Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Monsters We Made: Unmasking the Animals Behind the Myths

Monsters We Made: Unmasking the Animals Behind the Myths...

Author: Peter Wells
ISBN: 9798195358853
Format: Paperback
$26.37

A gripping journey through the dark shadows of human storytelling-and a bold unmasking of the real animals we turned...  Read More >>

Origins of Apocalyptic Science Fiction: The Last Man

Origins of Apocalyptic Science Fiction: The Last Man...

Author: Julie Hugonny
ISBN: 9781032749143
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Origins of Apocalyptic Science Fiction: The Last Man argues that apocalyptic science fiction found its origins in...  Read More >>

Maurice Blanchot: Three Terrors

Maurice Blanchot: Three Terrors

Author: Marty Hiatt
ISBN: 9798855804492
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Investigates permutations of the terror to examine the complex political and intellectual transformation of literary...  Read More >>

David Peace

David Peace

Author: Katy Shaw
ISBN: 9781805967347
Format: Paperback
$56.90

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The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: The Doom of Empire

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: The Doom...

Author: Martin Green
ISBN: 9781041313618
Format: Hardback
$388.12

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century (1984) discusses 6 authors whom Dr Green saw as the most interesting...  Read More >>

Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy: Centennial Essays

Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy: Centennial Essays

Author: Linda Dryden (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) ,  Professor Robert Hampson, FEA FRSA (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350440883
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of...  Read More >>

Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?: A Primitivist Phenomenology

Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference...

Author: Pilar Martinez Benedi ,  Ralph James Savarese (Grinnell College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350360907
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the “neural unconscious” and higher-order...  Read More >>

Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020

Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020...

Author: Professor or Dr. Oliver Haslam (Harlaxton College, University of Evansville, UK)
ISBN: 9798765109403
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

The New Woman Gothic: Reconfigurations of Distress

The New Woman Gothic: Reconfigurations of Distress

Author: Patricia Murphy
ISBN: 9780826223548
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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Chaos and Cosmos: The Imaginary and the Political in Jorge Luis Borges

Chaos and Cosmos: The Imaginary and the Political in...

Author: Dr. Martín Plot (School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, USA)
ISBN: 9781538178690
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book offers a new and unique interpretation of Argentine essayist and fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges as...  Read More >>

Spider-Man and the Sacred: Essays on Religious Themes in the Comics

Spider-Man and the Sacred: Essays on Religious Themes...

Author: George Tsakiridis
ISBN: 9781476696485
Format: Paperback
$145.20

For more than 60 years, Spider-Man has been an essential part of the popular culture landscape. Whether it be in...  Read More >>

Appalachia in the Hunger Games: Real-Life Roots of District 12

Appalachia in the Hunger Games: Real-Life Roots of District...

Author: Elizabeth Baird Hardy
ISBN: 9781476670614
Format: Paperback
$105.47

The dystopian future portrayed in The Hunger Games can be both familiar and alien to readers. Suzanne Collins's...  Read More >>

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211819
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Judy Blume: a life

Judy Blume: a life

Author: Mark Oppenheimer
ISBN: 9781761380686
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Author: Richard Barlow (Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University) ,  Paul Fagan (Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Maynooth University)
ISBN: 9781399529440
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

The Idea in Fiction

The Idea in Fiction

Author: H.W. Leggett
ISBN: 9781041326120
Format: Hardback
$388.12

First published in 1934, The Idea in Fiction by H. W. Leggett explores storytelling methods, tracing an idea’s journey...  Read More >>

Littérature de voyage et autobiogéographie (XIXe-XXIe siècles)

Littérature de voyage et autobiogéographie (XIXe-XXIe...

Author: Sarga Moussa ,  Małgorzata Sokołowicz
ISBN: 9789004755413
Format: Hardback
$287.76

This volume is the first to introduce autobiogeography as a new interpretative framework for reading travel writing...  Read More >>

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and...

Author: Hadley Suter
ISBN: 9780813955124
Format: Paperback
$68.99

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Hemingway's Art of Revision: The Making of the Short Fiction

Hemingway's Art of Revision: The Making of the Short...

Author: John Beall
ISBN: 9780807182253
Format: Paperback
$56.10

Analyses more than a dozen pieces of Ernest Hemingway’s celebrated short fiction, with a focus on manuscripts and...  Read More >>

Forms of Melancholy in Modern Kurdish Novels

Forms of Melancholy in Modern Kurdish Novels

Author: Ahmet Atas
ISBN: 9781666978926
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An investigation of the specific uses of the motif of melancholy in modern Kurdish novels  Read More >>

Gender and Identity in Arab Women's Literature: Ink and Identity

Gender and Identity in Arab Women's Literature: Ink...

Author: Diana Obeid ,  Sonia Lamrani
ISBN: 9781666974249
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This volume explores the evolution of Arab women's self-representations in literature, highlighting their resistance...  Read More >>

The Climate Crossroads: Literature’s Encounter with a Planet on Fire

The Climate Crossroads: Literature’s Encounter with...

Author: Rajat Chaudhuri
ISBN: 9789369520091
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A writer-activist explores the hidden dynamics between planet, politics, and stories as literature bears witness...  Read More >>

Masculinity, Coloniality, and the US-Mexico Border in Literature and Political Culture: Violent Borders and Gender Orders

Masculinity, Coloniality, and the US-Mexico Border in...

Author: Joshua D. Martin
ISBN: 9781666966442
Format: Hardback
$160.00

A look into how Anglo masculinities weaponize forms of violence to bolster U.S. interests and expand borders, establishing...  Read More >>

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