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Reading Lolita in Tehran
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 15.15We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They... more...
From Cover to Cover
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 11.24The revised edition of From Cover to Cover offers a fresh, up-to-date look at some of the best examples of children's literature today and also includes practical advice on how to write clearly articulated, reasoned opinions so that others can learn about books they have not yet read. A brief, updated introduction explains how children's books... more...
Going Global
Taylor and Francis 2014; US$ 42.95First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. more...
Hateful Contraries
The University Press of Kentucky 2015; US$ 19.95These ten essays, written over a period from 1950 to 1962, are bound together by their common concern with questions of the meaning of criticism and the larger meaning of literature itself. These difficult questions W.K. Wimsatt treats with characteristic wit and penetration, ranging easily from a broad consideration of principles to incisive comment... more...
The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 24.00This volume is a unique overview of two centuries of short stories from Britain and other English-speaking countries. more...
The Definition of Literature and Other Essays
Cambridge University Press 1984; US$ 29.00Professor Robson considers particular works and authors in the light of the preceding discussion of critical principles. more...
The Future of Trauma Theory
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95This collection analyses the future of ‘trauma theory’, a major theoretical discourse in contemporary criticism and theory. The chapters advance the current state of the field by exploring new areas, asking new questions and making new connections. Part one, History and Culture , begins by developing trauma theory in its more familiar post-deconstructive... more...
The Things That Fly in the Night
Rutgers University Press 2015; US$ 34.95The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Anatol considers the explosion of soucouyant and other vampire narratives among writers of Caribbean and African heritage who in the past twenty years have rejected the demonic image of the character... more...
Transcolonial Maghreb
Stanford University Press 2015; US$ 50.00Arguing that Palestine has come to signify the colonial, broadly conceived, in the decolonizing world, this book offers the first thorough analysis of the ways in which Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian writers have engaged with the Palestinian question and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the past fifty years. more...
After Strange Texts
University of Alabama Press 2016; US$ 24.95In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetics are brought together around a central question: How does the choice of a particular theory after the practice of reading, and how do altered practices of reading in turn call forth more theory? more...
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