Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period.

Literature has never looked weirder--full of images, colors, gadgets, and footnotes, and violating established norms of character, plot, and narrative structure.

With its roots in Romanticism, antiquarianism, and the primacy of the imagination, the Gothic genre originated in the 18th century, flourished in the 19th, and continues to thrive today.

James Joyce: A Guide to Research, first published in 1982, is a selective annotated bibliography of works by and about James Joyce.

Explores how the experience of time in contemporary British novels reveals the persistence of the utopian imagination today.

India, colourful and vibrant, is a land as diverse as its people.

Ein erstmaliger Einblick in die vergessene Versepik der Weimarer Republik.

Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S.

This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures.

A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone.

This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world's greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature.

In Le Carre's Landscape Tod Hoffman, a former intelligence officer, offers a unique perspective on le Carre's work.

The modern landscape of American entertainment is filled with commentary on the state of the union.

Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday.

Since its first publication in 1948, one of Vladimir Nabokov's shortest short stories, "e;Signs and Symbols,"e; has generated perhaps more interpretations and critical appraisal than any other that he wrote.

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

The first monograph-length study of Irish expatriate fiction in an era of transition from American to East Asian global hegemony.

Describes how interwar modernism responded to the global crisis in the liberal world order after 1919.

'They say you can always remember where you where when pivotal moments happen, such as losing your virginity or Elvis dying.

Centering on the British kitchen sink realism movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically its documentation of the built environment's influence on class consciousness, this book highlights the settings of a variety of novels, plays, and films, turning to archival research to offer new ways of thinking about how spatial representation in cultural production sustains or intervenes in the process of social stratification.

It might reasonably be asked what the connection is between Francoises malapropisms in Proust and the erudite allusions of Stephens interior monologue in Joyce.

The Ruins of Urban Modernity examines Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day through the critical lens of urban spatiality.

This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken.

It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of English novelists.

Contrary to what their oppressive design would lead us to believe, might structures of imprisonment actually incite humour?

From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars - like Bono and Bob Geldof - who claim to represent them.

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 book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing.

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This is the story of a small family in Lobengula township, Bulawayo: a shoemaker, Ngwenya, his wife, MaVundla, and their two children, Ambition and Senzeni, whose lives are turned upside-down when Senzeni joins the local youth militia.

For every famous author there is a score of individuals working behind the scenes to promote and maintain her celebrity status.

The world is full of books about how to be rich.

The heroic romance is one of the West's most enduring narratives, found everywhere, from religion and myth to blockbuster films and young adult literature.

This book, first published in 1980, is a guide to the major forces in the subculture of science fiction.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

First scholarly edition of Samuel Richardson''s correspondence with Sarah Wescomb, Frances Grainger and Laetitia Pilkington.

By challenging many of the assumptions, misguided presuppositions and even legends that have surrounded the legacy and reception of Franz Kafka's work during the 20th century, Howard Caygill provides us with a radical new way of reading Kafka.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the best-known stories in the Bible.

Tracing the influence of Faulkner's screenwriting on his literary craft and depictions of women William Faulkner's time as a Hollywood screenwriter has often been dismissed as little more than an intriguing interlude in the career of one of America's greatest novelists.

How did realist fiction alter in the effort to craft forms and genres receptive to the dynamism of an expanding empire and globalizing world?

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition explores Toni Morrison's construction of alternative and oppositional narratives of history and places her work as central to the imagining and re-imagining of American and diasporic identities.

This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust.

Speculative fiction--both science fiction and fantasy--reflects, among other things, the fears of the culture that created it, contributing (perhaps unconsciously) to our efforts to prevent our fears from coming true.

James Joyce spent the last decade of his life in Paris, struggling to finish his great final work Finnegans Wake amidst personal and financial hardship and just as Europe was being engulfed by the rising tide of fascism.

Sultzbach''s book provides a wide-ranging investigation into how the works of Forster, Woolf, and Auden helped shape our environmental imagination.

There has been a proliferation in recent scholarship of studies of monuments and their histories and of theoretical positions that shed light on aspects of their meanings.