Literary companions, book reviews and guides

Henry David Thoreau in Context will help readers of Thoreau better understand and appreciate his life, works, and legacy.

Henry David Thoreau in Context will help readers of Thoreau better understand and appreciate his life, works, and legacy.

Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.

Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.

This Companion examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the development of this art form globally.

This Companion examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the development of this art form globally.

This Companion is an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the key works, genres, and movements of postmodern American fiction.

This Companion is an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the key works, genres, and movements of postmodern American fiction.

This informative Companion offers a combination of original readings and factual background information.

Emphasizing the significance of his political and historical engagement, this work casts Abraham Lincoln as a cultural figure.

This informative Companion offers a combination of original readings and factual background information.

Emphasizing the significance of his political and historical engagement, this work casts Abraham Lincoln as a cultural figure.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle funneled much of his real-life genius-and the brilliance of others around him-into Sherlock Holmes, creating a character greater than the sum of his parts.

El poder del ADN y la información que contiene, son inmensos.

This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.

This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.

This timely volume presents a rich and absorbing selection of extracts from over two hundred leading literary critics of the last several decades, writing on many of the most widely studied literary texts in English, from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison.

This timely volume presents a rich and absorbing selection of extracts from over two hundred leading literary critics of the last several decades, writing on many of the most widely studied literary texts in English, from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison.

Judge for Yourself guides interested and advanced-level readers through the challenge of judging the quality of hyper-contemporary literature.

Judge for Yourself guides interested and advanced-level readers through the challenge of judging the quality of hyper-contemporary literature.

The book examines ancient religious traditions and modernity in a globalized Asia that is as much in need of a moral compass as it is economic development.

The book examines ancient religious traditions and modernity in a globalized Asia that is as much in need of a moral compass as it is economic development.

Originally published in 1984, this volume follows others in the series.

Originally published in 1984, this volume follows others in the series.

Originally published in 1983, this volume follows others in the series.

Originally published in 1979, this concordance consists of a Verbal Index listing the location of all words used by Conrad, a Word Frequency Table listing number occurrences for each word in his text, and a Field of Reference in which the user can locate in its context a word cited in the Verbal Index.

Originally published in 1983, this volume follows others in the series.

Originally published in 1979, this concordance consists of a Verbal Index listing the location of all words used by Conrad, a Word Frequency Table listing number occurrences for each word in his text, and a Field of Reference in which the user can locate in its context a word cited in the Verbal Index.

Caught between the well-worn grooves the Boom and the Gen-X have left on the Latin American literary canon, the writing intellectuals that comprise what the Generation of '72 have not enjoyed the same editorial acclaim or philological framing as the literary cohorts that bookend them.

Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning over 2,000 years.

An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa but just nine miles from Europe, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape.

This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.

Andalucia is the quintessence of Spain and yet, historically and culturally, it is surprisingly unlike the rest of the country.

This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.

Karl Miller is one of the greatest literary critics of the last fifty years, the founder of the London Review of Books and Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London.

This revised edition provides a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction in an easy-to-use format.

This revised edition provides a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction in an easy-to-use format.

This work provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: Why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional?

Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Zizek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Zizek to literary criticism and theory.

The Fateful Lightning is the second volume of Kathleen Diffleys trilogy on Civil War magazine fiction.

Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism.

Amihay offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors.

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Challenging the assumption that modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity and heritage into her work, this book uncovers Steins constant and varied writing about Jewish topics throughout her career.

A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James JoyceIn this book, Fran ORourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the authors oeuvre.

A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James JoyceIn this book, Fran ORourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the authors oeuvre.

"e;A remarkably well-informed and truly innovative study of the way Boccaccio reimagined and rewrote Old French fabliaux in his Decameron.

"e;An important and timely expansion of American racial discourse.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA Curious Peril examines the prose penned by modernist writer H.