Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

This book offers a radically new reading of Dickens and his major works.

From 1865, Susan B.

This practical book provides 31 days of challenges to help you and your spouse talk, flirt, and explore all three levels of sexual intimacy--physical, emotional, and spiritual--so you both can experience the best sex ever.

"e;Print and broadcast journalism in the United States have changed in recent years as a result of millions of people using the Internet and social media for obtaining some or most of the information they desire.

Through analyzing dress in detective fiction, Fear and Clothing reveals a cultural history of identity affected by the social upheaval caused by war.

A study of the role of family, ancient Greek narratives, and the psychological theories of Freud and Jung in the mystery novels of Ruth Rendell.

Incompatible with God's Design is the first comprehensive history of the Roman Catholic women's ordination movement in the United States.

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George Eliot was one of the great thinkers of her time, a figure central to the main currents of thought and belief in the nineteenth century.

This book explores new critical ground by addressing the intersection of two contentious concepts, postfeminism and Gothic.

Teaching creative writing for the multicultural, global, and digital generation, this volume offers a fresh approach for enhancing core writing skills in the major forms of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama.

A fascinating study of women in the arts, International Women Stage Directors is a comprehensive examination of women directors in twenty-four diverse countries.

Herman Melville in Context will help readers of Melville better understand and appreciate his life, works, and legacy.

From the Arthurian epic poem Parzival to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and the Assassin's Creed video game series, the Knights Templar have captivated artists and audiences alike for centuries.

This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

The most wide-ranging and sophisticated account of American literary realism currently available for students.

An engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, revealing what the therapeutic use of female circumcision and clitoridectomy tells us about American medical ideas concerning the female body and female sexuality.

Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics.

The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics.

This book, first published in 2000, features analyses about and by some of the most important Russian writers of the 1980s, a period of great changes in the cultural life of Russia when the controls of Soviet communism gave way to a wide diversity of unfettered writing.

Superhero adventure comics have a long history of commenting upon American public opinion and government policy, and the surge in the popularity of comics since the events of September 11, 2001, ensures their continued relevance.

Who decides what is right or wrong, ethical or immoral, just or unjust?

'The rainbow reaches right across the sky, for miles and miles, and has landed right in the middle of our field.

This book traces women's influence on maternity policy in Norway from 1880-1940.

In the Image of God: A Feminist Commentary on the Torah is a unique blend of traditional Judaism and radical feminism and is a groundbreaking commentary on the Bible, the central document of Jewish life.

British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work offers an account of British literary responses to work from the 1950s to the onset of the financial crisis of 2008/9.

Die vorliegende Studie erforscht am Beispiel skandalöser Texte des 19.

This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "e;liminal"e; narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contemporary British, Irish, US, Canadian, and German writers.

Drawing on new research in the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London, Kr mer's study explores the production, marketing and reception as well as the themes and style of A Clockwork Orange against the backdrop of Kubrick's previous work and of wider developments in cinema, culture and society from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

This book considers the ways in which women writers used the powerful positions of author and editor to perform conventions of gender and genre in the Victorian period.

Representation of the religious sector is a new phenomenon in modern Israeli literature, emerging from a diversification of Israeli culture that began in the 1970s.

The annotations in this volume, originally published in 1996, intend to assist the reader of Faulkner's The Hamlet to understand obscure or difficult words and passages, including literary allusions, dialect, and historical events that Faulkner uses or alludes to.

The first examination of interconnected manuscript-exchanging coteries as an integral element of literary culture in eighteenth-century Britain.

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 Book of Gladness (ca.

Red Britain sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to the extent, diversity, and longevity of the cultural effects of the Russian Revolution.

Why do heroes fight each other?

Der bekannte Moskauer Germanist Lew Kopelew gibt mit zwei komplexen Essays Einblick in seine literaturkritische Schaffensmethode: Im Faust-Beitrag wird die Rezeption der Faust-Gestalt, Idee und Problematik in der russisch-sowjetischen Literatur verfolgt.

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The essays in this collection analyse major adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, with production stills and full filmographies.

628 pages, 34 images, 51 contributors

Violence Against Women examines a wide range of relationships that may be affected by intimate partner violence and takes a culturally sensitive, international approach to issues underpinning family violence, dating violence, and the injuries children suffer when their caregivers perpetrate violence.