Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E.

"e;Since the early 1980s, the novel has been deemed by many Italian women writers to be the most apt vehicle for creating positive images of the future of women.

Jonathan Coe is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed contemporary British writers.

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A collection of short stories by scriptwriter-poet turned fiction writer Taeko Tomioka.

Organised crime puts on a smiley face.

This volume argues that the 1980s is the most significant American literary decade in the late twentieth century.

The Ever-Present Now examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in a number of literary texts; specifically, the writings of several figures in antebellum US literary history, some, but not all of whom, associated with the period's romantic movement.

This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic.

When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics.

Der mittelalterliche Roman de Silence erzählt die Geschichte eines Mädchens, das fernab höfischer Zivilisation als Junge erzogen wird und eine Reihe von Männerrollen übernimmt: Sie wird Spielmann, Krieger und Ritter, womit sie sogar das Begehren der Königin auf sich zieht.

This book spotlights the 25 most important sitcoms to ever air on American television-shows that made generations laugh, challenged our ideas regarding gender, family, race, marital roles, and sexual identity, and now serve as time capsules of U.

Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, the most important novel of the Native American Renaissance, is among the most most widely taught and studied novels in higher education today.

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In attempting to retain her "e;human"e; side, does Sharon really have free will?

In After Aesop: Improvisations on Aesop's Fables, Steven Carter adds parody to his wide-ranging repertoire of literary genres.

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This book provides a clear, lively, and accessible guide to the complex histories and vital present of the Australian novel.

This book interrogates the process of court reporting on rape and other sexual crime cases involving Australian footballers.

Over the last 20 years, Jacqueline Wilson has published well over 100 titles and has become firmly established in the landscape of Children's Literature.

Eliza de Feuillide seemed fascinating and outlandish to her cousins in rural eighteen century England.

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

A collection of new essays demonstrating a wholly new approach to the complexities of Milton''s work.

How the digital revolution has shaped our languageIn the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself.

This fresh and persuasively argued book examines the origins of pornography in Britain and presents a comprehensive overview of women's role in the evolution of obscene fiction.

Against the social and economic upheavals that characterized the nineteenth century, the border-bending nosferatu embodied the period's fears as well as its forbidden desires.

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The end of the second millennium witnessed an increase in science-fictional apocalyptic narratives globally.

This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time.

Politeness and Politics in Cicero's Letters presents a fresh examination of the letters exchanged between Cicero and correspondents, such as Pompey, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony during the final turbulent decades of the Roman Republic.

Examining the controversies that have accompanied the publication of novels representing the Holocaust, this compelling book explores such literature to analyze their violently mixed receptions and what this says about the ethics and practice of millennial Holocaust literature.

This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater''s critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.

This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative form typical of Western literature.

That Borges is one of the key figures in 20th-century literature is beyond debate.

Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror fiction from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century.

This book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about personality formation and the extent to which it can be influenced either by the subject or by others.

A complete benchwork on the rich indian cultural heritage in respect of fairs and festivals of indias all regions, from north to south, west to east, north - east region and central india, their socio-cultural, religions and economic significance and value, their support with the human society, in five comprehensive volume covering all the 28 states and 7 union territories very useful for social scientists, teachers and researchers in india and abroad.

"e;Best known for his 1947 memoir L'Espece humaine, Robert Antelme (1917-1990) is a central figure in the history of the European response to the Nazi concentration camps.

Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period.

This collection of recent essays on James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, provides an up-to-date overview of debates in Joycean scholarship, with particular emphasis on gender, postcolonial and ideological critiques, and deconstructive readings.

In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectivity?

In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the monstrous, spectral and uncanny work to illuminate the insecure, uneven and precarious experience of 21st-century life.

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Kennern gilt Max Kommerell (1902–1944) als einer der bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Intellektuellen des 20.

Reanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature and song.

The lives and works of the celebrated Bronte family are so ingrained in our cultural psyche that we think we know them inside out - but walking in the footsteps of the literary greats and their characters offers a new perspective on their work.