Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

In "Dialog mit Koeppen" geht es darum, dem Leser einen lebendigen Eindruck vom Schreiben und Denken des Dichters zu geben.

Novels are often said to help us understand how others think-especially when those others are profoundly different from us.

Over the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the unique phenomenon of his success.

'The foreigner' is a familiar character in popular crime fiction, from the foreign detective whose outsider status provides a unique perspective on a familiar or exotic location to the xenophobic portrayal of the criminal 'other'.

Despite its well-earned reputation as the richest world in fantasy, there exists a notable, troubling problem in Tolkien's legendarium: the existence of a sentient, rational being for whom no sympathy or moral feeling is ever shown.

Wie wirbt man um die Geliebte?

Over the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the unique phenomenon of his success.

Exhuming and reanimating an obscure ancient cunning associated with the monstrous, the hybrid, the feminine and the nonhuman, this study proposes a novel transdisciplinary framework for analysing Gothic media and discourse through the lens of metis.

Jane Austen and Other Minds demonstrates how Austen''s fiction is both philosophy and a resource to ordinary language philosophy.

Brought together, attention and drift help immerse ourselves in our surroundings and make us appreciate the contingent and pulsating relations of living.

An impressive debut from a major new voice in American fiction.

Teufelsbrücken, -löcher, -berge und -mühlen, Hexentanzplätze und Teufelsküchen – an unzähligen Orten in Deutschland stößt man auf den Höllenfürsten und seine Helfer.

Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age.

Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age.

 Los cuentos de esta antología cuestionan esa normalidad y atentan contra la legitimidad política, social y cultural del Estado.

En 1996 un grupo de jóvenes escritores sacudió al medio literario mexicano con la publicación del "Manifiesto del Crack", acompañado por cinco novelas: "El temperamento melancólico" (Jorge Volpi), "Memoria de los días" (Pedro Ángel Palou), "Si volviesen sus majestades" (Ignacio Padilla), "La conspiración idiota" (Ricardo Chávez Castañeda) y Las Rémoras (Eloy Urroz).

El protagonista en esta novela es, sin duda, Los Ahogados de Sepúlveda, el rancho a cargo de don Fernando de Villalobos, rico hacendado con dos hijas y una trágica historia a cuestas.

'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

El relato de un corsario yanqui es una obra póstuma de Nathaniel Hawthorne, prácticamente desconocida, pues, desde el momento de su aparición en 1926, nunca ha sido reeditada ni traducida.

"e;He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

El concepto de Horror, nunca adecuadamente clarificado, es uno de los hilos conductores de este recorrido que abarca tematicas que van desde una teoria del poder pasando por una disruptiva interpretacion de los suenos y el sentido de lo real asi como propone una inedita cuanto rigurosa analitica del sujeto.

Situada en un país no tan imaginario de Sudamérica (desde la conquista española hasta oscuras dictaduras, gobiernos anárquicos y transiciones democráticas), No mires al cielo es una ficción histórica con personajes que nunca existieron, pero que al mismo tiempo siempre han estado.

Dušan Šarotar entrega al lector un collage de anécdotas, paisajes y reflexiones en Panorama.

"El texto ilustra la creación de la nación costarricense, de su literatura, con el aporte de muchos pueblos, etnias y personas, originarias algunos, migrantes otros y sus descendientes", Quince Duncan

"e;He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

Habitar el margen.

'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present.

The Apology Xenophon - In this work the Athenian historian Xenophon tries to show that Socrates' proud defense before the Athenian jury was in large part due to his belief that it was the right time for him to die.

How well do you really know your favourite author?

'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

"El abarcador ensayo de Diana Salem presenta multiplicidad de ejes que el pulso firme de la autora calibra con destreza.

El libro reúne datos biográficos, históricos e ideológicos del escritor Gabriel García Márquez, unidos al análisis e interpretación de su cuentística primigenia, veintidós relatos acopiados en los libros Ojos de perro azul y Los funerales de la mama grande.

Letras para Armanda explora el aislamiento, la búsqueda de la felicidad, las complejidades de las relaciones humanas y las diversas percepciones individuales de la realidad.

How well do you really know your favourite author?

'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present.

The final novel from legendary Canadian author WP Kinsella.

The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature.

'What do we seek through millions of pages?

'Can't you see that I don't care what anybody says?

Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims.