Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature, History, and Family

Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature,...

Author: Lindsay Diehl
ISBN: 9781771127288
Format: Paperback
$74.80

Examining a range of Chinese Canadian literature, this book incorporates elements of the author's own family story-her...  Read More >>

A Survey of Anglo-Indian Fiction

A Survey of Anglo-Indian Fiction

Author: Bhupal Singh
ISBN: 9781041251569
Format: Hardback
$217.32

It can be argued that Anglo-Indian fiction is a criticism of the life of the English in India, and of Indians before...  Read More >>

The Prophetic Voice: Jean Sulivan's Ongoing Relevance in France and Ireland

The Prophetic Voice: Jean Sulivan's Ongoing Relevance...

Author: Eamon Maher
ISBN: 9781803748573
Format: Paperback
$103.50

The Prophetic Voice gives an overview of Sulivan’s life and work, compares him to some of the great Catholic writers...  Read More >>

Spatial Modeling in David Foster Wallace's Short Stories

Spatial Modeling in David Foster Wallace's Short Stories...

Author: Maja Wojdyło
ISBN: 9783631942413
Format: Hardback
$98.32

Reading David Foster Wallace's short stories through the lens of spatiality, this book examines segmentation, zones,...  Read More >>

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Author: Laini Kavaloski
ISBN: 9781978830998
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Author: Meredith L. Goldsmith ,  Emily J. Orlando
ISBN: 9780813081373
Format: Paperback
$56.10

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Chinese Science Fiction in Translation and Its World Impact: Connecting Futures

Chinese Science Fiction in Translation and Its World...

Author: Yiqing Gu (Tongji University, China) ,  Yun Wu
ISBN: 9781041106265
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Gu, Wu and Moratto explore how Chinese Science Fiction transcends cultural and linguistic barriers with its unique...  Read More >>

Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf: Nature, Modernity and the Politics of Space

Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf: Nature, Modernity...

Author: Karina Jakubowicz (Adjunct Professor, department of English, Florida State University)
ISBN: 9781474494533
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens....  Read More >>

Exploring Contemporary Arabic Novels for Advanced Students of Arabic: Voices from the Arab Gulf Countries

Exploring Contemporary Arabic Novels for Advanced Students...

Author: Jonas Elbousty (Yale University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032687827
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Exploring Contemporary Arabic Novels for Advanced Students of Arabic offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary...  Read More >>

Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction

Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American...

Author: Laura B. McGrath
ISBN: 9780691256160
Format: Hardback
$54.99

A revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to today Middlemen...  Read More >>

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

Author: George Woodcock
ISBN: 9780921689485
Format: Paperback
$52.77

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

Living Fossils, Lost Worlds, Last Humans: The Science and Fiction of Population and Extinction

Living Fossils, Lost Worlds, Last Humans: The Science...

Author: Howard V Hendrix
ISBN: 9781476696324
Format: Paperback
$145.20

The narrative tropes of living fossils, lost worlds, and last humans have long foreshadowed the modern discourse...  Read More >>

Continuing to Look: Bruegel, Matisse, Leonardo, Manet, Constable, Turner

Continuing to Look: Bruegel, Matisse, Leonardo, Manet,...

Author: Robert Cumming ,  Gino Ballantyne
ISBN: 9780718898373
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Your experience of Slow Looking will deepen with Seeing is Believing as Robert encourages you to explore art through...  Read More >>

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

Author: John Brenkman
ISBN: 9780226849430
Format: Hardback
$303.60

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James’s late works through the lens of minimalism.   Henry James’s...  Read More >>

Arda Notebooks. The Best of I Quaderni di Arda

Arda Notebooks. The Best of I Quaderni di Arda

Author: Roberto Arduini ,  Claudio A Testi
ISBN: 9783905703559
Format: Paperback
$51.35

This volume brings together a selection of articles published in the Quaderni di Arda, edited by the Italian Association...  Read More >>

Continuing to Look: Bruegel, Matisse, Leonardo, Manet, Constable, Turner

Continuing to Look: Bruegel, Matisse, Leonardo, Manet,...

Author: Robert Cumming ,  Gino Ballantyne
ISBN: 9780718898342
Format: Hardback
$103.50

Your experience of Slow Looking will deepen with Seeing is Believing as Robert encourages you to explore art through...  Read More >>

Silence: A Literary History

Silence: A Literary History

Author: Kate McLoughlin (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192855626
Format: Hardback
$70.95

Silence: A Literary History traces silences over twelve centuries of English literature, from the solitary states...  Read More >>

Proximate Histories: Entangled Temporalities in Contemporary African Fiction

Proximate Histories: Entangled Temporalities in Contemporary...

Author: Russell West-Pavlov (University of Tübingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781041287070
Format: Paperback
$108.65

This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining...  Read More >>

Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction

Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction

Author: Grzegorz Maziarczyk ,  Joanna Klara Teske
ISBN: 9781032649344
Format: Paperback
$119.00

It is a collection of essays analysing works of contemporary fiction concerned with innovative models of the mind,...  Read More >>

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the...

Author: Rebecca Parks
ISBN: 9781535886772
Format: Hardback
$1116.72

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Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the...

Author: Rebecca Parks
ISBN: 9781535886789
Format: Hardback
$1116.72

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Proximate Histories: Entangled Temporalities in Contemporary African Fiction

Proximate Histories: Entangled Temporalities in Contemporary...

Author: Russell West-Pavlov (University of Tübingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781041283669
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining...  Read More >>

Perverse Attachments: Reading Fiction Around 1800

Perverse Attachments: Reading Fiction Around 1800

Author: Anastasia Eccles
ISBN: 9780226847375
Format: Hardback
$303.60

This new theory of reader response describes “perverse attachment,” or the powerful desire to intervene in a story,...  Read More >>

Judy Blume: A Life

Judy Blume: A Life

Author: Mark Oppenheimer
ISBN: 9781915590558
Format: Hardback
$64.69

The definitive, all-access biography of one of the world’s most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  Read More >>

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