Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

In January 1856, Margaret Garner-an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation-ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio.

First published in 1989.

Samuel Beckett's private writings and public work show his deep interest in the workings of the human mind.

This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.

The issue of Muslim women's rights never seems outdated and has become trendy in the post-9/11 environment.

Es 2666 de Roberto Bolano una novela total?

The late 1970s to the mid-1980s, a period commonly referred to as the post-Mao cultural thaw, was a key transitional phase in the evolution of Chinese science fiction.

An study of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cather and Faulkner''s ambivalence towards race and gender, first published in 2011.

For the past twenty years, evangelical prophecy novels have been a powerful presence on American bestseller lists.

Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel maps the interrelations between literary production and public debates about citizenship that shaped twentieth-century Britain.

First published in 1939, Jane Austen and Her Art is a landmark in Jane Austen criticism.

A social and cultural analysis of The X-Files focusing on the genres the program employed in its interrogation of American history, politics, and identity.

From 'the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world' (Vanity Fair) comes an inspiring and beautifully illustrated selection of the life-changing books that none of us should miss'Why do we love books so much?

À travers l'analyse de l'entièreté des manuscrits de quatre pièces de théâtre de Herder issus de ses séjours à Riga et Bückeburg – Ein Skaldengesang, Sokrates, Brutus et Philoktetes.

This essential guide offers innovative critical readings of key contemporary novels from Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Race as Narrative in Italian Women's Writing Since Unification explores racist ideas and critiques of racism in four long narratives by female authors Grazia Deledda, Matilde Serao, Natalia Ginzburg, and Gabriella Ghermandi, who wrote in Italy after national unification.

This study provides an introduction to the neoclassical debates around how literature is shaped in concert with the thinking and feeling human mind.

David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure.

British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work offers an account of British literary responses to work from the 1950s to the onset of the financial crisis of 2008/9.

This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.

Die Verschränkung räumlicher Erfahrung mit Erinnerungsbildung und Fragen der kulturellen Zugehörigkeit kann in der jüdischen Gedächtnistradition und Literatur auf eine tiefe Verwurzelung verweisen.

Folktales and fairy tales are living stories; as part of the oral tradition, they change and evolve as they are retold from generation to generation.

First scholarly edition of Samuel Richardson''s correspondence with Sarah Wescomb, Frances Grainger and Laetitia Pilkington.

Science fiction writer Philip K.

The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured--and most revisited--death scenes from classical antiquity.

A History of Seventeenth-Century Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition between the years 1603 and 1690.

In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K.

Analyses the ideological writings of a scholarly and unusual Byzantine emperor dedicated to distinctively Orthodox Christian principles.

This is the first extended study to specifically focus on character in dystopia.

In this book, Amy R.

A major American writer at the turn of this millennium, Leslie Marmon Silko has also been one of the most powerful voices in the flowering of Native American literature since the publication of her 1977 novel Ceremony.

'A wicked and detestable place, though wonderfully attractive': Charles Dickens's conflicted feelings about Paris typify the fascination and repulsion with which a host of mid-nineteenth-century British writers viewed their nearest foreign capital.

Greg Egan (1961- ) publishes works that challenge readers with rigorous, deeply-informed scientific speculation.

Novel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the birth of the novel in Don Quixote, through the great canonical works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the most influential international novels of the present day An original study which offers a unique approach to thinking about and discussing character Makes extensive reference to both traditional and more recent and specialized academic studies of the novel Provides a critical vocabulary for understanding how the novelistic conception of character has changed over time.

What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously?

First published in 1969.

Presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator in confrontation with contemporary popular novelists.

The appearance of Sherlock Holmes in The Strand Magazine in 1891 began a stampede of writers who wanted to emulate, build upon or even satirize Arthur Conan Doyle's work.

This book examines the range of issues that echo in James Baldwin's short stories.