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Worlds So Strange and Diverse

Towards a Genological Taxonomy of Non-mimetic Literature

By: Grzegorz Trębicki

£47.99

This analysis of contemporary fantasy literature explores unmapped territories of the genre. Building on major previous theories, it offers a new, comprehensive taxonomy of fantastic fiction based on the notion of supragenological types.

Wretched Refuge

Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern

Edited By: Jessica Datema, Diane Krumrey

£34.99

This book reimagines the immigrant experience as part of a larger motif: the postmodern itinerant. As a figure of displacement and dispersion, the itinerant suggests a cosmopolitan response to anxieties about global hegemony in works by Diaz, Lahiri, and others.

Writers, Writing, and Revolution

By: R. G. Williams

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This book explores how writers have shaped social revolutions and their connection to radicals. A blend of political theory, literary theory, and political action, it is a call for writers to work towards Socialism.

Writers’ Biographies and Family Histories in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature

Edited By: Lucie Guiheneuf, Aude Haffen

£58.99

This volume includes ten essays on American, British and Canadian writers’ biographies and family histories, ranging from Woolf’s Orlando (1928) to Zanganeh’s The Enchanter (2011), analysing the connection between biography and fiction in the light of postmodernism.

Writing about Latin American Sovereignty

The Latin American Board

Edited By: Pablo Baisotti

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This book explores the relationship between Latin America and China, and how it affects Latin American states in regard to other international actors. It investigates how Latin America and China influence each other, and discusses their respective roles in the world.

Writing America into the Twenty-First Century

Essays on the American Novel

Edited By: Elizabeth Boyle, Anne-Marie Evans

£34.99

This collection of essays presents a refreshing analysis of recent American fiction. Interrogating works by authors like Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and Cormac McCarthy, it offers a new way to examine the American novel in the twenty-first century.

Writing as Performance

Accounts of Autoethnography

Edited By: Georgina Gabor

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This volume finds an outlet in autoethnography, creating authentic relations between scholars and their writing. It explores new relationships forced into being by the pandemic, as authors describe personal experiences that shed light upon wider cultural and social dynamics.

Writing Business Letters Across Languages

A Guide to Writing Clear and Concise Business Letters for Translation Purposes

By: Sonia Halimi, Said M. Shiyab

£41.99

A practical guide to cross-cultural business correspondence. Exploring style, tone, and structure, it provides examples from Arabic, English, and French to help professionals write effective letters and understand their counterparts in other languages.

Writing Freedom into Narratives of Racial Injustice in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley

By: Ann Denkler

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In Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, a false myth denies the history of enslavement. This book challenges it by refocusing on the narratives of two enslaved individuals, asserting they were astute historians who knew they were amending the historical record that had kept them absent.

In Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, a false myth denies the history of enslavement. This book challenges it by refocusing on the narratives of two enslaved individuals, asserting they were astute historians who knew they were amending the historical record that had kept them absent.

Writing from the Margins

The Aesthetics of Disruption in the Irish Short Story

Edited By: Catriona Ryan

£41.99

There is another dimension to the Irish short story tradition that has been overlooked. Led by Samuel Beckett, Aidan Higgins, and Tom Mac Intyre, this marginalized tradition marks an alternative avant-garde movement. This is the first book to highlight it.

Writing Fundamentalism

Edited By: Axel Stähler, Klaus Stierstorfer

£39.99

Fundamentalism is text-centred, but its complex and paradoxical relationship with literature remains largely unexplored. These essays explore this relationship, analysing literary representations of fundamentalism and revealing unexpected affinities between the two.

Writing History in the Third Republic

By: Isabel Noronha-DiVanna

£39.99

This book offers new insight into the French historians of 1860-1914 known as the école méthodique. It reassesses whether this school emerged in response to political developments or a shared philosophy, offering a counter-argument to postmodernist scholars.

Writing Imagined Diasporas

South Asian Women Reshaping North American Identity

Edited By: Joel Kuortti

£29.99

This study argues that diasporic South Asian women writers are not merely assimilating to North American culture but actively reshaping it. Their writings of imagined diasporas create new, hybrid identities that challenge "national" discourses.

Writing in Film Studies, from Professional Practice to Practical Pedagogy

By: Bryan Mead

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How can film instructors help students become better writers? This book answers by uncovering the disciplinary expectations for student writing and offering clear, actionable strategies to teach those expectations, helping instructors foster better writing in their students.

Writing Instruction and Intervention for Struggling Writers

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support

Edited By: Michael Dunn

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Many children struggle with writing. Instead of the “wait-to-fail” model, schools can use a multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) model for early intervention. This book offers descriptions and case examples of how to apply MTSS concepts for writing success.

Writing New Worlds

The Cultural Dynamics of Curiosity in Early Modern Europe

By: Marília dos Santos Lopes

£52.99

This book analyses the different ways in which travel literature constituted a fundamental pillar in the production of knowledge in the modern era, showing how authors, scholars and artists between the 15th and 17th centuries responded to the challenges of modernity.

Writing on the Body? Thinking Through Gendered Embodiment and Marked Flesh

By: Kay Inckle

£34.99

This courageous, thought-provoking book takes the reader on an intimate journey into the misunderstood world of body marking. It develops an embodied, feminist critique of dominant research, searching for new ways of producing knowledge and telling stories from the body.

Writing Out of Limbo

International Childhoods, Global Nomads and Third Culture Kids

Edited By: Nina Sichel, Elaine Neil Orr, Faith Eidse

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They are Third Culture Kids. While their global lifestyle offers an expanded worldview, it brings recurring losses. In this collection, writers from around the world explore the search for identity, belonging, and a place to call “home.”

Writing Research Differently

How Community-University Partnerships Re-imagine the Research Article

By: Margaret Malone

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This book challenges the notion of the empirical research article as a neutral form. Analyzing texts from engaged research, it reveals how authors resist scientific conventions and proposes a re-imagined article to advance social and cognitive justice in scholarly communication.

Writing Research Proposals for Social Sciences and Humanities in a Higher Education Context

By: George Damaskinidis, Anastasia Christodoulou

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Research proposals are a ubiquitous part of higher education. This title provides a support framework with step-by-step guidance about what constitutes a good research proposal and what can be done to maximize one’s chances of writing a successful application.