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Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's workーpoetry, prose, and selected unpublished materialーto reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid……続きを見る

George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880) was one of the most important writers of the European nineteenth century, as well as a pioneering translator of challenging and controversial Continenta……続きを見る

First published in 2002. This book surveys how and to what effect Shelley uses erotic narratives to mask political rhetoric within his attempts to describe and bring forth utopia. Posing erotic rela……続きを見る

This collection of contemporary criticism explores her concern with racial and gender issues and analyzes her in relation to other major modern authors, her philosophical and religious speculations,……続きを見る

In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching introd……続きを見る

The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature considers the key literary, political, historical and intellectual contexts of African American literature from its origins to the present, ……続きを見る

In The Value of Virginia Woolf, Madelyn Detloff explores the writings of Virginia Woolf from her early texts to her challenging and inventive novels. Detloff demonstrates why Woolf has enduring valu……続きを見る

Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genresーincluding memoirs, document……続きを見る

In The Submerged Plot and the Mother’s Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy, Kelly A. Marsh examines the familiar, overt plot of the motherless daughter growing into maturity and argues that i……続きを見る

Uitgekozen door het panel van De Wereld Draait Door Annie M.G. Schmidt is een van de weinige auteurs van wie alle naoorlogse generaties wel een boek hebben gelezen, een liedje kennen, een toneelstuk……続きを見る

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, Sense and Sensibility is set in s……続きを見る

A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals readーand write Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did……続きを見る

“A painfully beautiful memoir….Written with such restraint as to be both heartbreaking and instructive.” ーE. L. Doctorow A revered, many times honored (George Polk, Peabody, and Emmy Award winner, ……続きを見る

“Prose’s book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create.” ー Minneapolis Star ……続きを見る

Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry a……続きを見る

“A generous and pleasurable collection. . . . Vibrant and illuminating, with quotable lines on every page. . . . [Lessing is] a superb essayist: lucid, wise, knowledgeable, and witty.”ー Booklist In……続きを見る

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A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country." ー New York Times Book Review A r……続きを見る

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Perfect for linguaphiles and lovers of quotes, Ifferisms is a lively compendium of wit, wisdom, and wordplay from Dr. Mardy Grothe, author of I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like, Viva La Repartee, and Ox……続きを見る

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"Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically--even fraudulently--essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, ……続きを見る

“A poignant, nostalgic collection of literary criticism by one of America’s premier authors.” ーKirkus Reviews In Rough Country is a sterling collection of literary essays, reviews, and criticism fr……続きを見る

The Pulitzer Prize winning author -- “an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) -- offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical……続きを見る

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays of……続きを見る

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