Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity and the Theopolitical Problem is a book about the encounter between Jewish and Christian thought and the fact-value divide that invites the unsettling recognition of the dramatic acosmism that shadows and undermines a considerable number of modern and contemporary Jewish and Christian thought systems.

The Arabian Nights and Orientalism in Resonance was especially commissioned to celebrate the tercentenary of the first Western edition of The Arabian Nights.

Gustave Flaubert is probably the most famous novelist of nineteenth-century France, and his best known work, Madame Bovary, is read in numerous comparative literature and French courses.

With its laser-focus on the verbal and visual infrastructure of narrative, The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors is the first sustained comparative study of how image patterns are tracked in prose and cinema.

A common misconception is that professors who use popular culture and fantasy in the classroom have abandoned the classics, yet in a variety of contexts--high school, college freshman composition, senior seminars, literature, computer science, philosophy and politics--fantasy materials can expand and enrich an established curriculum.

An authoritative and lively account of the development of the genre, by leading experts in the field.

The Stronger Sex, a study of the women in the fiction of Lawrence Durrell, argues that Lawrence Durrell envisioned a new woman, self-confident, free of male domination, and able to serve, direct, and protect her dependent man.

No other major author of the nineteenth century has arguably produced as much critical activity as Thomas Hardy.

One of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day, Walt Kelly's Pogo took on Joe McCarthy before the controversial senator was a blip on Edward R.

Erich Kästner hat den größten Teil seiner Werke mit einem Vorwort ein- oder mit einem Nachwort ausgeleitet, obwohl diese Formen begleitender Texte längst kein obligatorischer Bestandteil eines Buches sind.

Novel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the birth of the novel in Don Quixote, through the great canonical works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the most influential international novels of the present day An original study which offers a unique approach to thinking about and discussing character Makes extensive reference to both traditional and more recent and specialized academic studies of the novel Provides a critical vocabulary for understanding how the novelistic conception of character has changed over time.

Horror, no matter the medium, has always retained some influence of philosophy.

Looking at texts written throughout the careers of Edith Wharton, Ellen La Motte, Mary Borden, Thomas Boyd, F.

The dawning era of nanotechnology promises to transform life as we know it.

Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest novels.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

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James Joyce and Photography is the first book to explore in-depth James Joyce's personal and professional engagement with photography.

This unique compendium lists all known facts about Austen''s life and family: the ideal reference for scholar and fan.

Worldwide Women Writers in Paris examines a new literary phenomenon consisting of an unprecedented number of women from around the world who have come to Paris and become authors of written works in French.

From a range of academic and practice-led perspectives, this book explores how a combination of place-based writing and location-based technologies are producing new kinds of experimental ambient literary experience.

Thomas Manns Joseph-Roman und seine Moses-Erzählung ›Das Gesetz‹ gelten als die bedeutendsten Gestaltungen biblischer Stoffe in der Literatur.

Christmas Books for Children investigates continuities and new trends in this hugely significant part of the children''s book market.

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was the most influential poetry critic of his generation.

"e;One of the primary social changes ushered in by the French Revolution was the legalization of divorce in 1792.

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.

This book is about some of the ways in which the world got ready to be connected, long before the advent of the technologies and the concentrations of capital necessary to implement a global 'network society'.

How are a reader's perceptions of a plot impacted by its presentation through textual clues rather than explicit narration, and why would an author choose this comparatively indirect mode of narration?

Mary Wesley published her first novel at seventy and went on to write a further nine bestsellers, including the legendary The Camomile Lawn, in a style best described as arsenic without the old lace.

So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a single critical approach.

'Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786-1945' is a study of the history of reading Jane Austen's novels.

Ever since the first appearances of Superman and Batman in comic books of the late 1930s, superheroes have been a staple of the popular culture landscape.

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

This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature.

This book advocates for a new analytical framework that extends our understanding of multimodal meaning-making in the novel.

The International Society of Literary Fellows (Lsi) is the society of creative writers and scholars from African and the world with a critical interest in current developments around modern cultures of indigenous and foreign language expressions.

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.