Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future.

London Fictions is a book about London, real and imagined.

We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.

Born in Ireland in 1667, Jonathan Swift defiantly clung to his Englishness.

'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.

"e;A book for middle-aging youth activists who are still passionate about fighting for a revolutionary new society .

William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure.

In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi painted a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded her into a novelist and fearless campaigner for freedom and the rights of women.

Shows how African writers grapple with and make meaning out of the possibilities and limitations of globalization in a multipolar world.

"e;A book for middle-aging youth activists who are still passionate about fighting for a revolutionary new society .

Many bibliographers focus on women who write.

Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams?

A portrait of an American thinker with contributions by Barbara Kingsolver, Bill McKibben, Sven Birkerts, Wes Jackson, and more: "e;A masterful collection.

This major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory.

'Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,' Marco Polo said.

With contributions by leading scholars, writers and comedians in the USA, the UK and Canada, The Laughing Stalk: Live Comedy and Its Audiences focuses on the dynamics of audience behavior.

A pivotal figure in the world of novelists, Virginia Woolf was an outsider as a short story writer.

Until now, popular novelist James Clavell has not been recognized for his literary achievements and his contributions to cross-cultural understanding.

This book examines materials of writing in William Faulkner''s novels and stories from parchment to typewriters, letters to telegrams.

"e;Pray, pray be composed,"e; cried Elinor, "e;and do not betray what you feel to every body present.

Strife is a rich and densely written novel that provides a dark expos?

Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

`It was not so much his great height that marked him .

'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.

The secret to happiness is to be yourself.

The secret to happiness is to be yourself.

This book is for all readers of crime fiction.

In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi painted a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded her into a novelist and fearless campaigner for freedom and the rights of women.

Forty years later, the "e;audacious generation"e; takes on the unfinished business of their counter-culture youth.

Forty years later, the "e;audacious generation"e; takes on the unfinished business of their counter-culture youth.

In addition to being one of the best-loved books of all time, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is sure to set box-office records when it releases in theatres Christmas 2005.

This collection will entertain all who appreciate the art of masterful letter writing.

"So this is the little woman who wrote the book that made this big war!

Through analysis of Cervantes'' status as an itinerant poet, this book overturns conventional theories of the modern novel''s genesis.

Harry Potter and Beyond explores J.

This short story collection is the outcome of the writing residency for African women writers held in Jinja, Uganda, in January 2011.