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  • Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage

    Spying Undercover(s)

    Modifié par Professor Ann Rea ...
    An exploration of how espionage narratives give access to cultural conceptions of gender and sexuality before and following the Second World War, this bookmoves away from masculinist assumptions of the genre to offer an integrative survey of the sexualities on display from important characters across spy fiction. Topics covered include how authors mocked the traditional spy genre; James Bond as a ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • Middlebrow Wodehouse

    P.G. Wodehouse's Work in Context

    par Ann Rea ...
    While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who penned many other novels, stories, and musical comedy libretti, the latter of which played an enormous role in the development of American musical theater. This collection re-examines Wodehouse in the context of recent scholarship on the middlebrow, attending to his self-conscious ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

    Modifié par Martin Priestman ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $37.99 CAD Maintenant $31.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of the English Short Story

    Modifié par Dominic Head ...
    The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic evolution of the English short story to the present day, and written by international experts in the field, this book covers numerous transnational and historical connections between writers, modes and forms of transmission. ... En savoir plus

    $53.59 CAD

  • Crime Fiction

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Richard Bradford ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century, but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus, and Shakespeare. In this Very Short Introduction Richard Bradford explores the history of the genre, by considering the various definitions of 'crime fiction' and looking at how it has developed over time. Discussing the popularity of crime fiction worldwide and ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Lives in Writing

    par David Lodge ...
    A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary.In these thoughtful and enlightening essays David Lodge considers some particularly interesting examples of life ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Uses of Literacy

    Aspects of Working-Class Life

    par Richard Hoggart, Simon Hoggart ...
    Collections series Penguin Modern Classics
    When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good?When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy Britain was undergoing huge social change, yet his ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Historical Novel

    par Jerome de Groot ...
    Collections series The New Critical Idiom
    The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible introduction to the genre and critical debates that surround it, including:the development of the historical novel from early eighteenth-century works ... En savoir plus

    $46.71 CAD

  • Quite A Good Time to be Born

    A Memoir: 1935-1975

    par David Lodge ...
    'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother. Four years old when World War II began, David grew to maturity through decades of great social and ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

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  • A Brief Take on the Australian Novel

    par Jean-François Vernay ...
    Grab the popcorn, sit back and let the story of Australian literature roll ... From Jean-Francois Vernay, "A Brief Take on the Australian Novel" offers a sweeping view of Australian writing since colonialism. Written from an outsider's perspective, this single-authored overview will appeal to readers through its playful, jargon-free and potentially contentious account of the Australian novel. ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence

    Modifié par Wesley K. Wark ...
    Collections series Studies in Intelligence
    This book won the Canadian Crime Writers' Arthur Ellis Award for the Best Genre Criticism/Reference book of 1991. This collection of essays is an attempt to explore the history of spy fiction and spy films and investigate the significance of the ideas they contain. The volume offers new insights into the development and symbolism of British spy fiction. ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

  • The Practice of Writing

    par David Lodge ...
    In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his work, wonders about the motives of biographers, ponders the merits of creative writing courses, pulls the rug from under certain theoretical critics and throws open the curtains on his own workshop. ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD