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These long interviews
with very different
Scottish writers do not
aim at the topical, but
to produce a thoughtful
window on each writer's
mind and work. Recorded
at intervals over 16
years, writers
interviewed include Naomi
Mitchison, Iain Crichton
Smith, Bernard
MacLaverty and Iain
Banks.
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Ever since "Robinson
Crusoe" in 1719, the
novel has introduced
British readers to truly
unforgettable characters
- people in whom we can
find deeper understanding
of our own lives. This
book examines and
celebrates the most
famous and best-loved of
these dazzling fictional
creations and their wider
impact on British culture
as a whole.
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Features a range of
Bayley's life and work,
divided into eight
sections that include
'English Literature',
'Russian Novels', and
'American Poetry'. This
work examines classics,
neglected gems, and
masterpieces, from Jane
Austen to Milan Kundera,
Leo Tolstoy to John
Ashbery, and from Robert
Lowell to George Orwell.
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Ranging widely across
periods and conflicts
real and imagined, this
title explores the
fascinating process of
interaction between
politics and literature,
science fiction and war
in a range of classic
texts. It includes essays
that explore Reagan's
'star wars' project,
nuclear fiction, Martian
invasion, and the Pax
Americana among other
topics.
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The Great Gatsby (1925)
is a classic of modern
American literature and
is often seen as the
quintessential novel of
'the jazz age'. This
guide sets "The Great
Gatsby" in its
historical, intellectual
and cultural contexts,
offering analyses of its
themes, style and
structure. It includes
points for discussion and
suggestions for further
study.
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A guide to "The Turn of
the Screw", offering
students a guide to
contexts, language,
criticism and reading the
text. It sets "The Turn
of the Screw" in its
historical, intellectual
and cultural contexts,
offering analysis of its
themes, style and
structure, and examining
its afterlife in
literature, film and
popular culture.
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This book explores three
crucial stages in
Dickens' on-going voyage
of discovery into what
has been called the
'hidden springs' of his
fiction; arguing that in
three of Dickens best
known novels, we witness
Dickens responding to
some identifiable force
represented as coming
from underneath the
ground plan of the book
in question.
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This title provides a
critique of "Northanger
Abbey", Sense and
Sensibility, Pride and
Prejudice, Mansfield
Park, Emma and
"Persuasion", linking
the significance of the
works from the past to
the present day in the
light of contemporary
attitudes to women,
tradition and innovation
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Though branded as
pornography for its
graphic language and
explicit sexuality,
Henry Miller's "Tropic of
Cancer" is far more than
a work that tested
American censorship laws.
This title investigates
Miller's novel, its
tumultuous publishing
history, and its place
in American letters.
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James Joyce's
preoccupation with space
- be it urban,
geographic, stellar,
geometrical or optical -
is a central and
idiosyncratic feature of
his work. This title
evaluates the perception
and mental construction
of space, as it is
evoked through Joyce's
writing. It includes
essays addressing Joyce's
major works.
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Examines the claim that
there is no fundamental
distinction between
fiction and history. This
title asks whether these
two possible worlds are
in any way different from
each other. To answer
this question, it
analyzes historical and
literary texts to explore
the connection between
the postmodern theory of
writing and the actual
practice of it.
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This study looks at J.K.
Rowling's books and
considers some of the
reasons for their
phenomenal success. This
is done against a
backdrop of how Harry
Potter relates to other
contemporary children's
books so that students
and teachers can place
them in the context for
which they were written.
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A series designed to help
students develop their
own critical skills by
offering practical advice
about how to read,
understand and analyze
literature. This volume
focuses on the novels of
Charles Dickens giving
general advice on
interpreting his works as
well as looking at
specific titles.
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After a mid-career
adoption of French as a
language of composition,
Beckett continued to
write in his native
English as well as
French, and to translate
his work, often
unfaithfully, between
the two. This study
focuses on how Beckett's
self-translation emerges
as a crucial aspect of
his exploration of
uncertainty, exile, and
the myth of identity.
