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  • Alice Munro's Late Style

    'Writing is the Final Thing'

    by Professor Robert Thacker ...
    Focusing on Alice Munro's last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the rest of her work to analyse the emergence and the difference of her 'late style'.Alice Munro has effectively reshaped the short story as a form. This book focuses on Munro's art of recursion - an approach that has been evident throughout her career but came to the fore in her last ... Read more

    Was $97.99 USD Now $32.99 USD

  • Alice Munro

    'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage', 'Runaway', 'Dear Life'

    by Professor Robert Thacker ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
    The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range of critical perspectives, focussing on three of her most popular and important published collections: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001), Runaway (2004), and her final ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013

    by Robert Thacker ...
    In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching introduction, featuring directive interleaved commentaries addressing chronology and contexts, ending with encompassing afterword, this collection provides a selection of essays and reviews that reflect their ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Outlandish Companion (Revised and Updated)

    Companion to Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, and Drums of Autumn

    by Diana Gabaldon ...
    Series series Outlander
    Perfect for readers of the bestselling Outlander novels—and don’t miss The Outlandish Companion Volume Two!#1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels, the inspiration for the Starz original series. From the moment Claire Randall stepped through a standing stone circle and was thrown back in time to the year ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives

    A Biography

    by Robert Thacker ...
    This is the book about one of the world’s great authors, Alice Munro, which shows how her life and her stories intertwine.For almost thirty years Robert Thacker has been researching this book, steeping himself in Alice Munro’s life and work, working with her co-operation to make it complete. The result is a feast of information for Alice Munro’s admirers everywhere.By following “the parallel ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • "W.O. Mitchell's Jake & the Kid: the Popular Radio Play as Art & Social Comment."

    by Alan J. Yates ...
    W.O. Mitchell's "Jake & The Kid" captivated radio audiences in the days before television and enjoyed ratings that rivalled those for the radio broadcasts of the CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada." These homespun tales about the hired hand, Jake Trumper and his sidekick, The Kid, explored very human stories about life on the often cruel Prairies of Saskatchewan in a humorous vein that made a household ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Literature into Film

    Theory and Practical Approaches

    by Linda Costanzo Cahir ...
    For most people, film adaptation of literature can be summed up in one sentence: "The movie wasn't as good as the book." This volume undertakes to show the reader that not only is this evaluation not always true but sometimes it is intrinsically unfair. Movies based on literary works, while often billed as adaptations, are more correctly termed translations. A director and his actors translate the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Short Story

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Kahn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and seen more as entertainment than art. However it has become far more than that, and this Very Short Introduction considers afresh the form's ongoing innovations in plot construction, capacity for ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature

    by Daniel Hahn ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that tackle extraordinarily difficult subjects. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature provides an indispensable and fascinating reference guide to ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

    Edited by Martin Priestman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on ... Read more

    Was $33.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edited by M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro

    Edited by David Staines ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's biography, her position as a feminist, her evocation of life in small-town Ontario, her non-fictional writings as well as her short stories, and her ... Read more

    $28.69 USD