Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Lois McMaster Bujold has won a shelf full of awards--Hugos, Nebulas, and others--for both her science fiction and fantasy writing.

Since its debut manga RG Veda, CLAMP has steadily asserted itself as one of the most widely renowned teams of manga artists, leaving a durable imprint in every established genre while also devising novel formulas along the way.

This essay collection explores the life and work of science fiction doyen Ray Bradbury from a variety of perspectives.

This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humor in English detective/crime fiction.

This volume attempts an objective reassessment of the controversial works and life of American horror writer H.

This comprehensive guide to James Ellroy's work and life is arranged as an encyclopedia covering his entire career, from his first private-eye novel, Brown's Requiem, to his 2012 e-book Shakedown.

This book explores how contemporary fantastic fiction by women writers responds to the past and imagines the future.

The veterans' culture in postwar eras from World War I to the present is examined in this book, with specific attention to the historic events of each era as they influence veterans, and the literature and movies produced about veterans and by veterans.

This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works that engage the numinous--and the critical apparatuses of ecocriticism and posthumanism.

India as colourful and vibrant, a land as diverse as its people.

Theorizes an alternative form of masculinity in global literature that is less egocentric and more sustainable, both in terms of gendered and environmental power dynamics.

The 21st century is a good time to be Sherlock Holmes.

This collection of new essays looks carefully at the broad spectrum of Neil Gaiman's work and how he interacts with feminism.

When the first season of Star Trek opened to American television viewers in 1966, the thematically insightful sci-fi story line presented audiences with the exciting vision of a bold voyage into the final frontiers of space and strange, new galactic worlds.

Children's literature is an excellent way to educate children, on everything from social behavior and beliefs to attitudes toward education itself.

The notion of one day disappearing from the earth forever is contrary to many of America's defining cultural values, with death and dying viewed as "e;un-American"e; experiences.

This book presents a wide range of previously unpublished works by Radclyffe Hall.

"e;My aim is to present Tolstoy's work as he may have understood it himself,"e; writes Donna Orwin.

Volume Eight of the project documenting Thomas Jefferson's last years presents 591 documents dated from 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815.

A richly illustrated cultural history of the midcentury pulp paperback"e;There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes.

The new essays in this book make two central claims.

Gotlieb is a writer central to the Canadian science fiction canon.

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For several decades, interest in the British Romantics' theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms.

Rewriting Franco's Spain: Marcel Proust and the Dissident Novelists of Memory proposes a new reading of some of the most culturally significant and closely studied works of Spanish memory fiction from the past seventy years.

This book presents a radical and intuitive argument against the notion that intentional action, agency and autonomy are features belonging only to humans.

This historical dictionary covers the major trends in the 20th century ecumenical movement until today.

John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville's major novels, as well as the 'Quirke' crime novels he has written under the pseudonym, Benjamin Black and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist's plays.

In Janet Frame: Semiotics and Biosemiotics in Her Early Fiction, Paul Matthew St.

Lesbian Realities/Lesbian Fictions in Contemporary Spain, edited by Nancy Vosburg and Jacky Collins, focuses exclusively on manifestations of lesbian cultures and identities in contemporary Spain.

Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Color Purple', is one of America's major and most prolific writers.

This is a study of vulnerability as a dominant cultural discourse today, especially as it manifests in 'extreme cultures'.

Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798-1832 argues for the centrality of inheritanceoften impeded, disrupted inheritanceto the novel's rise to preeminence in Britain during the Romantic period.

This book investigates desert islands in postwar anglophone popular culture, exploring representations in radio, print and screen advertising, magazine cartoons, cinema, video games, and comedy, drama and reality television.

This book focuses on the "e;dark side"e; of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams.

Depictions of cross generational relationships have always been present in popular cinema.

Winning power in Westeros is hard, but holding power is much harder.

This book provides fresh insight into the creative practice developed by Paul McCartney over his extended career as a songwriter, record producer and performing musician.

Indonesia provides particularly interesting examples of gender diversity.

This book presents an analysis of how the grassroots movement of Guangchang Wu or 'square dance' in China has become a national phenomenon.

Gerard Goggin has produced an incisive and penetrating overview of the world according to mobiles.

This book offers a readable introduction to the main aspects of thought experimenting in philosophy and science (together with related imaginative activities in mathematics and linguistics).

What has dance got to do with the Trinity, a hospital bed to do with gratitude, or email to do with prayer?

The issue of Muslim women's rights never seems outdated and has become trendy in the post-9/11 environment.

Exploring the blurred boundary between religion and pop culture, God in the Details offers a provocative look at the breadth and persistence of religious themes in the American consciousness.

Born in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a “genius” upon the publication of his “luminescent” novel, Passage from Home and was expected to surpass even his closest friend and rival, Saul Bellow.

Flannery O'Connor may now be acknowledged as the "e;Great American Catholic Author,"e; but this was not always the case.

This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time.

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An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and constantly shifting history behind seemingly unchanging ideas of fame, war, and masculinity.