Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

This volume of specially-commissioned essays provides introductions to all aspects of George Eliot''s writing.

Jonathan Lethem is the first full-length study dedicated to the work of an exciting, genre-busting contemporary writer with an increasingly high profile in American literature.

The global world debates secularism, freedom of belief, faith-based norms, the state's arbitration of religious conflicts, and the place of the sacred in the public sphere.

From his debut as a novelist, Mordecai Richler challenged, provoked, enraged, entertained, and surprised readers.

Originally published in 1983, this volume follows others in the series.

Various ministry approaches have been utilized in Muslim nations in the past in order to lead lost souls into God's Kingdom.

Greed and guilt, near-indecipherable codes, murder plots born of madness--these motifs drive the best modern mysteries, but they are rooted in the early nineteenth century and the carefully constructed fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.

Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise examines the triple compact made by displaced authors with language, their host country, and the homeland left behind.

Just over 200 years ago on a stormy night, a young woman conceived of what would become one of the most iconic images of science gone wrong, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his Creature.

This authors of this useful handbook, originally published in 1985, not only summarise Mark Twain scholarship, but also evaluate, in much detail, the various contributions.

Dimensions of Dostoevskii''s writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays.

This portrait of a major Victorian intellectual was an important addition to scholarship on nineteenth-century British culture.

The dismantlement of the British Empire had a profound impact on many celebrated white Anglophone writers of the twentieth century, particularly those who were raised in former British colonial territories and returned to the metropole after the Second World War.

Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day.

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Thinking beyond the absolutes Christians and other religious persons increasingly find "e;deabsolutized"e; in our modern thought world, Swidler reflects on the ways we humans think about the world and its meaning now that increasingly we notice that there are other ways of understanding the world than the way we grew up in.

In Proust's Songbook, Jennifer Rushworth analyzes and theorizes the presence and role of songs in Marcel Proust's novel A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time).

Originally published in 1995, The Music of African American Fiction is a historical analysis of the tradition of representing music in African American fiction.

First published in 1981.

Given Ulysses' perhaps unparalleled attention to the operations of the human mind, it is unsurprising that critics have explored the work's psychology.

The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 offers readers a large and fully annotated collection of primary source texts addressing the grotesque in the English Renaissance.

As we move through the 21st century, the importance of science fiction to the study of English Literature is becoming increasingly apparent.

Fiction has power to portray historical truth.

"e;The great Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar (1914-84) was immersed in one of the most vibrant and revolutionary intellectual scenes of the last century, the Paris of the 1950s and 60s.

The heroine's journey echoes throughout ancient legend.

Al Alvarez - poet, critic, novelist, sportsman, and poker player - has for seventy years been hard to categorize.

In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville s works in the twenty-first century.

The position of spy fiction is largely synonymous in popular culture with ideas of patriotism and national security, with the spy himself indicative of the defence of British interests and the preservation of British power around the globe.

The essays in this book trace the development of contemporary fiction through its dialogue with, rather than departure from, modernist literature.

Short Writings from Bulawayo won the Literature in English category at the 2005 Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association awards.

How did the stately, republican literary world of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper give way to the sensationalist, personality-saturated mass market society of the late nineteenth century?

La figura de Antonieta Rivas Mercado es fascinante, su extraordinaria personalidad todavía nos produce una extraña seducción, la mujer polifacética que habitó en muchos tiempos y espacios.

This book explores Virginia Woolf's afterlives in contemporary biographical novels and drama.

Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little critical attention.

First published in 1981, this book offers a study of British and American popular fiction in the 1970s, a decade in which the quest for the superseller came to dominate the lives of publishers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Representations of language learning and literacy, also known as "e;literacy narratives"e; are a staple of literature.

"e;Although never named as such, the landscape of Sanremo was a visual source for Calvino's fiction.

In the early 1920s, Soviet writers and literary theorists were convinced that adventure fiction held the key to developing a new kind of narrative.

Illuminates Britons'' changing sense of themselves in relation to their Eastern others during an age of empire and revolution.

Created in 1941 by the psychologist William Marston, Wonder Woman would go on to have one of the longest continuous runs of published comic book adventures in the history of the industry.

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