Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

A distinguished poet and essayist and one of the finest writers of short stories in world letters, Jorge Luis Borges deliberately and regularly altered his work by extensive revision.

En un mundo, en el que fronteras se destruyen y construyen constantemente, no sorprende el interés internacional e interdisciplinar que despierta Jorge Semprún: homme-frontière que habita varios espacios y traduce los signos transfronterizos de su tiempo.

The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus to explore the contributions of artists from regions like Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Nigeria.

First Published in 2002.

Establishing science fiction as its own distinct and increasingly important narrative form, this book explores how the genre challenges pervasive perceptions of society as they appear in the conventional modern novel.

Loss has left Ella Spinner alone to care for her husband, Bart, who suffers from clinical depression.

JK Rowling now is half-way through a series which has taken the world by storm.

Sarah Fielding was one of the most respected women authors of her generation and a key figure in the development of the novel.

This is the first full-length book on the work of 'global Igbo' writer Chris Abani.

First Published in 2002.

The first study to look at the intersection of the discourse of the Anthropocene within the two highly influential storytelling modes of fantasy and myth, this book shows the need for stories that articulate visions of a biocentric, ecological civilization.

First published in 1985.

Authorship is a complicated subject in Kierkegaard's work, which he surely recognized, given his late attempts to explain himself in On My Work as an Author.

Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987 2007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years.

With The Ethical Dimension of the “Decameron” Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the “Decameron” (winner of the MLA’s 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as individuals and as groups, create with the Decameron.

Few centuries have seen greater changes in social perspective and guiding ideas than the eighteenth century; literature in every Western country was a powerful instrument not only in recording these changes but in bringing them about.

Although often hailed as a 'quintessentially American' writer, the modernist poet, novelist and playwright Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) spent most of her life in France.

The Time Machine is one of the most important works of science fiction.

That devil's trick is the first study of nineteenth-century hypnotism based primarily on the popular - rather than medical - appreciation of the subject.

Shortlisted for the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) Book Prize 2023Nominated, 2023 Teaching Literature Book AwardIndian Science Fiction has evolved over the years and can be seen making a mark for itself on the global scene.

This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin s The Speech of Miss Polly Baker in 1747 to The Joy Luck Club .

The importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians.

Why have zombies resonated so pervasively in the popular imagination and in media, especially films?

In contrast to the classical detective story, the spy novel tends to be considered a suspect, somewhat subversive genre.

Romantic Indians considers the views that Britons, colonists, and North American Indians took of each other during a period in which these people were in a closer and more fateful relationship than ever before or since.

This volume of the Building Bridges Seminar, Power: Divine and Human, Christian and Muslim Perspectives, comprises pairs of essays by Christians and Muslims which introduce texts for dialogical study, plus the actual text-excerpts themselves.

The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting.

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.

Plants are silent, still, or move slowly; we do not have the sense that they accompany us, or even perceive us.

Bringing together leading international scholars of contemporary fiction and modern women writers, this book provides authoritative new critical readings of Angela Carter's work from a variety of innovative theoretical and disciplinary approaches.

This book offers a powerful reassessment of the politics and culture of modernism.

From 1888 to 1915 Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London were uniquely placed to witness and record the imperial struggle for the South Pacific.

Vernon Lee, born Violet Paget in 1856 to English parents who lived on the Continent, bridged two worlds and many cultures.

The Politics of Literary Prestige provides the first comprehensive study of prizes for Spanish American literature.

In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E.