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Presenting a penetrating psychoanalytic reading of Virginia Woolf's novels, this work explains how Woolf's feminism and pacifism, based on her conscious insight into an authoritarian society, were given passionate conviction by her childhood and adult relationships with her family and men.

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Virginia Woolf's discovery as a novelist--how to convey the inner reality of experience--is set forth for the first time by Harvena Richter. A voyage "inward" to Mrs. Woolf's subjective methods, Miss Richter's study furthers our understanding of her novels, especially The Waves and The Years, and reveals a new, vital, completely contemporary Virgin

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Schor traces the development of Ralph Ellison's fiction from the earliest experiments to the major accomplishment of his novel Invisible Man, the mature prose of the Hickman stories and other published portions of his novel-in-progress.

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Situates close analytical readings of individual slave narratives within the larger context of social, political, cultural, and literary conditions influencing the fugitive slave narrative genre.

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Situates close analytical readings of individual slave narratives within the larger context of social, political, cultural, and literary conditions influencing the fugitive slave narrative genre.

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A bibliography of philosopher and author (Love in the Ruins, The Message in the Bottle, etc.), Walker Percy, including information on separate publications, first appearace contributions to books, first appearance contributions to periodicals, interviews and published comments.

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This beautiful and deeply personal book blends memoir and biography with literary criticism to offer a new perspective on the legendary American writer James Baldwin.

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"A linguistic analysis of the portrayal of dialect (regional and ethnic) and idiolect in David Foster Wallace's works"--

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More than thirty years after its publication, Canticle continues to be hailed as one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written and an important work of modern literature.

This reference guide presents a complete record of Miller's work and of the resulting criticism.

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Introduces key concepts in contemporary literary theory to explore the major novels of Sir Walter Scott.

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Introduces key concepts in contemporary literary theory to explore the major novels of Sir Walter Scott.

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This timely addition to the critical literature on Tolkien sheds new light on the author's life and works.

Tolkien, one of the world's most beloved authors, was a World War I signaling officer who survived the Battle of the Somme, and two of his sons served during World War II.

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This book examines Washington Irvings biography of the Prophet Muhammed and his other writings that engage Islamic history and the Muslim world. It explores the influence of Spain, Muslim and Christian legends, gender, and heroic biographies on Irvings writing and illustrates Irvings articulation of Orientalism and American nationalism.

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"An evocative account of German emigres in America in the wake of Nazism, centered around Thomas Mann's early exile in Princeton and his encounters with a brilliant group of intellectuals, including Albert Einstein, Hermann Broch, and Erich Kahler, which came to be known as the Kahler Circle"--

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"An evocative account of German emigres in America in the wake of Nazism, centered around Thomas Mann's early exile in Princeton and his encounters with a brilliant group of intellectuals, including Albert Einstein, Hermann Broch, and Erich Kahler, which came to be known as the Kahler Circle"--

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Analyzes our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the 20th-century American novel, this book identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative - the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms "homelessness."

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Scholars, students, and fans of Woolf will profit from this careful consideration of a neglected area of Woolf scholarship.

Despite her popularity as a novelist, Woolf was among the very few writers of her generation to face the creative challenge of writing stories with no direct action, human content, or dialogue.