Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

"e;Critics consider Clarice Lispector the leading female writer in the Brazilian literary canon.

Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and the Modernist Novel is a study of the novel and consciousness in James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, D.

Though Grimm's Fairy Tales was published about 200 years ago, the revered collection of folk stories remains one of the most iconic pieces of children's literature and has had significant influence in modern pop culture.

Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton's The Executioner in 1969.

After years of discussion within the field of anthropology concerning how to properly engage with theology, a growing number of anthropologists now want to engage with theology as a counterpart in ethnographic dialogue.

A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism.

A stimulating overview of the works, life and times of this important twentieth-century writer.

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Shows that the young adult fantasy genre is a dynamic formation that reshapes itself responsively in a continuing process over time.

The plethora of commentary from highly respected voices in a broad cross-section of academic disciplines, which V.

This collection assembles essays by eleven leading Catholic and evangelical theologians in an ecumenical discussion of the benefits and potential drawbacks of today s burgeoning corpus of theological interpretation.

The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature.

The concept of nothing was an enduring concern of the 20th century.

Presents a full critical edition of The Sacred Fount, one of Henry James''s strangest and most ambiguous works of fiction.

This title, originally published in 1992, presents an assessment of Poe's short stories that treat horror, and more specifically how he manipulated the conventions of that horror to register subtly on the fears and phobias of his reading audiences.

Laws of Transgression offers multiple perspectives on the story of Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911), a chamber president of the German Supreme Court who was institutionalized after claiming God had communicated with him, desiring to make him into a woman.

Irish crime fiction, long present on international bestseller lists, has been knocking on the door of the academy for a decade.

What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question?

David Mitchell is one of the most critically acclaimed authors in contemporary global writing.

William Trevor is a master of contemporary fiction.

The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one.

In mid-eighteenth-century Europe, a taste for sentiment accompanied the 'rise of the novel', and the success of Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) played a vital role in this.

Schmidgen draws on legal and economic writings to analyse the description of houses, landscapes, and commodities in eighteenth-century fiction.

Within the spectrum of American literary traditions, Arab American literature is relatively new.

This is the first overview of cartoon art in this important cultural nexus of Asia.

This volume, first published in 1968, draws attention to the special relationship between Joyce's life and his writing.

This book offers to delineate a key phenomenon in contemporary Anglophone fiction: novel expansion, when the plot and characters from a finished novel are retrieved to be developed in new adventures set before, after or during the narrative time of the source-text.

This comprehensive guide to James Ellroy's work and life is arranged as an encyclopedia covering his entire career, from his first private-eye novel, Brown's Requiem, to his 2012 e-book Shakedown.

Postmodernism in Pieces performs a postmortem on what is perhaps the most contested paradigm in literary studies.

The story of the Holy Grail has gripped the imaginations of millions since it first appeared in medieval romances, among them Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German Parzival (c.

This book illustrates African American writers'' cultural production and political engagement despite the economic precarity of the 1930s.

How was it that the Torrens system, a mid-nineteenth-century reform of land titles registration from distant South Australia, gradually replaced the inherited Anglo-Canadian common law system of land registration?

World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present.

'Island Genres, Genre Islands' moves the debate about literature and place onto new ground by exploring the island settings of bestsellers.

Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward.

Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet.

Addressing Jean Rhys's composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textual bearings she offers and reveals new insights about the formation, scope and complexity of Rhys's experimental aesthetics.

More than any other contemporary collection, this startling work demands a visceral reaction to the agony and horror of the war in Iraq and war in general.

Scholarly accounts of Joyce's early work have traditionally resorted to two historical keys to try to unlock it: a concept of the Dublin and Ireland in which he grew to adulthood as stagnant and backward, and an emphasis on 1904, the year of the supposedly crucial break in which Joyce quit Ireland for continental Europe and could begin his great modernist literary project.