Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

A comprehensive guide that defines the literature and the outlines the best-selling genre of all time: romance fiction.

Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive and fully up-to-date study of Ondaatje's entire oeuvre.

This book provides an introduction to the work of Irvine Welsh, placing his fiction in historical and theoretical context.

Salman Rushdie's writing is engaged with translation in many ways: translator-figures tell and retell stories in his novels, while acts of translation are catalysts for climactic events.

The Gospel of John: Theological-Ecumenical Readings brings together leading Catholic, Orthodox, and Evangelical theologians to read and interpret John's Gospel from within their ecclesial tradition, while simultaneously engaging one another in critical dialogue.

Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic?

Dysfluencies is the first comprehensive study of how speech disorders are portrayed in modern literature.

Stephen King's fiction has formed the basis of more motion picture adaptations than any other living author.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, one of the great twentieth-century American poets.

When it was originally published in 1986, this book was the first full-length study of Farrell's fiction.

For the Unity of All offers significant and new contributions for the furthering of dialogue and the path to unity between East and West.

In view of the current rhetoric surrounding the global migrant crisis - with politicians comparing refugees with animals and media reports warning of migrants swarming like insects or trespassing like wolves - this timely study explores the cultural origins of the language and imagery of dehumanization.

In the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary critics anxiously claimed that poetry was in crisis.

Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity investigates the significance of a new form of sexual identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.

From climate catastrophe to pandemics and economic crises, the problems facing humanity can feel impossible to solve.

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This volume offers an overview of the major transitions that occurred in American literary culture between 2000 and 2010.

This meticulously annotated edition of Nella Larsen's novel Passing contextualizes the novel's many historical and cultural references and introduces readers to a central theme: crossing the color line in the hopes of living a more privileged life.

Jung's correspondence with one of the twentieth century's leading theologians and ecumenicistsOn Theology and Psychology brings together C.

This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland's work in various fields, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, the publishing industry, and its impact upon creativity and literary puzzles.

This book opens up new perspectives on the English fantasy writer J.

This volume argues that the 1980s is the most significant American literary decade in the late twentieth century.

A great deal of scholarship has focused on Joss Whedon's television and film work, which includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, The Cabin in the Woods and The Avengers.

In 1945, Taiwan was placed under the administrative control of the Republic of China, and after two years, accusations of corruption and a failing economy sparked a local protest that was brutally quashed by the Kuomintang government.

In a world of matter, how can we express what matters?

Bringing a comparative perspective to the study of autobiography, Edgard Sankara considers a cross-section of postcolonial francophone writing from Africa and the Caribbean in order to examine and compare for the first time their transnational reception.

First published in 1992.

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

This 2007 Companion is a collection of essays on the life and works of George Orwell.

English is the 'second language' of A la recherche du temps perdu.

In the decades following the immediately postwar period in Britain, a loose grouping of experimental writers that included Alan Burns, Christine Brooke-Rose, B.

Offers new perspectives on Proust''s complex and creative relation to a variety of art forms from different eras.

In this concise introduction to Pope's life and work, first published in 1975, the poet's highly successful career as a man of letters is seen against the background of the Augustan age as a whole.

First published in 1981.

Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula.

Drawing on his rich Louisiana past, Ernest J.

This is the first full-length study in English of Michel Leiris''s work.

By the end of volume 1 of The Life of William Faulkner ("e;A filling, satisfying feast for Faulkner aficianados"e;- Kirkus), the young Faulkner had gone from an unpromising, self-mythologizing bohemian to the author of some of the most innovative and enduring literature of the century, including The Sound and the Fury and Light in August.

Honorable Mention from the 2022 International Latino Book Awards for Best Nonfiction - Multi-AuthorChapter 15 by Carolyn Fornoff is Winner of the 2022 Best Article in the Humanities Award, Latin American Studies Association, MexicoMexican Literature as World Literature is a landmark collection that, for the first time, studies the major interventions of Mexican literature of all genres in world literary circuits from the 16th century forward.

Returning to revolution's original meaning of 'cycle', Contemporary Revolutions explores how 21st-century writers, artists, and performers re-engage the arts of the past to reimagine a present and future encompassing revolutionary commitments to justice and freedom.

One of the most important emerging novelists today, Khaled Hosseini has enjoyed critical success and popular accolades.

These accessible essays provide the most detailed picture of the historical, cultural and literary contexts surrounding Poe''s life and times.

If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet to see the end, it is perhaps not surprising that care has emerged in the early twenty-first century as a key political issue.