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  • Henry Green
    Peter Wolfe
    By mid-career, many successful writers have found a groove and their readers come to expect a familiar consistency and fidelity. Not so with Henry Green (1905-1973). He prefers uncertainty over reason and fragmentation over cohesion, and rarely lets the reader settle into a nice cozy read. Evil, he suggests, can be as instructive as good. Through Green’s use of paradoxical a...
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    73,27 €

  • The Theater of Terrence McNally
    Peter Wolfe
    This first book-length work on Terrence McNally shows how his decades in the theater have refined his thoughts on subjects like growing up gay in mannish, homophobic Texas, Shakespeare’s legacy in contemporary drama, and the life-giving power of forgiveness. McNally believes that the ability to forgive--a challenge to even the most high-minded--confirms our humanity because ...
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    57,27 €

  • Simon Gray Unbound
    Peter Wolfe
    The work of English playwright Simon Gray (1936-2008) has always resisted ideological and stylistic labels. His artistic independence has also had an unwelcome side effect: It cost him the critical attention garnered by his peers. This book, the first monograph on Gray, examines his oeuvre from the early plays, which hack away at the formalism and humanism of traditional Eng...
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    57,32 €

  • Havoc in the Hub
    Peter Wolfe
    Havoc in the Hub examines the long-neglected work of George V. Higgins, bringing to light the wealth of intellectual, social, literary, and religious thought that underlie his 25 novels and numerous other writings. ...
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    71,27 €

  • Like Hot Knives to the Brain
    Peter Wolfe
    James Ellroy’s prose, in many ways as complex as any in the Western literary canon, strung together sensational stories of crime and catastrophe. The significance of his writing to Western culture has yet to be fully explored. Author Peter Wolfe offers us the first book-length study of Ellroy in English. ...
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    70,73 €

  • Children of Battered Women
    David A. Wolfe / Peter G. Jaffe / Susan Kaye Wilson
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    194,29 €