Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

The novels of the Estonian writer Ene Mihkelson and the German author Christa Wolf have a hidden philosophical potential: the poetics of remembering.

This Guide discusses the range of critical reactions to three of Jane Austen's most widely-studied and popular novels.

This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new light on all of Fowles' writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant's Woman as the most widely studied of Fowles' works.

Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is the leading critical overview of and historical introduction to colonial and postcolonial literary studies.

The dissertation contributes to the research on post-socialist German autobiographies and analyses representative autobiographical works of Günter de Bruyn, Monika Maron, Wulf Kirsten, and Heiner Müller.

From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that reveal an increasingly uneasy relationship between literature and its own materials over the course of the twentieth-century.

Written by an expert in media, popular culture, gender, and sexuality, this book surveys the common archetypes of Internet users-from geeks, nerds, and gamers to hackers, scammers, and predators-and assesses what these stereotypes reveal about our culture's attitudes regarding gender, technology, intimacy, and identity.

"e;A nimble case for pretentiousness as a willingness to take risks.

Winner of the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)World-renowned filmmaker and feminist, postcolonial thinker Trinh T.

She tipped her head sideways, her lips offering themselves to his.

Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero explains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations.

It's a bird!

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This book helps readers understand the extent to which shell shock continues to shape modern memories of the First World War.

In a concise and devastating style, Craig Parton, an experienced trial lawyer versed in the laws of legal evidence, argues that religions uniformly fail the simplest tests of admissibility for their respective claims.

The Bookmarked series focuses on a famous work of literature that left a powerful impression on an author (hence the name, Bookmarkeda book that left its mark).

The 21st century is a good time to be Sherlock Holmes.

This book, first published in 1950, is a balanced examination of Chekhov's life and work, a critical analysis of his stories and plays set against the background of his life the Russia of the day.

How to pay and return formal 'calls'; how to refuse a proposal of marriage; who should lead off the dancing at a country-house ball; what to wear for a morning walk.

Examining how economic change influences religion, and the way literature mediates that influence, this book provides a thorough reassessment of modern American culture.

Trolling began long before the internet.

Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults who should know better , in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the Ninth Art and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting and cinema.

"e;A rich exploration of sci-fi universes we know and love, merged flawlessly with discussions on leadership, national security .

By expanding the definition of "e;epistle"e; to include any writing that addresses the intended receiver directly, JaHyun Kim Haboush introduces readers to the rich epistolary practice of Chos?

This study provides an introduction to the neoclassical debates around how literature is shaped in concert with the thinking and feeling human mind.

These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the early development of these media.

Some of medieval culture's most arresting images and stories inextricably associate love and death.

This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing.

Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons is the biography of a writer who vividly depicted alien creatures and new worlds.

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

To many of his contemporaries, Charles Dickens was the greatest writer of his age; a one-man fiction industry who produced fourteen massive novels, and numerous sketches, essays and stories, many of which appeared in the two magazines which he founded and edited.

Metaphors of Invention and Dissension explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel, examining six novels written by two Algerian authors of French expression, Tahar Djaout and Rachid Mimouni.

This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic.

Fictional depictions of Native American concepts of justice, crime, and the investigation of crime are explored in this original work.

A master of short story, novel, and nonfiction prose, Ernest Hemingway has been the subject of countless books, articles, and biographies.

This study to analyzes romantic fiction's depiction of women as part of the broader history of ideas about women.

The author of such works as The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Lady in the Lake (1943), and The Long Goodbye (1953), Raymond Chandler was one of the most popular mystery writers of his time.

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This detailed chronological analysis of British World War II movies from 1939 until the present explores how films projected recognizable stereotypes of British national character and how the times in which a film was made shaped its perspectives.

Addressing their shared passion for literature, art, and music, this book documents how Samuel Beckett and David Bowie produce extraordinarily empathetic creative outputs that reflect the experience and the effect of alienation.

In the most comprehensive account available of the texts of Demosthenes, Douglas M.

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.

This book offers a one-volume study of Jane Austen that is both a sophisticated critical introduction and a valuable contribution to the study of one of the most popular and enduring British novelists.

This book traces a longstanding concern with issues of authorship throughout the work of Gunter Grass, Germany's best-known contemporary writer and public intellectual.

The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of the latest research on this topic.

Authors Shannon Hengen and Ashley Thomson have assembled a reference guide that covers all of the works written by the acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood since 1988, including her novels Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, and the 2000 Booker Prize winner, The Blind Assassin.

After returning from a trip to Brunei, Anthony Burgess, initially believing he has only a year to live, begins to write - novels, film scripts, television series, articles.

Who decides what is right or wrong, ethical or immoral, just or unjust?