Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'.

In Shadowtime Jim Reilly explores how the great Victorian and Edwardian works of literature can be read in the light of current radical historiography, which foresees the extinction not just of art but of history itself.

An autobiography unlike other literary forms shows the ego of an author.

The Enchiridion or Handbook of the first-century AD Stoic Epictetus was used as an ethical treatise both in Christian monasteries and by the sixth-century pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius.

Michael Ondaatje has achieved international prominence and recognition in a way that few other writers have, let alone Canadian writers.

Alternate Worlds was first published in 1975 and became an instant classic, winning a Hugo award.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt founded the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933, newspapers relating to the organization were launched almost immediately.

Taking stock of Yiddish literature in 1939, critic Shmuel Niger highlighted the increasing number and importance of women writers.

Modernism, religion, and queer bodies come together in this study of Djuna Barnes's writings and art.

While postcolonial discourse in the Caribbean has drawn attention to colonialism's impact on space and spatial hierarchy, Stanka Radovic asks both how ordinary people as "e;users"e; of space have been excluded from active and autonomous participation in shaping their daily spatial reality and how they challenge this exclusion.

A page-turner about page-turners Janice Hallett The perfect piece of armchair detection Ruth Ware Hugely entertaining and unexpectedly gripping London Review of BooksA true detective story from the age of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L.

Documenting the evolution of teens and media from the 1950s through 2010, this book examines the films, books, television shows, and musical artists that impacted American culture and shaped the "e;coming of age"e; experience for each generation.

As Andrzej Sapkowski was fleshing out his character Geralt of Rivia for a writing contest, he did not set out to write a science textbook--or even a work of science fiction.

In Nothing to See Here, sixteen African women writers ably deal with the politics of nationhood and identity, and the burden and beauty of womanity.

Aristotle devotes books 8-9 of the Nicomachean Ethics to friendship, distinguishing three kinds: a primary kind motivated by the other's character; and other kinds motivated by utility or pleasure.

This is the third survey of Development of Women's Education in India spanning the period from 1995 to 1997.

Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.

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

This book makes a contribution to the debates on diasporic identities and transnational communication.

Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen.

This book draws upon original research into women's workplace protest to deliver a new account of working-class women's political identity and participation in post-war England.

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.

They reported wars, outraged monarchs and promoted the case for their country's freedom.

Reverberations of the Vietnam War can still be felt in American culture.

This volume is a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book of 1983.

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.

The first British writer to win the Booker Prize on two separate occasions - for Wolf Hall in 2009 and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies in 2012 - Hilary Mantel is one of the most popular and lauded novelists working today.

This brand-new inspiring read from author and speaker, Elizabeth Oates, is written for women who have struggled with self-worth and self-esteem.

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

Ten stories of impoverished Sicilian women in the early 20th century—“honed, polished, devastatingly direct .

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

The collapse of state socialism in eastern and central Europe in 1989 had a dramatic impact on women.

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.

Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith share an ecological philosophy of the world as one highly interconnected entity comprised of multiple and equal, human and non-human participants.

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.

The Invention of Monotheist Ethics, Volume I presents a comprehensive analysis of the Biblical Book of Samuel.

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.