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Cormac Mccarthy(2021) COOPER, LYDIA R.Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's fiction makes a significant case study demonstrating how literature can help us imagine and grapple withVezava: Trda77,52 € -
Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story(2019) BLACKWELL, LAIRD R.This critical study presents the first thorough examination of the role Ellery Queen played in the flourishing of the detective-crime short story, with particular focus on the importance of Frederick Dannay as editor of EQMM and scores of short story anthVezava: Mehka94,34 € -
Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein(2019) MENDLESOHN, FARAHThe definitive study of the SF giant's life and work, from Hugo Award-winning critic and historian Farah MendlesohnVezava: Trda35,05 € -
Virginia Woolf(2021) NICOLSON, NIGEL, MBE'You cannot find peace by avoiding life' Virginia WoolfAn intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author of them all - 'All you need to know about the modernist, feminist icon' TIME OUTVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Making of The Wind in the Willows(2018) HUNT, PETERGenerously illustrated with original drawings, fan letters (including one from President Roosevelt) and archival material, this book explores the mysteries surrounding one of the most successful works of children’s literature ever published.Vezava: Mehka20,07 € -
Star Warriors of the Modern Raj(2021) KHAN, SAMI AHMADA path-breaking study of India's Science Fiction, which investigates how mythology, ideology and technology shape contemporary SF.Vezava: Trda91,88 € -
Letters of Intent(2018) OZICK, CYNTHIAA selection of essays by the acclaimed and beloved writer Cynthia Ozick, collected by David Miller.Vezava: Trda21,02 € -
John Buchan and the Thirty-nine Steps(2014) BURNETT, JOHN,MACKAY, KATEA timely look at John Buchan's much-loved pre-First-World-War novel - what inspired it, its themes and metaphors - and at how much of the author's own swlf and experiences are in it.Vezava: Mehka7,71 € -
Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature(2020) PULHAM, PATRICIA (PROFESSOR OF VICTORIAN LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF SURREY)This book argues that, in Victorian literature, transgressive desires that cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble bodies of statues.Vezava: Trda131,73 € -
Ten Novels And Their Authors(2001) MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSETMaugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its finest. Afforded here are some of the formulae of greatness in the genre, as well as the flaws and heresies which enfeeble it. WriVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
They (Faber Editions)(2022) DICK, KAYmobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks - and those who resist. THEY capture dissidents - writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless - in military sweeps, 'curing' these subversives of individual identity. Survivors gather tVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Sleepless Nights(2019) HARDWICK, ELIZABETHAbove all, here is prose blurring into poetry, language to lose - and perhaps to find - yourself in. Society tries to write these lives before they are lived.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction(2020) CROSSLEY, ALICEFocusing on works by George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, Alice Crossley expounds on the emergence of adolescence in the mid-Victorian period as a distinct category of identity and form of experience. She argues that male adolescence prVezava: Mehka65,39 € -
Student Companion to Stephen Crane(2005) SORRENTINO, PAUL M.Born into a family of writers, Stephen Crane wrote his first poem, I'd Rather Have when he was eight, and his first short story, Uncle Jake and the Bell-Handle, at around the age of 13.Vezava: Trda64,15 € -
Simenon(2022) FORSHAW, BARRYGeorges Simenon was the most successful writer of crime fiction in a language other than English in the modern age, and his detective Maigret is rivalled only by Sherlock Holmes; André Gide called Simenon 'the greatest French novelist of our times'. BarryVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Strategies of Fantasy(1992) ATTEBERY, BRIANDrawing on a number of literary theories (but avoiding most of their jargon), the author makes a case for fantasy as a significant movement within postmodern literature rather than as a simple exercise of nostalgia. It examines fantasies by Ursula K Le GuVezava: Trda26,72 € -
Literary Allusion in Harry Potter(2017) GROVES, BEATRICEEach chapter of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter consists of an in-depth discussion of the intersection between Potter and a canonical literary work; a discussion which aims to transform the reader’s understanding of Rowling’s literary achievement as welVezava: Mehka60,81 €
