Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Vladimir Nabokov’s “Western choice”—his exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution—allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the extreme openness of twentieth-century America.

This collection of original essays on Virginia Woolf by leading scholars in the field opens up new debates on the work of one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century.

The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today.

The question of whether Protestant ministers are validly ordained remains a barrier for ecumenical reconciliation between Roman Catholics and Protestants.

The enormous popularity of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy has raised awareness of other contemporary European authors of crime fiction.

Frank Herbert's Dune is one of the most well-known science fiction novels of all time, and it is often revered alongside time-honored classics like The Lord of the Rings.

The clue-puzzle, legal thriller, and classic whodunit are just a few of the subgenres within the widely popular crime fiction genre.

Since his first novel in 1992, Michael Connelly has become one of America's most popular and critically acclaimed crime writers.

Hindus and Christians have a long history of interaction on the Indian subcontinent.

A lifestyle is something located at a junction between styles of living and living conditions.

This volume of the Building Bridges Seminar, Power: Divine and Human, Christian and Muslim Perspectives, comprises pairs of essays by Christians and Muslims which introduce texts for dialogical study, plus the actual text-excerpts themselves.

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.

An important interfaith dialogue examines causes of global inequality and explores solutions.

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.

Almost immediately after his first appearance in comic books in June 1938, Superman began to be adapted to other media.

First Published in 1949, The Sacred River attempts to present a survey of James Joyce's work.

Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

Through analysis of Cervantes'' status as an itinerant poet, this book overturns conventional theories of the modern novel''s genesis.

Wilfrid Sellars tackled the difficult problems of reconciling Pittsburgh school-style analytic thought, Husserlian phenomenology, and the Myth of the Given.

How does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre?

'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters' ClubM.

Intelligent machines have long existed in science fiction, and they now appear in mainstream films such as Bladerunner, Ex Machina, I Am Mother and Her, as well as in a recent proliferation of literary texts narrated from the machine's perspective.

How does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre?

First Published in 1949, The Sacred River attempts to present a survey of James Joyce's work.

"Den Schwulen lass hier mal weg" – diesen Rat bekam der Autor, als er in einem Aufsatz den schwulen Edmund Gabriel in Martin Walsers Anselm-Kristlein-Trilogie erwähnt hat.

Was hätte Fontane erlebt, wenn er seine legendären »Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg« heute unternommen hätte?

This long awaited collection brings together in one volume the definitive essays on Anton Chekhov by renowned Chekhov scholar Robert Louis Jackson, including work that has never appeared in English as well as brand new essays published here for the first time.

This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them.

Wilfrid Sellars tackled the difficult problems of reconciling Pittsburgh school-style analytic thought, Husserlian phenomenology, and the Myth of the Given.

How a writer who investigated scientific anomalies inspired a factious movement and made a lasting impact on American culture.

A collection of important essays from one of Ireland''s foremost literary and cultural historians.

This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them.

As both a scholar of Buddhism and a Christian priest, John P.

Shows how African writers grapple with and make meaning out of the possibilities and limitations of globalization in a multipolar world.

El libro reúne datos biográficos, históricos e ideológicos del escritor Gabriel García Márquez, unidos al análisis e interpretación de su cuentística primigenia, veintidós relatos acopiados en los libros Ojos de perro azul y Los funerales de la mama grande.

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In this book, Amy R.

This book considers South African writing for what it tells us about politics, culture and change after apartheid.

Isaac Asimov's Foundation is the most influential science-fiction epic of all time.

'What do we seek through millions of pages?

Das literarische Werk des Südtiroler Schriftstellers Joseph Zoderer (1935–2022) ist äußerst vielfältig.

'What do we seek through millions of pages?

Mary Charlton's 1799 Rosella, or Modern Occurrences is a fascinating novel that brokers between conservative and feminist ideas, humour and horror, and indulgence in and ridicule of sentimental tropes.

Best-selling author Aldous Huxley's American years have been a period literary historians discounted.

Mary Charlton's 1799 Rosella, or Modern Occurrences is a fascinating novel that brokers between conservative and feminist ideas, humour and horror, and indulgence in and ridicule of sentimental tropes.