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 | A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy ISBN: 9781621032380 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: McCarthy Cormac 1933– -- Border trilogy; Mexican-American Border Region -- In literature; Western stories -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Natural History of the Romance Novel ISBN: 9780812203103 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Love stories English -- History and criticism; Love stories American -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Trauma Artist: Tim O'Brien and the Fiction of Vietnam ISBN: 9781587293283 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: O’Brien Tim 1946 -- Criticism and interpretation; Vietnamese Conflict 1961–1975 -- Literature and the conflict; Post-traumatic stress disorder -- United States; War stories American -- History and criticism; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature ISBN: 9780803222779 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American literature -- Montana -- History and criticism; Authors American -- Homes and haunts -- Montana; Montana -- In literature; Montana -- Intellectual life; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | All Stories Are True: History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman ISBN: 9781617030055 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Wideman John Edgar -- Criticism and interpretation; African Americans in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Alone in America: The Stories that Matter ISBN: 9780674068032 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American fiction -- History and criticism; Loneliness in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines ISBN: 9780816676989 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Animals in literature; Human–animal relationships in literature; Agent (Philosophy) in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America ISBN: 9780816681754 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Sea stories American -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Seafaring life in literature; National characteristics American in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Boccaccio's Fabliaux: Medieval Short Stories and the Function of Reversal ISBN: 9780813048666 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Florida Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Fabliaux -- History and criticism; Boccaccio Giovanni 1313–1375. Decamerone; Boccaccio Giovanni 1313–1375 -- Criticism and interpretation; Poetry -- Early works to 1800; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Bodies of Evidence: Women, Society, and Detective Fiction in 1990s Japan ISBN: 9780824861667 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Detective and mystery stories Japanese -- History and criticism; Japanese fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity ISBN: 9780292796782 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Texas Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Detective and mystery stories American -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism; Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life; Mexican Americans in literature; Group identity in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Chasing the White Whale: The Moby-Dick Marathon; or, What Melville Means Today ISBN: 9781587299407 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Melville Herman 1819–1891. Moby Dick; Sea stories American -- History and criticism; Whaling in literature; Whales in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Coloring Locals: Racial Formation in Katie Chopin's "Youth's Companion" Stories ISBN: 9781587294280 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Chopin Kate 1851–1904 -- Criticism and interpretation; Women and literature -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century; Chopin Kate 1851–1904 -- Views on race; Louisiana -- In literature; Local color in literature; Racism in literature; Race in literatur; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Companion to James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk ISBN: 9780803278950 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Welch James 1940– Heartsong of Charging Elk; Indians in literature; West (U.S.) -- In literature; Western stories -- History and criticism; Novelists American -- 20th century -- Biography; Welch James 1940– Interviews; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir ISBN: 9780813147901 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Chandler Raymond 1888–1959 -- Criticism and interpretation; Detective and mystery stories American -- History and criticism; Chandler Raymond 1888–1959 -- Film and video adaptations; Chandler Raymond 1888–1959 -- Motion picture plays; Detective and; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Crimes against the State, Crimes against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico ISBN: 9780816694709 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Detective and mystery stories Cuban -- History and criticism; Detective and mystery stories Mexican -- History and criticism; Cuban fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Mexican fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Politics and; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914 ISBN: 9781512805475 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Adultery in literature; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Adultery -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History; Legal stories English -- History and criticism; American f; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC ISBN: 9781626165915 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Georgetown University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Jazz -- Washington (D.C.) -- History and criticism; Jazz musicians -- Washington (D.C.); ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism ISBN: 9780812205459 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism; Experimental fiction -- History and criticism; Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Metaphysics in literature; Fiction -- Technique; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | DETECTING THE NATION: FICTIONS OF DETECTIONS & IMPERIAL VENTUR ISBN: 9780814273104 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Ohio State University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Detective and mystery stories English -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Great Britain -- Colonies -- In literature; Imperialism in literature; Colonies in literature; Police in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880–1930 ISBN: 9781684175215 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Japanese fiction -- Meiji period 1868-1912 -- History and criticism; Japanese fiction -- Taisho period 1912-1926 -- History and criticism; Japanese fiction -- Western influences; Detective and mystery stories Japanese -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Detectives, Dystopias, and Poplit: Studies in Modern German Genre Fiction ISBN: 9781782043294 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: German fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; German fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Fiction genres; Popular literature -- Germany -- History and criticism; Detective and mystery stories German -- History and criticism; Scien; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism ISBN: 9780827614307 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period 586 B.C.–210 A.D.; Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period 10–425; Greek literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism; Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.–70 A.D.; J; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dominant Impressions: Essays on the Canadian Short Story ISBN: 9780776615806 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Ottawa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Short stories Canadian (English) -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Double Jeopardy: Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction ISBN: 9780813163765 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Women murders -- Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Detective and mystery stories English -- History and criticism; Women murderers in literature; Trials (Murder) in liter; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story ISBN: 9780776623252 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Ottawa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Short stories Canadian (English) -- History and criticism; Canadian fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Doubled Plots: Romance and History ISBN: 9781621032731 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Historical fiction American -- History and Criticism; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Historical fiction English -- History and criticism; Love stories American -- H; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dreams of Speech and Violence ISBN: 9781487583118 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Short stories Canadian (English) -- History and criticism; Short stories New Zealand -- History and criticism; Literature Comparative -- Canadian (English) and New Zealand; Literature Comparative -- New Zealand and Canadian (English); ■ Detailed Information | |
