Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

The figure of the disaporic or migrant writer has recently come to be seen as the 'Everyman' of the late modern period, a symbol of the global and the local, a cultural traveller who can traverse the national, political and ethnic boundaries of the new millennium.

The publication Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination is part of the Topographies of (Post)Modernity: Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature in English Series.

This book treats William Faulkner's major fiction--from Flags in the Dust through to Absalom, Absalom!

»D'Leut ärgern« wählte sich Annette Kolb (1870‒1967) schon als junges Mädchen zum Motto, doch nicht aus Bosheit, sondern weil sie ihre Meinung offen vertreten wollte.

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The Dialogue of Love is written from the perspective of an evangelical Catholic Ecumenist.

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett?

Showcases the diversity and rich complexity of literature in Ireland in the eighteenth century.

Specially-commissioned essays explore key dimensions of Thomas Mann''s writing and life.

A re-examination of the historical vicissitudes of the Gothic novel from Walpole to Scott, first published in 1999.

This collection is concerned with the changing approaches to Jane Austen, her writings, and her afterlives, over the past two hundred years.

Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he was adamant that his legacy be based exclusively on his publications and that his private life and writings remain forever private.

A rich and nuanced study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures, analysing the celebration, appropriation, and translation of the stories over time.

This ethnographic study focuses on the religious imagery and practices of a sample of Buddhist temples and Muslim mosques in the greater Los Angeles area.

This book, first published in 1949, is an abridged version of Mirsky's classic two texts on Russian literature, updated with a postscript by the editor assessing the development of Soviet literature.

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From his 1952 short story 'Roog' to the novels The Divine Invasion and VALIS, few authors have had as great of an impact in the latter half of the 20th century as Philip K.

Steven Connor provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history.

The Relocation of Culture is about accents and borders-about people and cultures that have accents and that cross borders.

This Companion covers the full range of Cather''s career, and includes a detailed chronology and guide to further reading.

The Bible in the American Short Story examines Biblical influences in the post-World War II American short story.

The second volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novelThis is the second volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature.

Argues that novelists graft aging onto narrative duration and reveals the politics of senescence in nineteenth and early-twentieth century plots.

More Time studies the contemporary short story and focuses on four recent collections: Alice Munro's Dear Life (2012); Andre Dubus's Dancing After Hours (1996); Joy Williams's The Visiting Privilege (2015); and Lydia Davis's Can't and Won't (2014).

This volume brings together for the first time the known writings of the pioneering Native American religious and political leader, intellectual, and author, Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792).

Originally published in 1982, this volume follows others in the series.

At the outbreak of the Second World War Vladimir Nabokov stood on the brink of losing everything all over again.

Generations of readers and movie viewers have been drawn to the spirited heroines of ^USense and Sensibility and ^UEmma.

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

This 2004 Companion offers perspectives on Hawthorne''s works, and on topics including Hawthorne''s relationship to history, to women, politics, and early America.

'"e;Originality"e; is only plagiarizing from a great many', remarked Rupert Brooke, stealing the line from Voltaire.

"e;The interpreter's dream-text,"e; as one critic called Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym has prompted critical approaches almost as varied as the experiences it chronicles.

At the heart of Death and the Author is a dramatic account of D.

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Sholem Aleichem, whose 150th anniversary was commemorated in March 2009, remains one of the most popular Yiddish authors.

Covering a wide range of historical, theoretical, critical and cultural contexts, this collection studies key issues in contemporary Woolf studies.

"e;Bernardin de St Pierre (1737-1814) was a major figure of the late French Enlightenment.

A scholarly and experimental collection that offers fresh insight-with a feminist focus-into the often overlooked modernist writer Mary Butts and the contested processes of recovering such an author.

What were the consequences of Tolstoy's unusual reliance on members of his family as source material for War and Peace?

The dazzling, romantic fiction of F.

Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that presents masculinity as a key thematic concern in contemporary New York fiction.

Provides a reader based approach to study of genre fiction specifically focused on Aboriginal Australian chick lit author Anita Heiss.

Understanding an epic story's key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence.