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Literary Fiction: The Ways We Read Narrative Literature (Paperback)

Insofar as literary theory has addressed the issue of literature as a means of communication and the function of literary fiction opinions have been sharply divided indicating that the elementary foundations of literary theory and criticism still... more

Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination (Hardcover)

An exploration of Kerouac s fiction poetry religious writing journals and correspondence. It encompasses his fictional rewriting of his personal life his life-long quest for spiritual enlightenment and his resolute belief in the blending of popular... more

Pre-Owned The Reader s Adviser Vol. 1 : The Best in American and British Fiction Poetry Essays Literary Biography Bibliography and Reference 9780835221450 Used

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Pre-Owned Tennis and the Meaning of Life : A Literary Anthology of the Game (Hardcover) 9781558213784

All the best fiction and poetry on tennis.Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining acceptable on books... more

The Parliament Literary Journal Fall 2020 (Paperback)

The Parliament Literary Journal publishes works of fiction poetry art and photography quarterly. Each issue focuses on a selected theme and features an art-inspired contest. Based out of Highland Park New Jersey The Parliament Literary Journal seeks... more

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction 9780199747498 Used / Pre-owned

Alan Jacobs offers a witty literate and accessible guide for aspiring readers offering tips on what to read and how to get the most out of it. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction or poetry or even the Bible from... more

Three Genres : The Writing of Fiction/Literary Nonfiction Poetry and Drama

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Pre-Owned A Literary Companion to Science (Hardcover) 0393028364 9780393028362

The Literary Companion to Science is an exploration of the way in which science and scientists have been portrayed in fiction memoirs reportage and poetry. Much of the material gathered here is from recent times though some is of earlier epochs. A... more

Series in Victorian Studies: Indian Angles : English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore (Paperback)

Indian Angles is a new historical approach to Indian English literature. It shows that poetry not fiction was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and re-creates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that... more

Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature: Postcolonial Literature (Paperback)

Introduces postcolonial literary studies through close readings of a wide range of fiction and poetry This guide places the literary works themselves at the centre of its discussions examining how writers from Africa Australasia the Caribbean Canada... more

Sunspot Literary Journal 2022 (Paperback)

Creativity is power Sunspot seeks out diverse fiction poetry nonfiction photography and art from around the world. In this edition of Sunspot writers and artists from around the world conjure intensely personal moments that reflect on the places and... more

Pre-Owned Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism (Paperback) 0253201586 9780253201584

This philosophic inquiry into fundamental problems of literature and society is an immensely important addition to the canon of one of America s most original and distinguished critics. What is the function of poetry? Of criticism? In what sense... more

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature 9780521891318 Used / Pre-owned

This lively introduction to major writers genres and topics in Canadian literature pays attention to the social political and economic developments that have informed literary events. Broad surveys of fiction drama and poetry are complemented by... more

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature: Figures of the Migrant: The Roles of Literature and the Arts in Representing Migration (Paperback)

This volume seeks to investigate the representation of the migrant and migration in literary texts and the arts. Through studies that examine works in a range of art forms ‒ novels theatre poetry creative non-fiction documentary films and... more

Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism (Paperback)

This philosophic inquiry into fundamental problems of literature and society is an immensely important addition to the canon of one of America s most original and distinguished critics. What is the function of poetry? Of criticism? In what sense... more

Pre-Owned Falling from Grace in Texas: A Literary Response to the Demise of Paradise (Paperback 9780930324575) by A C Greene Laura Furman Robert Flynn

9780930324575. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Wings Press ed. Language: English. Pages: 157. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 157 p. Featuring more than 30 Texas writers this collection of essays fiction and poetry discusses... more

Blackwell Companions to Literature and C A Companion to George Eliot. Edited by Amanda Anderson Harry E. Shaw (Hardcover)

This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus including her poetry and non-fiction reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism. It features innovative analysis -exploring the... more

The Gateway Review Spring 2023 (Paperback)

The annual magazine of Gateway Literary Press is here packed full of magically weird fiction and poetry! more

Pre-Owned The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature 9780231119993 Used

This shorter anthology retains the characteristics of the original in that it is arranged according to genre rather than chronology and interprets literature very broadly to include not just literary fiction poetry and drama but folk and popular... more

The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing by Hannah Dawson 2023 Paperback NEW

Hannah Dawson s The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing is a remarkable collection of feminist writings from across centuries and continents incorporating a diverse range of literary genres such as collective manifestos poetry fiction and... more

The Nation s Cause: French English and German Poetry of the First World War (Routledge Revivals) - Marsland Elizabeth A.

