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• Author(s): Radhika Mohanram • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPostcolonial discourse is fast becoming an area of rich academic debate. At the heart of coloniality and postcoloniality is th...

• Author(s): Hazel A. Ervin • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: American - GeneralErvin has brought together 16 reviews and 26 essays that chronicle the literary reception of Ann Petry and her three novels in America from 1...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Gregory • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: American - GeneralGregory documents for the first time, the critical reception history of the great modernist poet Marianne Moore. This collection of 71 of ...

• Author(s): Douglas Robillard • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralAs the author of such classic American short stories as A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Everything That Rises Must Converge, and Revelation, Flannery O'C...

• Author(s): Farhat Iftekharrudin • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPostmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theor...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Moxham • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshClassic 19th-century British novels that give full expression to complex ethical problems necessarily project the claims of conf...

• Author(s): M. Keith Booker • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralWhile literary utopias depict an ideal society and reflect an optimistic belief in the triumph of humanity and government, dystopias present a society ...

• Author(s): Barbara F. Waxman • Publisher: MixIUK • Publisher Imprint: MixIUK • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: American - GeneralThis literary critical book deals exclusively with contemporary fiction by women that focuses on aging of wome...

• Author(s): Mingshui Cai • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureThere is much discussion of multiculturalism in education. This is especially true of multicultural literature for childre...

• Author(s): Gary Westfahl • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyScience fiction occupies a peculiar place in the academic study of literature. For decades, scholars have looked at science fiction...

• Author(s): Lytton Strachey • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Marsha McCreadie • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Women Authors

• Author(s): Robert W. Lewis • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: American - GeneralThis selection of seventeen essays on the writing of Ernest Hemingway is edited by Robert W. Lewis, the President of the Hemingway Society a...

• Author(s): Giselle Liza Anatol • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureJ. K. Rowling achieved astounding commercial success with her series of novels about Harry Potter, the boy-wizard w...

• Author(s): Joe Sanders • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyThis collection of 23 essays represents the best papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Sc...

• Author(s): Scott McCrea • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: ShakespeareWhile gaps in the biographical record for William Shakespeare continue to confound literary scholars, McCrea here concludes that he was, indeed, the p...

• Author(s): Bob Batchelor • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: American - GeneralOne of the world's greatest writers, John Updike chronicled America for more than five decades. This book examines the essence of Updike's wri...

• Author(s): Brenda Ayres • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshGiven their pedagogical nature, many Victorian novels are highly politicized; their narratives are filtered through the value sche...

• Author(s): James N. Stull • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: American - GeneralDeparting from previous discussions of literary nonfiction in terms of its being literature or journalism, this new study treats literary non...

• Author(s): Roderick McGillis • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureThe close of a century invites both retrospection and prognostication. As a period of transition, it also brings a se...

• Author(s): Mary S. Vasquez • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Women AuthorsOne of the most powerful and original of the women authors who have emerged in post-Franco Spain is Esther Tusquets. Her work has awakened an eve...

• Author(s): Femi Euba • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: DramaIn searching for a definitive concept of black theatre, Euba delves deeply into the Yoruba culture and gods, specifically the attributes and ritual of Esu-Eleg...

• Author(s): Bernard Koloski • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe Historian's Awakening is a full commentary on the text (included) that provides social and cultural history context, discus...

• Author(s): Mickey Pearlman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: American - GeneralDespite extraordinary attention within the past five years by novelists, playwrights, and critics, the subject of mothers and daughters, and...

• Author(s): Gary Westfahl • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyA pioneering scholarly examination of the rich and fascinating fields of science fiction and fantasy art, this book stimulates scho...

• Author(s): C. W. Sullivan • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyThis anthology of essays focuses on the darker side of the human condition as it appears in fantastic literature. The first sectio...

• Author(s): Gary Westfahl • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyWith our lives firmly controlled by the steady pace of time, humans have yearned for ways to escape its constraints, and authors ha...

• Author(s): Susan Darraj • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Women AuthorsIn a time when it seems that the gap of understanding between the West and the Middle East continues to widen, Scheherazade's Legacy builds a bridge...

• Author(s): Linda de Roche • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: American - GeneralThis incisive exploration probes the relationship between the novels of bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark and the key events and influenc...

• Author(s): Radhika Mohanram • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAs the British empire expanded throughout the world, the English language played an important role in power relations between ...

• Author(s): Berit I. Brown • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: European - GeneralThis book is a compilation of scholarly articles on a wide variety of subjects pertaining to the cultures of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norwa...

• Author(s): Robin Colby • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshElizabeth Gaskell's work and life are being rediscovered against a backdrop of Victorian middle-class women's experience by many fe...

• Author(s): Alan Hodder • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralAll five of the epics discussed in this volume came to serve as the basis for an ethnic and national tradition of history, religion, and literature documen...

• Author(s): Keith E. Byerman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: American - GeneralChallenging. Successful. Controversial. All terms used to accurately describe African American novelist and autobiographer John Edgar Widem...