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Explores the concept of decay as providing the fundamental core of Beckett's work, examining the theme of decay in terms of physical, mental and linguistic deterioration.

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Expounding the view that the feminist movement has both encouraged and enriched literature by women, Katherine Payant examines a large body of popular fiction of the late 1960s through the early 1990s, relating these writers and works to the women's movement and feminist theories.

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This text is designed to introduce students not only to ethnic American writers, but also to the cultural contexts and literary traditions in which their work is situated, with sections on African American, Asian American, Chicano/a and native American literature.

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Explores how representations of females transgressing the social order play out in literature by Asian American women. This book analyzes how women serve as boundary markers between ethnic or national collectives in order to reveal the male-based nature of social cohesion.

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This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920sincluding work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Faulker, and otherscontributed to shaping the national imagination.

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The 1920s offered a veritable explosion of distinctively American fiction for the first time, from many of the nation's most widely heralded writers, including Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and others. Beyond Gatsby dem...

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This collection of essays attempts to show the variety of contemporary French novelists. It is written with the non-specialist reader in mind and includes writers such as Marguerite Duras, Michel Tournier, Philippe Sollers, Marie-Claire Blais, Augustin Gomez Arcos and Patrick Modiano.

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Brilliantly fusing the drama of the academic and popular traditions, Erne shows how Thomas Kyd's plays are of central importance for understanding how the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries was formed -- .

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These citations are grouped in five indexes: an author/title index, title/author index, anthology index, novel index, and autobiography index.

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This collection of recent essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls demonstrates the centrality of this Spanish Civil war novel in the author's life and canon and reestablishes the book's status as an American masterpiece.

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A guide to ten of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges' best-known and widely studied short stories. It offers an analysis of such key terms in Borges' work as 'labyrinth' and the 'infinite' and analyses Borges' particular narrative strategies.

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"Dracula" (1897) is one of the most commonly studied gothic novels and has been hugely influential through adaptations in fiction, on stage and in cinema. This book introduces its context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife, leading students to an understanding of the text.

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"Dracula" (1897) is one of the most commonly studied gothic novels and has been hugely influential through adaptations in fiction, on stage and in cinema. This book introduces its context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife, leading students to an understanding of the text.

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Honig's short, pleasantly written book is a consideration of the images of women--as mothers, spinsters, girls, and supernatural women--in 19th-and early 20th-century fantasy novels for children.

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A reader's guide to one of the most popular novels of the past ten years. Includes a biography of the novelist, analysis of the novel, reviews of the novel, the novel's standing today vis-a-vis TV, film, prizes, etc, and further reading, discussion questions, websites.