Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing

African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism...

Author: Katherine Hallemeier (Associate Professor in the Department of English, Oklahoma State University)
ISBN: 9781399516174
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Demonstrates how African literature grapples with the enforced optimism of US empire that circulates in postcolonial...  Read More >>

Hannibal Lecter: A Life

Hannibal Lecter: A Life

Author: Brian Raftery ,  Brian Raftery
ISBN: 9781668116265
Format: Audio
$105.57

A one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter, the fictional character with many lives in literature, film, and...  Read More >>

Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film

Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment and Vulnerability...

Author: Usha Vishnuvajjala
ISBN: 9781802704433
Format: Paperback
$100.19

This book examines feminist textual and cinematic engagements with the idea of the Middle Ages in the 19th and 20th...  Read More >>

Niebla sobre el Océano: Todo lo enterrado busca salir a flote: Historias reales de naufragios y desapariciones en el mar: tragedias marítimas, secretos del océano y conciencia humana

Niebla sobre el Océano: Todo lo enterrado busca salir...

Author: Thamar Darahena
ISBN: 9798902437024
Format: Paperback
$52.54

Niebla sobre el Océano no es solo un libro: es una travesía emocional,...  Read More >>

Rachel Bowlby – Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories

Rachel Bowlby – Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood,...

Author: Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative Literature, University College London)
ISBN: 9781399528412
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion

Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf:...

Author: Marit Grøtta (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Oslo)
ISBN: 9781399526999
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers  Read More >>

J. M. Coetzee's Politics of Life and Late Modernism in the Contemporary Novel

J. M. Coetzee's Politics of Life and Late Modernism...

Author: Marc Farrant (Lecturer in English Literature, University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781399507790
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Argues that J. M. Coetzee's works constitute a form of late modernism that situates life at the heart of questions...  Read More >>

Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel: From Telepathy to the Network Novel

Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British...

Author: Mark Taylor
ISBN: 9781399524490
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Author: Sara Crangle (Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781399524339
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

Why Fish Piss Matters: On the Last Authentic Bohemia

Why Fish Piss Matters: On the Last Authentic Bohemia...

Author: Andy Brown
ISBN: 9781550656862
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Called Canada' s most influential zine, Fish Piss ran for 11 issues, from 1996 to 2006. It began as...  Read More >>

American Literature and Therapeutic Cultures

American Literature and Therapeutic Cultures

Author: Nicholas Manning (Professor of American Literature, Université Grenoble Alpes) ,  Martin Halliwell (Professor of American Thought and Culture, University of Leicester)
ISBN: 9781399551328
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Traces the evolving relationship between American literature and therapeutic cultures across the twentieth 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
$105.47

Quixotic Authority reveals how deeply absorbed reading was inextricable from and essential to British women's professional...  Read More >>

The American Presidency in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

The American Presidency in Twenty-First-Century Fiction...

Author: Alexandra Lawrie (Senior Lecturer in English Literature_x000D_, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781399538923
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines how post-war presidential history is portrayed in contemporary American novels.  Read More >>

Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film

Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in...

Author: Leslie Barnes (Associate Professor of French Studies, The Australian National University)
ISBN: 9781399532884
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Studies literary and cinematic representations of sex work in Cambodia and Vietnam to rethink claims about the 'truth'...  Read More >>

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy...

Author: Naoise Murphy (Lecturer in English, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781399547468
Format: Hardback
$200.00

A queer, postcolonial reading of twentieth-century Irish women's writing.  Read More >>

Stanisław Przybyszewski - Writer and Aesthetician

Stanisław Przybyszewski - Writer and Aesthetician

Author: Ryszard Nycz ,  Marek Wedemann
ISBN: 9783631940549
Format: Hardback
$98.32

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Earth 2815: Doomsday Rising: A Twisted Science Fiction Novel Based on the Lost Documents of the Pyramid Builders

Earth 2815: Doomsday Rising: A Twisted Science Fiction...

Author: Klein Press ,  Naser Hegauy
ISBN: 9798246074985
Format: Paperback
$21.09

In the year 2815, Earth is no longer the world humanity once knew. Civilization has collapsed after a catastrophic...  Read More >>

Transmigrations: Lovecraft, Barlow, and Burroughs

Transmigrations: Lovecraft, Barlow, and Burroughs

Author: Pierre Déléage
ISBN: 9798246162392
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Robert Hayward Barlow (1918-1951) has become a subject of intense fascination, and not only because of his association...  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: 9781644534137
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Quixotic Authority reveals how deeply absorbed reading was inextricable from and essential to British women's professional...  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
ISBN: 9781032672991
Format: Paperback
$108.65

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

A Survey of Anglo-Indian Fiction

A Survey of Anglo-Indian Fiction

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

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