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Cormac McCarthy's
significance in the field
of contemporary American
fiction is enormous.
Offering critical
perspectives on three
McCarthy's novels - "All
the Pretty Horses", No
Country for Old Men, and
"The Road", this title
provides an introduction
to the different
interpretations of his
work.
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Chinua Achebe is Africa's
most prominent writer and
"Things Fall Apart"
(1958) the most renowned
and widely read African
novel in the global
literary canon. This
collection explores the
artistic, multicultural
and global significance
of "Things Fall Apart"
from a variety of
critical perspectives.
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Samuel R Delany (b 1942)
is one of the most
acclaimed figures in
contemporary literary
theory and gay/lesbian
literature. As a gay
African American writer,
Delany's cerebral,
experimental prose
crosses lines of genre,
gender, sexuality, and
class. This title
features interviews with
Delany from 1980 to 2007.
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The British Romantic era
was a vibrant and
exciting time in the
history of the novel.
Yet, aside from a few
iconic books it has been
ignored or dismissed by
later readers and
critics. This title
challenges us to rethink
our ideas of the novel as
a genre, as well as our
long-held assumptions
about the literary
movement of Romanticism.
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Since the 1990
publication of his first
novel, Devil in a Blue
Dress, Walter Mosley has
published more than
thirty books in a
tremendous range of
genres and modes: crime
and detective fiction,
science fiction,
literary novels of ideas,
character studies,
political and social
nonfiction, erotica,
and memoir. This title
covers Mosley's career.
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Providing an extensive
reassessment of dominant
and recurring themes in
Ballard's writing,
including historical
violence, pornography,
post 9/11 politics, and
urban space, this book
also engages with
Ballard's 'late'
modernism; his
experimentation with
style and form; and his
sustained interests in
psychology and
psychopathology.
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Chinua Achebe's
remarkable novel "Things
Fall Apart (1958)" has
become one of the world's
most influential literary
masterpieces. This text
sets "Things Fall Apart"
in its historical,
intellectual and cultural
contexts, offering
analyses of its themes,
style and structure, and
examining its afterlife
in literature, film and
popular culture.
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Chinua Achebe's
remarkable novel "Things
Fall Apart" (1958) is
probably the best known
African novel and has
become one of the world's
most influential literary
masterpieces. This guide
to the text sets "Things
Fall Apart" in its
historical, intellectual
and cultural contexts,
offering analyses of its
themes, style and
structure.
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Cormac McCarthy's
significance in the field
of contemporary American
fiction is enormous.
Offering critical
perspectives on three
McCarthy's novels - "All
the Pretty Horses", No
Country for Old Men, and
"The Road", this title
provides an introduction
to the different
interpretations of his
work.
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Exploring concepts such
as the Southern Gothic
novel, the Southwest
border, faith and
suicide, and father-son
relationships, respected
scholar Kenneth Lincoln
shows how McCarthy's
canticles of praise,
grief, and warning mix
classic, biblical, and
ballad genres and cross
the lyrical with the
narrative.
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J D Salinger's "The
Catcher in the Rye" is a
20th-century classic.
Part of the "Routledge
Guides to Literature"
series, this guide to
Salinger's novel offers:
an introduction to the
text and contexts of "The
Catcher in the Rye"; a
critical history; a
selection of critical
essays on this novel; and
cross-references between
sections of the guide.
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Offers readings of poems
and prose from the
nineteenth and twentieth
centuries alongside
reproductions of the
companion pictures.
Covering a broad range of
writing about the
relation of literary
texts to the visual arts,
this title focuses on
the subject of ekphrasis
to include literary works
on photography and prose
descriptions of artworks.
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This book helps to bridge
the gap between science
and literary scholarship.
