Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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?

In Artificial Color, Catherine Keyser examines the early twentieth century phenomenon, wherein US writers became fascinated with modern food--global geographies, nutritional theories, and technological innovations.

In an era of Twitter and televised therapy, it may seem that classic theatre has little place in contemporary society.

From the publication of his first book in 1905 until his death, Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) was an immensely popular Anglo-Irish writer.

Reporting for Journalists explains the key skills needed by the twenty-first century news reporter.

First published in 1990, this book represents the first full-length study of into the group of novels designated 'Rosicrucian' and traces the emergence of this distinct fictional genre, revealing a continuous occult tradition running through seemingly diverse literary texts.

This book examines how Wilkie Collins's interest in medical matters developed in his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s.

Many academics dismiss Stephen King as a mere genre writer, an over-glorified bestseller who appeals to the masses, but lacks literary merit.

Cinema has always been a vital medium for articulating the Basque region's unique identity and politics.

The Encyclopaedia of World Religions and Interfaith Dialogues is an initiative to deal with the subject of religion and interfaith dialogue in its totality.

Though literature and censorship have been conceived as long-time adversaries, this collection seeks to understand the degree to which they have been dialectical terms, each producing the other, coeval and mutually constitutive.

From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets addresses a major element of twenty-first century sea powerthe integration of women into all military units of the U.

This is the first book to focus on James Bond's relationship to the playboy ideal through the sixties and beyond.

One of the late Carlos Fuentes's final projects, this compendium of his criticism traces the evolution of the Latin American novel from the discovery of America to the present day.

In Black Metal music, the "e;most evil"e; wins.

Masculinity, Senses, Spirit brings together current work by leading scholars in the fields of gender studies, religion, history, and cultural studies to examine the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and the realms of the spirit and the senses in the Atlantic world from the eighteenthcentury to the present.

Reviled by critics but loved by the readers, the bestseller has until recently provoked little serious critical interest.

Mexican Literature in Theory is the first book in any language to engage post-independence Mexican literature from the perspective of current debates in literary and cultural theory.

Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck was a prolific correspondent.

Male and Female Violence in Popular Media brings into focus the apparently symmetrical phenomena of men's violence against women and women's violence against men, explaining the profound differences in their actual features as well as in their representations, which over the last few years have been proliferating in a vast array of global media contents.

Challenges the widespread misconception that the American 1950s was a placid decade with a literature to match.

A stimulating collection of new essays on the development of the novel in Latin America.

An extended discussion of the impact of classical and European literature on Woolf''s writing.

Writing After Sidney examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), author of the Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, and The Defence of Poesy, and the most immediately influential writer of the Elizabethan period.

A powerful new account of Hardy''s novels by a leading scholar, emphasizing their affirmative elements and their often poetic prose.

At Macedonio Fernandez's funeral in 1952, Jorge Luis Borges delivered the following elegy: "e;In those years I imitated him to the point of transcription, to the point of devout and passionate plagiarism.

"e;A remarkable guided tour through the field-a kind of nonfiction companion to Among Others.

You can know a lot about Jesus and not know him at all.

First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind's ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day.

Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women's comedic speech, literature, and performance.

A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.

Pairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production.

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An interdisciplinary study that explores the impact of evolutionary theory on Victorian children''s literature.

Chances are that you are getting it all wrong.

This book, first published in 1993, is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett's later drama in the context of contemporary critical and performance theory.

Offering a world full of traumatized characters trapped in a consumerist society where men, women, sex and gender have become unstable commodities, Chuck Palahniuk has become one of the most controversial of contemporary novelists.

Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature.

Edition, Kommentierung und Übersetzung ins Englische der deutschen Versnovellistik ('Mären') des 13.