Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Are girls taking over the world?

Melissa Walker set out on a journey that many women of her generation have mapped only in their dreams.

Globally we seem torn between local, exclusive forms of religion, which can cause immense spiritual and physical damage to people, and a bland secularism that confines the religions to safe havens, each offering its own private options for "e;spirituality"e; within a secularized global politic.

Ulysses remains less widely read than most texts boasting such a canonical status, largely due to misunderstanding about how to read it, and this guide provides an easy to follow remedy.

The lively and engaging emblems within The Soul, Lover of God unite the 17th century poetry and art of two famous European authors, Madame Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon and Jesuit priest Herman Hugo.

In this study Professor Dorfman applies the methods of modern linguistics to literary analysis.

The particularity of 1920s British fiction has become obscured by an academic focus on modernism.

"e;The Library of Babel"e; is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp.

Henry James was the final survivor of a remarkable family, and his memoir, written at the end of a long and tireless career, was prompted initially by the death of his "e;ideal Elder Brother,"e; the psychologist and philosopher William James.

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

In Media Res is a manifold collection that reflects the intersectional qualities of university programming in the twenty-first century.

This book explores the diversity of perspectives afforded by the emerging body of Scandinavian films produced by women.

Uncovers new evidence and presents new ideas that invite us to reconsider our understanding Edith Wharton''s life and career.

A transatlantic phenomenon of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "e;New Woman"e; broke away from many of the constraints of the Victorian era to enjoy a greater freedom of movement in the social, physical, and intellectual realms.

The first in-depth look at Stael's political life and writingsGermaine de Stael (1766-1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker.

Boleslaw Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the so-called "e;Jewish question"e; in nineteenth-century Congress Poland and especially its significance in Prus' social concept, reflected in his extensive body of journalistic work, fiction, and treatises.

This book deploys literature to explore the social lives of objects and places.

Art, History, and Postwar Fiction explores the ways in which novelists responded to the visual arts from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present day.

What historical factors transformed American politics into the institution we know today?

This book brings together fourteen of the most ambitious and thought-provoking recent essays by David Punter, who has been writing on the Gothic to academic and general acclaim for over thirty years.

This book, first published in 1961, traces the lives and works of six outstanding Russian authors, each of whom is interesting and important in himself, as well as for his contribution to Russian letters.

Realistic writers seek to render accurate representations of the world, and their novels contain authentic details and descriptions of their characters and settings.

Tapping into the emergence of scholarly comedy studies since the 2000s, this collection brings new perspectives to bear on the Dostoevskian light side.

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Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches?

It has become axiomatic that First World War literature was disenchanted, or disillusioned, and returning combatants were unable to process or communicate that experience.

The Victorian novel acquired greater cultural centrality just as the authority of the scriptures and of traditional religious teaching seemed to be declining.

During the 1800s, the United States progressed at a remarkable rate.

This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution.

Demonstrates the importance of attending to literary style in Victorian novels and provides exemplary readings of major novelists.

What happens when a critique of modernity-a "e;revolt against the traditions of the Western world"e;-is situated within a non-European context, where the concept of the modern has been inevitably tied to the image of the West?

Amid the controversy surrounding immigration and border control, the work of California cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz (b.

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

An insightful portrait of Austen's friend and fellow writer Anne Lefroy and the society that surrounded these two literary women.

This book, first published in 1944, is a comprehensive survey of post-revolutionary Russian literature up to the early 1940s.

The French humanist Rabelais (ca.

This two-volume set examines recent presidential and vice presidential debates, addresses how citizens make sense of these events in new media, and considers whether the evolution of these forms of consumption is healthy for future presidential campaigns-and for democracy.

These accessible essays provide the most detailed picture of the historical, cultural and literary contexts surrounding Poe''s life and times.

This book, first published in 1926, aimed to introduce to English readers to a great and complex foreign writer in as simple terms as possible.

Relying on the author's personal recollections as well as on J.

Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impact.

Telling in Henry James argues that James's contribution to narrative and narrative theories is a lifelong exploration of how to "e;tell,"e; but not, as Douglas has it in "e;The Turn of the Screw"e; in any "e;literal, vulgar way.

In this substantial essay on the novel (first published in 1964) Barbara Hardy distinguishes three integral aspects of the art of fiction story, the working-out of a moral problem, and truthfulness , defined as the lively representation of reality .

Dem sentimentalen Roman haftet wie keiner anderen Gattung das Vorurteil der trivialen Schwärmerei an, die sich vermeintlich besonders unter Frauen ausbreitet.

Thoroughly updated throughout, this classic, practical text on how to write and publish a scientific paper takes its own advice to be "e;as clear and simple as possible.

Written with uncommon grace and clarity, this extremely engaging ethnography analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea.

One of the most important Irish novelists of the twentieth century, Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) was also a pioneer of women's writing.

Women built the popular song industry of Tin Pan Alley, yet many of their stories have seldom been told.

Originally published in 1853, Clotel is the first novel by an African American.

Supposing "e;Bleak House"e; is an extended meditation on what many consider to be Dickens's and nineteenth-century England's greatest work of narrative fiction.