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Kurt Vonnegut

by Jerome Klinkowitz

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 In this comprehensive introductory study, originally published in 1982, Jerome Klinkowitz traces Vonnegutâ€™s influences within the American middle class, his early efforts as a short-story writer for magazines in the 1960s and his startling and unprecedented success as a bestselling experimental novelist with Slaughterhouse-Five.
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E. L. Doctorow

by Paul Levine

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 In this study, first published in 1985, Paul Levine follows E. L. Doctorowâ€™s progress as a novelist and traces the development of themes that recur in his work including the relationships between history and imagination, high and popular culture, and political content and radical style.
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Donald Barthelme

by Maurice Couturier e Regis Durand

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 In the early 1980s Donald Barthelme was widely recognized in the United States as one of the major figures in contemporary postmodernism, a key and central experimental writer. In this study, originally published in 1982, two leading critics present Donald Barthelmeâ€™s work in its most radical and innovative aspects.
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The Myth Of Superwoman - Women'S Bestsellers In France And The United States

by Resa L. Dudovitz

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 Reviled by critics but loved by the readers, the bestseller has until recently provoked little serious critical interest. In this title, first published in 1990, Resa Dudovitz looks at this international phenomenon, particularly at the origins of the bestseller system in the US and France.
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Adolescent Female Portraits In The American Novel 1961-1981

by Jane S. Bakerman e Mary Jean Demarr

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 First published in 1983, this title lists and annotates reference sources to help readers select primary materials useful in studies of the literary portraits of women and their societal roles. It covers years 1961 to 1981, because significant changes in the way portraits of adolescent females were being drawn took place during that period.
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Iris Murdoch

by Richard Todd

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 First published in 1984, Iris Murdoch, widely regarded as one of the major British novelists of her generation. In this study, the author systematically surveys all her fiction to date, and attempts to show how her fundamental theme, the interplay between the roles of artist and saint, is developed and expressed in her fiction.
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Iris Murdoch - Work For The Spirit

by Elizabeth Dipple

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 First published in 1982, this study provides a perceptive and up-to-date assessment of the novels of Iris Murdoch, up to and including Nuns and Soldiers. The Fire and the Sun, her book on Plato, is also considered in depth. It is not a critical biography, but rather shows how huge Murdochâ€™s literary career was at the time.
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The Unresolvable Plot - Reading Contemporary Fiction

by Elizabeth Dipple

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 First published in 1988, the last few decades had seen the appearance of some brilliant and complex new kinds of fiction. Each chapter begins with a brief explanation of the context in which each fictionist is to be examined, the author then concentrates on an analysis of key texts, aiming always to look beyond jargon and theory.
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Ancient Cultures Of Conceit - British University Fiction In The Post-War Years

by Ian Carter

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 Witty and penetrating, this interdisciplinary study, first published in 1990, explores the culture celebrated in British university fiction. This is a culture rooted in the ivory towers of Oxbridge, a culture under threat from the proletarians, women, foreigners, and social scientists who flood the university with their â€˜alien waysâ€™.
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Becoming A Woman Through Romance

by Linda K. Christian-Smith

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 Using the theory and interpretive methods of feminism and cultural studies, the author explores the contradictory role that popular culture plays in constructing gender, class, race, age and sexual meanings. First published in 1990, this title combines close textual analyses of 34 teen romance novels with a school study in 3 US schools.
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In Defence Of Fantasy - A Study Of The Genre In English And American Literature Since 1945

by Ann Swinfen

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 First published in 1984, Ann Swinfen presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive view of fantasy: what it is, what it tries to achieve, what fundamental differences distinguish it from mainstream realist fiction. She concentrates on the three decades from 1945, when a new generation of writers found that Tolkein had made fantasy â€˜respectableâ€™.
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Novelists In Interview

by John Haffenden

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 Originally published in 1985, fourteen foremost writers of fiction give detailed accounts of their writings in this absorbing collection by John Haffenden, whom The Sunday Times has applauded for having â€˜perfectedâ€™ the art of the literary interview.
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Doris Lessing

