British Fiction Today
by Philip Tew


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Provides students and readers with an introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 through a collection of the perspectives on British fiction. This book offers comprehensive coverage of a range of selected contemporary authors, drawing together... (read more)

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American Visions #3: The American Body in Context: An Anthology: An Anthology
by Jessica R Johnston


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The body is a physical entity and a symbolic artifact. It is both created in the world of nature and also physically reconstructed by a culture. The body is both an internal, subjective environment and simultaneously an object for others to observe and... (read more)

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British Representations of Latin America
by Luz Elena Ramirez


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Ramirez examines British literary representations of Latin America from the 16th through the 20th centuries, with particular attention to travel writing and fiction published during and after Latin American independence. Locating these representations... (read more)

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The Grove of the Eumenides: Essays on Literature, Criticism, and Culture
by Frederick Glaysher


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A poet now whose work and dedication to a demanding and difficult art I admire; a man who has the gift of inner grace.--Robert Hayden.... (read more)

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Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period
by Aranzazu Usandizaga


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The editors (professors of American and English literature at the U. Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) present 14 essays that examine textual representations of post-conflict transitions to peace. Opening essays focus on the return of combatants and... (read more)

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Drunk the Night Before: An Anatomy of Intoxication
by Marty Roth


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This invigorating work traces the cultural history of convivial drinking before the concept of addiction overshadowed intoxication's reputation as a creative, philosophical, and spiritual force.  Marty Roth's Drunk the Night Before illustrates... (read more)

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American Literature and Culture, 1900-1960 (Blackwell Introductions to Literature)
by Gail Mcdonald


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This introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it big, new, rich, and free.... (read more)

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Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity
by Kevin Bell


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For years critics have held that literary modernism was both apolitical and solipsistic. While the former charge began to give way with the recession of New Criticism, the latter has grown in strength as a lead-in to the claim that postmodernism is... (read more)

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Between Terror and Freedom: Politics, Philosophy, and Fiction Speak of Modernity
by Simona Goi


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In this volume, Simona Goi and Frederick M. Dolan gather stimulating arguments for the indispensability of fiction including poetry, drama, and film as irreplaceable sites for wrestling with nature, meaning, shortcomings, and the future of modern... (read more)

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A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism (Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism)
by John Dudley


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This publication explores how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism.... (read more)

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Bernard Shaw and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters (Florida Bernard Shaw)
by Kay Li


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Bernard Shaw "traveled" to China in three respects: publication of his work, theater production of it, and his actual passage in 1933. The first Chinese performances of Shaw's plays have long been regarded as failures, but Kay Li presents... (read more)

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Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning
by Murat Aydemir


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Aristotle believed semen to be the purest of all bodily secretions, a vehicle for the spirit or psyche that gives form to substance. For Proust’s narrator in Swann’s Way, waking to find he has experienced a nocturnal emission, it is the... (read more)

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Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850-2000
by Eric Bulson


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Novel Orientations: Maps, Novels and the Spatial Imagination, 1850-2000 examines how readers and novelists alike have used maps, guidebooks, and other geographical media to imagine and represent the space of the novel from the mid-nineteenth century to... (read more)

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Fat Boys: A Slim Book
by Sander L Gilman


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He is the epitome of health—or a walking time bomb. He is oversexed—or sexless. He is jolly—or hiding the tears of a clown. He is the picture of wealth and plenty—or the bloated, malnourished emblem of poverty. He is the fat... (read more)

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Class Representation in Modern Fiction and Film
by Keith Gandal


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‘Rich girl meets poor boy who liberates her then dies.’ Or, ‘low-life girl is trashed by lower-life boy.’ The contemporary middle-class fictions of poverty that inform films such as Titanic and Kids are a far cry from the... (read more)

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Beyond Literary Chinatown
by Jeffrey F Partridge


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The phenomenon of "literary Chinatown"--the ghettoization of Chinese American literature--was produced by the same dynamics of race and representation that ghettoized the Chinese American community into literal Chinatowns. Partridge examines the dynamic... (read more)

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Stalking (Focus on Contemporary Issues)
by Bran Nicol


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It scares—and titillates—in such movies as The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Basic Instinct. It violently ended the lives of legendary artists such as Selena and John Lennon, and thousands of people endure it daily in anonymity from ex... (read more)

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Twilight of the Literary: Figures of Thought in the Age of Print,
by Terry Cochran


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In Western thought, the modern period signals a break with stagnant social formations, the advent of a new rationalism, and the emergence of a truly secular order, all in the context of an overarching globalization. In The Twilight of the Literary, Terry... (read more)

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