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The first extensive analysis of the works of Dave Eggers. >

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Offers an analysis of the works of Dave Eggers, an author who has grown from a small-time media upstart into one of the most influential author-publishers of the twenty-first century. This book charts Eggers' rise to fame in detail, offering analysis of the circumstances of his success and their effects on the production of his literary oeuvre.

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Relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change -- .

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This literary study of Oriana Fallaci examines the implications of the storms and silences that she keeps rousing. It portrays Fallaci as a fully emancipated and successful woman in the man's world of political journalism, and focuses on her engagement as a writer with political and social issues.

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This literary study of Oriana Fallaci examines the implications of the storms and silences that she keeps rousing. It portrays Fallaci as a fully emancipated and successful woman in the man's world of political journalism, and focuses on her engagement as a writer with political and social issues.

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"Critically examines and revises many of Freud's seminal ideas about culture from the perspective of contemporary anthropology, psychoanalysis, evolutionary theory, and literature and the arts"--

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"Critically examines and revises many of Freud's seminal ideas about culture from the perspective of contemporary anthropology, psychoanalysis, evolutionary theory, and literature and the arts"--

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Demonstrates the main convention of the short story-specifically the heightened reader response that the author terms narratorial presence'. The intensity of the short story encourages readers to appropriate the fictive world, as rendered through one or more represented subjectivities in the narrative.

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Contending that a "mythology of race" consisting of themes of sex and savagery exists in the United States and is perpetuated in popular culture, the author identifies stereotypical images of blacks in crime and detective fiction and probes the implied values and collective fantasies found there.

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One of our most provocative African American novelists affirms the literary power of the African diaspora with an eloquent appreciation of three writers from very different places and times

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During the Great War, books and stories for young men were frequently used as unofficial propaganda for recruitment and to sell the war to British youth as a moral crusade.

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This book provides a comprehensive account and critical analysis of the literary career to date of Pat Barker, one of the most celebrated and popular of contemporary British novelists. -- .

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This study examines the recurring motifs in Pat Conroy's fiction and his writing talent. Each novel is analysed for plot structure, thematic elements, characterisation and development. A biographical chapter draws connections between Conroy's life and the autobiographical nature of his fiction.

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This volume focuses on developments within national literature and in movements cutting across frontiers through the study of Patrick Modiano.

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This volume focuses on developments within national literature and in movements cutting across frontiers through the study of Patrick Modiano.

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The defintive account of the early life of the revered author of the Aubrey-Maturin novels including Master and Commander.

Nikolai Tolstoy was O'Brian's stepson and his acquaintanceship with him lasted forty-five years during most of O'Brian's marriage to Mary Tolstoy, Nikolai's mother.

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Ross Shideler offers an in-depth introduction to the works of Per Olov Enquist and discusses the writer's central themes and the imagery and motifs he uses to develop them. Other psychological, social, and political themes are examined and analyzed in this first critical study concentrating entirely on Enquist's work.

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Explores the transnational dimensions of Persianate literature, from early periods to today, and its influences both locally and beyond the Persian-speaking world.