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This interdisciplinary collection examines Tokyo in the cultural imagination. The contributors analyze how Tokyo has been perceived and experienced through such cultural lenses as novels, poetry, short stories, and films created in Japan since the 1980s.

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Based loosely on a successful radio series, this title discusses twenty great works of modern literature as both texts and objects. It includes essays that give a publishing biography of each book, together with comments about the author's involvement with first editions of the works. It is suitable for those who love books.

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Sheds new light on J.R.R. Tolkien's fictive mythology and gives scholars and lay readers an increased understanding of the scope and philosophical background of his major works.

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This collection demonstrates how to achieve more comprehensive scholarship on J. R. R. Tolkien, connecting Tolkien studies with other literary periods and cultural contexts.

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A guide to Tolstoy's literary and philosophical writings, focusing on aspects of his work that students find most difficult. It offers students an introduction to Tolstoy's literary works from his major novels to the shorter novels and texts, including "Hadji Murat" and "The Death of Ivan Ilyich".

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Offers students an introduction to Tolstoy's literary works from his major novels to the shorter novels and texts, including "Hadji Murat" and "The Death of Ivan Ilyich". This guide also covers major themes including sex, death, authority and evil and offers an overview of Tolstoy's religious and philosophical thought.

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In Clancy's eight novels, discussed and analyzed in separate chapters, we see both the emerging hero and the changing author.

Garson provides close examination of each of Clancy's eight novels, helping the reader with explication of Clancy's wide-ranging and often difficult subject matter.

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A study of the popular novelist Tom Robbins. Hoyser and Stookey show how Robbins deftly uses style and humour to depict the absurdities and injustices of our world. His novels constantly challenge perceptions of the world that people automatically label as normal.

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With its engaging alteration between past and present "Arcadia" offers a comedic and entertaining exploration of chaos theory, entropy, the Second Law of thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, fractals, and other concepts culled the realms of math and science. This guide provides students a comprehensive critical introduction to the play.

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Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights. "Arcadia" is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his early career love for words and ideas with his later career emphasis on storytelling and emotional engagement. This guide provides an introduction to the play.

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The famous tale from the Brothers Grimm included in this book is only one of the stories from around the world about a very diminutive but resourceful character trying to earn his or her place in the world.

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While The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities remain perhaps his best-known works, Tom Wolfe's journalism and fiction continues to enjoy a large audience, perhaps chiefly because of the variety of his subjects and his controversial approach to them.

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"Explores a crucial but elusive aspect of writing, tone, across fiction, creative non-fiction, and electronically-generated prose"--

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"Explores a crucial but elusive aspect of writing, tone, across fiction, creative non-fiction, and electronically-generated prose"--

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This work is part of the "Continuum Contemporaries" series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist and a full-length study of the novel.

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This book is a revealing look at the life and work of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.

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Morrison describes herself as a black woman novelist, and all her novels deal with African American characters and communities. This is the only book-length study to discuss all of Morrison's novels published to date.

This study analyzes in turn each of Morrison's novels.

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Cutting-edge scholarly guide to Toni Morrison's most recent work with emphasis on Morrison's examination of African-American progress and leadership at key moments in American history.

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Cutting-edge scholarly guide to Toni Morrison's most recent work with emphasis on Morrison's examination of African-American progress and leadership at key moments in American history.

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