Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

The Literature of Al-Andalus explores the culture of Iberia adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.

This book studies the treatment of science and technology from ancient myths to current works, demonstrating the importance of science to human civilization as evidenced in literature.

This historical dictionary covers the major trends in the 20th century ecumenical movement until today.

A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts.

Throughout history, human beings have been strangely fascinated by the monstrous and the macabre.

First published in 1924, this unique title provides an extremely valuable early Twentieth Century perspective on Jane Austen, offering analysis from both sides of the channel.

Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith PrizeSurpassing scholarly discourse surrounding the emergent secularism of the 19th century, Theology, Horror and Fiction argues that the Victorian Gothic is a genre fascinated with the immaterial.

This book explores the influence of the fin de siècle in early twentieth-century art and literature.

Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century.

Bringing together papers presented at the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy from 2005 to 2013, this collection of essays includes Veronica Hollinger's keynote address, "e;The Body on the Slab,"e; and Robert Runte's Aurora Award-winning paper, "e;Why I Read Canadian Speculative Fiction,"e; along with 15 other contributions on science fiction and fantasy literature, television and music by Canadian creators.

In the past few years, discussion of fiction in all sorts of media has intensified.

A comprehensive single-volume study surveying C.

This volume considers texts produced between 1800 and 1830, exploring themes such as print culture, Illustration and the narrative form.

This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater''s critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.

To what extent has feminism benefited women?

This volume offers students and book club members a handy and insight-filled guide to Morrison's works and their relation to current events and popular culture.

In the years since Proust's death there have been many specialized studies of his extraordinary novel, and his character and viewpoint have been violently attacked and warmly defended.

This first modern study of silver-fork novels investigates their role in the alliance of middle class and aristocratic political principles.

This study examines the children's books of three extraordinary British writers-J.

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A.

Responding to recent Dinesen scholarship and public exposure in such films as Out of Africa and Babette's Feast, these fourteen original essays discuss and reveal the aesthetic subtlety and philosophical complexity of Dinesen's art.

It showcases how posthumanism has transformed the humanities and what new work is now possible in light of this unsettling.

A sprawling epic that encompasses many worlds, parallel and alternate timelines, and the echoes between these disconnects, Stephen King's Dark Tower series spans the entirety of King's career, from The Gunslinger (limited edition 1982; revised in 2003) to The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012).

Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.

In Victorian England, Amelia B.

Lund demonstrates the significance of Burton''s The Anatomy of Melancholy within early modern literary culture, covering religious and medical issues.

A comprehensive and accessible overview of Salman Rushdie''s published work, his career, and the controversies that surround him.

Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "e;we have suffered a general loss of concepts.

Bulgarian Literature as World Literature examines key aspects and manifestations of 20th- and 21st-century Bulgarian literature by way of the global literary landscape.

The first book focused on the political resonances of E.

Reverberations of the Vietnam War can still be felt in American culture.

This collection of recent essays on James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, provides an up-to-date overview of debates in Joycean scholarship, with particular emphasis on gender, postcolonial and ideological critiques, and deconstructive readings.

During times of rapid social and religious change, leadership rooted in tradition and committed to the future is the foundation upon which theological schools stand.

The History of Middle-earth traces the evolution of J.

This wide-ranging volume of essays provides an illuminating set of approaches to the multifaceted contexts of Proust''s life and work.

Scholars from a variety of academic disciplines have been drawn into exhaustive analyses of what went wrong in "e;the terrible 20th Century"e;, as Winston Churchill dubbed it.

Oxford University Press published eminent literary critic Leo Bersani's first book, on Proust, in 1965, but the work has long been out of print.

Draws together leading experts from a wide range of disciplines to analyse the life and work of John Ruskin (1819–1900).

Precarious Passages unites literature written bymembers of the far-flung Black Anglophone diaspora.

Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922-98) shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation.

I'm gonna tell you all about it, Mom.

Explores the life, work and literary significance of the late Poet Laureate.

This book, first published in 1926, aimed to introduce to English readers to a great and complex foreign writer in as simple terms as possible.

An excellent account and reflection on each diverse stage of Philip Roth's fifty-year career.

Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant and African-American figures?

Woman as gorgon, woman as temptress: the classical and biblical mythology which has dominated Western thinking defines women in a variety of patriarchally encoded roles.

The religious landscape of the United States has changed dramatically in recent decades.