As we approach the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War this timely reissue first published in 1991 evaluates the function of poetry in wartime Europe arguing that war poetry must be understood as a social as well as a literary... more

Vastarien: A Literary Journal Vol. 2 Issue 3 (Paperback)

Vastarien: A Literary Journal is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The journal includes nonfiction literary horror fiction poetry artwork and non-classifiable... more

Outline of American Literature (Paperback)

The Outline of American literature newly revised traces the paths of American narrative fiction poetry and drama as they move from pre-colonial times into the present through such literary movements as romanticism realism and experimentation.... more

Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine; Volume 76 (Paperback)

One of the oldest and most respected literary magazines in the English-speaking world Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine has been publishing fiction poetry essays and reviews since 1817. Its contributors have included such luminaries as George Eliot... more

Homage to Paul Celan (Paperback)

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art. Jewish Studies. If there is a country named Celania--as Julia Kristeva once proposed--its holy texts are filled with doubt and they overcome this doubt almost successfully with words of wrenching uncompromised... more

Speaking the Estranged : Essays on the Poetry of George Oppen (Paperback)

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. This expanded edition of SPEAKING THE ESTRANGED brings together Michael Heller s writings on the work of George Oppen (1908-1984) one of America s most remarkable and distinguished poets. Heller s... more

Finding List of Books and Pamphlets in the Buffalo Public Library. Fiction Poetry Drama Literary History and Criticism Essays Oratory Humor Etc. Language and Bibliography (1897) [Leather Bound]

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1897 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

Monografías a César Vallejo: A Literary Biography Book 317 (Hardcover)

This is the first biography of Latin America s most important poet. the Peruvian César Vallejo. It traces the important events of his life and evaluates his poetry fiction theatre political essays and journalism. This is the first biography of... more

Pre-Owned Dubliners (Cambridge Literature) Paperback

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels poetry short stories essays travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and... more

The Literary Magazine and American Register; Volume 5 (Hardcover)

This classic literary magazine from the early days of American publishing features a wide range of poetry fiction and literary criticism from some of the most influential writers of the day. Its insights into the development of American literature... more

Pre-Owned Three Genres: Writing Fiction/Literary Nonfiction Poetry and Drama Paperback

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Southern Literary Studies: Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Toward Sunset at a Great Height 1980-1989 (Hardcover)

In the last decade of his life Robert Penn Warren remained a vibrant force in American literature producing new works of poetry and nonfiction while also dealing courageously with the gradual decline of his health and the diminishment of his poetic... more

American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series: The Native American Renaissance : Literary Imagination and Achievement (Series #59) (Paperback)

The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as... more

Southern Literature and Literaray Theory (Paperback)

In this stimulating collection of essays twenty scholars apply new theoretical approaches to the fiction and poetry of southern writers ranging from Poe to Dickey from Faulkner to Hurston. Departing from earlier traditions of southern literary... more

Solitude and Its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction (Hardcover)

In this study of solitude in high modernist writing Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works as well as what solitude as a condition has contributed to the making of a trope.... more

Heritage: Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate (Hardcover)

As a writer who achieved major eminence in both fiction and poetry and whose engagement with these genres encompassed the period of transition from Victorianism to Modernism Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) enjoys a unique position in English Literary... more

Nineteenth Century Literary Theology by Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

Examining popular fiction life writing poetry and political works Rebecca Styler explores women s contributions to theology in the nineteenth century. Female writers Styler argues acted as amateur theologians by use of a range of literary genres.... more

Tuscany in Mind : From Byron and the Brownings to Henry James D. H. Lawrence Robert Lowell and Penelope Fitzgerald--Two Centuries of Great Writers Seduced by Tuscany - Paperback

In her fourth literary travel companion Alice Leccese Powers explores one of the most seductive regions of the world through more than two centuries of fiction poetry essays letters and memoirs by English-speaking visitors to northern Italy. The... more