Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Samuel R.

The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!

Revisiting Virginia Woolf's most experimental novels, Elsa Högberg explores how Woolf's writing prompts us to re-examine the meaning of intimacy.

Two veterans of World War I fight for love and honor in a Caribbean country torn apart by rebellion Lt.

Born and brought up in Poland bilingually in French and Polish but living for most of his professional life in England and writing in English, Joseph Conrad was, from the start, as much a European writer as he was a British one and his work from his earliest fictions through Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and The Secret Agent to his later novels has repeatedly been the focal point of discussions about key issues of the modern age.

Critics hailed the first edition of The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts of Scottish literature in all three of the country's languages - Gaelic, Scots and English.

By the time Ian Watt published The Rise of the Novel.

In 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Max Brod's posthumous papers which included a collection of Kafka's manuscripts be transferred to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.

'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen GreenblattA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books'It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and he is so eloquent and understanding about them all' Orhan PamukInspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe.

This edition includes fully annotated texts of all works known or plausibly believed to be by Aphra Behn (1640-1689).

Race as Narrative in Italian Women's Writing Since Unification explores racist ideas and critiques of racism in four long narratives by female authors Grazia Deledda, Matilde Serao, Natalia Ginzburg, and Gabriella Ghermandi, who wrote in Italy after national unification.

WENN UNSICHTBARES SICHTBAR WIRD: AUF DEN POETISCHEN SPUREN VON KLAUS MERZSeit seinen literarischen Anfängen ist der Schweizer Autor Klaus Merz ein Meister der Reduktion und sprachlichen Kunstfertigkeit: Mit zwei drei Worten vollbringe er ein literarisches Wunder, so Peter von Matt.

A thorough and accessible guide to the Gothic genre.

Coleridge is admired as a genius and derided as an opium addict and plagiarist.

This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 1802.

How did authors control the literary fates of fictional characters before the existence of copyright?

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature.

FOREWORD BY ALI SMITHWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADEWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?

Against skeptics, Manniste argues that Miller does indeed have a philosophy of his own, which underpins most of his texts.

The period of 1830-1950 was an age of unprecedented innovation.

Folktales and fairy tales are living stories; as part of the oral tradition, they change and evolve as they are retold from generation to generation.

Central to the nineteenth-century Ottoman Tanzimat reform project, the novel originally developed outside of Ottoman space, yet was adopted as a didactic tool to model and generate new forms of Ottoman citizenship.

Joseph Conrad's impact has been so profound and far-reaching that, eighty years after his death, he remains an essential cultural reference point.

This book looks at the figure of the English teacher in Indian classrooms and examines the practice and relevance of English and India's colonial legacy, many decades after independence.

First published in 1989, Living Space in Fact and Fiction explores the house both in the 'real' world of the architect and the built environment, and in the fictional world of the novelist.

For more than 75 years, Catwoman has forged her own path in a clear-cut world of stalwart heroes, diabolical villains, and damsels in distress.

Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success.

Taking 44 Mecklenburgh Square as the focal point and springboard for a critical group study of D.

In the years between the independence of the colonies from Britain and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called "e;fragments.

Forth and Back broadens the scope of Hispanic trans-Atlantic studies by shifting its focus to Spain's trans-literary exchange with the United States at the end of the twentieth century.

Shows how black writers helped to build modern Britain by looking beyond the questions of slavery and abolition.

Marek Krisch befasst sich in seinem Band mit dem Leben und Schaffen des Publizisten, Romanciers, Dramatikers und Arztes Max Ring, der 1850 aus Schlesien nach Berlin übersiedelte, wo er bis zu seinem Tod 1901 fast ohne Unterbrechung lebte und sich seine literarische Laufbahn rasant entwickelte.

Science fiction films and television programs about space travel have undergone a significant transformation since their inception.

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Teen readers have always been fascinated by monsters, but lately it seems like every other young adult (YA) book is about vampires, zombies, or werewolves.

This book engages with the life and works of the distinctive Hindi writer Krishna Sobti, known for making bold choices of themes in her writing.

Despite the success and significance of Jonathan Franzen's fiction, his work has received relatively little scholarly attention.

David Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality: Hideousness, Neoliberalism, Spermatics is the first full-length study of perhaps the most controversial aspect of Wallace's work – male sexuality.

This collection of essays offers crucial and luminous insights into one of the best-known Czech authors, Milan Kundera, including his lesser known works.

Soon after their successful revolution in 750 AD, the Abbasids supplanted the Umayyad dynasty, built the new city of Baghdad, Iraq which became the capital of the Islamic Empire.

Includes a literary reflection on Mansfield's work by award-winning novelist Ali Smith.

Novelists have long been attracted to theatre.