Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

An insight into a popular yet complex genre that has developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Rainer Warning bietet ebenso kundige wie konzise Navigationen durch die verlorene und nie so ganz wiedergefundene Zeit.

In an original contribution to the psychoanalytic approach to literature, Doreen Fowler focuses on the fiction of four major American writers-William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison-to examine the father's function as a "e;border figure.

Paul Auster is one of the most acclaimed figures in American literature.

An essay collection that explores Russian literature and culture in relation to the late nineteenth-century fin de siècle.

One of the late Carlos Fuentes's final projects, this compendium of his criticism traces the evolution of the Latin American novel from the discovery of America to the present day.

Der Terminus des »anderen Zustands« wird in Musils Schriften vielfach diskutiert.

Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction.

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.

Through studies of individual writers, this book reveals the inextricable connection between naturalism and literary modernism.

A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature-featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographerIn 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zurau aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them.

Ghostwriting provides the first comprehensive analysis of the fictional prose narratives of one of contemporary Germany's most recognized authors, the emigre writer W.

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.

Almost as soon as 'club culture' took hold - during the UK's Second Summer of Love in 1988 - its sociopolitical impact became clear, with journalists, filmmakers and authors all keen to use this cultural context as source material for their texts.

Kaum ein Name ist so eng mit dem literarischen Unheimlichen verknüpft wie der von Edgar Allan Poe.

The Encyclopaedia of World Religions and Interfaith Dialogues is an initiative to deal with the subject of religion and interfaith dialogue in its totality.

What does it mean to be Ukrainian in contemporary Canada?

James Joyce's Ulysses was first published in New York in the Little Review between 1918 and 1920.

First published in 1981, this book attempts to approach a better understanding of Disraeli the man through his life as a novelist.

You Never Can Tell is an interweaving of timeless plots that merit a fresh retelling - and the reader is the benefector of Mike Sharpe's spirited reinventions.

It has become axiomatic that First World War literature was disenchanted, or disillusioned, and returning combatants were unable to process or communicate that experience.

This collection of essays examines the various social, cultural and historical contexts surrounding Edith Wharton''s popular and prolific literary career.

Gianluca Delfino's study is based on the assumption that Wilson Harris's works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author's complex imagination.

Lauded by critics yet largely unappreciated by fans of horror and "e;weird fiction,"e; T.

Homeric Stitchings is the first extended study of the Homeric Centos, a long pastiche poem on a biblical theme composed by the Theodosian Empress Eudocia using only verses from the Iliad and the Odyssey.

In this 2003 book, Ann Gaylin investigates scenes of eavesdropping in nineteenth-century English and French novels.

An original investigation of Woolf''s ambivalent attitude to her Victorian past and the modernist present, first published in 2007.

This collection of new essays looks carefully at the broad spectrum of Neil Gaiman's work and how he interacts with feminism.

Philosophy as Fiction seeks to account for the peculiar power of philosophical literature by taking as its case study the paradigmatic generic hybrid of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

In the mid-1980s, Easton Press began publishing a series of leather-bound collector editions called "e;Masterpieces of Science Fiction"e; and "e;Masterpieces of Fantasy,"e; which featured some of the most important works in these genres.

Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective experiences like desire, suffering, anxiety, and joy shape scientific persons, practices, and products.

Explores many of the important social, historical and cultural contexts surrounding the life and works of F.

It showcases how posthumanism has transformed the humanities and what new work is now possible in light of this unsettling.

In a concise and devastating style, Craig Parton, an experienced trial lawyer versed in the laws of legal evidence, argues that religions uniformly fail the simplest tests of admissibility for their respective claims.

How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire, reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the United States?

The first modern commentary in English on this most sophisticated and brilliant of ancient Greek novels.