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Write Short Stories - and Get Them Published
Hodder Education 2011; US$ 15.98Everything you need not only to craft and shape your short stories, but also how and where to publish them and attract attention from publishers and competition judges. more...
From Pitch to Publication
Pan Macmillan UK 1999; US$ 24.67This is the insider's guide to getting published sucessfully. The secret to making money from your fiction writing is not only in the quality of your work but your approach to the publishing process: in this book an industry professional shows how to make the system work for you. Advice is here from almost the moment you pick up the pen - identifying... more...
Waking Sleeping Beauty
University of Iowa Press 1997; US$ 24.95The Sleeping Beauty in Roberta Seelinger Trites' intriguing text is no silent snoozer passively waiting for Prince Charming to energize her life. Instead she wakes up all by herself and sets out to redefine the meaning of “happily ever after.” Trites investigates the many ways that Sleeping Beauty's newfound voice has joined other strong... more...
Allegorical Quests from Deguileville to Spenser
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 90.00The literary motif of the "allegorical knightly quest" appears repeatedly in the literature of the late medieval/early modern period, notably in Spenser, but has hitherto been little examined. Here, in his examination of a number of sixteenth-century English allegorical-chivalric quest narratives, focussing on Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' but including... more...
On Anachronism
Manchester University Press 2010; US$ 95.00*On Anachronism* joins together Shakespeare and Proust as the great writers of love to show that love is always anachronistic, and never more so when it is homosexual. Drawing on Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and Levinas and Deleuze, difficult but essential theorists of the subject of being and time and time and the... more...
The Language of Fiction
University Press of New England 2012; US$ 14.99This is not your grandfather's style guide more...
Vivid and Continuous
University of Iowa Press 2013; US$ 19.95Taking off from The Creative Writer’s Survival Guide , John McNally’srelentlessly blunt, bracingly cheerful, and immensely helpful map to being a writer, Vivid and Continuous is an equally blunt, cheerful, and helpful map to learning to be a writer. While acknowledging that many fine books cover such essentials of fiction writing... more...
The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 101.00From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history. more...
Narrative
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 22.95This comprehensive, accessible guidebook traces the ways in which human beings have used narrative to make sense of time, space and identity over the centuries. Particular attention is given to: * early narrative, from Hellenic and Hebraic * the rise of the novel * realist representation * imperialism and narrative * modernism and cinema * postmodern... more...
The Accidental Optimist's Guide to Life
Eye Books 2005; US$ 9.99Exploring an inimitable philosophy of hope and humor through a variety of ups and downs, this quirky recollection illustrates the author?s search for the meaning of life. Depicting her experiences as the only doctor on call for an entire hospital in Sierra Leone in the midst of civil war, this portrait tells a story of optimism triumphing over what... more...