Building on findings in
the evolutionary human
sciences, the authors
construct a model of
human nature in order to
illuminate the evolved
psychology that shapes
the organization of
characters in
nineteenth-century
British novels, from
Jane Austen to E. M.
Forster.
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Is time an illusion? Do
past, present, and
future co-exist in a
timeless whole, or are
our experiences of change
and duration the reality
of time? This title draws
on Einstein's "Theory of
Relativity" to examine of
the workings of narrative
time in the novels of
Thomas Pynchon,
including "Against the
Day".
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Explores the evolving
ideology that inspired
the successful campaign
of writers such as Ciaran
and Brian O Nuallain,
and Cathal O Sandair for
artistic independence
from the restrictive
demands of the language
revival. This guide is
suitable for those who
are studying or
interested in the
literature, languages,
society and politics of
Ireland.
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The short story is moving
from relative neglect to
a central position in the
curriculum; as a teaching
tool, it offers students
a route into many complex
areas, including
critical theory, gender
studies, postcolonialism
and genre. This book
offers a practical guide
to the short story in the
classroom, covering all
these fields and more.
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A critical history of
modern Irish literature.
Kiberd develops his story
through subtle readings
of such writers as Joyce,
O'Casey, Beckett and
Bowen. Giving a
controversial
interpretation of
post-colonial Ireland,
he then surveys more
recent works, from Brian
Friel to the younger
Dublin writers.
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Nadine Gordimer is one of
the most important
writers to emerge in the
twentieth century. Her
anti-Apartheid novel
"July's People" (1981) is
a powerful example of
resistance writing. This
guide to Gordimer's
compelling novel offers
an introduction to the
text and contexts of
"July's People".
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The novels of Wyndham
Lewis have generally been
associated with the work
of the great modernists -
Joyce, Pound, Eliot,
Yeats - who were his
sometime friends and
collaborators. This book
proposes a framework in
which Lewis' explosive
language practice can be
grasped as a symbolic and
political act.
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This stimulating study
takes a fresh look at two
of Fitzgerald's major
texts. Part I uses
carefully selected short
extracts for close
textual analysis, while
Part II examines the
historical and literary
contexts and key
criticism. The volume is
an ideal introductory
guide for those who are
studying Fitzgerald's
work for the first time.
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Frank Paci's book, The
Italians, was the first
English novel to deal
with the experience of
Italian immigrants in
Canada. This title
collects essays that deal
with some of Paci's eight
novels and explores
several literary themes,
moral questions and
philosophical
preoccupations of this
little known author.
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This guide focuses on
"The Great Gatsby", it
includes a linking
narrative which puts the
critical extracts in
context, highlights the
important concepts,
explains shifts in
critical thinking, and
looks to the writer's
place in the canon. It is
part of a series designed
for students.
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A Xhosa prince
reluctantly leaves the
University College of
Fort Hate and goes back
to the land of his
ancestors to take his
place as king of the
Mpondomise. The clash of
his modem ideas and the
traditional beliefs of
his people mirrors the
dash of the western way
of life with African
custom and tradition.
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This study takes a fresh
and candid look at
Robinson Crusoe, Moll
Flanders and Roxana. Part
I uses carefully selected
short extracts for close
textual analysis, while
Part II examines the
historical and literary
contexts and a sample of
criticism. The volume is
an ideal introductory
guide for those who are
studying Defoe's work for
the first time.
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A comprehensive
introduction to British
fiction from 1979 to the
present. The volume
outlines the main
developments in
contemporary fiction and
engages with key themes
such as cultural
identity, gender, myth
and history,
postcolonialism and urban
culture.
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Explains the interface
between landscape and
style and form in
contemporary British
fiction. This study
examines the importance
of space for the way
contemporary novelists
experiment with aesthetic
form, offering an
account of how British
writers over the years
have engaged with
landscape depiction as a
catalyst for stylistic
innovation.
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This book examines how
the process of
nation-building in Egypt
helped transform Egypt
from an Ottoman province
to an Arabic speaking
national community.
