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Critically engages with the visual appearance of prose fiction where it is manipulated by authors, from alterations in typography to the deconstruction of the physical form of the book -- .

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This volume offers students and book club members a handy and insight-filled guide to Morrison's works and their relation to current events and popular culture.

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Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom takes the work of the greatest living literary critic and discovers what it is like to read 'with', 'against' and 'beyond' his work. -- .

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This book offers a much-needed assessment of her literary career.

Schweizer's volume analyzes West's spiritual and philosophical ideas, asserting that her novels and travel writings betray an epic impulse and therefore reinvent epic heroism in feminist terms.

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Presents critical readings of 8 contemporary German novels that feature historically documented women as their main protagonist, and that reconstruct women's lives by combining source material and invention. This book examines how historical events are used to substantiate ideological positions, and how this problematic aspect is considered.

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In Reflections on the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, editor Michael R. Collings has selected the best of the conference proceedings reflecting the intent of the conference to discover aspects of the fantastic in every branch of the arts.

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Provides a new sense of the historical specificity of W.B. Yeats's writings over a wide range of genres, leading to innovative readings of classic texts. >

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This comprehensive and sophisticated feminist analysis contradicts the negative evaluations of earlier feminist critics to define Oates' feminist accomplishments.

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'Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century' is a collection of essays about a novelist who once was the 'second most famous Englishwoman in the world' after Queen Victoria and whose books broke every previous sales record. The essays account for Corelli's popularity and reintroduce her to a new generation of readers.

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Contents: I. Religion, evolution, and the novel; 1. 1888 and a look backwards; 2. George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Samuel Butler: three types of search; II. George Eliot: the search for a religious tradition; 1. George Eliot and science; 2. George Eliot and the "higher criticism"; 3. George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, and tradition; III. Middlemarch: the

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Myers has worked extensively with Frederic's correspondence as well as in publishers' archives (especially Scribner's), and he sees Frederic as a writer who flourished just as the American literary marketplace was being transformed from the rather poky 19th-century model into the faster-paced 20th-century version so familiar today.

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African American writers of the Harlem Renaissance generally fall into three aesthetic categories: the folk, which emphasizes oral traditions, African American English, rural settings, and characters from lower socioeconomic levels;

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The eighteenth-century "Hongloumeng", known in English as "Dream of the Red Chamber" or "The Story of the Stone", is generally considered to be the greatest of Chinese novels. This title goes beyond the customary view of "Hongloumeng" as a reflection of late imperial Chinese culture by examining the novel as a story about fictive representation.

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Resistance and its discontents in South Asian womens fiction examines the literary representation of a fascinating range of resistances enacted in response to various forms of oppression, and addresses the expectations, contradictions, anxieties and even inaction that resistance can generate, particularly for women.

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