Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, one of the great twentieth-century American poets.

Grotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedlander (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Hoch as they challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and early-20th-century science.

This Companion is a complete introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro.

This book argues that concepts of youth and childhood were central to seventeenth-century debates about political and poetic voice.

The author states here that Tolstoy was a great educator and his views on education were ingenious and profound.

Mention Shaft and most people think of Gordon Parks' seminal 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in a leather coat, walking the streets of Manhattan to Isaac Hayes' iconic theme music.

Austen's Pride and Prejudice has been adapted, transformed and translated into numerous languages.

Northanger Abbey was one of Jane Austen's earliest manuscripts; Persuasion was her last.

The legal system is often denounced as Kafkaesquebut what does this really mean?

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A woman is incomplete without a man, motherhood is a woman's destiny, and a woman's place is in the home.

Two features distinguish the Canterbury Tales from other medieval collections of stories: the interplay among the pilgrims and the manner in which the stories fit their narrators.

How and why did a country seen as remote, backwards, and barely European become a pivotal site for reinventing the continent after the Great War?

Is literature dangerous?

This book explores American literature and culture of the First World War while analyzing the war''s historical context and significance.

"e;Francophone writers from North Africa and the Middle East often choose to write within a sacred context, sometimes engaging directly with Islamist rhetoric.

One of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers.

The essays in this book, first published in 1975, suggest how best to approach Beckett, how to read him, how to get closer to the concrete experience offered by this most concrete of writers.

Eine bewegende Liebesgeschichte im syrischen Bürgerkrieg –und zugleich ein authentischer Bericht über Unterdrückung, Revolution und den Terror des IS.

This timely collection provides a historical overview of violence in American popular culture from the Puritan era to the present and across a range of media.

A detectives strange and gruesome scrapbook of photos.

In this immersive and satirical novel about the contemporary art world from celebrated painter Domingo Zapata, an artist grapples with the intersection of his personal and professional lives as he begins to slip further and further into delusion.

The popularity of the His Dark Materials trilogy has generated a major motion picture, a stage play, video games, and a new prequel.

Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide.

Learn how to generate high quality, business documents with AI This essential guide helps business writers and other professionals learn the strengths and weaknesses of AI as a writing assistant.

Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman.

As Amais wedding day approaches and her friends n Beauty, Matlakala and Pamela are there to lend varying degrees of support.

This concise yet comprehensive reference book provides an overview of the Black Lives Matter movement, from its emergence in response to the police-involved deaths of unarmed black people to its development as a force for racial justice in America.

Asked in 2006 about the philosophical nature of his fiction, the late American writer David Foster Wallace replied, "e;If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be.

Winner of the 2019 Broken Frontier Award for Best Book on ComicsToday fans still remember and love the British girls' comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities.

Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope.

This volume is a unique overview of two centuries of short stories from Britain and other English-speaking countries.

The life and works of Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) are explored through essays on their historical, literary, intellectual and cultural contexts.

This collection of new essays explores various ways of reading, interpreting and using digital comics.

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This book brings together the study of modern fiction, tragedy, chance, and the natural world.

Based on never-before published material from the Richler archives as well as interviews with family members, friends, and acquaintances, Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain shows how Richler consistently mined his remarkable life for material for his novels.

Crazy Culture is a series of broadsides against many widely held misconceptions in both academe and the general public, who is often seen clustering under the politically correct banner of multiculturalism.

This volume tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America and suggests that ideas about Blake's poetry and personality helped shape mythopoeic visions of America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture.

Locations play an important role in every story, but in British and American contemporary crime fiction, they are often inextricable from the narrative.

In his discussion of clowns in nineteenth-century French painting from Jean-Leon Gerome's 1857 La Sortie du bal masque to Georges Rouault, art historian Francis Haskell wondered why they are so sad.

A clearly written account of the development of the novel over the course of the long eighteenth century.

Chris Evans is one of the country's most successful broadcasters and producers.

With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century.

Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century.