Through the life and
works of 'A'isha Taymur,
Hatem gives insight into
how literature and
changing gender roles
contributed to the
definition and/or
development of a sense of
community.
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This book argues that
many of the mid-twentieth
century's significant
novelists were united by
a desire to return the
increasingly interior
novel to ethical
engagement. They did not
seek morality in society,
politics or the
individual will, but
sought to unveil a
transcendent Good by
using techniques drawn
from the canon of
mystical literature
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This work explores
contemporary women's
rewritings of myth and
fairy tale. It examines
the nature and role of
myth, rewriting existing
theories in an attempt to
explain the ongoing
potency of mythical
paradigms in contemporary
women's fiction despite
the distorted images of
gender they present.
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Analyses literary
representations of the
American experience in
selected works of Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Henry
David Thoreau, and Walt
Whitman. Reveals the
ambivalence that underlay
the cultural and
political development of
the United States as a
former colony.
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Provides an exploration
of the spiritual and
religious contexts and
subtexts of contemporary
fiction. This title
argues against the idea
that the 'postmodern
condition' of late
twentieth and early
twenty-first century
culture has undermined
the close and creative
association between
religious practice and
literature.
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The locked room mystery
is one of the iconic
creations of popular
fiction. Michael Cook's
critical study reveals
how this archetypal form
of the puzzle story has
had a significant effect
in shaping the immensely
popular genre of
detective fiction. The
book includes analysis of
texts from Poe to the
present day.
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Provides a critical
analysis of post-Franco
Spain's successful women
novelists. These writers'
works share
woman-centered themes
such as: family
relationships, the
search for
self-fulfillment in a
restrictive society, and
the hope for the
construction of a new
world order. The author
provides an overview of
contemporary women's
writing in Spain.
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This book considers the
widespread treatment of
traumatic memory in Irish
fiction of the past
thirty-five years. It
focuses on both trauma
fiction and the
historical novel, and
the way certain novelists
looked to early events in
twentieth century Irish
history to engage the
recent political violence
in Northern Ireland
beginning in 1969.
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Herge's "Tintin" cartoon
adventures have been
translated into more than
fifty languages and read
by tens of millions of
children aged, as their
publishers like to say,
'from 7 to 77.' Arguing
that their characters are
as strong and their plots
as complex as any dreamt
up by great novelists,
this book asks a simple
question: is "Tintin"
literature?
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In 1798, Charles
Brockden Brown, then an
unknown Philadelphia
writer, invented the
American Gothic novel.
This work unravels the
mystery of what compelled
this pious Philadelphia
Quaker to become
fascinated with a
peculiar form of dark
European imagery and
transform it into
something wholly
American.
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This text combines
medical anthropology,
the history of medicine,
and literary analysis to
offer a new perspective
on representations of
disease and illness found
in the novels written by
Anne, Emily, and
Charlotte Bronte, giving
modern readers a sense of
how health, illness and
the body were understood
in Victorian England.
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Santha Rama Rau was one
of the best known South
Asian writers in postwar
America. Born into
India's elite in 1923,
Rama Rau has lived in the
United States since the
1940s. While she is no
longer well known, she
was for several decades a
popular expert on India.
This book opens Rama
Rau's career into an
examination of
orientalism in the
postwar US.
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Early modern
mother-directed
catechisms, like
traditional catechisms,
use the
question-and-answer
format to present the
basic tenets of the
Protestant faith. But
such catechisms differ
from traditional ones in
how they represent the
mother-child
relationship. This book
shows how they provide
insight into
constructions of early
modern maternity.
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This book provides
innovative readings of
the key texts of A.S.
Byatt's oeuvre by
analysing the
negotiations of
individual identity,
cultural memory, and
literature which inform
Byatt's novels. Steveker
explores the concepts of
identity constructed in
the novels, showing them
to be deeply rooted in
British literary history
and cultural memory.
