Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

A succinct introduction to the life and works of Thomas Mann, addressing both his literary texts and his personal life.

Let it be said, Philip Roth was never uncontroversial.

This book outlines Hemingway''s continued relevance in the twenty-first century, highlighting the latest critical trends in the field.

First published in 1981, this book offers a study of British and American popular fiction in the 1970s, a decade in which the quest for the superseller came to dominate the lives of publishers on both sides of the Atlantic.

This early work by G.

James Joyce must be understood as drawing on French nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary innovations to grapple with the challenges of Paris.

The essays collected in this volume draw unprecedented critical attention to the centrality of politics in Flann O'Brien's art.

This book describes the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative interpretation.

Author Michael Chabon described Ben Katchor (b.

Ausgehend von der Frage, inwiefern Literatur sowohl auf gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen reagiert als auch auf diese einwirkt, geht die vorliegende Studie dieser Eigenschaft der Literatur im Falle des Bildungsromans in Japan nach.

First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s.

Autobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades.

Graphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them.

Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today.

Through extended readings of the works of P.

Memorable children's narratives immerse readers in imaginary worlds that bring them into the story.

Why the genius of Jewish humor runs risks as well as rewardsHumor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity.

In Moby-Dick's wide philosophical musings and central narrative arch, Daniel Herman finds a philosophy very closely aligned specifically with the original teachings of Zen Buddhism.

American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom, Dale Bauer contends.

The villain's journey is rare in popular culture--most characters are fully-formed tyrants with little to no story arc.

As the creator of Sherlock Holmes, 'the world's most famous man who never was', Arthur Conan Doyle remains one of our favourite writers; his work is read with affection - and sometimes obsession - the world over.

With the success of Fight Club, his novel-turned-movie, Chuck Palahniuk has become noticed for accurately capturing the exploitation of power in America in the 21st century.

The argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled fiction and detective films, characteristics that at first seemed trivial swelled in importance, flourishing into crucial aspects of the genre.

Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and poetry Informed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoretical debates from some of the world's leading Hardy scholars Reveals groundbreaking insights through examinations of Hardy s major novels, short stories, poetry, and drama Explores Hardy's work in the context of the major intellectual and socio-cultural currents of his time and assesses his legacy for subsequent writers

In an age when geek chic has come to define mainstream pop culture, few writers and producers inspire more admiration and response than Joss Whedon.

Detective Fiction on the Case of Community uses one of the most popular forms of modern literature to examine one of modernity's most trenchant problems.

This book analyzes various digital transformation processes in journalism and news media.

From the fourteenth-century Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to In Parenthesis - an epic poem written in 1937 by painter and poet David Jones - English writers have looked to romance as a resource and a strategy to expand the imaginary reach of their writing.

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.

Understanding instead of lamenting the popularity of self-help books Based on a reading of more than three hundred self-help books, Sandra K.

Outlander is much more than a television romance about a World War II nurse and a Jacobite soldier in a fetching kilt.

Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere.

As its title suggests, this book captures the essence of Japanese life and culture in 100 words.

Taking a postmodern critical approach, this collection of new essays explores The CW Network's popular television drama The Vampire Diaries, taking in the complete original series (2009-2017), its spinoffs, source novels and fan fiction.

Among the numerous books on Dickenss London, Going Astray is unique in combining detailed topography and biography with close textual analysis and theoretically informed critiques of most of the novelists major works.

This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network's hit television series Arrow--based on DC Comic's Green Arrow--and its spin-offs The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl.

"e;Twelve months in any place, my friend, is quite a weary whileAnd seems more like a century when lived on Sable Isle .

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This companion presents a critical collection of Sinhala resistance literature from Sri Lanka.

For Humanity's Sake is the first study in English to trace the genealogy of the classic Russian novel, from Pushkin to Tolstoy to Dostoevsky.

This is a survey of contemporary British fiction.

The publication Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination is part of the Topographies of (Post)Modernity: Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature in English Series.

This book examines Boccaccio''s pivotal role in legitimizing the vernacular literature of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti through argument, narrative and transcription.

New edition of and detailed commentary on perhaps Cicero''s best-loved speech, suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

Originally published in 1984, this volume falls in to three parts: the verbal index, the word frequency table, and the field reference.

Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8-11, 2013.