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"From mecha robots to shojo anime's hearts and flowers, [this book] investigates the wild, wonderful and often misunderstood worlds of Japan's animation genres"--

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Continuum Contemporaries give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years.

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This comprehensive list of writings is designed to facilitate future research on Shockley, to allow for a complete view of her writings and their critical reception, and to guide the researcher to the full range of her publications and secondary sources about her and her works.

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This collection of critical essays is the first work to examine the short stories of Ann Petry, a noted African American writer.

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Arguably the most popular novelist of her day and the mother of the female Gothic literary tradition, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) has received varying amounts of critical attention and is now being recognized for her important contribution to English literature.

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This reference book chronicles Ann Sheridan's life and career. The volume begins with a biography that traces her rise to stardom. A chronology then summarizes the most important events in her life. Detailed information on her work in films, radio, and television is also provided.

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The book includes a filmography and discography, as well as comprehensive lists of Miss Sothern's stage, radio, and television appearances.

Ann Sothern: A Bio-Bibliography is the first full-length examination of Miss Sothern's life and career.

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An introduction to the work of the famous Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, this book begins with an account of her life in pre-revolutionary St Petersburg and Stalinist Russia, and focuses on her poetry. It traces the way in which her work reflects the tumultuous times in which she lived, and her emergence as the spokeswoman of her generation.

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An introduction to the work of the famous Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, this book begins with an account of her life in pre-revolutionary St Petersburg and Stalinist Russia, and focuses on her poetry. It traces the way in which her work reflects the tumultuous times in which she lived, and her emergence as the spokeswoman of her generation.

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With the publication of this book, the Reverend Anna Howard Shaw assumes her rightful place in the pantheon of great American orators. Finally, Shaw's public speaking efforts after she resigned as president, including her work for the war effort and the League of Nations, are also analyzed.

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Examines male and female sexuality, extending the notion of New Woman feminism, proposing a new masculinity to match it. This work sets out its transgressive interracial sexual and social relations in a highly eroticized Indian landscape and against the rigidities of Victorian imperialism.

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Looks at the problem of gullibility. This work covers topics from how we are fooled in areas from religion, politics, science, and medicine, to personal finance and relationships. It also shows gullibility at play in the writings of historic authors we all know.

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This text describes the life and career of the American actress in a biography and chronology detailing her achievements in the different production media, with full credits, synopses, and review sources provided for the films and plays.

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A wide-ranging exploration of Anne Carson's multi-faceted engagement with antiquity covering the full breadth of her oeuvre, from her novels, poems, and essays to her PhD thesis and artwork.

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The first woman to win the Hugo award (given annually by the World Science Fiction convention) and the Nebula award (given annually by the Science Fiction Writers of America), Anne McCaffrey has invented many worlds of science fiction that have made her work enormously popular.

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Montgomery's beloved novel is now available in this abridged paperback chapter book that comes with a gold-tone charm. Illustrations. Consumable.

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Horror novelist Anne Rice explores philosophical questions of life, death, evil and the meaning of existence in her work. This text provides an analysis of her vampire, witch and mummy novels with subsections on point of view, plot, character, theme and literary device.

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He charts the chronological development of Sexton's poetic aesthetic and provides a new interpretation of this major poet's work.

Informed by the poetic and philosophical works of a number of other writers, McGowan's readings of Sexton's work are detailed and thorough.

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The volume lists all of Tyler's novels, short stories, articles, and book reviews and provides an annotated bibliography of critical studies.

The first half of the book is a biography of Tyler.

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In this study Paul Bail shows us how Tyler constructs the complex reality of life through character, narrative point of view, theme, and literary devices.

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Using Calvin Hernton's Sex and Racism in America in the development of women's stereotypes, Anna Maria Chupa adds a mythic interpretation to these characters, while at the same time recognizing that the social context that informs the stereotypes creates the imagery through which archetypes are manifest.