Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe as the author we have come to recognize, revere, and critique today.

In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the monstrous, spectral and uncanny work to illuminate the insecure, uneven and precarious experience of 21st-century life.

This project provides an in-depth study of narratives about Bluebeard and his wives, or narratives with identifiable Bluebeard motifs, and the intertextual and extratextual personal, political, literary, and sociocultural factors that have made the tale a particularly fertile ground for an author's adaptation of the story.

An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period.

The digestive system is made up of the tongue, the esophagus, the stomach, the intestines, and other parts.

The period between the First World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is often characterized as the age of extremes—while this era witnessed unprecedented violence and loss of human life, it also saw a surge in humorous entertainment in both democratic and authoritarian societies.

Håkan Nesser, Henning Mankell und Stieg Larsson - drei der bekanntesten schwedischen Kriminalautoren - führen die sozialkritische Tradition des Autorenehepaars Sjöwalls/Wahlöös fort, indem sie die schwedische Gesellschaft facettenreich schildern und dabei auch das kontroverse Thema Religion nicht aussparen.

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Representation of the religious sector is a new phenomenon in modern Israeli literature, emerging from a diversification of Israeli culture that began in the 1970s.

Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much.

Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and poetry Informed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoretical debates from some of the world's leading Hardy scholars Reveals groundbreaking insights through examinations of Hardy s major novels, short stories, poetry, and drama Explores Hardy's work in the context of the major intellectual and socio-cultural currents of his time and assesses his legacy for subsequent writers

Some of medieval culture's most arresting images and stories inextricably associate love and death.

A fresh set of concerns face the twenty-first century British novelist.

Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy's literary works as a significant case study demonstrating our need to recognise the interrelated complexities of economic policies, environmental crises, and how public policy and rhetoric shapes our value systems.

Max Kretzer (1854-1941) gilt als wichtigster Romanautor des deutschen Naturalismus und begründete den deutschen Großstadtroman.

First published in 1953, this book forms the second part of Arnold Kettle's An Introduction to the English Novel.

Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society.

In David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, David Hering analyses the structures of David Foster Wallace's fiction, from his debut The Broom of the System to his final unfinished novel The Pale King.

Hilsenraths Shoah-Literatur hat von jeher provoziert – die rezeptionsästhetische Wirkung bezieht ihre Sprengkraft zum großen Teil aus der Einbindung von Sexualität.

What explains the enduring popularity of white-authored protest fiction about racism in America?

An accessible, comprehensive introduction to the work, life and times of one of the twentieth century''s most important writers.

The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun.

The author of such works as Lamb, Cal, and Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty is one of Northern Ireland's leading-and most prolific-contemporary writers.

The Russian Revolution and Civil War in the years 1917 to 1921 is one of the most widely studied periods in history.

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty.

This book, first published in 1986, explores the allusions in Dickens's work, such as current events and religious and intellectual issues, social customs, topography, costume, furniture and transportation.

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Offers a bold new argument about how Irish, American and Caribbean modernisms helped remake the twentieth-century world literary system.

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Get the most out of reading with this an engaging and fun guide to the deeper meanings in great works of literature!

First published in 1975, Laurence Sterne is biography of Sterne's life which emphasizes those experiences which informed Sterne's fiction.

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.

This collection of new essays seeks to define the unique qualities of female heroism in literary fantasy from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in the 1950s through the present.

In April 2008 a conference was convened at Rice University that brought together experts in the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

This History explores the historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements of California.

Die Studentenbewegung und die sexuelle Revolution, der Staatssozialismus sowie die Kontroversen um die Postmoderne haben mit ihren unterschiedlichen Vorstellungen von Emanzipation die Diskurse um Geschlecht und Sexualität in Deutschland nachhaltig verändert.

Finalist for the 2023 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy StudiesFrom the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy.

Winner, Matei Calinescu Prize, Modern Language AssociationWinner, 2021 Modernist Studies Award, Modernist Studies AssociationLong before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely "e;speak"e; with money in Citizens United v.

Much has been written about the girl sleuth in fiction, a feminist figure embodying all the potential wit and drive of girlhood.

First published in 1987, these essays deal with the three major novels of George Meredith.

An extensive investigation of the forms and functions of the comic, this lively and engaging English critical edition will be welcomed by those interested in laughter, comedy, folklore, Russian literature, and specific authors such as Gogol, Pushkin, Chekhov, Rabelais, Moliere, and Shakespeare.

Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain proposes a new taxonomy and conceptual frame for the controversial Iberian genre of sentimental fiction.