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Trade Paperback : $17.95 Buy	Hollywood's Stephen King Tony Magistrale Palgrave Macmillan For the past three decades, Hollywood has faithfully adapted much of Stephen King's fiction into film. Of the many major films that have been made, not one has...

Hardcover : $26.95 Buy	David Mamet A Life in the Theatre Ira Nadel Palgrave Macmillan The definitive biography of David Mamet

Trade Paperback : $40.00 Buy	Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life, Second Edition Literary Lives Linda Wagner-Martin Palgrave Macmillan Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life examines the way Plath made herself into a writer. Close analysis of Plath's reading and apprenticeship writing both in fiction...

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	Sylvia Plath Second Edition Susan Bassnett Palgrave Macmillan In this lively and accessible introduction to Sylvia Plath's writing, Bassnett offers a balanced view of one of the finest modern poets. Bassnett argues that...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Writing Performances The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers Crystal Downing Palgrave Macmillan Employing the insight of contemporray performance theory, Writing Performances argues that Dorothy L. Sayers anticipated by decades the postmodern ironizing of...

Hardcover : $30.00 Buy	Living with a Writer Edited by Dale Salwak Palgrave Macmillan An engrossing collection of essays by today's top literary minds on the topic of living with a writer

Trade Paperback : $31.95 Buy	Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View Camille Roman Palgrave Macmillan This book offers the first comprehensive portrayal of the poet in mid-20th century America.

Trade Paperback : $36.00 Buy	Broadway Boogie Woogie Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture Daniel R. Schwarz Palgrave Macmillan A fresh look at the works and legacy of a beloved New York writer.

Trade Paperback : $18.95 Buy	In Morocco Edith Wharton Tauris Parke Paperbacks "I stand in portico hung with gentian-blue ipomeas ... and look out on a land of mists and mysteries; a land of trailing silver veils through which domes and...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Sam Shepard A 'Poetic Rodeo' Modern Dramatists Carol Rosen Palgrave Macmillan Sam Shepard is one of the leading contemporary American playwrights whose plays are widely performed and studied on both sides of the Atlantic. This book...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Rhetoric and Sexuality The Poetry of Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill Peter Nickowitz Palgrave Macmillan A study of American 20th century poets Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill.

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman Studies in Short Fiction Janet Beer Palgrave Macmillan A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the focus for this study, examining both genre and theme. Chopin's...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Ernest Hemingway Machismo and Masochism Richard Fantina Palgrave Macmillan This book provides an original and controversial look at a neglected area of this author's enduring work.

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	Margaret Atwood, Second Edition Coral Ann Howells Palgrave Macmillan Margaret Atwood is one of the most popular and enduring literary novelists of the late twentieth century. This introduction covers Atwood's work from the 1970s...

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	Amy Tan Contemporary World Writers Adams Bella Manchester University Press This is the most comprehensive study to date of Amy Tan's work, offering close readings of her texts in the context of broader debates about the representation...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century Amy L. Strong Palgrave Macmillan A revisionist reading of Ernest Hemingway's work with respect to race.

Hardcover : $110.00 Buy	An Edith Wharton Chronology Author Chronologies Series Edgar F. Harden Palgrave Macmillan This new volume in the Author Chronology series illuminates the writing of Edith Wharton by detailing her experiences and placing her in her social context....

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920 Sherry D. Engle Palgrave Macmillan This study reveals in depth the lives and work of five little-known women dramatists: Martha Morton, 1865-1925, Madeleine Lucette Ryley, 1858-1934, Evelyn...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Hart Crane and the Modernist Epic Canon and Genre Formation in Crane, Pound, Eliot, and Williams Daniel Gabriel Palgrave Macmillan This study examines Hart Crane’s canonical ambitions in The Bridge and argues for a new species of epic, “the modernist epic,” which also includes Pound’s The...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Fundamentalism and Literature Edited by Catherine Pesso-Miquel and Klaus Stierstorfer Palgrave Macmillan Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini declared the notorious fatwa against novelist Salman Rushdie in 1989, the fact that literature and fundamentalism have mutual...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Maxine Hong Kingston Contemporary World Writers Helena Grice Manchester University Press Since the publication of The Woman Warrior in 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston has gained a reputation as one of the most popular -- and controversial -- writers in...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	William Faulkner A Literary Life Literary Lives David Rampton Palgrave Macmillan This concise and focused study of Faulkner's literary lives can help readers sort through the questions raised by his work and by the voluminous response to it....

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics Steven Salaita Palgrave Macmillan Using a mix of literary and social analysis, this book examines a broad range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how numerous...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	F. Scott Fitzgerald's Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century Michael Nowlin Palgrave Macmillan This book charts Fitzgerald’s use of racial stereotypes to encode the dual nature of his literary ambition: his desire to be on the one hand a popular American...

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