Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Writing in Colonial India

Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative...

Author: Dr Mayurika Chakravorty (Instructor, Department of English, Carleton University, Carleton University, Canada) ,  Senior Lecturer Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow UK)
ISBN: 9781350401396
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A study of the origins, nature and role of fantasy literature in early 19th century colonial India, this book explores...  Read More >>

The Irish Proust: Cultural Crossings from Beckett to McGahern

The Irish Proust: Cultural Crossings from Beckett to...

Author: Max McGuinness (University College Dublin, Ireland) ,  Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350499348
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first book devoted to exploring Marcel Proust’s influence on Irish literature and Irish themes within his work...  Read More >>

Writing Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate Crisis: Communities of Engagement

Writing Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate...

Author: Dr Olga Michael (Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, University of Cyprus, Cyprus) ,  Alan Rice
ISBN: 9781350499195
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts and social sciences,...  Read More >>

Wars We Never Fought: Armed Conflict in Speculative Fiction

Wars We Never Fought: Armed Conflict in Speculative...

Author: Matthew B. Hill (Coppin State University, USA) ,  Dr. or Prof. Leigha H. McReynolds (University of Maryland, USA)
ISBN: 9798765121535
Format: Hardback
$190.00

A collection of 16 essays examining how armed conflict functions as a subject, theme, metaphor, symbol, or plot...  Read More >>

Beckett and Leopardi

Beckett and Leopardi

Author: Peter Boxall (University of Oxford) ,  Peter Nicholls (New York University)
ISBN: 9781009547918
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett. It suggests that Leopardi becomes...  Read More >>

Heinrich Wilson's Christmas Chills: True Stories of Horror, Mystery, and the Dark Side of the Holidays

Heinrich Wilson's Christmas Chills: True Stories of...

Author: Heinrich Wilson
ISBN: 9798231653096
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Heinrich Wilson's Christmas Chills True Stories of Horror, Mystery, and the Dark Side of the Holidays Christmas...  Read More >>

Hunted by the dead: Voice in the dark

Hunted by the dead: Voice in the dark

Author: Peter M Deal
ISBN: 9798349608698
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Hunted by the Dead is a chilling survival horror novel that thrusts its characters into the heart of a post-apocalyptic...  Read More >>

Critical Perspectives on Damon Galgut

Critical Perspectives on Damon Galgut

Author: Zbigniew Białas
ISBN: 9781041109792
Format: Hardback
$375.19

This monograph is one of the first on the market that focuses entirely on Damon Galgut’s novels. The authors of...  Read More >>

Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction

Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary...

Author: Jeremy Rosen
ISBN: 9781503644625
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades,...  Read More >>

Athens Tales

Athens Tales

Author: Joshua Barley (Freelance Translator and Writer, Freelance Translator and Writer) ,  Helen Constantine
ISBN: 9780192858269
Format: Paperback
$30.95

A selection of short stories centred on Athens that portray the wealth and vibrancy of Athens literature and the...  Read More >>

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: The women writers who shaped a legend

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: The women writers who shaped...

Author: Rebecca Romney
ISBN: 9781785124136
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen? Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves? Rare...  Read More >>

English Interludes (Revival): Mallarmé, Verlaine, Paul Valéry, Valery Larbaud in England, 1860–1912

English Interludes (Revival): Mallarmé, Verlaine, Paul...

Author: Cecily Mackworth
ISBN: 9781041141075
Format: Hardback
$147.00

In this book, originally published in 1974, Cecily Mackworth writes about four outstanding French poets who came...  Read More >>

Edward Thomas's Prose: Truth, Mystery, and the Natural World

Edward Thomas's Prose: Truth, Mystery, and the Natural...

Author: Ralph Pite (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780198965114
Format: Hardback
$208.95

Edward Thomas (1878-1917) wrote in the last two and a half years of his life a body of poetry that has endured....  Read More >>

Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction

Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary...

Author: Jeremy Rosen
ISBN: 9781503644236
Format: Hardback
$323.00

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades,...  Read More >>

100+ Funny Short Stories for Seniors: Large Print, Easy-to-Read Tales of Laughter and Joy - A Funny Gift for Retirement, Birthday, Father's Day, Mother's Day and More

100+ Funny Short Stories for Seniors: Large Print, Easy-to-Read...

Author: Edward Harper
ISBN: 9781806470006
Format: Paperback
$47.44

���� A Joyful Gift They'll Actually Use (and Love) Tired of gift books that get put on a shelf and forgotten?...  Read More >>

Returned to a Time of Loneliness

Returned to a Time of Loneliness

Author: Manal Khalil
ISBN: 9798267679961
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Returned To A Time Of Loneliness by Manal Khalil .. A literary collection of several literary thoughts that express...  Read More >>

British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century

British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century...

Author: Melissa J. Ganz (Marquette University, Wisconsin)
ISBN: 9781009224130
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Revealing how legal developments in Britain shaped and were shaped by imaginative writing, this volume provides...  Read More >>

Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction: Gender and the Scientific Imaginary

Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American...

Author: Tess C. Rankin
ISBN: 9781836245605
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Feeling Strangely argues that twentieth-century scientific advancements and their integration into Hispanic and...  Read More >>

El Cáliz de la Sin Razón: Un cuento novelado

El Cáliz de la Sin Razón: Un cuento novelado

Author: Dante Leal
ISBN: 9798271689154
Format: Paperback
$79.20

El cáliz de la Sin Razón, es un cuento novelado situado en 1945 en el norte de Argentina. Su título, contempla el...  Read More >>

Science Fiction Poetry (Volume 25)- SciFi, Fantasy, and Speculative Poetry, Discover Chronicles of the Sci-fi Stellar Verse, Echoes of the Void, and Nebula Narrative Anthology

Science Fiction Poetry (Volume 25)- SciFi, Fantasy,...

Author: Taylor Beelt Tillerson
ISBN: 9798887233581
Format: Paperback
$105.57

In the infinite expanse between a heartbeat and a supernova, where logic dances with wonder, this book of sci-fi...  Read More >>

Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson

Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Marianne Noble (American University, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781108722216
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and...  Read More >>

KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union

KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the...

Author: Filip Kovacevic
ISBN: 9781487548926
Format: Paperback
$67.99

KGB Literati offers a first-ever glimpse into the mysterious and long-ignored world and work of Soviet spies- and...  Read More >>

Quixotic Authority: The Female Quixote and the Woman Writer, Lennox to Austen

Quixotic Authority: The Female Quixote and the Woman...

Author: Jodi L. Wyett
ISBN: 9781644534120
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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ALT 43: Afrifuturism

ALT 43: Afrifuturism

Author: Ernest Ernest Cole (Customer) ,  Ernest N Emenyonu (Author)
ISBN: 9781847014184
Format: Hardback
$316.80

This issue of ALT provides content narratives, critical frames and theoretical constructs to read and critique writings...  Read More >>

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