Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

On the publication of Orthodoxy in 1908, Wilfrid Ward hailed G.

Many readers drawn into the heroic tales of J.

The Historian's Wizard of Oz synthesizes four decades of scholarly interpretations of L.

The book provides an inclusive, engaging, innovative, and interdisciplinary overview of the often overlooked literary history of Chicago.

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

The first detailed account of Austen's characters' reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen's own readership, both during her life and today.

Virginia Woolf's first fully realized work of fictionpublished in its final, revised form for the first timeA beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical ';cottage of one's own,' battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alikeIn 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violeta teasing tribute to Woolf's friend Mary Violet Dickinson.

"e;Since the early 1980s, the novel has been deemed by many Italian women writers to be the most apt vehicle for creating positive images of the future of women.

The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature identifies a documentary impulse in French literature that emerges at the end of the nineteenth century and culminates in a proliferation of factual writings in the twenty-first.

"e;Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home in a fantastical debut work of fiction, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.

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.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman offers the definitive account of this controversial writer and activist's long and eventful life.

Chaos and Cosmos offers a new and unique interpretation of Argentine essayist and fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges as a thinker of what continental twentieth century political theory called the political.

Mysteries and detective stories are among the most popular of books but the writers of such genre fiction suffer from a perception that their work is to be taken less seriously than so-called literary fiction.

This book views the Dutch sinologist, Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee mysteries as a hybrid East-West form of detective fiction and uses the concept of transculturation to discuss their hybrid nature with respect to their sources, production, and influence.

A 1999 analysis of how novels represent the crisis in ''family values'' in late nineteenth-century France.

Die Histoire de Juliette enthält die geballte Abrechnung mit den Moral- und Tugendvorstellungen der französischen Gesellschaft des 18.

The Encyclopaedia of World Religions and Interfaith Dialogues is an initiative to deal with the subject of religion and interfaith dialogue in its totality.

Revolution and the Word is the classic study of the co-emergence of the U.

Whether Proust's research can be classified as autofiction is subject to debate.

This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin.

First published in 1981.

This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most important contemporary American authors.

Literary references in the works of Uwe Johnson are a fascinating and complex area of research.

Germán Espinosa es uno de los narradores colombianos que más recurrió a pasados distantes como materia para su escritura; no obstante, son pocos los trabajos amplios y sistemáticos sobre las novelas históricas del escritor cartagenero.

Under his own name and numerous pseudonyms, John Brunner (1934-1995) was one of the most prolific and influential science fiction authors of the late twentieth century.

This is the first work of criticism to reappraise all of this leading transnational author's film, television, short fiction and novel writing following his award of the Nobel Prize in 2017.

Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most inventive and important contemporary writers.

This timely in-depth study of award-winning Kate Atkinson's work provides a welcome comprehensive overview of the novels, play and short stories.

This is the perfect overview of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day.

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The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age argues that the humanist ideal of Bildung, the cultivation of the potentialities of the self through self-reflection, travel, and varied social intercourse, has been revitalized in an age of genocidal violence.

"e;Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject.

This long awaited collection brings together in one volume the definitive essays on Anton Chekhov by renowned Chekhov scholar Robert Louis Jackson, including work that has never appeared in English as well as brand new essays published here for the first time.

An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged significantly by African American authors.

A collection of essays for students covering Chopin''s fiction, context, influences, and the American and transatlantic aspects of her work.

Gotlieb is a writer central to the Canadian science fiction canon.

Drawing on a deep knowledge of Christian scripture as well as Hindu philosophy, musician and teacher Russill Paul reveals that the mystical core of religion offers us much more than the simple solace of unthinking dogma.

Essential reading for all those interested in Irish literature and culture and its far-reaching effects on the world.

Starting with William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective fiction--Poe's Dupin stories, Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Sayers' Strong Poison, Chandler's The Big Sleep, and Simenon's The Yellow Dog.

Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.

This book, first published in 1985, stresses Beckett's success as an innovator in the theatre through a close reading and analysis of his plays.

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