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Features explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols and detailed analysis of important characters.

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This book explores how the tremendous earthquake on March 11, 2011 impacted literary authors in Japan and generated issues and perspectives previously unrecognized in Japanese literary and social culture. The disaster itself caused an earthquake, tsunami, and an nuclear accident, and provided the grounds for "post 3/11" literature in Japan.

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"An excellent guide to O'Connor, both as an introduction for new readers and a source of supplemental information for those more familiar with her oeuvre." Booklist

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Extending the work of Stanley's first volume, 'The Foreign Critical Reputation of F. Scott Fitzgerald', this book provides an analysis of the final two decades of the 20th century, including literature from the former countries of the U.S.S.R., Romania, India, and Canada, as well as countries that were covered in the first volume.

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The Glass Castle features explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, including: strength from hardship; abuse; fire; compassion vs. boundaries; the glass castle; and the Joshua tree.

Volume I: Overviews and the History Plays Volume II: The Comedies Volume III: The Tragedies Volume IV: The Romances and Poetry.

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"Smoothly written and liberally sprinkled with helpful illustrations and photographs. . . . A handy, thoughtful, and substantive reference tool. Highly recommended for secondary, undergraduate, graduate, and public libraries." Choice

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The HumanAnimal Boundary shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the question what is human with the question what is animal The objective is to expand the imaginative scope of humananimal relationships by combining perspectives from different disciplines, traditions, and cultural backgrounds.

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In this collection recognized writers and scholars discuss and analyze Stephen Kings contemporary works. The contributors comment on and critique numerous aspects of Kings literature, including his take on violent criminals, his craft, and his use of the Gothic.

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Designed for teachers, this is a comprehensive book of lesson plans, projects, discussion questions, reproducible worksheets and more.

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When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.

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This collection features works by Japanese intellectuals written in the immediate postwar period. These writingsmany appearing in English for the first timeoffer explorations into the social, political, and philosophical debates among Japanese literary elites that shaped the countrys literary culture in the aftermath of defeat.

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Reconstructing transnational identities in postcolonial migration, The Postcolonial Subject in Transit highlights the complexities of cultural hybridity in contemporary African diasporic literature. It captures migrants desire for cultural inclusivity in disputed borders and locations of the West.

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An intelligent and sympathetic analysis of one of the true taboos of modern life.

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When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.

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Because the contributors are some of the most significant authors and critics in children's literature in English, it should also be part of any academic library's holdings in the criticism of children's literature in particular and literary criticism in general.

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Frank and exhilarating, sensual and profound, the poems stare, unblinking, at sex and death and love - showing these things to us in all their raw beauty.

This striking new collection is a sequence of poems that reaches into the very wellspring of life.

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In these poems, Leontia Flynn writes about Belfast and the north of Ireland. Her subject matter ranges from memories of childhood to the instabilities of adulthood, from the raw domestic to the restless pull of 'elsewhere'. Her theme throughout is a search for physical and mental well-being, for a