Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Romancing Treason addresses the scope and significance of the secular literary culture of the Wars of the Roses, and especially of the Middle English romances that were distinctively written in prose during this period.

Before the 1970s, there were only a few acclaimed biographical novels.

The annotations in this volume, originally published in 1996, intend to assist the reader of Faulkner's The Hamlet to understand obscure or difficult words and passages, including literary allusions, dialect, and historical events that Faulkner uses or alludes to.

The villain's journey is rare in popular culture--most characters are fully-formed tyrants with little to no story arc.

"e;Socialism"e; names a form of collective life that has never been fully realized; consequently, it is best understood as a goal to be imagined.

Authors Shannon Hengen and Ashley Thomson have assembled a reference guide that covers all of the works written by the acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood since 1988, including her novels Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, and the 2000 Booker Prize winner, The Blind Assassin.

This topical, lively and wide-ranging book examines the material conditions under which the contemporary English novel is produced and consumed.

The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period.

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

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were.

Challenging the conventional understandings of literary naturalism defined primarily through its male writers, Donna M.

Campo de sangre forma parte del extenso y fascinante ciclo narrativo que Aub dedicó a la Guerra Civil, El laberinto mágico.

This book offers a one-volume study of Jane Austen that is both a sophisticated critical introduction and a valuable contribution to the study of one of the most popular and enduring British novelists.

First published in 1990, this book was the first comprehensive study of Balzac's relationship to music, blending past scholarship with new perspectives to formulate an inclusive account.

This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries.

The English novel written between 1700 and 1740 remains a comparatively neglected area.

Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning.

Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope.

The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts.

The 1950s are widely regarded as the golden age of American science fiction.

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors.

With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature.

Aristotle's Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe.

Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War inaugurates a new field of research in literary and Jewish studies at the intersection of Jewish history and the internationalist cultural phenomenon emerging from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the Republican exile, and the Shoah.

When Mr George loses his job teaching English at a private secondary school in Bulawayo, ehis pension payout, after forty years of full-time service, bought him two jam doughnuts and a soft tomato.

"e;The great Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar (1914-84) was immersed in one of the most vibrant and revolutionary intellectual scenes of the last century, the Paris of the 1950s and 60s.

Over the last few decades, the genre of urban fiction-or street lit-has become increasingly popular as more novels secure a place on bestseller lists that were once the domain of mainstream authors.

Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and explores what has emerged as perhaps the central theme of 21st-century American fiction: the desire to escape-from the commodified present, from directionless history, from moral death-at a time of inescapable globalization.

This book explores the media ecologies of literature - the ways in which a literary text is interwoven in its material, technical, performative, praxeological, affective, and discursive network and which determine how it is experienced and interpreted.

Diese erste Studie des bedeutenden Germanisten Herman Meyer, die 1943 in Amsterdam erschien, gilt heute als mustergültige stoffgeschichtliche Untersuchung.

Throughout this text, Valerie Shaw addresses two key questions: 'What are the special satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?

Contemporary American Fiction provides an introduction to American fiction since 1970.

'The foreigner' is a familiar character in popular crime fiction, from the foreign detective whose outsider status provides a unique perspective on a familiar or exotic location to the xenophobic portrayal of the criminal 'other'.

Literatures, Cultures, Translation presents a new line of books that engage central issues in translation studies such as history, politics, and gender in and of literary translation.

No other major author of the nineteenth century has arguably produced as much critical activity as Thomas Hardy.

Originally published in 2002 God, Literature and Process Thought looks at the use of God in writing, as a part of the creative advance, immersed in the processes of reality and affected by events in the world.

Literary fashions come and go, but some hang around longer than others, like Gothic literature which has existed ever since The Castle of Otranto in 1764.

A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread.