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  • Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Helen Stoddart ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an emotive and provocative novel, which has attracted much critical attention from a range of perspectives including poststructuralism, gender studies, postmodernism and psychoanalysis.This guide to Angela ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Why Marry a Man You Don't Need

    A Candid Conversation About Marriage, Money, Success, and the Black Woman

    by Carmen Hope Thomas ...
    Don’t get the wrong idea; this book is all about empowering women to be great wives in loving marriages with incredible men! In this book, Why Marry a Man You Don’t Need, Carmen Hope Thomas takes on the task of confronting sisters who have been successful in their career but not equally successful in their relationships. Carmen’s perspective is refreshing and reflective because she shares her ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    by Peter Barry ...
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    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field.The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

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  • Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

    Edited by Susan Sellers ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligent - remain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. The highly successful Cambridge Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship since it first appeared. The second edition includes ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Postmodernism

    by Linda Hutcheon ...
    Series series New Accents
    This classic text remains one of the clearest and most incisive introductions to postmodernism. Perhaps more importantly, it is a compelling discussion of why postmodernism matters. Working through the issue of representation in art forms from fiction to photography, Linda Hutcheon sets out postmodernism's highly political challenge to the dominant ideologies of the western world. A new epilogue ... Read more

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  • The Historical Novel

    by Jerome de Groot ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible introduction to the genre and critical debates that surround it, including:the development of the historical novel from early eighteenth-century works ... Read more

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  • Genders

    by David Glover, Cora Kaplan ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad

    Edited by J. H. Stape ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad offers a wide-ranging introduction to the fiction of Joseph Conrad, one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century. Through a series of essays by leading Conrad scholars aimed at both students and the general reader, the volume stimulates an informed appreciation of Conrad's work based on an understanding of his cultural and historical ... Read more

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  • Literature

    by Peter Widdowson ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Literature:* offers a concise history of the canonic concept of 'literature' from its earliest origins* illustrates the kinds of theoretical issues which are currently invoked by the term ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

    Edited by Morag Shiach ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. No one technique or style defines a novel as modernist. Instead, these essays explain the formal innovations, stylistic preferences and thematic concerns ... Read more

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    The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive Art

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