Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Curated Fiction: Novel Writing in Theory and Practice

Curated Fiction: Novel Writing in Theory and Practice...

Author: Cameron Hindrum
ISBN: 9781032635453
Format: Hardback
$103.00

Curated Fiction presents a new theory and methodology for developing, drafting and refining creative writing. At...  Read More >>

Bangladeshi Literature in English: Critical Essays and Interviews

Bangladeshi Literature in English: Critical Essays and...

Author: Mohammad A. Quayum (Flinders University, Australia) ,  Md. Mahmudul Hasan (International Islamic University Malaysia)
ISBN: 9781032670355
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This pioneering book brings together several critical essays on Bangladeshi writers in the English language and...  Read More >>

The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations

The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations...

Author: Andriy Sodomora ,  Roman Ivashkiv
ISBN: 9798887194370
Format: Hardback
$270.00

An evocative collection of vignettes and essays from Ukraine’s “voice” of classical antiquity, now available in...  Read More >>

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American...

Author: Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
ISBN: 9780814259054
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Examines common monster tropes in Black American horror fiction, arguing that they represent specific ideologies...  Read More >>

Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf's Shadow Genealogies

Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf's Shadow Genealogies...

Author: Professor Elizabeth Abel
ISBN: 9780226832678
Format: Paperback
$53.95

"A new reading of Virginia Woolf in the context of ""long modernism."" In recent decades, Virginia Woolf's contribution...  Read More >>

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American...

Author: Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
ISBN: 9780814215364
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Examines common monster tropes in Black American horror fiction, arguing that they represent specific ideologies...  Read More >>

Dostoevsky: A Very Short Introduction

Dostoevsky: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Deborah Martinsen (Associate Dean of Alumni Education, Columbia College, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780198864332
Format: Paperback
$21.95

This book shows why it is that Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment of the big questions of...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535872720
Format: Hardback
$1063.92

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The Writer as Migrant

The Writer as Migrant

Author: Ha Jin
ISBN: 9780226399881
Format: Hardback
$24.95

Containing three interconnected essays, this book sets Ha Jin's own work and life alongside those of other literary...  Read More >>

Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media

Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature,...

Author: Professor Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Dr Giulia Champion (Early Career Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781350271166
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and...  Read More >>

Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War: In Search of Poetic Justice

Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War: In Search...

Author: Dr. Cynthia Gabbay (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) ,  Kitty Millet (San Francisco State University USA)
ISBN: 9781501379413
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""A study of works written by 20th- and 21st-century authors producing Jewish poetics around their experience and...  Read More >>

The Fiction of Margaret Atwood

The Fiction of Margaret Atwood

Author: Dr Fiona Tolan
ISBN: 9781350336773
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf’s Shadow Genealogies

Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf’s Shadow Genealogies...

Author: Professor Elizabeth Abel
ISBN: 9780226825694
Format: Hardback
$173.95

"A new reading of Virginia Woolf in the context of ""long modernism."" In recent decades, Virginia Woolf's contribution...  Read More >>

Political Fictions

Political Fictions

Author: Michael Wilding
ISBN: 9781032700564
Format: Hardback
$189.00

First published in 1980, Political Fictions is a work of literary criticism with emphasis on the specific handling...  Read More >>

Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation

Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation...

Author: Mr Eric Reinders
ISBN: 9781350374645
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, this book reads multiple Chinese translations...  Read More >>

The Mars House: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

The Mars House: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

Author: Natasha Pulley
ISBN: 9781399618540
Format: Paperback
$34.99

When an apocalyptic dust storm engulfs Mars, cutting off power to the capital, a refugee and a politician must find...  Read More >>

Great Stories

Great Stories

Author: Dr Richard Stockton Weeder
ISBN: 9781963961201
Format: Paperback
$65.97

"""Great Stories"" consists of five parts. The first details my discovery of the cause of cancer, with implications...  Read More >>

Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress

Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes...

Author: Jessica Hooten Wilson ,  Steve Prince
ISBN: 9781587436185
Format: Hardback
$65.97

In this work of literary excavation, an award-winning author transcribes, compiles, and organizes a final, unfinished...  Read More >>

Judging

Judging

Author: Maryanne Mabery
ISBN: 9781962381666
Format: Hardback
$65.97

Kiara Tierson is a high-power Federal Judge living with two sons, Jason and Brent - she lives her perfect life....  Read More >>

Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence

Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence

Author: Avril Horner
ISBN: 9781526173744
Format: Hardback
$68.99

This biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels....  Read More >>

The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien

The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien

Author: Will Sherwood ,  Julian Eilmann
ISBN: 9783905703511
Format: Paperback
$92.93

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Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the BBC, and the Black Atlantic

Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the BBC, and the Black...

Author: James Procter (Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Newcastle University)
ISBN: 9780198894179
Format: Hardback
$166.95

A volume on the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC. The volume covers...  Read More >>

D.H. Lawrence’s Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective

D.H. Lawrence’s Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective...

Author: Ben Stoltzfus
ISBN: 9781666903690
Format: Paperback
$105.57

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Jules Verne's Scotland: In Fact and Fiction

Jules Verne's Scotland: In Fact and Fiction

Author: Ian Thompson
ISBN: 9781913025267
Format: Paperback
$23.26

This book weaves in all the reasons why the residents of Scotland love to live here; landscape, beautiful scenery,...  Read More >>

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