Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature
(Pub. Date: 30-Apr-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643365770)
New insights into the work of an acclaimed science fiction author. Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), a pioneer of science fiction and foremother of Afrofuturism, is among the most influential science fiction writers of all time. Her work blurs the boun...More info...
A vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today’s graphic novels. John Sutherland, who has researched, taught and written on th...More info...
“This is what I really want. I want to discover ways to discriminate the important things in human life. I want to find ways of getting past this blind fumbling with existence.” - Marion Milner, from A Life of One’s Own.How of...More info...
(Pub. Date: 02-Apr-2024, Hardback, Publisher: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674982970)
An edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over 60 years. Illustrations. The Letters of Emily Dickinson collects, redates, and recontextualizes all of the poet’s extant letters, including...More info...
Her fragrant body and burning red lipsA married couple reveal their darkest sexual fantasies to each other, in this erotic psychodrama of infidelity, transgression and decadence in early twentieth-century Vienna.Ten new titles in t...More info...
(Pub. Date: 16-Jun-2012, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Ottawa Press, ISBN-13: 9780776607283)
The Makura no S(shi, or The Pillow Book as it is generally known in English, is a collection of personal reflections and anecdotes on life in the Japanese royal court composed around the turn of the eleventh century by a woman known as Sei Sh(nagon....More info...
(Pub. Date: 16-Mar-2004, Hardback, Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781578065592)
American Literature -- Literary Criticism--> There are three wars in the mind and in the art of William Faulkner--the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II. Although he did not fight in any war, he postured as a...More info...