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Begins with a broad
examination of the nature
of comics. Briefly
discussing the cognitive
operations involved in
processing this hybrid
medium, this title
surveys the generic
branches of comics, and
then offers an historic
examination of its
contemporary development,
which goes back as far
as the sixteenth century.
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Suitable for those with
little to no prior
knowledge of Lovecraft or
his monsters, this book
presents descriptions of
twenty-nine of the
monsters, creatures,
and gods that inhabit
Lovecraft's macabre
fictional universe. It
includes an introduction
to the man regarded as
the grandfather of
American horror.
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Reading the American
Novel 1780-1865 provides
valuable insights into
the evolution and
diversity of fictional
genres produced in the
United States from the
late 18th century until
the Civil War, and helps
introductory students to
interpret and understand
the fiction from this
popular period.
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Featuring a wide range of
authors - from canonical
figures such as Philip
Roth, Don DeLillo and
Annie Proulx, to
increasingly influential
writers such as Jeffrey
Eugenides, Gish Jen and
Richard Powers - the book
combines detailed
readings of key texts
with informative
discussions of their
historical, social and
cultural contexts.
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This study places the
last three novels of
Hugo's maturity - Les
Travailleurs de la mer
(1866), L'Homme qui rit
(1869), and
Quatrevingt-Treize (1874)
- within the context of
his artistic development
after the success of Les
Miserables (1862),
thereby illuminating the
shift from a poetics of
harmony to one of
transcendence.
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This book traces the
intersection of artistic
and moral ideas in
European and American
literary modernism.
Rather than reading
modernism as a complete
rejection of social
morality, this
perceptive study shows
how early
twentieth-century writers
such as Conrad,
Faulkner, Gide, Kafka,
Mann and Stein devised
new aesthetic techniques
to address ethical
problems.
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In an original and
provocative series of
readings that range
across Melville's career,
the contributors
consider not only the
sources and implications
of Melville's aesthetics,
but the relationship
between aesthetic
criticism, historical
analysis, and
contemporary theory.
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Science Fiction is
illuminated by world
class scholars and
fiction writers, who
introduce the history,
concepts and contexts
necessary to
understanding the genre.
Their groundbreaking
approach provides
insights into today's SF
world and makes learning
how to read Science
Fiction an exciting
collaborative process for
teachers and students.
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Presents a fresh
perspective on Vladimir
Nabokov's life and work.
Hunting down clues in the
novels, and using the
themes that run through
Nabokov's fiction to
illuminate the life that
produced them, this book
constructs a
psychological and
philosophical portrait.
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Joss Whedon, probably
the first recognised TV
auteur, who brought us
Buffy and Angel, is also
the creator of the
remarkable space Western
"Firefly" and the major
Firefly film "Serenity".
This book is the
definitive one on both
"Firefly" and "Serenity".
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Novels by significant
Modernist authors can be
described as romans a
clef, providing insight
into restrictions
governing the
representation of female
homosexuality in the
early twentieth century.
Nair argues that key
novels of the period
represented same-sex
desire through the
encryption of personal
references directed
towards coterie
audiences.
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Sara Lodge offers a
lively introduction to
the critical history of
one of the most
widely-studied
nineteenth-century
novels, from the first
reviews through to
present day responses.
The Guide also includes
sections devoted to
feminist, Marxist and
postcolonial criticism of
Jane Eyre, as well as
analysis of recent
developments.
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Fiction that reconsiders,
challenges, reshapes,
and/or upholds national
narratives of history has
long been an integral
aspect of Canadian
literature. This title
raises (and answers)
questions about the
significance of the roles
historical fiction has
played within Canadian
culture for nearly two
centuries.
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Argues that the
dehumanization inherent
in captivity has always
been at the heart of
American civil society.
This title shows how
alienation and
self-reliance, social
death and spiritual
rebirth, torture and
penitence came together
in the prison, a scene
for the portrayal of both
gothic nightmares and
romantic dreams.
