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The Forest Of Wool And Steel
by Miyashita, Natsu | Gabriel, Philip
Publish: Feb 2020
ISBN-13: 9781784162986
ISBN-10:1784162981
Status:Published

Price: S$16.18

A Good Woman
by Steel, Danielle
Publish: Sep 2019
ISBN-13: 9780440243304
ISBN-10:0440243300
Status:Published

Price: S$13.31

Some Passages In The Life Of Mr Adam Blair, Minister Of The Gospel At Cross-meikle
by Lockhart, John Gibson
Publish: Jun 2020
ISBN-13: 9781474456098
ISBN-10:147445609X
Status:Published

Price: S$149.04

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This edition provides the first modern publication of Lockhart's final text, the revised second edition (1824), as well as the first scholarly edition
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This edition provides the first modern publication of Lockhart's final text, the revised second edition (1824), as well as the first scholarly edition of the novel, including extensive annotations and a detailed textual history.

by Hensel, Hastings
Edition: 1st ed.
Publish: Apr 2019
ISBN-13: 9781421428758

Status:Published

Price: S$29.53

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Though at times whimsical and witty, the poems in Hastings Hensel's Ballyhoo inhabit the world beyond and between the punchline. In tightly controlled
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Though at times whimsical and witty, the poems in Hastings Hensel's Ballyhoo inhabit the world beyond and between the punchline. In tightly controlled meditations on language's limits and its necessity, as well as on the many forms that humor takes—comedy, laughter, farce, clowning, parody, and more—Hensel navigates fine lines between joy and sadness, jokes and cruelty, reality and illusion, and irony and sincerity. Universal in scope, the 47 poems in Ballyhoo are richly idiomatic and evocative. They are also frequently grounded in the southern Atlantic coast with its particular ecology, characters, history, and myth. The pleasure in reading these poems comes from the original connections Hensel makes between the literary and the gritty: an elegy set in a bait shop, Twelfth Night's Feste delivering a monologue in a bar, a villanelle about a murder on a cruise ship. These intelligent, insightful poems remind us of the frail but important relationships between comedy, memory, and identity. Ballyhoo offers a sobering examination of the tragicomic nature of the world.

by Jimenez, Claire
Publish: Dec 2019
ISBN-13: 9781421434155

Status:Published

Price: S$29.53

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New York City's Staten Island is often described as the forgotten borough. But with Staten Island Stories, Claire Jimenez shines a spotlight on the im
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New York City's Staten Island is often described as the forgotten borough. But with Staten Island Stories, Claire Jimenez shines a spotlight on the imagined lives of the islanders. Inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, this collection of loosely linked tragicomic short stories travels across time to explore defining moments in the island's history, from the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash and the New York City blackout to the growing opioid and heroin crisis, Eric Garner's murder, and the 2016 presidential election.
If We Dream Too Long
by Goh, Poh Seng
Publish: Feb 2020
ISBN-13: 9789813251151
ISBN-10:9813251158
Status:Published

Price: S$22.00

Crime And Punishment
by Dostoevsky,Fyodor | Pasternak Slater,Nicolas | Young,Sarah J.
Publish: Mar 2019
ISBN-13: 9780198709718
ISBN-10:0198709714
Status:Published

Price: S$14.89

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Middlemarch
by Eliot,George | Carroll,David | Russell,David
Edition: 3rd
Publish: Apr 2019
ISBN-13: 9780198815518
ISBN-10:0198815514
Status:Published

Price: S$13.02

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Virtuoso
by Moskovich, Yelena
Edition: Main
Publish: Jan 2019
ISBN-13: 9781788160254
ISBN-10:1788160258
Status:Published

Price: S$27.93

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The Gunners
by Kauffman, Rebecca
Edition: Main
Publish: Jan 2019
ISBN-13: 9781788161053
ISBN-10:178816105X
Status:Published

Price: S$24.20

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Night Theatre
by Paralkar, Vikram
Edition: Main
Publish: Feb 2019
ISBN-13: 9781788161329
ISBN-10:1788161327
Status:Published

Price: S$24.20

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Only Americans Burn In Hell
by Kobek, Jarett
Edition: Main
Publish: Apr 2019
ISBN-13: 9781788162203
ISBN-10:178816220X
Status:Published

Price: S$24.20

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Our Lady Of Everything
by Finlay, Susan
Edition: Main
Publish: Mar 2019
ISBN-13: 9781788161190
ISBN-10:178816119X
Status:Published

Price: S$24.20

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Trust Exercise
by Choi, Susan
Edition: Main
Publish: May 2019
ISBN-13: 9781788161671
ISBN-10:178816167X
Status:Published

Price: S$27.93

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Warlow Experiment
by Nathan, Alix
Edition: Main
Publish: Jul 2019
ISBN-13: 9781788161695
ISBN-10:1788161696
Status:Published

Price: S$24.20

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Decoloniality And Gender In Jamaica Kincaid And Gis
by Sherratt-Bado, Dawn Miranda
Edition: 1st ed.
Publish: Jun 2025
ISBN-13: 9783319642536

Status:Not yet published

Price: S$143.98

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This book interconnects the fiction of two prominent contemporary women writers from the Caribbean diaspora across the anglophone and francophone
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This book interconnects the fiction of two prominent contemporary women writers from the Caribbean diaspora across the anglophone and francophone contexts. It makes a timely intervention into the fields of Caribbean and postcolonial studies via its multilingual focus and its framework of ‘connective reading’. The book posits connective reading as a practice of reading in relation, rather than in comparison, to the Other. The book opens with a survey of current critical and theoretical directions and locates its argument within the paradigms of decoloniality and womanism. Chapters include an analysis of methods for decolonizing Caribbean women’s fiction, as well as close readings of individual texts and connective readings of Kincaid and Pineau’s oeuvres. This study features underexplored texts, in addition to previously untranslated work. It addresses a range of motifs including: trauma, memory, ecology, photography, folk magic/medicine, and labour migration.
Making Sense Of Contemporary British Muslim Novels
by Chambers, Claire
Publish: May 2019
ISBN-13: 9781137520883

Status:Published

Price: S$79.98

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This book is the sequel to Britain Through Muslim Eyes and examines contemporary novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain. It builds on
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This book is the sequel to Britain Through Muslim Eyes and examines contemporary novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain. It builds on studies of the five senses and ‘sensuous geographies’ of postcolonial Britain, and charts the development since 1988 of a fascinating and important body of fiction by Muslim-identified authors. It is a selective literary history, exploring case-study novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain to allow in-depth critical analysis through the lens of sensory criticism. It argues that, for authors of Muslim heritage in Britain, writing the senses is often a double-edged act of protest. Some of the key authors excoriate a suppression or cover-up of non-heteronormativity and women’s rights that sometimes occurs in Muslim communities. Yet their protest is especially directed at secular culture’s ocularcentrism and at successive British governments’ efforts to surveil, control, and suppress Muslim bodies.
Tolkien, Self And Other:"this Queer Creature"
by Chance, Jane
Publish: May 2019
ISBN-13: 9781349679867

Status:Published

Price: S$36.99

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This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien’s life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particularly his
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This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien’s life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particularly his sympathy for and toleration of those who are different, deemed unimportant, or marginalized—namely, the Other. Jane Chance argues such empathy derived from a variety of causes ranging from the loss of his parents during his early life to a consciousness of the injustice and violence in both World Wars. As a result of his obligation to research and publish in his field and propelled by his sense of abjection and diminution of self, Tolkien concealed aspects of the personal in relatively consistent ways in his medieval adaptations, lectures, essays, and translations, many only recently published. These scholarly writings blend with and relate to his fictional writings in various ways depending on the moment at which he began teaching, translating, or editing a specific medieval work and, simultaneously, composing a specific poem, fantasy, or fairy-story. What Tolkien read and studied from the time before and during his college days at Exeter and continued researching until he died opens a door into understanding how he uniquely interpreted and repurposed the medieval in constructing fantasy.
The Novel And Europe
by Hammond, Andrew
Publish: Nov 2020
ISBN-13: 9781349707386

Status:Published

Price: S$118.39

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This book examines the ways in which fiction has addressed the continent since the Second World War. Drawing on novelists from Europe and elsewhere, t
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This book examines the ways in which fiction has addressed the continent since the Second World War. Drawing on novelists from Europe and elsewhere, the volume analyzes the literary response to seven dominant concerns (ideas of Europe, conflict, borders, empire, unification, migration, and marginalization), offering a ground-breaking study of how modern and contemporary writers have participated in the European debate. The sixteen essays view the chosen writers, not as representatives of national literatures, but as participants in transcontinental discussion that has occurred across borders, cultures, and languages. In doing so, the contributors raise questions about the forms of power operating across and radiating from Europe, challenging both the institutionalized divisions of the Cold War and the triumphalist narrative of continental unity currently being written in Brussels.
The Cultural Memory Of Africa In African American And Black British Fiction, 1970–2000:specters Of The Shore
by Kamali, Leila
Publish: Nov 2020
ISBN-13: 9781349927722

Status:Published

Price: S$103.59

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This book offers a new approach to reading the cultural memory of Africa in African American fiction from the post-Civil Rights era and in Black Briti
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This book offers a new approach to reading the cultural memory of Africa in African American fiction from the post-Civil Rights era and in Black British fiction emerging in the wake of Thatcherism. The critical period between the decline of the Civil Rights Movement and the dawn of the twenty-first century saw a deep contrast in the distinctive narrative approaches displayed by diverse African diaspora literatures in negotiating the crisis of representing the past. Through a series of close readings of literary fiction, this work examines how the cultural memory of Africa is employed in diverse and specific negotiations of narrative time, in order to engage and shape contemporary identity and citizenship.By addressing the practice of “remembering” Africa, the book argues for the signal importance of the African diaspora’s literary interventions, and locates new paradigms for cultural identity in contemporary times. 
Ghost Writing In Contemporary American Fiction
by Coughlan, David
Publish: Nov 2020
ISBN-13: 9781349681549

