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  • Biofiction

    An Introduction

    Biofiction: An Introduction provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction, suggesting potential lines of inquiry, exploring criticisms of the literary form, and modeling the process of analyzing and interpreting individual texts. Written for undergraduate and graduate students, this volume combines comprehensive coverage of the core foundations of ... Leer más

    Antes $1,003 MXN Ahora $899 MXN

  • The American Biographical Novel

    Before the 1970s, there were only a few acclaimed biographical novels. But starting in the 1980s, there was a veritable explosion of this genre of fiction, leading to the publication of spectacular biographical novels about figures as varied as Abraham Lincoln, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and Marilyn Monroe, just to mention a notable few. ... Leer más

    $548 MXN

  • Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction

    Series series Biofiction Studies
    Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last 35 years. What has not yet been scholarly acknowledged or documented is that the Irish played a crucial role in the origins, evolution, rise, and now dominance of biofiction.Michael Lackey first examines the groundbreaking biofictions that Oscar Wilde and ... Leer más

    $548 MXN

  • German Exile Biofiction

    The Metaphorical Art of Intellectual Activism

    Series series Biofiction Studies
    Shows how after the Nazis came to power, prominent exile writers used biofiction to provide readers with a means of identifying root causes of political oppression.There were biofictions before the 20th century, but the literary form surged in the 1930s, especially among writers who fled Europe to escape the Nazis. What would be the best way to challenge and counteract the Nazis' oppressive ... Leer más

    $1,614 MXN

  • Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists

    In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the traditional historical novel, and reflect on the ideas and characters central to their individual ... Leer más

    $548 MXN

  • Biofictional Histories, Mutations and Forms

    Edición de Michael Lackey ...
    Biofiction, defined as literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, first became popular in the 1930s, but over the last forty years it has become a dominant literary form. Prominent writers such as J.M. Coetzee, Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks, Julia Alvarez, Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel, Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright, Colum McCann, and Michael Cunningham have authored ... Leer más

    $1,193 MXN

  • Conversations with Jay Parini

    Edición de Michael Lackey ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he has also published numerous volumes of poetry; biographies of William Faulkner, Robert Frost, and John Steinbeck; novels; and literary and cultural criticism. This book contains the most important ... Leer más

    $311 MXN

  • Conversations with Joanna Scott

    Edición de Michael Lackey ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America’s leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott’s unique and probing vision and masterful writing has inspired readers to adjust their perceptions of life and of themselves. Her fiction jolts and illuminates, frequently exposing the degree to which the perverse is natural and the ordinary ... Leer más

    $311 MXN

  • The Haverford Discussions

    A Black Integrationist Manifesto for Racial Justice

    Edición de Michael Lackey ...
    In the late sixties and early seventies, black separatist movements were sweeping across the United States. This was the era of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael's and Charles Hamilton's Black Power, and Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice. In 1969 a group of distinguished African American intellectuals met at Haverford College in order to devise strategies to dissuade young blacks ... Leer más

    $630 MXN

  • Conversations with Biographical Novelists

    Truthful Fictions across the Globe

    Edición de Professor Michael Lackey ...
    How does a writer approach a novel about a real person?In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, David Lodge, Colum McCann, Colm Tóibín, and Olga Tokarczuk sit down with literary scholars to discuss the relationship of history, truth, and fiction. Taken together, these conversations clarify how the biographical novel encourages cross-cultural dialogue, ... Leer más

    $548 MXN

  • Audiolibro

    Bartleby, the Scrivener

    A Story of Wall Street

    Narrado por Michael Lackey ...

    Completo

    1 horas 50 minutos

    In Manhattan, an elderly lawyer's business is growing. Having two scriveners in his employ, the lawyer advertises for a third to meet demand. Enter Bartleby, a glum albeit quality scrivener. However, the lawyer quickly discovers that something is off with his new employee. When asked to perform any duties outside of copywriting, Bartleby responds with a canned 'I would prefer not to.' Soon ... Leer más

    $173 MXN

  • Audiolibro

    Billy Budd - Booktrack Edition

    Narrado por Michael Lackey ...

    Completo

    3 hora 56 minutos

    Billy Budd: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! In 1797, young Billy Budd is impressed into naval service. It is a perilous time for a British Royal Navy still reeling from mutinies and marauding French ships. When Billy is forcibly transferred to HMS Bellipotent, he evokes the wrath of John Claggart, the ship's Master-at-arms. Claggart ... Leer más

    $432 MXN