Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network's hit television series Arrow--based on DC Comic's Green Arrow--and its spin-offs The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl.

The appearance of a comet in some African beliefs is taken as a bad omen.

Originally published in 1988, the last few decades had seen the appearance of some brilliant and complex new kinds of fiction.

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

This book focusses on computer methodologies as a way of investigating language and character in literary texts.

Metaphors of Invention and Dissension explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel, examining six novels written by two Algerian authors of French expression, Tahar Djaout and Rachid Mimouni.

"e;Highly recommended for fans of Tolkien and Lewis, for those who love literature and ecology, and really for all of us whose capacity for wonder will be expanded by this delightful little book.

First published in 2009, this book investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women's writing and reading practices.

Readers and critics have been intrigued - and disturbed - by the characters of Wuthering Heights since its publication in 1847.

Does literature merely represent cognitive processes, or can it enhance, parallel, or reassess the scientific study of the mind?

Formerly exiled Chilean author Ariel Dorfman, one of Latin America's greatest writers and a major literary figure of the twentieth century, is known for such critically acclaimed works as the novel Widows and the play Death and the Maiden.

A fascinating new look at a neglected side of Winston Churchill - his life as a professional author - revealing how his most important literary work shaped his role as a world leader, and the history of the Second World War'Clarke gives us the fullest account yet of Churchill's hair-raising attitude towards money .

Television is entering a unique era, in which women and minorities no longer serve under white captains but take the lead--and all the other roles as well.

Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism provides a new account of modernist literature's emergence in Britain.

Comic book superheroes, fantasy kingdoms, and futuristic starships have become inescapable features of today's pop-culture landscape, and the people we used to deride as "e;nerds"e; or "e;geeks"e; have ridden their popularity and visibility to mainstream recognition.

Heinrich Bölls ›Geschichten‹ und ›Gesellschaftsnarrative‹ geben nicht nur Schauplätze vergangener Interaktionen und Kommunikationen wieder, sondern sie gelten auch als textliche Erinnerungsfiguren, als Symbole und Anhaltspunkte individueller und kollektiver Identität.

Science fiction has often been considered the literature of futuristic technology: fantastic warfare among the stars or ruinous apocalypses on Earth.

The goal of The Oxford Handbook of African American Language is to provide readers with a wide range of analyses of both traditional and contemporary work on language use in African American communities in a broad collective.

Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is the best known and most read work in Italian literature next to Dante's Divine Comedy.

Engage new readers in this book that teachers C words, such as cat and candy.

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

Focusing on formal realism has obscured how important the novel actually was to Enlightenment empiricism.

The most comprehensive and up-to-date overview available for students, scholars and readers of Roth.

An intimate portrait of Patrick O'Brian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy.

Approaching Romanian literature as world literature, this book is a critical-theoretical manifesto that places its object at the crossroads of empires, regions, and influences and draws conclusions whose relevance extends beyond the Romanian, Romance, and East European cultural systems.

Dieser interdisziplinäre Aufsatzband eröffnet neue Zugänge zum Werk Lou Andreas-Salomés – einer derfaszinierendsten Intellektuellen der frühen Moderne:Sie laden dazu ein, das umfangreiche Werk einer Autorin wiederzuentdecken, deren Ruhm als »Muse« berühmter Männer wie Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke und Sigmund Freud den Blick auf ihr eigenes Schaffen lange Zeit verstellt hat.

Reading Austen in America presents a colorful, compelling account of how an appreciative audience for Austen's novels originated and developed in America, and how American readers contributed to the rise of Austen's international fame.

Kurt Vonnegut's death in 2007 marked the passing of a major force in American life and letters.

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.

Through a wide-ranging series of essays and relevant readings, A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction presents an overview of American fiction published since the conclusion of the First World War.

Revival, reinvention, and regeneration: the concept of renascence pervades Joyce's work through the inescapable presence of his literary forebears.

The Author in Criticism:Italo Calvino's Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom explores the cultural and historic patterns and differences in the critical readings of Italian author Italo Calvino's works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy.

An original study of Dickens'' early career and the way he constructed his literary reputation.

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Recent literary criticism, along with academic culture at large, has stressed collaboration as essential to textual creation and sociability as a literary and academic virtue.

One of science fiction's undisputed grandmasters, Frederik Pohl built an astonishing career that spanned more than seven decades.

Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers such as David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami and Jose Saramago.

Informative, broad-ranging, this title sheds new light on the life and literary art of one of the last century's most celebrated authors.

Horror, no matter the medium, has always retained some influence of philosophy.

Paul Auster is one of the most acclaimed figures in American literature.

The Oxford History of the Irish Book is a major new series that charts the development of the book in Ireland from its origins within an early medieval manuscript culture to its current incarnation alongside the rise of digital media in the twenty-first century.

"e;By making friends with signs"e;, Lennard Davis argues, "e;we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological.

This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history.