Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

For forty-five years, the expatriate Juan Goytisolo has been widely acknowledged as both Spain's greatest living writer and its most scabrous critic.

What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna?

James's correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.

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

During its 33-season run, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968-2001) left an indelible mark on millions of children and their caregivers.

Dysfluencies is the first comprehensive study of how speech disorders are portrayed in modern literature.

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.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

Freewomen and Supermen adds to the comparatively recent body of research which has sought to re-evaluate the literature and culture of the 'long' Edwardian period (1900-1914).

This volume collects the critical prose of award-winning writer Anna Frajlich.

Francophone Literature as World Literature examines French-language works from a range of global traditions and shows how these literary practices draw individuals, communities, and their cultures and idioms into a planetary web of tension and cross-fertilization.

In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order.

This is the first book to focus on James Bond's relationship to the playboy ideal through the sixties and beyond.

Will AI replace us?

Surely enough has been written about F.

When Kenneth Johnson's science fiction miniseries V premiered in 1983, it netted more than 40 percent of the television viewing audience and went on to spawn a sequel, a weekly series, novelizations, comic books and a remake.

The "e;Happiest Place on Earth"e; opened in 1955 during a trying time in American life--the Cold War.

Resistance Reimagined highlights unconventional modes of black women's activism within a society that has spoken so much of freedom but has granted it so selectively.

A detailed analysis of Johnson''s complicated and controversial attitude to Milton in the context of eighteenth-century literary criticism.

Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (1821-1890) was a British writer, poet, linguist, explorer, translator, geographer, ethnologist, orientalist, Freemason, diplomat, and cartographer best remembered for extensively travelling in and exploring Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

In Proust's Songbook, Jennifer Rushworth analyzes and theorizes the presence and role of songs in Marcel Proust's novel A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time).

Fantasy and science fiction began in print, and from the first films to the latest blockbusters, print stories have provided the inspirations, the ideas, and in some cases the detailed blueprints.

Since the nation's founding, Israel has existed in a state of near perpetual warfare.

A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts.

Exorbitant Enlightenment compels us to see eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and culture in new ways.

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

A comprehensive literary history of New Orleans, one of the most storied cities in the world.

The emphasis on practical experience over ideology is viewed by many historians as a profoundly American characteristic, one that provides a model for exploring the colonial challenge to European belief systems and the creation of a unique culture.

Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi Germany, and feted in his new country as "e;the greatest living man of letters.

The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night are F.

Imagining women readers reassesses the cultural significance of women's reading in the period 1789-1820.

Graham Greene is an immensely popular as well as powerful and idiosyncratic writer.

In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953.

The first critical synthesis of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Conspiracy has been a political phenomenon throughout history, relevant to any form of power from antiquity to the post-modern era.

First Published in 2004.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

Using an Ecogothic lens, this book offers a new conceptual framework for the werewolf in literature, recasting the lycanthrope as an emblem for society's fear of untamed wilderness.

The Dickens Companions provide the most comprehensive annotation of the works of Charles Dickens ever undertaken.

Zaynab Fawwaz (d.

This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and losses as innocent of design.

This book explores the concept of liminality in the representation of women in eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, as well as in contemporary rewritings, such as novels, films, television shows, videogames, and graphic novels.

Scholars from a variety of academic disciplines have been drawn into exhaustive analyses of what went wrong in "e;the terrible 20th Century"e;, as Winston Churchill dubbed it.

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

A Curious Peril examines the prose penned by modernist writer H.

Prominent American author, lecturer, and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) is best known for her 1898 treatise Women and Economics, which ascribed gender inequality to women's economic dependence upon men, and for her 1892 short story "e;The Yellow Wall-Paper,"e; which depicts a woman's descent into madness.

Michael Tapper considers Swedish culture and ideas from the period 1965 to 2012 as expressed in detective fiction and film in the tradition of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo.