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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 67.95'A model reference work that can be used with profit and delight by general readers as well as by more advanced students of Twain. Highly recommended.' ? Library Journal The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain includes more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries that cover a full variety of topics on this major American writer's life,... more...
New Aphorisms & Reflections
Hamilton Books 2010; US$ 19.99This book is the sixth volume in a sequence which began with 222: Aphorisms & Reflections, featuring more than 450 entries, some autobiographical. Like its predecessors, New Aphorisms & Reflections includes a sampling of 'meetings of the minds'-dialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of the past. more...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
DK Publishing 2013; US$ 19.95From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each chapter offers a conversational,... more...
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableItalo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1985-86, but they were left unfinished at his death. The surviving drafts explore of the concepts of Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Exactitude and Visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth) in serious yet playful essays that reveal Calvino's debt to the comic strip... more...
Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory
Edinburgh University Press 2013; US$ 112.00Explores Woolfs writing alongside Deleuzes philosophy and new materialist theories of sex, animal, and life. How does Virginia Woolf conceptualise the material world? In what ways has Woolfs modernism affected understandings of materiality, and what new perspectives does she offer contemporary theoretical... more...
Welsh Gothic
University of Wales Press 2013; US$ 140.00Drawing upon both Welsh- and English-language materials, Welsh Gothic explores the diverse ways in which Wales has been represented in Gothic literature from the late eighteenth century to the present day. more...
Fictions of Adolescent Carnality
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 143.00Fictions of Adolescent Carnality considers one of the most controversial topics related to adolescents: their experience of desire. In fiction for adolescents, carnal desire is variously presented as a source of angst, an overwhelming experience over which one has no control, bestial, disgusting and, just occasionally, a source of pleasure. The on-set... more...
Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00From the jaded, wired teenagers of M.T. Anderson's? Feed ?to the spirited young rebels of Suzanne Collins? The Hunger Games trilogy, the protagonists of Young Adult dystopias are introducing a new generation of readers to the pleasures and challenges of dystopian imaginings. As the dark universes of YA dystopias continue to flood the market, Contemporary... more...
Philosophy and Fiction
Cybereditions 2000; US$ 12.95Peter Lamarque's refreshing, polemical anthology on the philosophy of literature covers the field's key debates: the role of the author, literary appreciation, the nature of fiction, the pleasures of tragedy, and the question of censorship. After a comprehensive and engaging introduction, five robust essays examine the central themes of the aesthetics... more...
Familiar Studies of Men and Books
Electric Book Company 1999; US$ 4.95The essays that were later published as Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882) began to appear in the Cornhill Magazine in 1876. The essay was the form in which Stevenson first gave promise of his future distinction and these critical essays were very favourably received. more...









