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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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This book is an intertextual study of Paul Austers The New York Trilogy focusing on the influence of the main authors of the American Renaissance and the modern European tradition, represented by Samuel Beckett and Maurice Blanchot.

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Combines an introduction to Pausanias with fresh perspectives. This book considers the process and influences that shaped the "Periegesis", and maps out its literary and cultural context.

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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.

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This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock's accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey's latest novels, 'Jack Maggs' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'. -- .

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Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is a worldwide classic of modern literature for both children and adults.

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A collection of essays on Philip Roth offering critical readings and assessments of texts. It illuminates Roth's multilayered perceptions of twentieth-century America as a place, a culture, and an idea that shapes its inhabitants in profound ways. It is of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of American and Canadian fiction.

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Philip Roth has without doubt been one of the most important writers of fiction in the United States during the latter part of the twentieth century. This title collects essays by noted Roth scholars on three essential novels appearing in recent years, "American Pastoral" (1997), "The Human Stain" (2000), and "The Plot Against America" (2004).

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Each chapter introduces the work or works under discussion, provides a brief summary of the story, and moves on to a lively analysis of its various literary elements and its significance in Roth's overall body of work.

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This book is affords us the opportunity to rediscover Richard Wright and reexamine his work and its continuing significance in light of our contemporary situation. Moreover, the collection allows us to analyze Wrights relationship and contribution to the discipline of philosophy, both challenging and enriching its traditional ideas and concepts.

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This interesting and unusual collection of essays explores the post-holocaust theme as it has been treated in science fiction and fantasy literature.

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A materialist approach to the fictions of Charles Dickens based on reading in the historical background, creative application of Walter Benjamin's methodology, re-reading the philological core of the minor works as well as re-configures the canonical novels within the framework of 19th century London.

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Giving a close critical reading to major texts by Dickens, Poe, Eliot, Melville, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner, Professor Caserio provides an historical dimension to the developing fate of plot, story, and the novel. In addition, he challenges the major critical positions of Northrop Frye, Roland Barthes, and Edward Said with

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Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW-HSG) of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.