Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

A record of the 2015 Building Bridges Seminar for leading Christian and Muslim scholars, this collection of essays explores the nature of divine and human agency through themes of creations goal, humankinds dignity and task, and notions of sovereignty.

Young readers will devour this accessible introduction to taste featuring vivid photos that complement the accessible text.

An account of Swift''s dealings with books and texts, showing how the business of print was transformed during his lifetime.

I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses.

Originally published in 1999 The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature looks at how stereotypical foremother figure exists in nineteenth century American literature.

The Christ Is Dead, Long Live the Christ: A Philotheologic Prayer, a Hermeneutics of Healing is a call for renewal and reinvention.

This book explores the incorporation of untranslated fragments from various languages within modernist writing.

Political, literary, and cultural historians of the early modern Anglophone world have long characterized the crucial century between 1642 and 1742 as the period when absolutist theories of sovereignty yielded their dominance to shared models of governance and a burgeoning doctrine of unalienable, individual rights.

The only guide students and scholars of Updike will need to understand this extraordinary writer.

A survey of the most important British novelists of the past 250 years, for students of British fiction.

May Sinclair's The Creators is a study of a group of writers and would-be writers and their struggles and/or accommodations withing the literary marketplace.

Joseph Conrad's novella, Heart of Darkness, has fascinated critics and readers alike, engaging them in highly controversial debate as it deals with fundamental issues of good and evil, civilisation, race, love and heroism.

Forty years after Roe v.

Ever since the founders drafted "e;We the People,"e; "e;we"e; have been at pains to work out the contradictions in their formulation, to fix in words precisely what it means to be American.

What happened when Jane Austen's heroines and heroes were finally wed?

This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time.

For over thirty years, the Oxford C.

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

¿Sabías que los alimentos umami tienen un gusto parecido a la carne?

Scholars of cultural studies, fairy-tale studies, folklore, and television studies will enjoy this first-of-its-kind volume.

'Emer O'Sullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature Compelling, informative and fascinating' - Stephen Fry The Fall of the House of Wilde identifies Oscar Wilde as a member of one of the most dazzling Anglo-Irish families of Victorian times and shows us how he was utterly his parents' child.

Witnessing the end of a war that nearly terminated the nation, the abolition of racial slavery and rise of legal segregation, the rise of Modernism and Hollywood, the closing of the frontier and two World Wars, the literary historical period represented in this volume constitutes the crucible of American literary history.

One Hope: Re-Membering the Body of Christ is a rich ecumenical resource designed to help Catholic and Lutheran communities mark the approaching 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

The late 1960s and early 1970s saw the birth of modern feminism, the sexual revolution, and strong growth in the mass-market publishing industry.

Greek literature is divided, like many literatures, into poetry and prose, but in Greek the difference between them is not that all prose is devoid of firm rhythmic patterning.

What facial features do you have?

What is the point of living?

Time matters to all of us.

Anne DeWitt examines how Victorian novelists challenged the claims of men of science to align scientific practice with moral excellence.

Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English.

A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford, in 2003.

South African writer Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991.

This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities.

Throughout her literary and critical career, Canadian writer Carol Shields (1935–2003) resisted simple categorization.

Crawforth presents a major re-reading of early modern poetry, demonstrating its debt to the emergence of linguistics in the period.

Gottfried Keller - die Schweizer Stimme unter den deutschsprachigen Realisten.

The book rereads the historiography of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 documented by Bangladeshi, Indian, and Western historians to trace the position of women who share a negligible place in the gendered war history.

God and the Gothic: Romance and Reality in the English Literary Tradition provides a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs, and to the Dissolution of the monasteries, now seen as usurping authorities.

Modernist Wastes is a profound new critical reflection on the ways in which women writers and artists have been discarded and recovered in established definitions of modernism.

Winner of the 2018 International Standing Conference for the History of Education's First Book Award

Drawing on a rich array of archival sources and historical detail, The Politics of 1930s British Literature tells the story of a school-minded decade and illuminates new readings of the politics and aesthetics of 1930s literature.

In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro.

Prolific, popular and critically acclaimed, Michael Moorcock is the most important British fantasy author of his generation.

Answering foundational questions like "e;what is a comic"e; and "e;how do comics work"e; in original and imaginative ways, this book adapts established, formalist approaches to explaining the experience of reading comics.