Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

The works and biography of Heinrich von Kleist have fascinated authors, artists, and philosophers for centuries, and his enduring relevance is evident in the emblematic role he has played for generations.

Darwin's idea has been called the best idea anyone ever had.

Thomas Bernhard, one of the most significant post-war European writers, continues to fascinate.

This number of Marcel Proust Aujourd'hui, 'Swann at 100/Swann a 100 ans', edited by Adam Watt, has its origins in a conference that took place in Exeter, UK, in December 2013 to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Du cote de chez Swann.

For the writers and artists in In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing, contemporary Muslim American identity is neither singular nor fixed.

This volume explores the many paradoxes of neo-Victorian biofiction, a genre that yokes together the real and the imaginary, biography and fiction, and generates oxymoronic combinations like creative facts, fictional truth, or poetic truthfulness.

Up until now, 'migration literature' has primarily been defined as 'texts written by migrant authors', a definition that has been discussed, criticised, and even rejected by critics and authors alike.