Status:Published

Price: S$88.79

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This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan’s innovative structu
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This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan’s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter sections detailing the significance of the ghost in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, particularly within the context of his 1993 text, Specters of Marx. Together, these accounts of phantoms, shadows, haunts, spirit, the death sentence, and hospitality provide a compelling theoretical context in which to read contemporary US literature. Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction argues at every stage that there is no self, no relation to the other, no love, no home, no mourning, no future, no trace of life without the return of the specter—that is, without ghost writing.
Post–war British Literature And The "end Of Empire"
by Whittle, Matthew
Publish: Nov 2020
ISBN-13: 9781349712090

Status:Published

Price: S$73.99

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This book examines literary texts by British colonial servant and settler writers, including Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Golding, and Al
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This book examines literary texts by British colonial servant and settler writers, including Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Golding, and Alan Sillitoe, who depicted the impact of decolonization in the newly independent colonies and at home in Britain. The end of the British Empire was one of the most significant and transformative events in twentieth-century history, marking the beginning of a new world order and having an indelible impact on British culture and society. Literary responses to this moment by those from within Britain offer an enlightening (and often overlooked) exploration of the influence of decolonization on received notions of “race” and class, while also prefiguring conceptions of multiculturalism. As Matthew Whittle argues in this sweeping study, these works not only view decolonization within its global context (alongside the aftermath of the Second World War, the rise of America, and mass immigration) but often propose a solution to imperial decline through cultural renewal. 
Writers And Their Mothers
by Salwak, Dale
Publish: Jun 2019
ISBN-13: 9783319885858

Status:Published

Price: S$39.95

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Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion  and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished contributors of o
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Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion  and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the profound and frequently perplexing bond between writer and mother. In compelling detail they bring to life the thoughts, work, loves, friendships, passions and, above all, the influence of mothers upon their literary offspring from Shakespeare to the present.Many of the contributors evoke the ideal with fond and loving memories: understanding, selfless, spiritual, tender, protective, reassuring and self-assured mothers who created environments favorable to the development of their children’s gifts. At the opposite end of the parenting spectrum, however, we also see tortured mothers who ignored, interfered with, smothered or abandoned their children.  Their early years were times of traumatic loss, unhappily dominated by death and human frailty.Elegantly assembled and presented, Writers and Their Mothers will appeal to everyone interested in biography, literature, and creativity in general.
The Vocation Of Sara Coleridge:authorship And Religion
by Schofield, Robin
Publish: Jun 2019
ISBN-13: 9783319889283

Status:Published

Price: S$133.19

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This book presents a fundamental reassessment of Sara Coleridge. It examines her achievements as an author in the public sphere, and celebrates her in
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This book presents a fundamental reassessment of Sara Coleridge. It examines her achievements as an author in the public sphere, and celebrates her interventions in what was a masculine genre of religious polemics. Sara Coleridge the religious author was the peer of such major figures as John Henry Newman and F. D. Maurice, and recognized as such by contemporaries. Her strategic negotiations with conventions of gender and authorship were subtle and successful. In this rediscovery of Sara Coleridge the author revises perspectives upon her literary relationship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Far from sacrificing her opportunities in service of her father’s memory, her rationale is to exploit his metaphysics in original religious writings that engage with urgent controversies of her own times. Sara Coleridge critiques the Oxford theology of Newman and his colleagues for authoritarian and elitist tendencies, and for creating a negative culture in religious discourse. In response, she experiments with methodologies of collaborative, dialogic exchange, in which form as much as content will promote liberal, inclusive and productive encounters. She develops this agenda in her major religious work, the unpublished Dialogues on Regeneration (1850–51), which this book examines in its penultimate chapter.
Constructing The Adolescent Reader In Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
by Gruner, Elisabeth Rose
Edition: 1st Ed. 2019
Publish: Jun 2019
ISBN-13: 9781137539236
ISBN-10:1137539232
Status:Published

Price: S$83.82

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This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adul
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This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adult novels depict readers as agents. Reading, these novels suggest, is neither an unalloyed good nor a dangerous ploy, but rather an essential, occasionally fraught, by turns escapist and instrumental, deeply pleasurable, and highly contentious activity that has value far beyond the classroom skills or the specific content it conveys. After an introductory chapter that examines the state of reading and young adult fiction today, the book examines novels that depict reading in school, gendered and racialized reading, reading magical and religious books, and reading as a means to developing civic agency. These examinations reveal that books for teens depict teen readers as doers, and suggest that their ability to read deeply, critically, and communally is crucial to the development of adolescent agency.
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