Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 1802.

Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero looks at how the comic book industry developed from a white perspective and how minority characters were and are viewed through a stereotypical white gaze.

'Whether you love Marvel 3000 or you're a Scorsese sympathisers, MCU is worth your time, being a pacy, lively account of the single most important studio of the century.

This book provides a clear, lively, and accessible guide to the complex histories and vital present of the Australian novel.

Why computer games can be ethical, how players use their ethical values in gameplay, and the implications for game design.

The first modern commentary in English on this most sophisticated and brilliant of ancient Greek novels.

Through close readings of a selection of European novels and novellas written between 1340 and 1827, this study of "e;analytical fiction"e; examines how unconsummated love stories probe the frailty of self-knowledge.

Terry Pratchett's writing celebrates the possibilities opened up by inventiveness and imagination.

The construction of history as a social common denominator is a powerful achievement of the nineteenth-century novel, a form dedicated to experimenting with democratic social practice as it conflicts with economic and feudal visions of social order.

An innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up to a unique intersection with the world as it exists in the 2020s, this book posits the undead as a vehicle to communicate humanity's pathway into, and out of, the ideological, health and environmental pandemics of our time.

Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism provides a new account of modernist literature's emergence in Britain.

Jonathan Coe is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed contemporary British writers.

First published in 1951 (this edition in 1967), this book forms the first part of Arnold Kettle's An Introduction to the English Novel.

Herman Melville is one of the most challenging authors of American literature.

Norman Lewis was the best not-famous writer of his generation, and a better writer than almost all who were.

This book, first published in 1949, is an abridged version of Mirsky's classic two texts on Russian literature, updated with a postscript by the editor assessing the development of Soviet literature.

Eschewing old clunkers like "e;military intelligence"e; and "e;student-athlete,"e; this volume features well over 200 fresh and original oxymorons with commentaries-all with a satirical twist.

An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.

Presents the first fully annotated scholarly edition of The Bostonians, one of Henry James''s most distinctive and important tragicomedies.

Freeburg analyzes how Melville grapples with realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America by examining ''blackness'' in Melville''s fiction.

Ulysses and Faust: Tradition and Modernism from Homer till the Present examines the most important authors of Western literature: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Marlowe, Goethe, Joyce, Eliot, Mann, Bulgakov and Pasternak, who based their works on one or other of the two key myths of the West, Ulysses and Faust.

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Der Band versammelt kritische Beiträge zu wesentlichen Aspekten des Werks von Ernst Schönwiese.

Originally published in 1999 Black Writers Abroad puts forward the theory that African American literature was born, partially within the context of a people and its writers who lived, for the most part, in slavery and bondage prior to the Civil War.

The two note-books of the diary of Mme.

In America, comics and comic books have often been associated with adolescent male fantasy-muscle-bound superheroes and scantily clad women.

Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction is the first full-length study to investigate and attend to the deeply suggestive and highly symbolic iterations of Victorian women's dress in the contemporary cultural imagination.

Margaret Laurence is justly famous for her Manawaka cycle of Canadian novels, but her work extends from Canada to Africa and includes poetry and prose, children's and adult literature, memoir and travel-writing.

This study is a theoretical reconsideration of the concept of the "e;tragic"e; combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts.

Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.

For as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World plantation complex, from colonial settlement until well into the twentieth century, the toxic practices associated with its permutations stimulated imaginary solutions to the contradiction with the nation's enlightenment ideals and republican ideology.

At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, the Latino minority, the biggest and fastest growing in the United States, is at a crossroads.

Central to every vampire story is the undead's need for human blood, but equally compelling is the human ingestion of vampire blood, which often creates a bond.

In the world of the evangelical romance novel, sex and desire are mitigated by an omnipresent third party--the divine.

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

This book combines content analysis of film and television cases, the examination of policy documents, and first-hand interview material with Danish industry professionals, tracing the pivotal moments in media and welfare state history to unite these two overlapping spheres: welfare state social policy and media imagery.

Originally published in 1987, this title is a comprehensive study focused on experimental forms in eighteenth-century fiction.

We are living in a time of rapid radical social change.

The adherents of Islam and Christianity comprise half of the world's population, or 3.

Finally breaking through heterosexual cliches of flirtatious belles and cavaliers, sinister black rapists and lusty "e;Jezebels,"e; Cotton's Queer Relations exposes the queer dynamics embedded in myths of the southern plantation.

Published to mark the centenary of Roald Dahl's (Welsh) birth, Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected breaks new ground by revealing the place of Wales in the imagination of the writer known as 'the world's number one storyteller'.

Over the first half of the nineteenth century, writers like Austen and Bronte confined their critiques to satirical portrayals of women musicians.

The first extensively annotated edition of Joseph Conrad''s powerful and unsettling novel Under Western Eyes.

This book examines the metanarratives promoted by the state that determine the ideological framework and how these respond under extraneous circumstances like conflicts.

This study provides a critical analysis of the narrative works of Gunter Grass, under which Die Blechtrommel, Katz und Mann, Hundejahre und Der Butt.

How does racial ideology contribute to the exploration of narrative voice?

Playing on the phrase, The author and you, a commonly taught reading comprehension strategy that teaches the learner how to look at the words of an author and make inferences about what is being said, this new series will assist teachers and teacher librarians in understanding the underlying purposes of an author as they prepare learning activities for students.