Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Efforts to fight back against silencing are central to social justice movements and scholarly fields such as feminist and postcolonial studies.

Central to every vampire story is the undead's need for human blood, but equally compelling is the human ingestion of vampire blood, which often creates a bond.

A collection of essays on the life and work of E.

Nineteenth-century American writers frequently cast the Mormon as a stock villain in such fictional genres as mysteries, westerns, and popular romances.

While the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine, fiction has offered a more nuanced perspective from both well-established and emerging authors.

An overview of the life, work, contexts and reception of the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Von Cordula Späth, der Superheldin vieler Romane Dietmar Daths, lässt sich behaupten, dass wegen ihr Dietmar Dath zum Schriftsteller und ein Verlag (der Verbrecher Verlag) gegründet wurde.

This introduction places the fiction of Salman Rushdie in a clear historical and theoretical context.

An indispensable resource for students and researchers of paranormal myth and media, this book explores the undead and unholy in literature, film, television, and popular culture.

Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature brings Homer's Odyssey together with contemporary literary texts ranging from Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier to Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Cormac McCarthy's The Road to produce new readings that reframe, reorient, and ultimately revise aspects of Homer's iconic story of travel and home.

A new exploration of the innovative features of Jane Austen''s style.

Savant Singh (16941764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years.

Originally published in 1981.

Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers.

A groundbreaking story of Japanese comics from their nineteenth-century origins to the present day The immensely popular art form of manga, or Japanese comics, has made its mark across global pop culture, influencing film, visual art, video games, and more.

First published in 1991.

An overview for students and readers of the work, career and international context of the author of Disgrace.

This work is the first book-length scholarly treatment of Nnedi Okorafor's critically acclaimed fiction.

A study of the importance of women to the eighteenth-century debate on property as conducted in fiction.

This book approaches World Literature as an archive of strategies for resistance, and focuses on the nonstate organization of democratic processes.

In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectivity?

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the leading figures in the development of the modernist short story and her writings were a profound influence on writers such as Virginia Woolf and D.

** A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR **'Wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject.

The global world debates secularism, freedom of belief, faith-based norms, the state's arbitration of religious conflicts, and the place of the sacred in the public sphere.

The sweet smell of roses.

This introduction to the work of Ian McEwan places his fiction in historical and theoretical context.

Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless.

A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, placing Orwell and his work at the centre of the current political landscape.

In den 25 fiktiven Gesprächen seines 1864 anonym publizierten Buches »Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu« konfrontiert Maurice Joly (1829 – 1878) das Vertrauen in die freiheitssichernde Kraft der demokratischen Institutionen mit der bleibenden Gefahr der Wiederkehr eines diktatorischen Gewaltstaats.

Cedric J.

Today, we have forgotten that mathematics was once aligned with the arts, rather than with the sciences.

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about death.

This new collection offers timely, critical essays specially commissioned to provide a comprehensive overview of Melville''s career.

The hard-boiled private detective is among the most recognizable characters in popular fiction since the 1920s--a tough product of a violent world, in which police forces are inadequate and people with money can choose private help when facing threatening circumstances.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the literary lecture arrived on London's cultural scene as an influential critical medium and popular social event.

This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works that engage the numinous--and the critical apparatuses of ecocriticism and posthumanism.

This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends, such as the rise of a new working-class fiction, the ongoing development of separate national literatures of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and shifts in modes of attention and reading.