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The end of World War II led to increased interest in multicultural concerns and a flourishing of literary and artistic endeavors.

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Offers an investigation of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials Trilogy", and the insights it offers to the world. Contributors with backgrounds in philosophy, theology, science fiction, and children's literature help readers find their way through Pullman's trilogy.

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Considering how recipes and food writing are read differently than other narratives, this book examines the concept of taste in food as cultural and emotional performance and shows how the dynamics of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and social class affect what literary characters and narrators eat.

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This book examines how Hawthornes notebooks provide a key for understanding the environmental elements of his fiction writing. Hawthornes four major romances are the main focus of study, but his short fiction and nonfiction also show a man convinced that human and nonhuman nature are inextricably intertwined.

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This book explores ways to study and teach the literary works of William Clark Falkner and William Faulkner to ESL students in todays digital environment. Through these activities, ESL students are expected to comprehend the literature of the American South as the cultural phenomenon that is connected to their own social formations.

Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography of major works on supernatural literature.

Supernatural literature figures prominently in the curriculum, and students are often interested in reading such works on their own.

The most comprehensive treatment of the Arabian Nights ever published, with more than 800 detailed encyclopedic entries and a wealth of authoritative essays and resources.

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Used a toolbox to aid the craftsman, The Writer's Toolkit shows how to write the `calling card' script that expresses your voice, gets you noticed, and is ultimately produced. Written by the Development Manager of the BBC's writersoom, this is a professional and practical guide to writing for screen, stage and radio.

This encyclopaedia approaches the literature of Spain from a women's studies perspective and illuminates the changing roles of women in Spanish society. Included are entries for numerous topics related to Spanish literature, including literary periods and genres, and various specialized topics.

While other works cover individual ethnic literary traditions, this encyclopedia is the first to offer a comprehensive introduction to the spectacularly diverse range of ethnic American writing.

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Reconstructing transnational identities in postcolonial migration, The Postcolonial Subject in Transit highlights the complexities of cultural hybridity in contemporary African diasporic literature. It captures migrants desire for cultural inclusivity in disputed borders and locations of the West.

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An intelligent and sympathetic analysis of one of the true taboos of modern life.

Toni Morrison is one of the most popular and talented African American writers in history. This reference maps the terrain of Morrison's complex imaginary world.

This convenient guide to her novels contains more than 800 brief entries, highlighting all of her characters and settings, both major and minor.

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An Australian travel classic. Reminiscent of Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines , Wings of the Kite-Hawk will seduce and enthral; it will force you out of the comfortable chair and into the wilds of the bush.

Organized around each decade of the postwar period, this book analyses novels written by and for women since 1945. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women, which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers, such as Barbara Cartland, Barbara Taylor Bradford and Danielle Steel, and their work.

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Collection of critical reviews and new literary works in Australia's premier literary journal.

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The Autumn 2008 edition of HEAT offers the best in contemporary Australian writing: David Malouf's 'luminous dust', Vivienne Westwood and crime fiction, Joseph Pugliese on the burning of Carlos Arredondo.

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The Iliad and The Odyssey are perhaps the most influential works in the history of western literature. This exquisite analysis of their creation and influence establishes how, precisely, these two poems, written nearly three thousand years ago, have come to resonate throughout the world.

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Compact guide to the great modernist writer.

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A brand new literary title in the renowned graphic novel-style of the Introducing Graphic Guide series.

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You come away from Murphys book with a renewed amazement at what Lee was able to achieve with a single perfect novel Entertainment Weekly

First published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird is not only a beloved classic, but also a touchstone in literary and social history.