Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

"e;What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?

A forensic psychiatrist's second opinion on the conditions that led to Ernest Hemingway's suicide, "e;mixing biography, literature and medical analysis"e; (The Washington Post).

A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor in all esoteric religions, and how these traditions have influenced the later novels of Cormac McCarthy, namely, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, No Country for Old Men, and The Road.

Hugo and Locus Award FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the YearAMilwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018An amazing and engrossing history.

"e;Remarkably,"e; writes Ted Atkinson, "e;during a period roughly corresponding to the Great Depression, Faulkner wrote the novels and stories most often read, taught, and examined by scholars.

Quels sont les savoirs théoriques et pratiques produits par la recherche biographique en éducation ?

New unique literature Study Guide made super super easy on Dickens' renowned book A Christmas Carol.

Myra Henshawe gave up her uncle's fortune for love.

One of America's greatest writers, William Faulkner wrote fiction that combined spellbinding Southern storytelling with modernist formal experimentation to shape an enduring body of work.

Though science fiction is often thought of as a Western phenomenon, the genre has long had a foothold in countries as diverse as India and Mexico.

Dunlaith Bird argues that vagabondage - a physical and textual elaboration of gender identity in motion - emerges as a totemic concept in European women's travel writing from 1850.

Praise for UPTON SINCLAIR and the other American Century"e;I look forward to all of Kevin Mattson's works of history and I've notbeen disappointed yet.

Harry Potter and Beyond explores J.

The story of Ted Lewis carries historical and cultural resonances for our own troubled timesTed Lewis is one of the most important writers you've never heard of.

On the surface, the zombie seems the polar opposite of the human--they are the living dead; we, in essence, are the dying alive.

Through studies of individual writers, this book reveals the inextricable connection between naturalism and literary modernism.

In December 1945 Thomas Mann wrote a famous letter to Adorno in which he formulated the principle of montage adopted in his novel Doctor Faustus.

Religion and Science Fiction explores the intersection between two topics that until recently seemed light-years apart.

It is unlikely that Jacques Lacan and Alice Munro were ever aware of each other's work.

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.

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.

It is a comprehensive volume on Bengali riddles and their socio-cultural background.

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 .