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Presents the story of the
year - 1875 to 1876 -
when the young novelist
Henry James moved to
Paris, drawn by his
literary idols living at
the center of the early
modern movement in art.
This narrative combines
biography and criticism
and uses James' writings
to tell the story from
his point of view.
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An illustrated account of
the life one of the
classic writers of
twentieth-century
literature; Virginia
Woolf was one of the most
significant novelists of
the twentieth century and
a leading figure in the
Bloomsbury Circle. In her
brilliant, experimental
novels, among them To
the Lighthouse and Mrs.
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A collection that
introduces and celebrates
Frank Lentricchia's
career with essays by
Philip Tinari, Kit
Wallingford, Vince
Passaro, Jody McAuliffe,
Fred L Gardaphe, Thomas
Hove, Jennifer Wellman,
Nicholas Birns, Andrew
DuBois, Daniel O'Hara,
and Gina
Masucci-Mackenzie.
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A collection of essays
that studies the cultural
and literary contexts of
narrative texts produced
in English Canada over
the last forty years.
Through their readings of
representative primary
texts, their contextual
analysis, and their
selected methodological
tools, it offers a
tapestry of alternative
approaches to that
process of dismantlement.
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Demonstrates the corpus
stylistic approach to the
study of literary
revision, comparing the
difference two versions
of John Fowles' "The
Magus". This book serves
as a case study and
exemplar of how corpus
techniques may be used
generally in the study of
linguistics. It provides
student resources and
research material in
stylistics.
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A practical approach to
Charlotte Bronte's
best-known novels, which
shows how coherent
criticism can be evolved
from close reading. The
book contains worked
examples, with detailed
guidance and suggestions
for further work which
should be useful for both
teachers and students.
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This text provides
historically and
theoretically informed
readings of the full
range of Charlotte
Bronte's texts,
including new analyses of
her four best known
novels and other less
familiar work, such as
the Ashanti narratives,
the poetry and the
Belgian essays.
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A study of images of
leadership in Xenophon's
narrative works. Vivienne
J. Gray argues that
Xenophon employs
techniques such as the
creation of patterned
narratives, as well as
allusions to Homer and
Herodotus; she also takes
issue with the school of
thought that finds hidden
subversion beneath
Xenophon's surface praise
of leaders.
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Charles Dickens is the
most famous and popular
English author of the
19th century, and "Great
Expectations" is often
regarded as his finest
work. In this guide,
Nicolas Tredell
introduces and sets in
context the key debates
about a novel which has
provoked an immensely
rich critical response.
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Kafka's literary universe
is organized around
constellations of
imprisonment. Freedom and
Confinement in Modernity
proposes that
imprisonment does not
signify a tortured state
of the individual in
modernity. Rather, it
provides a new reading of
imprisonment suggesting
it allows Kafka to
perform a critique of a
modernity instead.
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Focusing on the period of
'high' British
colonialism at the close
of the nineteenth
century, this title
examines a range of
contexts, looking at a
range of colonial
contexts such as India,
Africa, America,
Canada, Australia and
Britain, illustrating
how relations must be
analysed for the way in
which different colonial
contexts define.
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In the first major study
of the twentieth-century
American protest novel,
Drake examines a group of
authors who
self-consciously
exploited the
revolutionary potential
of the novel,
transforming literary
conventions concerning
art and politics,
readers and characters.
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Why do teens avoid the
classics? Maybe, because
they're often "required
reading". The trick is to
find the right book. By
identifying the primary
appeal and genre
characteristics of
approximately 400 classic
fiction works, and
organizing titles
according to these
features, this guide
helps readers find the
type of books they enjoy
reading.
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This is a study of the
novels by and for
middle-class women that
dominated the publishing
market in the first half
of the twentieth century.
Works by Agatha Christie,
Nancy Mitford, Stella
Gibbons and many others
are considered alongside
cultural products such as
cookery books,
child-care manuals and
women's magazines.
