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This is the first study to cover Tan's entire oeuvre, and offers students and general readers an accessible, probing analysis of Tan's highly successful novels within broader debates about the representation of identity, history and reality.

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The bulk of the Companion comprises alphabetically arranged entries on Bierce's major works and characters and on historical persons and writers who figured prominently in his life and career.

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Alphabetically arranged entries for Anne Tyler's works, characters, and themes.

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H.P. Lovecraft is commonly regarded as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the 20th century. This encyclopedia is a guide to many aspects of Lovecraft's life and work, codifying the detailed research on Lovecraft conducted by many scholars since the 1970s.

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With its subtle literary readings and its philosophical commentary, this volume will be a significant resource for courses in West Indian and Third World literature, literature and culture, and race and gender in literature.

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A unique anthology devoted to a single story-"Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov-which exposes the way we read and interpret short stories.

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A unique anthology devoted to a single story-"Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov-which exposes the way we read and interpret short stories.

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This book presents an existentialist reading of Andrey Platonovs perspective on the 1917 Russian Revolution. It brings the works of Platonov into a dialogue with the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, and Jean-Luc Nancy on issues of communality, groundlessness, memory, and interiority.

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Providing a methodology for identifying literary narratives of climate change, this book draws on historical narrative strategies and analysis of the current popular trends to assess the effectiveness of literary narratives on global issues.

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Continuum Contemporaries give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years.

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This collection of critical essays is the first work to examine the short stories of Ann Petry, a noted African American writer.

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Arguably the most popular novelist of her day and the mother of the female Gothic literary tradition, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) has received varying amounts of critical attention and is now being recognized for her important contribution to English literature.

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Examines male and female sexuality, extending the notion of New Woman feminism, proposing a new masculinity to match it. This work sets out its transgressive interracial sexual and social relations in a highly eroticized Indian landscape and against the rigidities of Victorian imperialism.

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The first woman to win the Hugo award (given annually by the World Science Fiction convention) and the Nebula award (given annually by the Science Fiction Writers of America), Anne McCaffrey has invented many worlds of science fiction that have made her work enormously popular.

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Horror novelist Anne Rice explores philosophical questions of life, death, evil and the meaning of existence in her work. This text provides an analysis of her vampire, witch and mummy novels with subsections on point of view, plot, character, theme and literary device.

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In this study Paul Bail shows us how Tyler constructs the complex reality of life through character, narrative point of view, theme, and literary devices.

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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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"An innovative look at the relevance of DeLillo's work to contemporary literature and thought through the lens of "last things," like death, mourning, and the decline of the American empire"--

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"An innovative look at the relevance of DeLillo's work to contemporary literature and thought through the lens of "last things," like death, mourning, and the decline of the American empire"--