Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland's work in various fields, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, the publishing industry, and its impact upon creativity and literary puzzles.

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

This book creates a taxonomy for the major bestselling fictional genres: romance (e.

Ullrich Langer investigates why lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity from Virgil to Flaubert.

When the first edition of David Madden's A Primer of the Novel: For Readers and Writers was published more than twenty-five years ago, there were no other books of its kind available.

This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.

Since the 1950s, men and women around the world have claimed to have had contact with human-like visitors from space.

The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain, P.

Mark Twain is America's-perhaps the world's-best known humorous writer.

This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics - not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in the linguistic fabric of their texts.

This volume includes many of the best essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), one of the most original scholars of Russian culture of her generation.

The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their larger domestic and international contexts, focusing on the relations among regions as they meet the challenges of the twenty first century.

Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961), and Zazie dans le metro (1959), by Raymond Queneau (1903-1976), were two revolutionary novels in their transposition of spoken language into written language.

Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to both popular audiences and avant-garde critics.

Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism.

In the company of wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project.

Uwe Johnson bekundete Ende der 1960er Jahre, das Interesse an der Religion nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg verloren zu haben und über keine religiösen Bindungen (mehr) zu verfügen.

Nineteenth-century French Realism focuses on metropolitan France, with Paris as its undisputed heart.

The first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including Sigmund Freud's mistitled An Autobiographical Study, Helene Deutsch's Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue, Wilfred Bion's War Memoirs 1917-1919, Masud Khan's The Long Wait, Sophie Freud's Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family, and Irvin D.

This is a book about translation and literary influence.

Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) defines sympathy as a series of shifts in perspective by which one sees from a different point of view.

Focuses on notable journalists-turned-novelists who have worked on the margins of fact and fiction since the early eighteenth century.

This History presents a comprehensive history of Jewish American literature from its origins to the present day.

This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Men are allowed to cry.

This volume reveals the everyday actions of individuals and their reflections on their lives during the 1920s.

This new edition corrects shortcomings of earlier editors by providing a text which incorporates neglected or unavailable material from Greek manuscripts, recently published papyri, and quotations from the orations by rhetoricians dating from antiquity through to the Byzantine period.

Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel is a major contribution to the study of the literary influence of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens.

Short Writings from Bulawayo won the Literature in English category at the 2005 Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association awards.

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This essay collection explores the life and work of science fiction doyen Ray Bradbury from a variety of perspectives.

How did the Victorian woman cope with the image of herself as a writer?

An engaging introductory guide to Chekhov, one of the most important and influential modern writers of fiction and drama.

The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots.

This project examines the representation of anxiety about technology that humans feel when encountering artificial intelligences in four science fiction novels: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing.

This collection of original essays on Virginia Woolf by leading scholars in the field opens up new debates on the work of one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century.

Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain proposes a new taxonomy and conceptual frame for the controversial Iberian genre of sentimental fiction.

This lively and ground-breaking collection brings together work on forms of popular television within the authoritarian regimes of Europe after World War Two.

The problem of the nature of fiction and the problem of nonexistence are closely tied because fiction often talks about nonexistent entities.

First comprehensive critical edition of Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) analyses Hardy''s many revisions and offers essential contextual material.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years.

This one-volume reference provides a comprehensive overview of gambling in the Americas, examining the history, morality, market growth, and economics of the gaming industry.

This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of the East End in late-Victorian realism.

From debates about reparations to the rise of the welfare state, the decades following World War I saw a widespread turn across disciplines to questions about the nature and role of gifts: What is a gift?