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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom recommends what to read and argues for it: short stories, poems, novels and plays, each with instruction in reading closely. Co... (AI-generated book description)
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom's most influential work on the theory of poetic influence. A central work of criticism for all students of literature. (AI-generated book description)
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Dan Burstein
Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer collect contributions from specialists on the subjects in the Dan Brown novel Angels and Demons: the Vatica... (AI-generated book description)
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Dan Burstein
Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer collect contributions from historians and theologians on the claims in the Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Cod... (AI-generated book description)
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Stanisław Lem
Peter Swirski assembles texts by and about Stanislaw Lem, together with interviews. A way into an author who evaded every category. (AI-generated book description)
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Thomas Poser
A literary study on spatial structures in the Arthurian romances Erec by Hartmann von Aue and Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven. Thomas Pos... (AI-generated book description)
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T. A. Shippey
Tom Shippey, a philologist himself, shows what Tolkien built Middle-earth from: Old English words, gaps in manuscripts, and Germanic mytholo... (AI-generated book description)
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Roger Lancelyn Green
A volume in the Routledge Critical Heritage series on Rudyard Kipling, with critical reception documents on his work. (AI-generated book description)
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Tony Magistrale
Tony Magistrale examines the relationship between Stephen King's work and American history. The book analyzes how King portrays history as a... (AI-generated book description)
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Heidi Strengell
Heidi Strengell examines how Stephen King integrates Gothic, fairy tale, and naturalist traditions into his work, deploying archetypes such ... (AI-generated book description)
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Adjunct Professor in Speech Communication John Rodden
The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell, edited by John Rodden. An academic overview of Orwell's life and work for students and scholars. (AI-generated book description)
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom's second work on revisionism theory demonstrates how patterns of imagery in poems represent both a response to and a defense ag... (AI-generated book description)
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Neil Mulholland
Psychologists read Harry Potter: what does one really learn at Hogwarts, how does Snapes behaviour work, and what is wrong with Voldemort? (AI-generated book description)
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Matthew Feldman
A collected volume on the relationship between canonical modernist writers and radio and television: Woolf, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Orwe... (AI-generated book description)
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Mark Byron
An academic study on the influence of the medieval theologian Johannes Scottus Eriugena on Ezra Pound's poetry and prose. Mark Byron draws o... (AI-generated book description)
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Ralf Simon
A handbook on the theoretical foundations of poetics: history of poetics, systematic contributions to poeticity, and selected author poetics... (AI-generated book description)
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Christine Grond-Rigler
An academic collected volume on changes in the production, distribution, and reception of literature through digitalization. Prominent exper... (AI-generated book description)
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Stefan Neuhaus
An academic collected volume on the political in contemporary German-language literature. Contributions analyze how literary texts today gen... (AI-generated book description)
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Leslie Brückner
A collected volume on literary journeys through Germany after 1989. Contributions examine how authors including Büscher, Herrndorf, and Krac... (AI-generated book description)
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George Beahm
A photo guide to Forks, Washington, the setting of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga. With ninety photographs of locations from the novels and... (AI-generated book description)
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Rebecca Janicker
A study of the haunted house motif in American fiction, focusing on H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, and Stephen King. (AI-generated book description)
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Klaus Hurlebusch
Klaus Hurlebusch examines how Klopstock, Hamann, and Herder shifted writing in the eighteenth century from a work-centered to an author-cent... (AI-generated book description)
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Steven Powell
A collection of interviews with American crime writer James Ellroy from 1984 to 2010. Ellroy discusses his literary work, his public persona... (AI-generated book description)
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Christel Meier-Staubach
An interdisciplinary collected volume on literary and artistic authorship in its relationship to religion and politics, from antiquity to th... (AI-generated book description)
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Klaus Hurlebusch
A collection of essays on important aspects of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's thinking and poetry: his creative methods, the genius aestheti... (AI-generated book description)
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Finn Fordham
Finn Fordham compares the manuscripts and drafts of six major modernist writers: Hopkins, Yeats, Conrad, Forster, Joyce, and Woolf. The book... (AI-generated book description)
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Finn Fordham
A collected volume on Joyce's engagement with the nineteenth-century French novel: Dumas, Balzac, Hugo, Zola, and Flaubert. Contributions il... (AI-generated book description)
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Frederick S. Frank
Over 1,900 alphabetically arranged entries covering every aspect of Edgar Allan Poe's life and work. (AI-generated book description)
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Frank Estelmann
A collected volume on exile discourses in European and Latin American Romanticism from the French Revolution through the nineteenth century.... (AI-generated book description)
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Bernhard Huss
Conference proceedings on the agonal relationship between poetry and philosophy in the Early Modern Period and the role of paratexts in thes... (AI-generated book description)
