Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Originally published in 1987, this title is a comprehensive study focused on experimental forms in eighteenth-century fiction.

This edited book examines how South Vietnam's (formerly the Republic of Vietnam 1955-1975) literary and journalistic writers were perceived and - potentially - influenced by Western thought, led by thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Martin Heidegger, Hermann Hesse, Edmund Husserl, Stefan Zweig, Graham Greene, and Somerset Maugham.

Ian Rankin is considered by many to be Scotland's greatest living crime fiction author.

Since 1976, when he was an 18-year-old junior at USC, Leonard Pitts' writing has been winning awards, including the Pulitzer andfive National Headliner Awards.

From David Lean's big screen Great Expectations to Alejandro Amenábar's reinvention of The Turn of the Screw as The Others, adaptations of literary classics are a constant feature of popular culture today.

This collection brings together critical essays that examine questions of identity and community in the fiction of contemporary American women writers among them Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisnernos.

Combining theoretical and practical approaches, this collection of essays explores classic detective fiction from a variety of contemporary viewpoints.

First published in 1968, this book sets out to refute the idea of Trollope as a 'mild cathedral-town novelist, describing storms in ecclesiastical tea cups' which prevailed at the time in spite of his stature during his lifetime.

Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano is now recognized as one of the major novels of the 20th Century, whose breadth and experimental prose have influenced a wide range of contemporary writers.

While many American superheroes have multiple powers and complex gadgets, the Flash is simply fast.

In this provocative book, Jane Tompkins seeks to move the study of literature away from the small group of critically approved texts that have dominated literary discussion over the decades, to allow inclusion of texts ignored or denigrated by the literary academy.

Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.

This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day.

Explores the relationship among the German confessional divide, collective memories of religion, and the construction of German national identity and difference.

New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C.

This volume series on Women Society and Culture is an attempt to collate information from various sources on different themes strata it could serge a-s a repository not only to the masses but also to students, researchers.

Recovers the careers of four US women serial writers, and establishes a new archive for American literary studies.

First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter, of his or her society.

How are we to comprehend, diagnose, and counter a system of racist subjugation so ordinary it has become utterly asymptomatic?

Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment historiography.

The ways in which women are portrayed in Victorian novels can provide important insights into how people of the day thought about political economy, and vice versa.

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Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life.

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Peter David, award-winning writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games, has boatloads of stories to tell about his 30-year career.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter details “how the U.

Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls' Serial Literature traces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls' series in the twentieth century.

The Bible in the American Short Story examines Biblical influences in the post-World War II American short story.

A Place at the Altar illuminates a previously underappreciated dimension of religion in ancient Rome: the role of priestesses in civic cult.

Since 1976, when he was an 18-year-old junior at USC, Leonard Pitts' writing has been winning awards, including the Pulitzer andfive National Headliner Awards.

"e;No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body.

Offers indispensable interdisciplinary contexts for reading the wide-ranging philosophical, critical, and literary works of Mary Wollstonecraft.

What is the best way to understand black political ideology?

First scholarly edition of Samuel Richardson''s correspondence with two prominent men of the eighteenth century, Thomas Edwards and George Cheyne.

What happens when novelists write about their own lives directly, in memoirs and autobiographies, rather than in novels?

An invaluable guide to cultivating powerful, compassionate young women by nurturing confidence, identity, and a passion for justice.

A cinematic and vibrant coming-of-age memoir, Chasing the Panther captures the thrilling and, at times, heartbreaking early years of Carolyn Pfeiffer, a pioneering film producer and one of Hollywood's first female executivesa ';mini-mogul' in the words of the Wall Street Journal.

The first study in English to chart the development of the Palestinian novel in exile and under occupation from 1948 onwards.

A literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the development of detective series by Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Brett Halliday, Mickey Spillane, Thomas B.

Covering a range of topics, settings and styles, the book offers the first comprehensive study of short fiction from the First World War.

Activities for Teaching Gender and Sexuality in the University Classroom is the first interdisciplinary collection of activities devoted entirely to teaching about gender and sexuality.

On the southern portion of what was known as the Sibley's Pezuna del Caballo (Horse's Hoof) Ranch in West Texas' Culberson County are two mountains that nearly meet, forming a gap that frames a salt flat where Indians and later, pioneers came to gather salt to preserve foodstuffs.

Fiction of the New Statesman is the first study of the short stories published in the renowned British journal theNew Statesman.

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When moviegoers accompany Dorothy through the gates of the Emerald City, they may think they have discovered all there is to see of Oz--but as real friends of the Wizard know, more lies behind the curtain.

Family Annals, or the Sisters, Mary Hays's last novel, was originally published in 1817.