Literary Criticism
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Letters from Amherst: Five Narrative Letters [Paperback]
Samuel R. Delany (Author)
£13.50ISBN: 9780819578518
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Five substantial letters written from 1989 to 1991 bring readers into conversation with Hugo and Nebula Award winning-author Samuel Delany. With engaging prose, Delany shares details about his work, his relationships, and the thoughts he had while... .... Learn More -
The Correspondence of Thomas Stephens: Revolutionising Welsh Scholarship in the Mid-Nineteenth Century through Knowledge Exchange [Paperback]
Adam Coward (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9781891271304
Published by : Celtic Studies Publications
Series: Celtic Studies Publications
Volume: 23
Thomas Stephens was one of the most significant and controversial nineteenth-century Welsh scholars. His Literature of the Kymry (1849) was the first work to apply modern critical scholarship to medieval Welsh literature. Throughout ... .... Learn More
Elfriede Jelinek Goes Australia: Indigenising an Austrian Nobel Prize Winner [Paperback]
André Bastian (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781925588514
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Austrian writer and 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Elfriede Jelinek has never shied away from bringing up painful issues within the discourse of modernity. In her oeuvre of over sixty plays and novels she has worked time and again on a vast... .... Learn More
"Who Knows What We'd Make of It, If We Ever Got Our Hands on It?": The Bible and Margaret Atwood [Paperback]
Rhiannon Graybill (Editor); Peter Sabo (Editor)
£49.00ISBN: 9781463242589
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Biblical Intersections
Volume: 18
In the nightstands of hotel rooms, kept under lock and key, in the poetry of a pre-apocalyptic environmental cult, and quoted by children, atheists, and murderers alike - the Bible is omnipresent in the work of Margaret Atwood. The Bible is found ... .... Learn More
The Politics of Richard Wright: Perspectives on Resistance [Paperback]
Jane Anna Gordon (Editor); Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh (Editor); Richard Wright (Other); Lewis R. Gordon (Other); Cedric Robinson (Other)
£27.00ISBN: 9780813179599
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success... .... Learn More
Endless Inspiration: One Thousand and One Nights in Comparative Perspective [Hardback]
Orhan Elmaz (Editor)
£92.00ISBN: 9781463207205
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Handbooks
This volume deals with One Thousand and One Nights in yet another and novel way as it brings old and new together by exploring parallels and possible origins of its tales, as well as the wealth of modern and contemporary material that it has origi... .... Learn More
Writing Appalachia: An Anthology [Hardback]
Katherine Ledford (Editor); Theresa Lloyd (Editor); Rebecca Stephens (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9780813178790
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Despite the stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding Appalachia, the region has nurtured and inspired some of the nation's finest writers. Featuring dozens of authors born into or adopted by the region over the past two centuries, Writing Appal... .... Learn More
Retold Resold Transformed: Crime Fiction in the Global Era [Paperback]
Christiana Gregoriou (Editor); Gigliola Sulis (Editor); David Platten (Editor)
£10.00ISBN: 9788869771736
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
In recent decades crime fiction has enjoyed a creative boom. Although, as Alison Young argues in her book Imagining Crime (1996), crime stories remain strongly identified with specific locations, the genre has acquired a global reach, illuminating... .... Learn More
Failure of Latin America, The: Postcolonialism in Bad Times [Hardback]
John Beverley (Author)
£28.50ISBN: 9780822945673
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
The Failure of Latin America is a collection of John Beverley’s previously published essays and pairs them with new material that reflects on questions of post-colonialism and equality within the context of receding continental socialism. Beverley... .... Learn More
Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism [Hardback]
Pablo Calvi (Author)
£35.50ISBN: 9780822945659
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism explores the central role of narrative journalism in the formation of national identities in Latin America, and the concomitant role the genre had in the consolidation of the idea of Latin America a... .... Learn More
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