Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Few words inspire more fear in Americans these days than jihad.

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This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of the East End in late-Victorian realism.

Lively and engaging account of the experience of reading Jane Austen, by leading scholar and novelist.

A concise, comprehensive and original introduction to the fiction and journalism of Gabriel García Márquez.

The Victorian period was the age of the novel and critics at the time clearly saw the importance of prose fiction.

Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman.

An essential guide to the life and works of Ayn Rand, the book chronicles and summarizes her writings, presents information about her national and global impact-and the response to it-and provides the most comprehensive bibliography published to date.

A unique portrait of Vladimir Nabokov told through the lens of the years he spent in a land that enchanted him, America.

The 2005 James McTeigue and Wachowski Brothers film V for Vendetta represents a postmodern pastiche, a collection of fragments pasted together from the original Moore and Lloyd graphic novel of the same name, along with numerous allusions to literature, history, cinema, music, art, politics, and medicine.

An important contribution to literary criticism by one of the foremost modernist scholars working today, first published in 2010.

Originally published in 1981, this concordance can afford particular benefits to the critic and textual scholar because of several specialized problems that The Arrow of Gold presents.

In his novel Mao II, Don DeLillo lets his protagonist say, 'Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture.

Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction.

This book situates public theology within the genre of political theology.

Though we all face a tug of war between dependency and autonomy while growing up, British author D.

In Woolf's writings Greece and Greek tragedy in particular shape an exoticized aesthetic space that both emerges from and enables critique of the cosy settings and colonialist conceits of elite (and largely male) British attitudes toward culture and politics.

This book revaluates American literary culture through the lens of historical climate representations, as well as recent climate science.

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Imagined Truths provides a twenty-first-century analysis of stylistic and philosophical manifestations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary realism.

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction?

Preschoolers can explore the Jewish holidays with familiar sounds--the "e;sizzle, sizzle"e; of potato latkes on Hanukkah, the "e;crunch, crunch"e; of matzah on Passover, and more.

Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left is the first full critical study of novelist and critic Robert Cantwell, a Northwest-born writer with a strong sense of social justice who found himself at the center of the radical literary and cultural politics of 1930s New York.

The book analyses attempts by Dickens and other nineteenth-century writers to challenge established ways of using the distinction between upper and lower case letters, in the interests of a wider radicalism.

This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism.

Best known for his popular crime fiction, Boston novelist George V.

The particularity of 1920s British fiction has become obscured by an academic focus on modernism.

A BRONT ENCYCLOPEDIA This lively, absorbing, meticulously researched compendium is a rich resource both for the general reader and for the specialist Bront scholar.

Dickens, Journalism, Music presents the first full analysis of the articles on music published in the two journals conducted by Charles Dickens, Household Words and its successor, All the Year Round.

International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction.

Focusing on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Robinson and Mary Shelley, this book uses key concepts of androgyny, subjectivity and the re-creative as a productive framework to trace the fascinating textual interactions and dialogues among these authors.

A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium.

"e;The Spanish Communist exile and Francophone Holocaust writer Jorge Semprun (1923-) is a major contributor to contemporary debates on the politics and ethics of remembering the Franco era, Communism and the Holocaust in French, Spanish and broader European contexts.

The Bible had a profound impact on early modern culture, and bible-reading shaped the period's drama, poetry, and life-writings, as well as sermons and biblical commentaries.

Die jidischen schtudies gehören zu den wenigen Reihen im deutschen Sprachraum, in denen Editionen jiddischer literarischer Werke sowie Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprache und Literatur der aschkenasischen Juden veröffentlicht werden.

The problem of human evil is never far beneath the surface of mystery fiction.

"e;In a cultural shift around the mid-point of the French eighteenth century, the mode of wit is increasingly displaced by bourgeois pathos.

Reveals how changing ideas about gender and race shaped - and were shaped by - London and its literature.

Inspecting Psychology takes a sleuth's magnifying glass to the interplay between psychology, psychiatry and detective fiction to provide a unique examination of the history of psychology.

The essays in this book trace the development of contemporary fiction through its dialogue with, rather than departure from, modernist literature.

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