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Howard Fast, one of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century, has enjoyed wide popularity for his writing and suffered from great notoriety for his politics, but has never been given full credit for his contribution to the essential tales of American culture, the American Revolution, and immigrant acculturation.

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A clearly written, comprehensive critical introduction to one of the most original contemporary British writers, providing an overview of all of Sinclair's major works and an analysis of his vision of modern London -- .

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A student guide to the novel, "Atonement". It features an analysis of the novel, a summary of the novel's popular and critical reception, a discussion of the film adaptation and more.

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A critical examination of Ian McEwan and his novel, "Enduring Love", this title forms part of a series that aims to provide accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years.

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In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Ian McEwan.

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Represents an attempt to apply the techniques of modern literary criticism to the fiction of the Elizabethan period. The author tries "to determine what Elizabethan fiction writers were trying to do and how they did it." Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available p

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"Discovers innovative methods for coming to terms with urgent questions about the ethics and value of the novel in the work of some of Japan's most famous and influential modern writers, Mori Ogai and Akutagawa Ryunosuke"--

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A study of land and landscape in the African romances of H. Rider Haggard. It argues that Haggard created a formulaic, ideological geography which provided a canvas onto which he projected his desires and fears, both personal and political, as well as those of his age.

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Stephen King has been hailed as a writer of the late 20th century Everyman, yet his representations of women remain debatable. These essays not only explore his portrayal of female characters, they illuminate Stephen King's own psychology and that of our culture's fears, anxieties, and feminine obsessions.

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From the turbulent years following the French Revolution to the fiction of Jane Austen, this book charts the rise of a self-regulating reader, who possesses both moral and cultural authority.

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Reveals the role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. This book shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism.

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This book studies how Jewish and Catholic practices of giving structure to religious mystery are embodied in the works of Bernard Malamud, Walker Percy, Cynthia Ozick, and Flannery O'Connor.

The volume links Malamud with Percy and Ozick with O'Connor because these Jewish and Catholic authors depict religious mystery in similar ways.

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Top African-American Studies scholars examine the history and reception of The Bondwoman's Narrative, the slave narrative that has changed how we view antebellum literature.

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This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath.

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This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath.

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Classic 19th-century British novels that give full expression to complex ethical problems necessarily project the claims of conflicting or interfering values and thus complicate the strategies for resolving the dilemmas they dramatize.

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A reassessment of Iris Murdoch's fictional work regarding the links with her own philosophy and the philosophy of Plato, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Freud. By investigating her use of philosophical argument in her fictional writing, it makes clear that her narratives always depend upon a strong metaphysical underpinning.