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A comprehensive introduction to Jeanette Winterson's writing. This work provides students with a critical guide to Winterson's most commonly studied texts, covering major themes and developments, and issues of style, technique and genre, from a range of contemporary critical and theoretical perspectives.

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A comprehensive introduction to Jeanette Winterson's writing. This book brings together essays by critics writing on key topics across her work from early successes like "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit" to works like "Lighthousekeeping". It provides students with a critical guide to Winterson's most commonly studied texts.

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This book offers a compelling examination of performed adaptations of Stevenson's masterpiece, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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The subject of divided critical opinion because of the experimental nature of his writings and his use of radical subject matter, Jerzy Kosinski, author of such novels as The Painted Bird and Being There, nevertheless ranks among the most celebrated of contemporary American authors.

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Philip Tew's study is the first extended critical examination of Crace's oeuvre and is based on extensive interviews with the novelist, including discussions of his work from his first worldwide bestseller Continent (1986) up to The Pesthouse (2007).

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Philip Tew's study is the first extended critical examination of Crace's oeuvre and is based on extensive interviews with the novelist, including discussions of his work from his first worldwide bestseller Continent (1986) up to The Pesthouse (2007).

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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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Additionally, Harris was a major New South journalist who accelerated the process of reconciliation between North and South and promoted racial tolerance after the Civil War.

This reference book is a complete bibliographic guide to the scholarly response to Harris during the last two decades.

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The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, A MaggotIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of John Fowles.

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Following a biographical chapter that focuses on Grisham's childhood, education, political career and development as a writer, this work examines the legal thriller, its antecedents and Grisham's contribution to the genre. An individual chapter is devoted to analysis of each of his novels.

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Part II, The Kent Family Chronicles, devotes an individual chapter to each of the novels in this series, The Bastard, The Rebels, The Seekers, The Furies, The Titans, The Warriors,

The Lawless, and The Americans.

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This volume brings together contributions from a variety of disciplines to address the writer's legacy and literary achievements. Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a writer illuminate his body of work in new and challenging ways, expanding the boundaries of the McGahern debate. -- .

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This volume brings together contributions from a variety of disciplines to address the writer's legacy and literary achievements. Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a writer illuminate his body of work in new and challenging ways, expanding the boundaries of the McGahern debate. -- .

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The study includes never-before-published biographical information, drawing an original interview with John Saul, and a chapter on the history of tales of horror and the supernatural and how these genres have influenced Saul's fiction.

Each chapter in this study examines an individual novel.

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One of the great works of American literature, Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is popular with the international reading public and is widely taught at high schools and colleges.

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Working within theoretical and critical contexts, Hidalga applies a model of the conversion/redemption narrative to the novels of Jonathan Franzen.

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Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book studies his work and articulates where American fiction is headed after postmodernism. It provides a comprehensive analysis of Franzen's novels, revealing how Franzen's themes are reinforced by his novels' structure.