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Fin-de-siecle fiction by
British female aesthetes
and American women
regionalists stages
moments of rebellion when
female characters rise up
and insist on the right
to maintain control of
their creations. Cordell
asserts that these
revolutionary acts
constitute a
transatlantic
conversation about
aesthetic practice and
creative ownership.
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* A major new book by one
of the leading feminist
writers in France today.
* Cixous explores the
themes of love, memory,
language and loss. * This
is a work of literary
fiction and at the same
time a philosophical
work: like Sartre, Camus
and other great writers,
Cixous blends together
fiction and philosophy.
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This popular case-study
of Conrad's classic short
novel reprints an
authoritative text
together with essays
written from a range of
contemporary critical
perspectives. In this
third edition, the
section of cultural
documents and
illustrations is entirely
new, as are two recent
exemplary critical essays
by Gabrielle McIntire and
Tony C. Brown.
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This book presents a
baker's dozen of
interpretative keys to
Levi's output and
thought. It deepens our
understanding of common
themes in Levi studies
(memory and witness)
while exploring unusual
and revealing byways
(Levi and Calvino, or
Levi and theater, for
example).
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Philip Roth has without
doubt been one of the
most important writers of
fiction in the United
States during the latter
part of the twentieth
century. This title
collects essays by noted
Roth scholars on three
essential novels
appearing in recent
years, American Pastoral
(1997), The Human Stain
(2000), and "The Plot
Against America" (2004).
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A collection of essays on
Philip Roth offering
critical readings and
assessments of texts. It
illuminates Roth's
multilayered perceptions
of twentieth-century
America as a place, a
culture, and an idea
that shapes its
inhabitants in profound
ways. It is of interest
to undergraduate and
postgraduate students of
American and Canadian
fiction.
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The book successfully
discusses Brown's seven
novels, including all
other significant
material, focusing on
the subgenres of the
Gothic, arguing that
Brown is of significant
value in the study of
Gothic literature, and
that his work remains
important today.
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Satoru Saito examines the
similarities between
detective fiction and the
novel in prewar Japan.
Arguing that interactions
between the genres were
critical moments of
literary engagement,
Saito demonstrates how
detective fiction
provided a framework
through which to examine
and critique Japan's
literary formations and
its modernizing society.
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What is it that shocks
newcomers to the works of
Flannery O'Connor and
what makes them return?
Her language, images,
settings and characters
touches deeper layers of
human experience. This
book presents readings of
her stories, aimed at
proving that she is a
master of showing mystery
through manners, depth
through precision.
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Studying the Novel is a
best-selling introductory
guide to the novel,
short story and novella
covering all the
essential concepts and
approaches for students
of English, either on a
short course or at degree
level. It is
widely-acclaimed for its
erudite yet accessible
style and judicious
selection of literary
extracts.
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Offers you an opportunity
to join one of the great
figures of modern comics
on a journey into the
world of the superheroes.
Beginning with Schuster
and Seigel's adolescent
creation of Superman in
1938, this title charts
the history of the
superheroes to their
modern, multiplex
incarnations.
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David Peace is author who
is widely read and
taught, and whose novels
are translated into
commercial film ("The
Damned United") and
television. This work
provides an introduction
to his work through a
detailed analysis of his
writing, as well as the
socio-cultural contexts
of its production and
dissemination.
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In this comprehensive
introduction to
Winterson's work, Sonya
Andermahr considers its
significance in the
context of contemporary
British culture and
literary history.
Including an interview
with the author, this
guide offers an
accessible reading of all
Winterson's work and an
overview of the varied
critical reception this
has received.
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A comprehensive
introduction to Jeanette
Winterson's writing. This
work provides students
with a critical guide to
Winterson's most commonly
studied texts, covering
major themes and
developments, and issues
of style, technique and
genre, from a range of
contemporary critical and
theoretical perspectives.
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