities integrated into...  Read More >>

Vasconselos: A Romance of the New World

Vasconselos: A Romance of the New World

Author: Kevin Collins ,  Jim West
ISBN: 9781557286437
Format: Paperback
$75.90

Presents a fictionalized account of one of the first European efforts to settle the land that would become the United...  Read More >>

Complete Journalism: Articles, Book Reviews, and Manuscripts

Complete Journalism: Articles, Book Reviews, and Manuscripts...

Author: James Agee ,  Paul Ashdown
ISBN: 9781572339941
Format: Hardback
$237.60

In addition to producing such distinguished literary works as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and A Death in the Family,...  Read More >>

Conversations with Edna O'Brien

Conversations with Edna O'Brien

Author: Alice Hughes Kersnowski
ISBN: 9781617038723
Format: Hardback
$194.70

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Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction: A Critical Study

Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction: A Critical Study

Author: Sophie Gilmartin ,  Rod Mengham (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780748691173
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Presents a critical study of Thomas Hardy's short stories. This title provides a thorough account of the ruling...  Read More >>

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Author: Rafeeq O. McGiveron
ISBN: 9781619252240
Format: Hardback
$277.20

This volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. A...  Read More >>

What Makes This Book So Great

What Makes This Book So Great

Author: Jo Walton
ISBN: 9780765331939
Format: Hardback
$71.25

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The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come: Women Writing Fantastic Fiction, 1960s to the Present

The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come:...

Author: Lauren J. Lacey ,  Donald E. Palumbo
ISBN: 9780786478262
Format: Paperback
$43.95

This book explores how contemporary fantastic fiction by women writers responds to the past and imagines the future....  Read More >>

Imagination and the Contemporary Novel

Imagination and the Contemporary Novel

Author: John J. Su (Marquette University, Wisconsin)
ISBN: 9781107645974
Format: Paperback
$103.47

John Su explores literary responses from across the Anglophone world to the profound economic, social and political...  Read More >>

The Metaphysics of Detective Marlowe: Style, Vision, Hard-Boiled Repartee, Thugs, and Death-Dealing Damsels in Raymond Chandler’s Novels

The Metaphysics of Detective Marlowe: Style, Vision,...

Author: Mircea Mihaies
ISBN: 9780739186572
Format: Hardback
$142.95

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Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos

Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos

Author: Professor Donald Pizer
ISBN: 9781623561185
Format: Paperback
$69.99

A new appraisal of Dos Passos's work and life, Toward a Modernist Style describes both the central currents in...  Read More >>

Dr Johnson and the Law

Dr Johnson and the Law

Author: Arnold McNair
ISBN: 9781107631342
Format: Paperback
$139.92

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De Imperio: An Extract 27-45

De Imperio: An Extract 27-45

Author: Katharine Radice (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Cicero
ISBN: 9781472511171
Format: Paperback
$39.99

De Imperio Cn. Pompeii (in support of Pompey), or Pro Lege Manilia, (in favour of the Manilian law) was Cicero’s...  Read More >>

Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards

Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards...

Author: Samuel Richardson ,  David E. Shuttleton (University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9780521822855
Format: Hardback
$346.73

The first scholarly edition, with full introduction and annotations, of the influential author Samuel Richardson's...  Read More >>

Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos

Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos

Author: Professor Donald Pizer
ISBN: 9781623564438
Format: Hardback
$280.00

A new appraisal of Dos Passos's work and life, Toward a Modernist Style describes both the central currents in...  Read More >>

Narratives of Diaspora: Representations of Asia in Chinese American Literature

Narratives of Diaspora: Representations of Asia in Chinese...

Author: W. Lim
ISBN: 9780230340060
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Chinese American authors often find it necessary to represent Asian history in their literary works. Tracing the...  Read More >>

Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century

Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First...

Author: Caren Irr (Brandeis University)
ISBN: 9780231164405
Format: Hardback
$182.95

Caren Irr's survey of more than 125 novels outlines the dramatic resurgence of the American political novel in the...  Read More >>

Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom

Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom

Author: Luc Herman ,  Steven Weisenburger
ISBN: 9780820345956
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Herman and Weisenburger put the novel’s abiding questions about freedom in context with sixties struggles against...  Read More >>

Decadent Literature in Twentieth-Century Japan

Decadent Literature in Twentieth-Century Japan

Author: I. Amano
ISBN: 9781137382573
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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