Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic.

This volume revisits important moments from 1920 to 1970, key years for Caribbean literature, to open up new perspectives.

This collection of specially commissioned essays, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Lacan''s life and works.

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing.

We've all encountered protagonists who, over the course of a novel, turn out to be more complicated than we thought at first.

Postmodern realist fiction uses realism-disrupting literary techniques to make interventions into the real social conditions of our time.

Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship on James s writings available today.

Filippa Stagnaro, regidora de la villa de Adra y heredera del ingenio azucarero más importante de la región, deberá enfrentar los fantasmas de su pasado y luchar por el legado de su padre, Nicola Stagnaro, un noble emprendedor genovés, en medio de traiciones y la constante amenaza de una competencia perversa.

Death in Venice, by Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann, is one of the most popular and widely taught works of German literature.

This volume of essays brings together critical analysis and commentary on the literary work of Michel Tournier.

Sagittae Angelorum, "e;arrows of angels,"e; offers a collection of literary works in poetry, short stories, and drama by four innovative authors--Jeremy Joosten, Joelle Joosten, Dominic Nootebos, and Lucas Smith.

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

First published in 1951, My Dear Holmes is a biography of Sherlock Holmes, which originated from the author's re-reading of the Sherlock Holmes stories to his daughter, supplies answers to mysteries such as when was Holmes born?

Emily Brontës "Sturmhöhe" ("Wuthering Heights") erscheint hier in hochwertiger Hardcover-Ausstattung in der feinfühligen, kongenialen Übersetzung des Exildichters Alfred Wolfenstein.

Interfaith dialogue in a plural world.

The essays in this collection analyse major adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, with production stills and full filmographies.

The turn of the twenty-first century saw the rise of a brand of fiction that centres the experience and perspective of the perpetrator, thereby humanizing this character and granting it the capability to evoke our empathy.

Brings together leading critics and novelists with some of the finest contemporary novels to answer probing questions about the role of the modern novel.

The American Novel Now navigates the vast terrain of the American novel since 1980, exploring issues of identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements and narrative strategies from over seventy different authors and novels.

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924).

This book is the third edition of the classic study, featuring a new essay and an updated bibliography.

Art, History, and Postwar Fiction explores the ways in which novelists responded to the visual arts from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present day.

Committed Styles offers a new understanding of the politicized literature of the 1930s and its relationship to modernism.

It is very hard to endure the bombs, Father.

Tracing the movement of literary decadence from the writers of the fin de siècle - Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest Dowson, and Lionel Johnson - to the modernist writers of the following generation, this book charts the legacy of decadent Catholicism in the fiction and poetry of British and Irish modernists.

Vladimir Nabakov considers the novelist's aesthetic precepts and practice and the distinctive character of his work and the book also gives consideration of his fiction in the larger context of the modernist and postmodernist enterprise.

In 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was published to critical acclaim.

Romantic Capabilities discusses the relationship between popular new media uses of literary texts.

This study to analyzes romantic fiction's depiction of women as part of the broader history of ideas about women.

The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate.

Lost in the New West investigates a group of writers - John Williams, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx and Thomas McGuane - who have sought to explore the tensions inherent to the Western, where the distinctions between old and new, myth and reality, authenticity and sentimentality are frequently blurred.

En un mundo, en el que fronteras se destruyen y construyen constantemente, no sorprende el interés internacional e interdisciplinar que despierta Jorge Semprún: homme-frontière que habita varios espacios y traduce los signos transfronterizos de su tiempo.

Awarded the Jane Grayson Prize by the International Vladimir Nabokov SocietyShortlisted for The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Book AwardNabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives addresses the many knotted issues in the work of Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita's moral stance, Pnin's relationship with memory, Pale Fire's ambiguous internal authorship - that often frustrate interpretation.

How are we to comprehend, diagnose, and counter a system of racist subjugation so ordinary it has become utterly asymptomatic?

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.

First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s.

Explores the diversity of the post-1990 novel in German through readings of international bestsellers and less familiar texts.

From Flannery O'Connor and James Baldwin to the post-9/11 writings of Don DeLillo, imaginative writers have often been the most insightful chroniclers of the USA's changing religious life since the end of World War II.

Considering George Garrett's life and work in the continuum of American literary history, it is perhaps most profitable to place him in the tradition of the now exceedingly rare Southern ';man of letters'he (or she) who embraces and produces literature in all its complexity and in multiple forms (novels, short stories, poems, plays, criticism, translation, editing, and so on).