Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Vyankatesh Madgulkar (1927-2001) was one of the pioneers of modernist short fiction (nav katha) as well as 'rural' (grameen) fiction in Marathi in the post-World War II era.

Small towns have long been a commonplace setting in cozy mysteries, but in recent years writers of realistic crime fiction have discovered fresh possibilities in small town settings.

Clark's exploration of Rushdie's novels works on at least three levels.

Irvine Welsh's fiction has defined an era, and this first full-length study provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis of all his work, from 'Trainspotting' and 'The Acid House' to 'Glue' and 'Porno'.

Comic book audience expectations have fluctuated dramatically through the years, and comic book creators have had to adapt to shifting reader concerns.

The turn of the millennium in France coincided with a number of tangible crises and apocalyptic discourses, and with the growth of the mass media and global market, further generating and manipulating crisis.

It is increasingly commonplace to find scholars who circle back to Ralph Waldo Emerson and his intellectual heirs as a way of better understanding contemporary social and aesthetic contexts.

Examines how liberal thought influenced representations of animals within nineteenth-century animal welfare discourse and the Victorian novel.

Over the last 20 years, Jacqueline Wilson has published well over 100 titles and has become firmly established in the landscape of Children's Literature.

Humanity's long history of intermittent conflicts and contemporary violence undermines Christian's (and their Jewish and Muslim fellow believers) religious confidence in and moral commitment to world peace.

The Long 1980s could be summed up handily in the annals of U.

The most important surviving encyclopedia from the ancient world, Pliny the Elder's Natural History is unparalleled as a guide to the cultural meanings of everyday things in first-century Rome.

This book, first published in 1978, demonstrates how Dostoyevsky's novels grew directly out of the pressures of their creator's tormented experience and personality.

Originally published in 1992, Margery Kempe looks at one of the most appealing mystics and pilgrims of 15th-century England.

A 2007 student guide to Morrison''s work, discussing her entire career as a writer, critic, editor and teacher.

First published in 1981, this book offers a study of British and American popular fiction in the 1970s, a decade in which the quest for the superseller came to dominate the lives of publishers on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction.

Since its publication in 1959, A Separate Peace has acquired the reputation of a minor classic of American literature.

The genius of Edgar Allan Poe extends far beyond his groundbreaking creation of Auguste Dupin, which laid the foundation for detective fiction.

These thirteen essays have been collected to honor Melvyn New, professor emeritus (Florida), and are prefaced by a description of his scholarly career of more than forty years.

The novels of Paul Austerfinely wrought, self-reflexive, filled with doublings, coincidences, and mysterieshave captured the imagination of readers and the admiration of many critics of contemporary literature.

First published in 1990.

A revised and fully updated edition, featuring five new chapters reflecting recent scholarship on Woolf.

This book explores the development of the Gothic through the history of martial, political and literary conflict between Britain and France.

Alan Moore, the idiosyncratic, controversial and often shocking writer of such works as Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and V for Vendetta, remains a benchmark for readers of comics and graphic novels.

No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven.

Victor Doyno offers a new, accessible, and innovative approach to America's favorite novel.

In such novels as Hotel World and the Whitbread Prize winning The Accidental, Ali Smith has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction.

This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day.

Olivia Holmes explores the Decameron''s sceptical and sexually permissive contents against the backdrop of medieval religion and didacticism.

One of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers.

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

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-garde influences.

In this provocative book, Jane Tompkins seeks to move the study of literature away from the small group of critically approved texts that have dominated literary discussion over the decades, to allow inclusion of texts ignored or denigrated by the literary academy.

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