Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Formerly a site of study reserved for intellectual historians and political philosophers, scholarship on religious toleration, from the perspective of literary scholars, is fairly limited.

Studies of sexuality in Caribbean culture are on the rise, focusing mainly on homosexuality and homophobia or on regional manifestations of normative and nonnormative sexualities.

This book presents a wide range of previously unpublished works by Radclyffe Hall.

Understanding Diversity Through Novels and Picture Books goes beyond the usual multicultural lists and looks at the wide expanse of the diversity of cultures and lifestyles impacting children's lives in America today and identifies good books to have in library collections for them to read.

Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction.

In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectivity?

Contributed articles by eminent social Scientists dealing extensively with diverse aspects of the subject, highlighting socio-economic and Political problems facing Indian women.

Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War inaugurates a new field of research in literary and Jewish studies at the intersection of Jewish history and the internationalist cultural phenomenon emerging from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the Republican exile, and the Shoah.

Shortlisted for the AAR Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion 2023Organized by heretical movements and texts from the Gnostic Gospels to The Book of Mormon, this book uses the work of James Joyce particularly Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake as a prism to explore how the history of Christian heresy remains part of how we read, write, and think about books today.

What makes a successful comics creator?

How do we understand memory in the early novel?

How is science fiction from the Arab and Muslim world different than mainstream science fiction from the West?

Beginning in 1933, Eleanor Jarman was sensationalized by the press as the blonde tigress and the most dangerous woman alive.

Children's Literature in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to children's literature and its wider contexts.

Middlemarch is the prime example of George Eliot's dictum that "e;interpretations are illimitable,"e; and in this collection of new essays Middlemarch is re-examined as an open text responsive to gaps and fissures, and as resistant to authority as it is to other fixed notions of identity, idealism, and gender.

A landmark study that unearths Byron''s profound, enduring critique of the failures of language and the contradictions of his age.

In the unstable economy of the nineteenth-century, few Americans could feel secure.

In the tradition of classic essayists from Virginia Woolf to Annie Dillard, Meghan Florian combines personal narrative with careful analysis, taking the ordinary material of undramatic daily life and distilling it into moments of clarity and revelation.

By the end of volume 1 of The Life of William Faulkner ("e;A filling, satisfying feast for Faulkner aficianados"e;- Kirkus), the young Faulkner had gone from an unpromising, self-mythologizing bohemian to the author of some of the most innovative and enduring literature of the century, including The Sound and the Fury and Light in August.

Moving portraits of seventeen independent women who helped make Arizona what it is todayRemarkable Arizona Women profiles the lives of seventeen of the state's most fascinating figureswomen from across Arizona, from many different backgrounds, and from various walks of life.

Communicative Engagement and Social Liberation: Justice Will Be Made recognizes limitations in contemporary understandings that separate history and rhetoric.

What is the work of film in the age of transnational production?

A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.

Whether your character is jumping for joy or grappling with an opponent, this book provides all the essential techniques to draw more lifelike action figures in the classic Japanese manga style.

In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro.

First published in 1988, Peter Hughes explores the work of V.

Shelby Scatess thirty-five-year career as a prize-winning journalist and columnist for International News Service, United Press International, the Associated Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has taken him to centers of action across this country and to wars and conflicts in many of the worlds danger zones.

First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic.

Education is the only device to mould the contemporary society in proper setting and to train the people to meet the current challenges.

Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of popular fiction.

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

Play Up and Play the Game (1973) examines the type of fictional hero most embodied in the work and character, poetry and philosophy of Sir Henry Newbolt.

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This comprehensive history of US Latina/o literature from the colonial period through the present elucidates the complex roots of Latina/o writing within the Americas.

John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women is a landmark work both in the long history of women's struggles for political, legal, economic, and personal equality, and in the shorter history of rigorous intellectual analyses of women's subordination.

The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the most fundamental changes in British social policy since the creation of the welfare state in the 1940s.

2021 Honorable Mention Recipient of the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies SocietyTaking up the role of laughter in society, How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 examines an era in which the US population was becoming increasingly multiethnic and multiracial.

This 2004 Companion offers perspectives on Hawthorne''s works, and on topics including Hawthorne''s relationship to history, to women, politics, and early America.

In the twenty-first-century workplace, women are encouraged to step up, lean in, take charge, go for it .

During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame.

This book draws on the concepts of hegemonic and nonhegemonic masculinities as well as emphasized and oppositional femininities to chronicle and illuminate the construction of gender in Beverly Hills, 90210.

Philosophy and space travel are characterized by the same fundamental purpose: exploration.

Heinrich Hauser (1901–1955) gehört zu den ungewöhnlichsten Autoren des frühen 20.

The authorised - but not uncritical - life of one of the great parliamentarians and orators of our times, the former Labour Party leader, who was also an eminent man of letters.