Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country.

This innovative study analyzes the range of representation of farming in Irish literature in the period since independence/partition in 1922, as Ireland moved from a largely agricultural to a developed urban society.

Infinite Jest has been hailed as one the great modern American novels and its author, David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008, as one of the most influential and innovative authors of the past 20 years.

Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville.

Distinguished literary and film theorists convene to engage with Garrett Stewart's twenty books of inter-medial analysis, shelved across several disciplines, in a collection of essays as multifaceted and resonant as Stewart's own writing.

A look into the Beat movement and its art beyond the scope of the lives of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs.

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The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and belief, surveying key debates and perspectives from a range of disciplines including narrative and cultural studies, science, religion, and politics.

Probing the relationship between modernist literary experimentation and several key strands of occult practice which emerged in Europe from roughly 1894 to 1944, this book sets the work of leading modernist writers alongside lesser known female writers and writers in languages other than English to more fully portray the aesthetic and philosophical connections between modernism and the occult.

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How does Dickens make his readers laugh?

Reverberations of the Vietnam War can still be felt in American culture.

Aimed at students new to Poe''s work, this book offers an overview of his life, works, contexts and reception.

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The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature.

Using digital methods, this book traces the emergence of the graphic novel at the intersection of popular and literary culture.

James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake has repeatedly been declared to be entirely untranslatable.

Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / BiographyThe first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study as various as ecocriticism and the anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory, feminism, crime and the state, and more.

A new perspective of art and the market, that sees them as productive together, with evidence from bestselling writers.

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This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors.

Informative, broad-ranging, this title sheds new light on the life and literary art of one of the last century's most celebrated authors.

Examining the multiple non-humorous meanings of laughter, this book explores a unique strain of laughter in modernism that is without humor, without humans, and without humanism.

Was Michael Endes »Jim Knopf« mit Charles Darwin und der Evolutionstheorie zu tun hat.

One of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, John Steinbeck continues to be read and studied at all levels.

The essays in this collection reflect two of Mart's key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in New York, view and read his North American neighbors from a sociocultural, political and literary perspective?

This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's complete oeuvre, offering detailed analysis of her nine novels as well as addressing her non-fiction and minor fictional work.

Analyzes Black expressive culture in the 1980s as authors grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era.

A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "e;early"e; and "e;late"e; workJane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent a body of work that is as brilliant as it is compact.

A landmark study that unearths Byron''s profound, enduring critique of the failures of language and the contradictions of his age.

The essays in Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial, geographical and political: affective and physiological; temporal and epochal; technological, locomotive and metropolitan; aesthetic and representational.

This introduction provides a historical overview of the graphic novel, with a strong focus on its international significance.

John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville's major novels, as well as the 'Quirke' crime novels he has written under the pseudonym, Benjamin Black and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist's plays.

This is a book about artistic modernism contending with the historical transfigurations of modernity.

Before the rise of private homes as we now understand them, the realm of personal, private, and local relations in England was the parish, which was also the sphere of poverty management.

Joseph Conrad is a key figure in modernist fiction, whose innovative work engages with many of the crucial philosophical, moral and political concerns of the twentieth century.

Samuel Pepys was a great collector of books, news, and gossip.

A new collection of essays that offers exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.

The position and treatment of women in every religion, culture, and society have been subjects of concern for a long time.