Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Tony Soprano, Don Draper, and Walter White ushered in the era of the television antihero, with compelling narratives and complex characters.

Women can be successful leaders if they achieve congruity between their inner instincts and their career goals.

Re-appraises ''scientific romance'', from which science fiction has grown, situating it in the material culture it was produced in.

Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday.

India is a land of festivals and fun.

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the leading figures in the development of the modernist short story and her writings were a profound influence on writers such as Virginia Woolf and D.

Central to all our lives, work affects our status in the state, the family, and the economy.

The place of the editor in literary production is an ambiguous and often invisible one, requiring close attention to publishing history and (often inaccessible) archival resources to bring it into focus.

An authoritative and lively account of the development of the genre, by leading experts in the field.

Antonia White is best known for her masterpiece Frost in May, for having come back from Bedlam and madness, and for the public feud between her daughters over the editing of her diaries.

Horst Bienek (1930-1990) wird 1951 vom Staatssicherheitsdienst in Potsdam verhaftet und von einem Sowjetischen Militärtribunal zu zwanzig Jahren Zwangsarbeit im stalinistischen Lager "Workuta" zwischen Eismeer und Nordural verurteilt.

This comprehensive guide to James Ellroy's work and life is arranged as an encyclopedia covering his entire career, from his first private-eye novel, Brown's Requiem, to his 2012 e-book Shakedown.

This is a book about the comics genre and language, how these were used to create Batman, and how that character's longevity is largely due to the medium's unique formal qualities.

This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States.

The novel Don Quixote, written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature.

In India, a woman is traditionally regarded as an honorable and dignified personality.

This book is a complete re-assessment of the works of J.

This Element harnesses digital resources to unpack Voltaire''s complex and prodigious correspondence for the modern reader.

One of the canonical Athenian orators, Lysias was much admired in antiquity.

First published in 1969.

The undead are back!

Though animal stories and fables stretch back into the antiquity of ancient India, Persia, Greece and Rome, the reasons for writing them and their resonance for readers (and listeners) remain consistent to the present.

A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history.

To write about the sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to do so against a vast accretion of past deeds, patterns of thought, and particularly patterns of expression, many of which had begun to feel not just settled but exhausted.

Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse makes a dual intervention in both world literature and ecocriticism by examining magical realism as an international style of writing that has long-standing links with environmental literature.

The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Published in 1900, Conrad's Lord Jim can in many ways be seen as the first 'modern' novel.

Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer is an engaging narrative that contains new and important findings about Laurence's life and career.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Home is a scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century.

The Domain of the Novel: Reflections on Some Historical Definitions discusses the genre of the novel and its dialogic and dialectical characteristics through an in-depth analysis of some classic English, Russian, American and Indian novels.

First published in 1990, Don Juan: Variations on a Theme explores the differing perceptions of this famous character following his first appearance on the European stage in the early seventeenth century.

Lauded by critics yet largely unappreciated by fans of horror and "e;weird fiction,"e; T.

Turn the top 7 career breakers for women into career makersStatistically, more than one-third of Fortune 500 managers are women-and yet we represent barely five percent of the top earners among executives.

Brian James Baer explores the central role played by translation in the construction of modern Russian literature.

The crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies focusing on the intersections of class, culture and crime--each nuanced with shades of gender, ethnicity, race and politics.

First published in 1991.

The Book titled Discrimination Against Girl Child: The Trajectory of Missing Girls deals with the topic of son preference and female foeticide in India and highlights the unfavourable child Sex ratio and the phenomenon of feminisation of the old and masculinisation of the young in the state of Kerala.

This modern classic is “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem—with a foreword by James Baldwin (Publishers Weekly).

The essays collected in this book constitute a new contribution to our understanding of the originality and significance of Chekhovs prose.

Explores the ways in which African writers have approached speculative fiction through in-depth articles on the use of language, terminology and the genealogy of the works.

In this provocative book, Anthony Hutchison challenges the belief that the American novel is "e;antipolitical"e; and condemns the relative absence of American literature in studies of the political novel.

This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.

Spirit-filled devotionals, written by women for women, from the editors of Daily Guideposts, America's favorite devotional for more than 40 years365 Spirit-Lifting Devotions for Women forms a tapestry of life's emotions - joy and laughter, heartache and healing, lessons to be savored and explored.

Exploring more than 100 key novels, stories, plays, and poems and the geniuses who created them, this book is the perfect introduction to literature and writing from around the world.