Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.

In a series of long essays, James Wood examines the connection between literature and religious belief, in a startlingly wide group of writers.

This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900.

This Companion shows how literature and science inform one another and that they''re more closely aligned than they typically appear.

Magic, and especially performance magic, has been a part of crime fiction since its inception: both art forms surged in popularity in Western Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century and influenced each other in profound ways.

This book addresses Irish identity in Irish literature, especially masculinity in some of its forms through an interdisciplinary methodology.

This book explores the popularity of the Greek romances during the Roman Empire and their contribution to understanding Greek identity.

Considers the profound influence of fairy tales on contemporary fiction, including the work of Margaret Atwood, A.

Best known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, illustrated fiction (Cruddy, The Good Times Are Killing Me), and graphic novels (One!

However much students enjoy their reading of a Jane Austen novel, many find it difficult to know how to organise their critical responses.

A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread.

How can we use digital media to understand reading, editing, and writing as literary processes?

Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much.

Mid-twentieth-century developments in science and technology produced new understandings and images of the planet that circulated the globe, giving rise to a modern ecological consciousness; but they also contributed to accelerating crises in the global environment, including climate change, pollution, and waste.

The first comprehensive study of the works of William Hope Hodgson, one of the true innovators of Weird fiction, this book examines the Weird novels and stories upon which his posthumous reputation rests, his non-fantastic writing, identifiable literary influences, and the historical contexts in which he wrote.

Monolingualism is bad; literature is good - right?

This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and losses as innocent of design.

The term "e;cyberpunk"e; entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson's pathbreaking novel Neuromancer.

A survey of the most important British novelists of the past 250 years, for students of British fiction.

Felix Schnabel ist ein lieber und hochintelligenter Goldjunge (denken seine Eltern), die Schwierigkeiten, die er so häufig hat, können nicht an ihm liegen (denken seine Eltern), und dass er am Ende so vollkommen im studentischen Leben versumpft, ist dann eine sehr große Überraschung.

Throughout her career, Colette experimented with genre for the purposes of telling stories of her life.

This study draws from postcolonial theory, science fiction criticism, utopian studies, genre theory, Western and Indian philosophy and history to propose that Indian science fiction functions at the intersection of Indian and Western cultures.

The Time Machine is one of the most important works of science fiction.

Since its publication in 1561, an anonymous tale of love, friendship, and chivalry has captivated readers in Spain and across Europe.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature.

Improvisation, despite its almost ubiquitous presence in many art forms, is notoriously misunderstood and mysterious.

Charlotte Bronte: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Bronte's life and work.

Two prolific and award-winning science fiction writers, Mike Resnick and Barry N.

"e; With New Line Cinema's production of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the popularity of the works of J.

In November 1814, Jane Austen's niece Fanny Knight wrote Austen a letter secretly requesting advice.

This major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory.

International Convention of Asia Scholars 2019 Book Prize - Best Art PublicationIn the most comprehensive and authoritative source on this subject, Comics Art in China covers almost all comics art forms in mainland China, providing the history from the nineteenth century to the present as well as perspectives on both the industry and the art form.

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This book focuses on the projection of the hero's masculinity in a selection of post-millennial popular romance narratives and attempts to discover if, and to what extent, this projection reinforces or challenges patriarchal ideas about gender.

Hailed in the Irish Times as a 'great Irish novelist', Neil Jordan is, in the words of Fintan O'Toole, 'a peculiarly emblematic figure of cultural change'.

What comes after postmodernism in literature?

NeoSlave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a given literary form--the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative.

This book is about the idea of space in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Ian Rankin is considered by many to be Scotland's greatest living crime fiction author.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

Even though we instruct our children not to lie, the truth is that lying is a fundamental part of children's development-socially, cognitively, emotionally, morally.

'To say this series is "e;empowering"e; doesn't do it justice.