 | E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Serapiontic Principle: Critique and Creativity ISBN: 9781571136831 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Hoffmann E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) 1776–1822. Serapions–Brüder; Hoffmann E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) 1776–1822 -- Technique; Frame-stories -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction ISBN: 9780857285492 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Anthem Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Adventure stories English -- History and criticism; Animals in literature; Ecocriticism; Human-animal relationships in literature; Ecology in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | European Memories of the Second World War ISBN: 9781782389637 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Berghahn Books Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: World War 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war; German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Italian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; War stories -- History and; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative ISBN: 9781400863037 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Short stories American -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; Short stories English -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; Short stories French -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; Psychoanalysis and literature; Secrecy in literature; Family; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction ISBN: 9781442623088 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Detective and mystery stories American -- History and criticism; Detective and mystery stories English -- History and criticism; Detective and mystery stories Canadian (English) -- History and criticism; English fiction -- Women authors -- History and; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature ISBN: 9781587291173 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Vietnamese Conflict 1961–1975 -- Literature and the conflict; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; War stories American -- History and criticism; War poetry American -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Frame, Glass, Verse: The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance ISBN: 9781501727320 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: English poetry -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism; Frame-stories -- History and criticism; Poetics -- History -- 16th century; Mirrors in literature; Invention (Rhetoric); Renaissance -- England; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England ISBN: 9781400863310 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: English literature -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century; English literature -- Classical influences; Frame-stories -- History and criticism; Commonplace-books --; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature ISBN: 9780816678693 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Children’s stories English -- History and criticism; Children’s stories American -- History and criticism; Psychoanalysis and literature; Children in literature; Child psychology in literature; Psychology in literature; Young adult fiction English -- H; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Frontiers of Narrative : Telling Children's Stories : Narrative Theory and Children's Literature ISBN: 9780803234093 Platform/Publisher: PQ ebrary / University of Nebraska Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a time Subjects: Children's literature : History and criticism.; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture ISBN: 9780253020529 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Love stories American -- History and criticism; Love stories English -- History and criticism; Women in literature; Love in literature; Popular literature -- United States; Popular literature -- Great Britain; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Hard-Boiled ISBN: 9781592139118 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Detective and mystery stories American -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century; ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Decline of Moral Authority ISBN: 9780814274446 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Ohio State University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Detective and mystery stories American -- History and criticism; Detective and mystery stories French -- History and criticism; Moral conditions in literature; Authority in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Haunting Encounters: The Ethics of Reading across Boundaries of Difference ISBN: 9781501713828 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Ghosts in literature; Supernatural in literature; Psychic trauma in literature; Memory in literature; Difference (Philosophy) in literature; Transnationalism in literature; Ghost stories -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- Histor; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Intrigue: Espionage and Culture ISBN: 9780300148480 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Spy stories English -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Spy stories American -- History and criticism; Espionage American -- History -- 20th cent; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Invisible Natives: Myth and Identity in the American Western ISBN: 9781501729539 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Western films -- History and criticism; Indians in motion pictures; Western stories -- History and criticism; Indians in literature; American fiction -- History and criticism; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Gro; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Laurel and Thorn: The Athlete in American Literature ISBN: 9780813162997 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; Athletes in literature; Sports stories -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Law and Literature: Third Edition ISBN: 9780674054417 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Law in literature; Law and literature; Legal stories -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France ISBN: 9780812292169 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Detective and mystery stories French -- History and criticism; French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; French fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Science in literatur; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Lessons from Sarajevo: A War Stories Primer ISBN: 9781613762561 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Massachusetts Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: War stories English -- History and criticism; War stories American -- History and criticism; War and literature -- Great Britain; War and literature -- United States; War in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale ISBN: 9780816695669 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Children’s stories American -- History and criticism; Boys -- Books and reading -- United States; Feral children in literature; Boys in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Mary Austin and the American West ISBN: 9780520942264 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Austin Mary Hunter 1868–1934; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Women and literature -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century; Western stories -- History and criticism; West (U.S.) -- In literature; ■ Detailed Information |