Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Lively and engaging account of the experience of reading Jane Austen, by leading scholar and novelist.

The Pace of Fiction redefines the literary history of the novel by analyzing its most elaborate feature: its pace.

Explores the connection between medicine and gothic literature examining disease, psychiatry and supernatural in the nineteenth century.

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

A great deal of scholarship has focused on Joss Whedon's television and film work, which includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, The Cabin in the Woods and The Avengers.

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

This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries.

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).

Vita und Abenteuer des irischen Seefahrerheiligen Brendan (dt.

Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel maps the interrelations between literary production and public debates about citizenship that shaped twentieth-century Britain.

Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s comprehensively examines popular culture in the 2000s, placing the culture of the decade in historical context and showing how it not only reflected but also influenced its times.

A wide-ranging exploration of women''s travel writing between 1714 and 1789, emphasising women''s contribution to processes of cultural change.

Since the heyday of Ian Fleming's fantasy superspy James Bond, the novels of John le Carre have held up to readers across the world a sombre, fascinating picture of decline, deception and ethical ambiguity.

Combining narratological and stylistic methods, this book theorizes dual narrative dynamics consisting of plot development and covert progression and demonstrates the consequences for the interpretation of literary works.

This book presents original essays that explore the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture.

Reading the work of African American and Jewish American authors alongside and through one another.

One of America's most noted contemporary novelists, John Irving has created a body of fiction of extraordinary range, moving with ease from romance to fairytale to thriller.

This book is a critical introduction to Finnegans Wake and its genesis.

Between the 1930s and the invention of the internet, American comics reached readers in a few distinct physical forms: the familiar monthly stapled pamphlet, the newspaper comics section, bubblegum wrappers, and bound books.

Wie wird die Soziologie der symbolischen Macht in Thomas Manns Buddenbrooks dargestellt?

Originally published in 1985, this volume follows others in the series.

In recent years, Canadian authors have enjoyed tremendous international success, writing novels that become Oscar-nominated films or achieve coveted success as selections for the Oprah Winfrey bookclub.

Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, in over 140 articles of 500-7,000 words.

Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century.

How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality?

Twelve commissioned essays provide an essential introduction to Thomas Hardy.

An overview of British fiction written between the mid-1760s and the early 1830s in its historical and cultural contexts.

This book explores how the next generation of teen and young adult heroines in popular culture are creating a new feminist ideal for the 21st century.

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

Millions of Americans know and love Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Blondie and Dagwood, Doonesbury, Li'l Abner, Garfield, Cathy, Beetle Bailey and other such comic strip characters.

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.

Diversity in Architecture: Intersectionality, Affective Politics, and Creating Change explores diversity in architecture through an intersectional lens.

Jim Henson was the creative force behind a huge catalog of television series, films, specials, and other productions, even excepting the Muppets.

This comprehensive history of America in the 1920s presents the decade's most compelling controversies as precursors to today's culture wars.

In one volume Sarah Tytler presents the most characteristic of Jane Austen's novels, together with her life.

In this newest volume in Oxford's Lives and Legacies series, Carolyn Porter, a leading authority on William Faulkner, offers an insightful account of Faulkner's life and work, with special focus on the breathtaking twelve-year period when he wrote some of the finest novels in American literature.

Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England offers a new history of Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in the English Middle Ages.

Metaphors are ubiquitous and yet-or, for that very reason-go largely unseen.

Wie kann die Erinnerung an den Nationalsozialismus bewahrt werden - an der Schwelle des Verlusts der letzten Zeitzeugen?

The definitive three-volume edition of St Teresa of Avila's prose and poetry, in Professor E.

A wonderfully candid and insightful account of a writer s life William BoydLuck, good or bad, plays an important part in a writer s career.

A study of the importance of women to the eighteenth-century debate on property as conducted in fiction.

Grand in its scope, Asian Comics dispels the myth that, outside of Japan, the continent is nearly devoid of comic strips and comic books.

Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind - and the politics within - the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976.

Contributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J.

Northrop Frye and American Fiction challenges recent interpretations of American fiction as a secular pursuit that long ago abandoned religious faith and the idea of transcendent experiences.