Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide.

Writers of German contemporary literature are often part of their own texts: They name their protagonists after themselves and ostentatiously integrate autobiographical elements.

As both a scholar of Buddhism and a Christian priest, John P.

Mid-Century Gothic defines a distinct post-war literary and cultural moment in Britain, lasting ten years from 1945-55.

This book deploys literature to explore the social lives of objects and places.

Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) is a key writer of the revolutionary era and U.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, der weltberühmte Autor des Klassikers Der kleine Prinz, war nicht nur ein begnadeter Schriftsteller, sondern auch ein leidenschaftlicher Pilot.

This book offers an in-depth engagement with the growing body of Anglophone Arab fiction in the context of theoretical debates around memory and identity.

Wie wird die Soziologie der symbolischen Macht in Thomas Manns Buddenbrooks dargestellt?

This book provides students and other interested readers with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgenres written by a distinguished scholar.

The theme of The Planetary Clock is the representation of time in postmodern culture and the way temporality as a global phenomenon manifests itself differently across an antipodean axis.

Science fiction boasts a deceptively long history, extending as far back as the 19th century.

Theorists of Orientalism and postcolonialism argue that novelists betray political and cultural anxieties when characterizing "e;the Other.

A landmark study of Latin prose intertextuality, radically reinterpreting Pliny''s Epistles as a brilliant transformation of Quintilian.

`For forty years I have defended the same principle: freedom in everything, in religion, in philosophy, in literature, in industry, in politics - and by freedom I mean the triumph of the individual.

Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War frames William Faulkner's airplane narratives against major scenes of the early 20th century: the Great War, the rise of European fascism in the 1920s and 30s, the Second World War, and the aviation arms race extending from the Wright Flyer in 1903 into the Cold War era.

In this innovative study, Carol Thysell provides an in-depth examination of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron.

Text carefully leveled for emergent readers and bright photographs pair up for an inviting introduction to the sense of touch.

Following the structure of other titles in the Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres series, Native American Literatures includes: A broad definition of the genre and its essential elements.

Inventing the Novel uses the work of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) to explore the ancient origins of the modern novel.

The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots.

The Bible in the American Short Story examines Biblical influences in the post-World War II American short story.

Toni Morrison features a collection of ten new essays by noted Morrison scholars, including recipients of the Toni Morrison Society Book Award.

By mid-career, many successful writers have found a groove and their readers come to expect a familiar consistency and fidelity.

This volume brings together for the first time the known writings of the pioneering Native American religious and political leader, intellectual, and author, Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792).

After years of obscurity, Anna Maria Ortese (1914–1998) is emerging as one of the most important Italian authors of the twentieth-century, taking her place alongside such luminaries as Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, and Elsa Morante.

Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation.

The first full-length study of Daniel Defoe''s attitude toward England''s colonial venture in the Americas.

The book analyses attempts by Dickens and other nineteenth-century writers to challenge established ways of using the distinction between upper and lower case letters, in the interests of a wider radicalism.

First published in 2009, this book investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women's writing and reading practices.

For fourteen centuries, a gap of mutual suspicion and hostility has existed between Christians and Muslims, despite attempts to engage theologically, apologetically, polemically, and militarily (such as the Crusades).

This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting.

Making home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez and Toni Morrison.

This book, first published in 1959, contains passages with commentary from 12 of the most important Soviet authors.

Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel advances a new history of the novel, identifying a crucial link between narrative innovation and the historical process of mechanization.

Thucydides' account of the war between Athens and Sparta is the first great work of political history and still a fundamental text for political science and international relations today; it is also a compelling story, full of vivid characters and tragic miscalculations.

In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the traditional historical novel, and reflect on the ideas and characters central to their individual works.

Hope and future are not the terms with which James Joyce has usually been read, but this book paints a picture of Joyce's fiction in which hope and future assume the primary colours.

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

Obwohl Vladimir Nabokovs Haltung gegenüber Deutschland zwischen kühler Distanz und glühender Ablehnung schwankte, lassen sich sowohl im Leben als auch im Werk des herausragenden russisch-amerikanischen Schriftstellers verschiedene »deutsche Tropen« beobachten.

This book explores corporeality as a metaphor and its implications for the unity of the text.