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Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's ""The Hobbit""

Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's ""The Hobbit""

Author: Corey Olsen
ISBN: 9780544106635
Format: Paperback
$22.99

""An admirable and thought-provoking consideration of the underlying themes of The Hobbit, following the there-and-back-again...  Read More >>

Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic

Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic

Author: Christopher Prendergast
ISBN: 9780691155203
Format: Hardback
$89.99

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Vibratory Modernism

Vibratory Modernism

Author: A. Enns ,  S. Trower
ISBN: 9781137027245
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Vibratory Modernism...  Read More >>

Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study

Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary...

Author: Dr. Rita Sakr
ISBN: 9781623565015
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Establishes a two-way interpretive methodology between theory, history, and geography and the novel that serves...  Read More >>

Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Author: Dr Monica Germanà ,  Emily Horton (Brunel University, UK)
ISBN: 9781441105189
Format: Paperback
$54.99

In such novels as Hotel World and the Whitbread Prize winning The Accidental, Ali Smith has established herself...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Community: Nancy, Derrida, Morrison, and Menendez

The Ethics of Community: Nancy, Derrida, Morrison, and...

Author: Dr. Ana M. Luszczynska
ISBN: 9781623562847
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Demonstrates how an ethical component of Nancy's and Derrida's thought can be provocatively traced in the cultural...  Read More >>

Lyric Encounters: Essays on American Poetry From Lazarus and Frost to Ortiz Cofer and Alexie

Lyric Encounters: Essays on American Poetry From Lazarus...

Author: Professor Daniel Morris (Purdue University, USA)
ISBN: 9781441151568
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A new survey of twentieth-century U.S. poetry that places a special emphasis on poets who have put lyric poetry...  Read More >>

Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art

Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art

Author: Leo Bersani (Professor Emeritus of French, Professor Emeritus of French, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780199931514
Format: Paperback
$75.95

Oxford University Press published eminent literary critic Leo Bersani's first book, on Proust, in 1965, but the...  Read More >>

The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility

The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and...

Author: Margaret Homans
ISBN: 9780472118885
Format: Hardback
$197.87

How adoption and its literary representations shed new light on notions of value, origins, and identity  Read More >>

Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions to Servants and Other Works

Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation,...

Author: Jonathan Swift ,  Valerie Rumbold (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780521843263
Format: Hardback
$315.68

This volume of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, containing a fully annotated edition of Bickerstaff...  Read More >>

Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel

Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel...

Author: Anne DeWitt (Princeton University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9781107036178
Format: Hardback
$335.28

How did Victorian novelists including Eliot, Hardy and Wells respond to contemporary men of science who aligned...  Read More >>

Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Author: Paddy Bullard (University of Kent, Canterbury) ,  James McLaverty (Keele University)
ISBN: 9781107016262
Format: Hardback
$335.28

This collection of essays addresses the relationship between Swift and the world of commercial print, and in so...  Read More >>

Sarah Waters: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Sarah Waters: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Author: Dr Kaye Mitchell (University of Manchester, Manchester)
ISBN: 9781441180841
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Leading scholars explore the work of Sarah Waters from a full range of critical perspectives. Includes a new interview...  Read More >>

Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Author: Dr Monica Germanà ,  Emily Horton (Brunel University, UK)
ISBN: 9781441157607
Format: Hardback
$200.00

In such novels as Hotel World and the Whitbread Prize winning The Accidental, Ali Smith has established herself...  Read More >>

Lyric Encounters: Essays on American Poetry From Lazarus and Frost to Ortiz Cofer and Alexie

Lyric Encounters: Essays on American Poetry From Lazarus...

Author: Professor Daniel Morris (Purdue University, USA)
ISBN: 9781441194428
Format: Hardback
$240.00

A new survey of twentieth-century U.S. poetry that places a special emphasis on poets who have put lyric poetry...  Read More >>

Salman Rushdie: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Salman Rushdie: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Author: Professor Robert Eaglestone ,  Martin McQuillan (Professor and Dean, Kingston University, UK)
ISBN: 9781441135018
Format: Hardback
$190.00

New critical perspectives on Salman Rushdie's fiction and non-fiction by leading scholars.  Read More >>

Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice

Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice

Author: Douglas Kerr (Professor in the School of English, Professor in the School of English, University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780199674947
Format: Hardback
$160.95

Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice approaches Conan Doyle's writing in terms of themes such as sport,...  Read More >>

At the Limits of Art: A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi

At the Limits of Art: A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides'...

Author: Janet Downie (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780199924875
Format: Hardback
$195.95

At the Limits of Art investigates the literary aspirations of Aelius Aristides' puzzling dream-memoir of illness...  Read More >>

Poetogenesis: Funktionalisierung von Wissen zur Konstruktion und Verhandlung von 'Leben' in der deutschsprachigen Literatur (1996-2007)

Poetogenesis: Funktionalisierung von Wissen zur Konstruktion...

Author: Stefan Halft
ISBN: 9783110302189
Format: Hardback
$205.83

DieseStudie macht verschiedene Zugange zum Komplex 'Literatur und Wissen' fur die literaturanthropologische Forschung...  Read More >>

Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels

Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great...

Author: Richard Locke
ISBN: 9780231157834
Format: Paperback
$52.95

The ten novels explored in Critical Children portray children so vividly that their names are instantly recognizable....  Read More >>

Parabolas of Science Fiction

Parabolas of Science Fiction

Author: Brian Attebery ,  Veronica Hollinger
ISBN: 9780819573674
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Essays about the inherently collaborative nature of science fiction  Read More >>

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