Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

This volume examines the various geographic, political, social and literary contexts through which Hemingway crystallized his unmistakable narrative voice.

Written by one of the world s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day.

This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order.

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

In the past few years, discussion of fiction in all sorts of media has intensified.

It is easy to forget how deeply embedded in social hierarchy was the literature and learning that has come down to us from the early modern European world.

American Musicals in Context: From the American Revolution to the 21st Century gives students a fresh look at history-based musicals, helping readers to understand the American story through one of the country's most celebrated art forms: the musical.

This Introduction explores American fiction of the last thirty years, examining the political and cultural changes that distinguish the period.

2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title2024 Eisner Award Nominee for Best Academic/Scholarly WorkIn Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A.

Reflecting the profound influence he continues to exert on popular consciousness, Camus examines the complete body of works of French author and philosopher Albert Camus, providing a comprehensive analysis of Camus most important works most notably The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger, The Fall, The Plague, and The Rebel within the framework of his basic ethical orientation.

India, colourful and vibrant, is a land as diverse as its people.

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

This book focuses on the projection of the hero's masculinity in a selection of post-millennial popular romance narratives and attempts to discover if, and to what extent, this projection reinforces or challenges patriarchal ideas about gender.

This stimulating study of Charlotte Bronte's novels draws on extensive original research in a range of early Victorian writings, on subjects ranging from women's day-dreaming to sanitary reform, from the Great Exhibition to early Victorian religious thought.

Asia, the cradle of civilization and culture have had a unique yet important position in the human history on the earth.

Analyzes the complex unity of modernist culture, paying special attention to artistic, intellectual, and social institutions that embody value.

"e;Lovecraft's Guide to Writing"e; is a fantastic collection of essays by H.

Novelists have long been attracted to theatre.

Plants have played key roles in science fiction novels, graphic novels and film.

The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today.

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Originally published in 1963.

A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedoms of creation and circulation.

In The School of Hawthorne, Brodhead uses Hawthorne as a prime example of how literary traditions are made, not born.

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'.

Winchell and Runyon is about the bittersweet bonding of two legendary journalists who started out as adversaries but ended up as everlasting friends.

Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.

A study of Dickens''s hostility to theatre and theatricality alongside the huge performative potential of his fiction.

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.

Liebe zur Heimat und Sorge um die Heimat im engeren und im weiteren Sinne bestimmen Iven Kruses 1925 veröffentlichten Roman "Der dritte Bismarck".

Providing an indispensable resource for academics as well as readers interested in the evolution of horror fiction in the 20th century, this book provides a readable yet critical guide to global horror fiction and authors.

Literary economic anthropology analyses the contribution of literary texts to discourses of economic men.

American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something means, look to fruits rather than roots.

Challenging the conventional understandings of literary naturalism defined primarily through its male writers, Donna M.

An invaluable guide to the popular writer of sensation novels.

With its laser-focus on the verbal and visual infrastructure of narrative, The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors is the first sustained comparative study of how image patterns are tracked in prose and cinema.

This book sums up longstanding conversations with definitive chapters, and offers ground-breaking essays on a various topics not yet covered.

On the ongoing project of writing about grief; Zambreno''s addendum to Book of Mutter.

Shortly before Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions that the draft for his last novel, The Original of Laura, be destroyed.

Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that presents masculinity as a key thematic concern in contemporary New York fiction.

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

Providing an indispensable resource for academics as well as readers interested in the evolution of horror fiction in the 20th century, this book provides a readable yet critical guide to global horror fiction and authors.

The Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism, which have long served to designate major late nineteenth-century American fiction.

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 provides insight into the critical traditions shaping the literary landscape of modern Britain.