Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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Explores a major eighteenth-century narrative and the power of the Crusoe figure beyond the pages of the original book.

Twelve novels and nine short stories define one of the most extraordinary fictional characters of all time, creating the basis for the most successful movie series in cinematographic history, watched by more than half the world's population.

Explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, from primordial noise to modern English.

Das Wort ‹Geschichte› hat bei Hans Mayer, dem Literarhistoriker, sein besonderes spezifisches Gewicht: der erste Abschnitt dieses Buches, der Studien zum Expressionismus, zu Gerhart Hauptmann und Hermann Hesse vorträgt, heißt nicht zufällig «Überhang der Tradition» und endet nicht zufällig mit einem «Rückblick auf Thomas Mann»; mit diesem Schriftsteller, den Mayer als Ende und Neubeginn zugleich verstanden wissen will, führt der Autor zu den elf großen Synthesen, in denen die «Deutsche Literatur seit Thomas Mann» neu interpretiert wird bis hin zur Sonderentwicklung einer zweiten deutschen Literatur in der DDR.

This is the first critical edition of Richardson''s sequel to Pamela, the most influential English novel of the eighteenth century.

For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature.

In the years since his suicide, scholars have explored David Foster Wallace's writing in transdisciplinary ways.

In Against the Closet, Aliyyah I.

Illustrates how war veterans have been used in British literature since the 1790s to explore being, knowing and storytelling.

The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, identifying a central new genre: the condition of culture novel.

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Created in 1941 by the psychologist William Marston, Wonder Woman would go on to have one of the longest continuous runs of published comic book adventures in the history of the industry.

Maurice Blanchot's writings have played a critical role in the development of 20th-century French thought, but the implicit tension in this role has rarely been addressed directly.

This collection of letters, 85 percent of them previously unpublished, constitute a rich self-portrait of the artist and a vivid eyewitness chronicle of the twentieth century.

_________________________The perfect accompaniment to the definitive new editions of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels that are currently being reissued.

Though often unnoticed by scholars of literature and history, Polish American women have for decades been fighting back against the patriarchy they encountered in America and the patriarchy that followed them from Poland.

How does a writer approach a novel about a real person?

Collaborative consumption is a new way of living in which access is valued above ownership, experience is prized over material possessions, and "e;mine"e; becomes "e;ours,"e; allowing everyone's needs to be met with minimum waste.

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What can novels tell us about masculinity in Syria?

This History presents a comprehensive history of Jewish American literature from its origins to the present day.

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters'' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

Thomas Mann ist durch sehr bewusste Strategien und Inszenierungen zu dem Thomas Mann geworden, als der er in die Literaturgeschichte eingegangen ist.

David Lodge is a much-loved novelist and influential literary critic.

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Film noir-literally "e;black cinema"e;-is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959.

This Element argues that Shakespeare is a productive site to cultivate an anti-racist pedagogy.

The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature provides readers with a comprehensive reassessment of the value of humanism in an intellectual landscape.

Michael Ondaatje has achieved international prominence and recognition in a way that few other writers have, let alone Canadian writers.

In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1968, Maxwell examines the life and work of Herman Melville.

Hiltner argues that Milton anticipates certain essential prevailing ecological arguments.

Indian history is one of the most ancient histories of the world in terms of human civilization.

Things Fall Apart is the most widely read and influential African novel.

In this new volume of Kafka studies, which is addressed to both beginning readers of Kafka as well as Kafka scholars, Stanley Corngold discusses Kafka's work in a variety of novel perspectives, including Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther; Nietzsche's conception of aphoristic form; bureaucratic organization; accident and risk; the logic of possession and inheritance; and myth, among others.

David Scott Wilson-Okamura reframes long-standing questions about Edmund Spenser''s style in the wider context of long-term, European trends.

Hockey novels in Canada have emerged and thrived as a popular fiction genre, building on the mythology of Canadian hockey as a rough, testosterone-fuelled bastion of masculinity.

Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel explores the unstable construction of heteronormative white masculinity in the contemporary United States by focusing on relationships between fathers and their children.

Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.

A lucid overview of Plath''s life, work, influence and the critical reception of her writings to the present day.

A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

In most accounts, literature of the nineteenth century compulsively tells the story of the individual and interiority.

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"e;Many critics regard Cervantes's Don Quixote as the most influential literary book on British literature.