Literary studies: general books

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Black Fire-This Time, Volume 1

Black Fire-This Time, Volume 1

Author: Kim McMillon ,  Kofi Antwi
ISBN: 9781737987673
Format: Paperback
$184.77

"Nearly sixty years in the making, this anthology features over one hundred poets and writers on the theme of """"Black...  Read More >>

Las Raras: Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and Women Writers during Spanish-American Modernismo

Las Raras: Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and...

Author: Sarah Moody
ISBN: 9780826506887
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Proposes that the Modernistas’ advocacy for a writing style they considered feminine helps us to understand why...  Read More >>

We the Barbarians: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century

We the Barbarians: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First...

Author: Mabel Moraña ,  Stephanie Kirk
ISBN: 9780826506696
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Provides a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction:...  Read More >>

Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking

Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The...

Author: Christina M. García
ISBN: 9781683404415
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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George Pérez

George Pérez

Author: Patrick L. Hamilton
ISBN: 9781496851246
Format: Paperback
$34.10

Though George Perez’s style is highly recognizable, his contributions to comic art and history have not been fully...  Read More >>

The First Geeks: Ray Bradbury, Forrest J Ackerman, Ray Harryhausen and the Founding of Science Fiction Fandom

The First Geeks: Ray Bradbury, Forrest J Ackerman, Ray...

Author: Orty Ortwein
ISBN: 9781476686301
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Follows the lives and careers of Ray Bradbury, Forry Ackerman, and Ray Harryhausen, and tracks the origins of science...  Read More >>

Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture

Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along...

Author: Laura Elena Belmonte
ISBN: 9780826366122
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Analyses how border violence is perpetuated and sanctioned by private corporations as well as the US and Mexican...  Read More >>

The Chilean Dictatorship Novel: Memory, Postmemory, Affect, and Emotions

The Chilean Dictatorship Novel: Memory, Postmemory,...

Author: Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
ISBN: 9780826366191
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Examines fifteen novels and one testimony written on the topic of dictatorship to illustrate how these Chilean narratives...  Read More >>

A Tale of Two Villains: Theme and Symbolism in Dracula and the Harry Potter Saga

A Tale of Two Villains: Theme and Symbolism in Dracula...

Author: Calvin H. Cherry
ISBN: 9781592113743
Format: Paperback
$52.77

The millions of fans of Dracula and Harry Potter consist of all ages and varied enthusiasm, ranging from a curious...  Read More >>

Becoming What We Are: Classical and Christian Readings of Modernity

Becoming What We Are: Classical and Christian Readings...

Author: Jude P. Dougherty
ISBN: 9780813236612
Format: Paperback
$50.60

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Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History

Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American...

Author: Annie Atura Bushnell ,  Lori Harrison-Kahan
ISBN: 9780814349854
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume examines Jewish women writers’ wide-ranging contributions...  Read More >>

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific

Author: ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui ,  Joyce Pualani Warren
ISBN: 9780824897352
Format: Paperback
$97.65

Features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative...  Read More >>

Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Complex Imaginings of Justice

Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence,...

Author: Maya Hislop
ISBN: 9781643364896
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Combines historical and literary analysis to push back against scholarship that claims Black women eschewed public...  Read More >>

Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama

Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican...

Author: Jon D. Rossini
ISBN: 9780472056729
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Explores the work of a unique group of playwrights - Puerto Rican dramatists writing in the United States - who...  Read More >>

Faulkner's Hollywood Novels: Women between Page and Screen

Faulkner's Hollywood Novels: Women between Page and...

Author: Ben Robbins
ISBN: 9780813951539
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Tracing the influence of Faulkner’s screenwriting on his literary craft and depictions of women  Read More >>

Walt Whitman: Selected Poetry and Prose

Walt Whitman: Selected Poetry and Prose

Author: Walt Whitman
ISBN: 9781554816767
Format: Paperback
$37.40

Presents a substantial selection of Whitman’s poems. Highlights include the full text of the 1855 Preface to Leaves...  Read More >>

Black Contemplative Preaching: A Hidden History of Prayer, Proclamation, and Prophetic Witness

Black Contemplative Preaching: A Hidden History of Prayer,...

Author: E. Trey Clark
ISBN: 9781481321990
Format: Hardback
$110.00

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Saul Bellow: """I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer"""

Saul Bellow: """I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer"""...

Author: Gerald Sorin (State University of New York at Paltz)
ISBN: 9780253069443
Format: Paperback
$98.99

"Saul Bellow: ""I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer"" offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and...  Read More >>

The Invisible Man: The Masterpiece of Science Fiction Books

The Invisible Man: The Masterpiece of Science Fiction...

Author: Herbert George Wells
ISBN: 9781803968421
Format: Paperback
$31.02

On a bitter evening in the depths of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives to the remote English village of Iping,...  Read More >>

A Life of One's Own

A Life of One's Own

Author: Marion Milner ,  Rachel Bowlby (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781032757599
Format: Hardback
$273.00

A pioneering work that anticipated the contemporary phenomenon of mindfulness, A Life of One’s Own is a great adventure...  Read More >>

Understanding Barbara Kingsolver

Understanding Barbara Kingsolver

Author: Ian Tan
ISBN: 9781643364773
Format: Paperback
$58.05

A modern understanding of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver’s fiction.  Read More >>

We the Barbarians: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century

We the Barbarians: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First...

Author: Mabel Moraña ,  Stephanie Kirk
ISBN: 9780826506702
Format: Hardback
$316.67

Provides a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction:...  Read More >>

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