Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Superman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the world--and he's Jewish!

Reanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature and song.

';Bernie Schein is the funniest man alive, or so he has dogmatically maintained during the burdensome decades I have known him.

The study of literature on screen is a growing area of study in schools and universities.

An invaluable guide to the popular writer of sensation novels.

Bringing together cultural analysis and textual readings on critically-acclaimed bestseller and winner of the prestigious Women's Prize for Fiction, Maggie O'Farrell, this collection covers her nine novels, her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, two children's books and features an exclusive interview with the author herself.

A comprehensive critical account of Margaret Atwood''s novels, short stories, poetry, and essays.

Focusing on the mythological narratives that influence Irish children's literature, this book examines the connections between landscape, time and identity, positing that myth and the language of myth offer authors and readers the opportunity to engage with Ireland's culture and heritage.

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.

In Irish fiction, the most famous example of the embrace of damnation in order to gain freedom-politically, religiously, and creatively-is Joyce's Stephen Dedalus.

An extended discussion of the impact of classical and European literature on Woolf''s writing.

Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes and moments of great beauty.

This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions.

'The dead travel fast and, in our contemporary globalised world, so too does the gothic.

Over the past few decades, the writings of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) have reclaimed a place of prominence in the American literary canon.

Over the past decades, the memory of the Holocaust has not only become a common cultural consciousness but also a cultural property shared by people all over the world.

Many feel that work for Christian unity or ecumenism is not especially urgent or important in the complexities of our contemporary world.

Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature.

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.

Why did Jesus die on the cross?

It has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows that the opposite is true: the finest novels of the nineteenth century show a constant experimentation and evolution.

New in paperback 2003.

Why do contemporary writers use myths from ancient Greece and Rome, Pharaonic Egypt, the Viking north, Africa's west coast, and Hebrew and Christian traditions?

This volume offers students and scholars a rich variety of interpretations from which to fashion their own views of the novel and the man who created it.

Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 explores the diverse ways that contemporary world fiction has engaged with ancient Greek myth.

Ancient greek sholarship constitutes a precious resource for classicists, but one that is underutilized because graduate students and even mature scholars lack familiarity with its conventions.

When Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814, and again in 1815, France embarked upon a period of uneasy cohabitation between the old and the new.

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The Logic of Sentiment is a study of sentimentality, a literary mode that aims to answer the question, "e;What hold us together?

First published in 1989.

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

Originally published in 2002 God, Literature and Process Thought looks at the use of God in writing, as a part of the creative advance, immersed in the processes of reality and affected by events in the world.

A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore, mythology and religion; many have grown up with the 'colour' Fairy Books which he compiled between 1889 and 1910.

The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years, and the most complete telling of his life and times to date.

This book discusses the nature of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature and culture through the figure of the military man.

This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and importance for the twenty-first century.