by Lorna Sage

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 This study, originally published in 1983, surveys Doris Lessing's epic output from her early, African writings to her later experiments with space fiction. It traces her struggles to decentre imaginative life and to erase and to redraw the boundaries of our mental maps in favour of values on the margins of the official culture.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet

by John Fletcher

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 In his original study, first published in 1983, the author offers a new interpretation of Robbe-Grilletâ€™s work which stresses the subversive qualities of his imagination and the disturbing power of his vision of a world of labyrinths and bizarre sexual stereotypes, haunted by images of love and loss.
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A Research Guide To Science Fiction Studies - An Annotated Checklist Of Primary And Secondary Sources For Fantasy And Science Fiction

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 This title, first published in 1977, is designed to provide the reader with a comprehensive listing of the important research tools that have been published in the US and England through 1976. The volume contains over 400 selected, annotated entries covering both general and specialized sources.
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Narrative Authority And Homeostasis In The Novels Of Doris Lessing And Carmen Martin Gaite

by Linda E. Chown

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 First published in 1990, this book assesses a shift in the presentation of self-consciousness in 2 pairs of novels by Doris Lessing and Carmen MartÃn Gaite: 1) The Summer Before the Dark (1973) and RetahÃlas (1974) and 2) The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) and The Back Room (1978).
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Magical Realism And The Fantastic - Resolved Versus Unresolved Antinomy

by Amaryll Beatrice Chanady

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 In this study, originally published in 1985, the author clarifies the concepts of magical realism and the fantastic, and establishes a series of guidelines that will allow us to distinguish between the two similar yet independent modes.
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Stories Of Resilience In Childhood - Narratives Of Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, John Edgar Wideman And Tobias Wolff

by Dan Challener

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 What builds resilience in children? Originally published in 1997, this book is an effort to understand better what contributes to a childâ€™s "success" and "resilience". The source of information will be autobiographies of childhoods â€" autobiographical stories written by adults remembering their difficult childhoods.
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John Fowles

by Peter Conradi

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 John Fowles had gained great popularity as a contemporary novelist on both sides of the Atlantic. In this comprehensive study of his work, originally published in 1982, Peter Conradi relates his work to his life, his ideas and his place in contemporary English fiction at the time.
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Career Guidance For Social Justice - Contesting Neoliberalism

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 This edited collection examines the intersections between career guidance, social justice and neo-liberalism. Drawing on education, sociology, and political science, this book addresses the theoretical basis of career guidanceâ€™s involvement in social justice as well as the methodological consequences in relation to career guidance research.
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John Le Carre

by Eric Homberger

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 In this study of John le CarrÃ©', originally published in 1986, the first to include an interpretation of A Perfect Spy, Eric Homberger argues that within the tradition of the spy thriller of John Buchan and â€˜Sapperâ€™ a â€˜spaceâ€™ was created by Somerset Maugham, Eric Ambler and Graham Greene for serious writing.
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Lord Jim

by John Batchelor

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 Published in 1900, Conradâ€™s Lord Jim can in many ways be seen as the first â€˜modernâ€™ novel. This important full study of the book, originally published in 1988, emphasizes the outstanding historical and artistic significance of Conradâ€™s masterpiece.
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Thomas Pynchon

by Tony Tanner

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 Tony Tanner provides a brief, comprehensive introduction to the work of Thomas Pynchon. Against the background of Pynchon the man, this book, originally published in 1982, examines in detail his early short stories (some of which are not easily accessible) and offers a guide to the reading of his novels.
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Richard Brautigan

by Marc Chenetier

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 Marc ChÃ©netierâ€™s study of Richard Brautigan, originally published in 1983, was the first book to attempt to assess his writing art which, far from weakening over the years, had become, amid critical indifference, more secure in its techniques, more all-encompassing in its strategy and more iconoclastic in its goals.
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