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Wendy Barker
Spanning more than three decades of a life well-lived, Wendy Barker's collected poems convey her encounters with the natural world, her reactions to contemporary social problems, and her experiences in…
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The Routledge Handbook to Literary Translingualism aims to provide a comprehensive overview of translingual literature in a wide variety of languages throughout the world, from ancient to modern times.
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Features a combination of biography and critical analysis, covering major writers from outside the United States and their significant works in fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction. This title offers profiles…
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Camus attracted the interest of scholars from many disciplines- specialists in literature, theater, philosophy, theology, political science, history, psychology, medicine, and law. This volume offers original contributions, while also reprinting…
Steven G. Kellman
A collection of essays that continues Steven Kellman’s work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. Topics covered include the significance of translingualism; translation…
Essays on animal rights, silence, mortality, eroticism, film, and language
Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that…
MacDonald Harris
Mortal Leap tells a story we all know but have never heard: what happens when you have an opportunity to take another person's identity? A wife identifies a man badly…
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With essays covering 340 writers, this edition offers profiles of major US and Canadian writers accompanied by analyses of their significant works in fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction.
Driven by factors as varied as migration, imperialism, a quest for verisimilitude, and a desire to assert artistic autonomy, translingualism has a long and brilliant history. This title examines the…
A companion to the award-winning Magill’s Survey of American Literature, this comprehensive, six-volume set offers profiles of major authors of fiction, drama, poetry, and essays, each with sections on biography…
Professor Steven G Kellman
Magill’s Literary Annual, 2009 is the fifty-fifth publication in a series that began in 1954. Each year, Magill’s Literary Annual seeks to critically evaluate 200 major examples of serious literature…
M. E. Ravage
At the turn of the twentieth century, M E Ravage set off in steerage for America, one of almost two million Jews who, like millions of others from eastern and…
This series provides coverage of literary works that are likely to be of particular interest to the general reader, that reflect the publishing trend in a given year, that add…
Evaluates critically 200 major examples of serious literature, both fiction and non-fiction, published during the previous calendar year. This work presents reviews that are arranged alphabetically by title. It also…
Evaluates 200 examples of literature, both fiction and nonfiction. This title covers works that are likely to be of interest to general readers and that which reflect publishing trends. It…
Contains 200 reviews of fiction and nonfiction published in 2008. This book features authors including Geraldine Brooks, William F Buckley, Jr, Ha Jin, Dennis Lehane, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates…
Provides coverage of recent works of fiction and nonfiction across subjects, genres, and countries, evaluating 200 major examples of serious literature, both fiction and nonfiction, published during the previous calendar…
The fifty-seventh publication in a series that began in 1954. Each year, Magill’s Literary Annual critically evaluates 200 major examples of serious literature, both fiction and non-fiction, published during the…
Magill’s Literary Annual, 2010 is the fifty-sixth publicaion in a series that began in 1954. Each year, Magill’s Literary Annual critically evaluates 200 major examples of serious literature, both fiction…
Critically evaluated major examples of serious literature - whether fiction, poetry, or nonfiction - published during the previous calendar year. The reviews are arranged alphabetically by book title.
Don DeLillo’s 1997 masterwork Underworld, one of the most acclaimed and long-awaited novels of the last twenty years, was immediately recognized as a landmark novel, not only in the long…
Magill’s Literary Annual, 2008, is the fifty-third publication in a series that began in 1954. Each year, Magill’s Literary Annual seeks to evaluate critically 200 major examples of serious literature…
Published since 1954, this 2004 annual reviews the editor’s pick of noteworthy books published in the USA during the year 2003. The works represented in this annual are drawn from…
John Wilson,Steven G. Kellman (University of Texas, San Antonio, USA)
Published since 1954, this annual reviews the editor’s pick of 200 noteworthy books published in the USA during the year 2001. The two hundred works represented in this year’s annual…
Professor Steven G Kellman, PH.D (University of Texas-San Antonio)
A unique combination of biography and critical analysis, Magill’s Survey of American Literature covers major U.S. and Canadian authors of fiction, darama, nonfiction and poetry. Thorough biographical information, combined with…
The 567 entries in Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition cover a broad range of writers and works. Classics by such canonical U.S. writers as Ernest Hemingway and William…
