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FiltersCormac McCarthy
A complexity theory of literature
By Lydia R. Cooper
Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy's literary works as a significant case study demonstrating our need to recognise the interrelated ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7205-1
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£20.00
Buy NowThe politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction
By Michael Kalisch
How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7204-4
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Buy NowCrossing borders and queering citizenship
Civic reading practice in contemporary American and Canadian writing
By Zalfa Feghali
Can reading make us better citizens? In Crossing borders and queering citizenship, Feghali crafts a sophisticated theoretical framework to theorise how the act of reading can contribute to the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6393-6
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£21.00
Buy NowThe quiet contemporary American novel
By Rachel Sykes
This book explores the concept of 'quiet' - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term's application to the study of contemporary American fiction. In ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6361-5
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£21.00
Buy NowMarilynne Robinson
Edited by Rachel Sykes, Anna Maguire Elliott and Jennifer Daly
Best known for a trilogy of historical novels set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa, Marilynne Robinson is a prolific writer, teacher, and public speaker, who has won the Pulitzer Prize and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3465-3
FORMAT:
£90.00
Buy NowSara Paretsky
Detective fiction as trauma literature
By Cynthia Hamilton
Sara Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. But Paretsky does more than ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5604-4
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£21.00
Buy NowMaking home
Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels
By Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, Helena Wahlstrom and Maria Holmgren Troy
Making home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5607-5
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£21.00
Buy NowPassing into the present
Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing
By Sinead Moynihan
This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5601-3
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£21.00
Buy NowLouise Erdrich
By David Stirrup
Louise Erdrich is one of the most critically and commercially successful Native American writers. This book is the first fully comprehensive treatment of Erdrich's writing, analysing the textual ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-7427-1
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£16.99
Buy NowPaul Auster
By Mark Brown
Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster's essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It explores his key themes of identity; language and writing; metropolitan ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-7397-7
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£15.99
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