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The Politics Of Male Friendship In Contemporary American Fiction

by Michael Kalisch

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 How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction â€" from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu â€" has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. -- .
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As Good As A Marriage - The Anne Lister Diaries 1836â€“38

by Jill Liddington

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 The authoritative sequel to Female Fortune, continuing the diaries of Anne Lister up to 1838, when she was at her most powerful. -- .
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Marilynne Robinson

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 Marilynne Robinson features 16 new and exciting essays on the noted American author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary themes of her fiction and nonfiction. -- .
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Crossing Borders And Queering Citizenship - Civic Reading Practice In Contemporary American And Canadian Writing

by Zalfa Feghali

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 Can reading make us better citizens? Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous authors, poets, and performance artists, Crossing borders and queering citizenship theorises how reading can work as a empowering tool in contemporary civic struggles in the North America. -- .
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The Quiet Contemporary American Novel

by Rachel Sykes

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 This book explores the concept of â€˜quietâ€™ â€" an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles â€" and argues for the termâ€™s application to the study of contemporary American fiction. -- .
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Sara Paretsky - Detective Fiction As Trauma Literature

by Cynthia Hamilton

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 This is the first book-length study of Sara Paretskyâ€™s detective fiction. Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. -- .
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Marilynne Robinson

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 Marilynne Robinson features 16 new and exciting essays on the noted American author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary themes of her fiction and nonfiction. -- .
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The Politics Of Male Friendship In Contemporary American Fiction

by Michael Kalisch

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 How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction â€" from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu â€" has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. -- .
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Cormac Mccarthy - A Complexity Theory Of Literature

by Lydia R. Cooper

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 Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's fiction makes a significant case study demonstrating how literature can help us imagine and grapple with complex systems and crises, from global economic inequality to climate change. -- .
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Crossing Borders And Queering Citizenship - Civic Reading Practice In Contemporary American And Canadian Writing

by Zalfa Feghali

124,85€ + 10% CARD

 Can reading make us better citizens? Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous authors, poets, and performance artists, Crossing borders and queering citizenship theorises how reading can work as a empowering tool in contemporary civic struggles in the North America. -- .
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Making Home - Orphanhood, Kinship And Cultural Memory In Contemporary American Novels

by Elizabeth Kella, Helena Wahlstrom e Maria Holmgren Troy

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 Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors -- .
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Thomas Pynchon

by Andrew Taylor e Simon Malpas

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 A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon -- .
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Douglas Coupland

by Andrew Tate

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 This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Couplandâ€™s career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction -- .
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Philip Roth

by David Brauner

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 This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer. -- .
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Paul Auster

by Mark Brown

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 This study explores all of Auster's artistic output - both published and unpublished - for the first time, and considers, in considerable depth, his major themes of New York life, identity, community, writing and storytelling. -- .
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Thomas Pynchon - None

by Andrew Taylor e Simon Malpas

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 A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon -- .
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Mark Z. Danielewski

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 This is the first major study of Mark Z. Danielewski, an emerging, innovative American novelist and a key figure in contemporary literature. It situates his three novels to date in their literary and cultural context, in the process demonstrating why he is such an important and ground-breaking writer. -- .
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Making Home - Orphanhood, Kinship And Cultural Memory In Contemporary American Novels

by Elizabeth Kella, Helena Wahlstrom e Maria Holmgren Troy

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 Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors -- .
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Passing Into The Present - Contemporary American Fiction Of Racial And Gender Passing

by Sinead Moynihan

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 This is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990â€™s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. -- .
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Jonathan Lethem

by James Peacock

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 Students and lecturers in contemporary American literature -- .
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Thomas Pynchon - None

by Andrew Taylor e Simon Malpas

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 A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon -- .
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Philip Roth

by David Brauner

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 This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer. -- .
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Douglas Coupland

by Andrew Tate

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 This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Couplandâ€™s career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction -- .
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Douglas Coupland

by Andrew Tate

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 This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Couplandâ€™s career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction -- .
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