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By: Barbara E. Thornbury

ISBN: 9781498523691
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Rick Gekoski

ISBN: 9781845292393
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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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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By: Verlyn Flieger

ISBN: 9780313305306
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Nick Katsiadas

ISBN: 9781666971484
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Dr Charlotte Alston

ISBN: 9781350159433
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Professor Jeff Love

ISBN: 9780826493781
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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".


(Paperback)

By: Professor Jeff Love

ISBN: 9780826493798
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Helen S. Garson

ISBN: 9780313295058
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Catherine E. Hoyser

ISBN: 9780313294181
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Dr John Fleming

ISBN: 9780826496218
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Dr John Fleming

ISBN: 9780826496201
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Margaret Read MacDonald

ISBN: 9780897747288
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Apr 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Kevin T. McEneaney

ISBN: 9780313365447
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Professor Judith Roof

ISBN: 9781501362576
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Professor Judith Roof

ISBN: 9781501362569
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Explores a crucial but elusive aspect of writing, tone, across fiction, creative non-fiction, and electronically-generated prose"--


(Hardback)

By: Dr Justine Baillie

ISBN: 9781441183101
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Dr Justine Baillie

ISBN: 9781474222914
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Kelly Reames

ISBN: 9780826453198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Stephanie Li

ISBN: 9780313378393
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book is a revealing look at the life and work of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.


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By: Missy Kubitschek

ISBN: 9780313302657
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Professor Lucille P. Fultz

ISBN: 9781441119681
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Professor Lucille P. Fultz

ISBN: 9781441130136
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Edith Hall

ISBN: 9781474299336
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Edith Hall

ISBN: 9781350194588
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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