Product Description: Building upon the 'four pillars of manhood' model set forth in his bestseller Tender Warrior, author Stu Weber leads readers in an expanded, in-depth biblical exploration of what it means to be a king, warrior, mentor, and friend...read more

Product Description: The novel-essay emerged in France, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and reached its highest formal complexity in Austria and Germany, during the interwar period. Here, Ercolino argues that it is crucial for a renovated understating of the history of the novel in modernity...read more

Product Description: The enormous popularity of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy has raised awareness of other contemporary European authors of crime fiction. As a result, several of these novelists now reach a receptive American audience, eager for fresh perspectives in the genre...read more

Product Description: This work centres on three writers whose prose fictions became exemplary of the modernist drive to reconstitute a vision of life with universal reach. Chapters treating the authors' themes and traits are bracketed by chapters establishing the cultural continuum in which they worked...read more

Product Description: In the twentieth century there were certain creative individuals, both authors and musicians, who became particularly involved in exploring the relationship between words and music. French author and philosopher Albert Camus (1913-1960); Irish writer, dramatist, and poet Samuel Beckett (1906-1989); American composer and writer John Cage (1912-1992); and Canadian pianist Glenn Gould (1932-1982) all experimented with the interconnections between words and music in various ways...read more

Product Description: Migration and Literature offers a thought-provoking analysis of the thematic and formal role of migration in four contemporary and canonized novelists.

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Product Description: A comparative study of the highly problematic concept of "home" in works by authors born and raised in colonial contexts and repatriated as young adults to European "homelands" which they had never before seen. They write at an angle to nationalist or imperialist constructions of home and create "terragraphica", or a place from which to write...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Language, Politics and Writing demonstrates the links and parallels between literature and politics in Western Europe. Patrick McCarthy looks at the history of the twentieth century by wedding together literary and political events and texts, and examines the ways in which they interact and influence each other...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Focusing on three literary masterpieces--Charles Dickens's Bleak House, Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks--the author of The Enlightenment explores the complex relationship between history and literature, reality and fiction, to reveal the essence of literary truth. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The psychoanalytic discovery of the importance of the pre-oedipal mother-daughter bond in the 1970s generated a vast amount of feminist theory attempting to identify the specificity of, and give value to, the daughter's relationship to her mother...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Naturalism was the dominant movement in European literary culture during the second half of the 19th century. This book focuses on the poetics, thematics and reception of naturalism, and stresses modern methods of literary analysis.