Product Description: From Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade to Jake Gittes, private eyes have made for some of the most memorable characters in cinema. We often view these detectives as lone wolves who confront and try to make sense of a violent and chaotic modern world...read more

Product Description: Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study...read more

Product Description: It scares—and titillates—in such movies as The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Basic Instinct. It violently ended the lives of legendary artists such as Selena and John Lennon, and thousands of people endure it daily in anonymity from ex-lovers and strangers...read more

Product Description: Bran Nicol traces the preoccupation in Murdoch's fiction with the way the past makes its mark upon us, haunting us and eluding our attempts to grasp it. This argument was given an extra resonance by the death of Murdoch after Alzheimer's disease in 1999, when the first edition was published...read more

Product Description: Bran Nicol explores the works of Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) as well as the “very quiet dark place” she inhabited in her last years. Piero adds his striking original illustrations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The first book to collect the most important contributions to the theory of the postmodern novel over the last forty years.