Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

This critical history of Iain M.

Hanif Kureishi is one of the most controversial contemporary British writers.

This book charts the novel''s vibrant engagement with clothes, examining how fiction revises and reshapes material objects within its pages.

25 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung ist die literar-ästhetische, theatrale und filmische Erinnerungskultur zum Realsozialismus ebenso vielfältig wie preisverdächtig.

Experimental, strange, and unabashedly feminist, Joanna Russ's groundbreaking science fiction grew out of a belief that the genre was ideal for expressing radical thought.

James Joyce and Classical Modernism contends that the classical world animated Joyce's defiant, innovative creativity and cannot be separated from what is now recognized as his modernist aesthetic.

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Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland is the first book-length study of the great Victorian novelist's relationship with Ireland, the country which became his second home and was the location of his first personal and professional success.

Graphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them.

First published in 1972, Norman Page's seminal study of The Language of Jane Austen seeks to demonstrate both the exceptional nature and the degree of subtlety of Jane Austen's use of language.

Offering analysis of the fiction of 15 authors for whom the setting greatly contributes to their overall literary style, this book focuses on the many ways that "e;place"e; figures in modern crime and mystery novels.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars.

Irish saga literature represents the largest collection of vernacular narrative in existence from the early Middle Ages, using the tools of Christian literacy to retell myths and legends about the pagan past.

The detective story--the classic whodunit with its time-displacement structure of crime--according to most literary historians, is of relatively recent origin.

This book traces the development of autofiction along with the other directions it has led to, such as autoethnography and autotheory, and explores their textual potentialities to reproduce underrepresented realities of multi-ethnicity.

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

Among the numerous books on Dickenss London, Going Astray is unique in combining detailed topography and biography with close textual analysis and theoretically informed critiques of most of the novelists major works.

Metaphors are ubiquitous and yet-or, for that very reason-go largely unseen.

This book focuses on the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fiction--as detectives, as villains and victims, and as bystanders.

Many non-Indian readers find the historical and cultural references in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children demanding.

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First published in 1951 (this edition in 1967), this book forms the first part of Arnold Kettle's An Introduction to the English Novel.

Superhero films are one of the most enduring genres of cinema, and their popularity is only increasing in the 21st century.

This book identifies a major turn in contemporary British literature in response to environmental crisis.

Few centuries have seen greater changes in social perspective and guiding ideas than the eighteenth century; literature in every Western country was a powerful instrument not only in recording these changes but in bringing them about.

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An authoritative new history of Native American literature that places it within (rather than apart from) US settler space.

What happens when the classroom and the fantastic meet?

In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence.

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The first extensively annotated edition of Joseph Conrad''s powerful and unsettling novel Under Western Eyes.

Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D.

American Designs addresses three major literary critical issues: the hermeneutics of the novel genre; the intense importance of this genre for American literature; and the way James and Faulkner; by writing within hermeneutic traditions of the modern American novel, explore further than any other writers the particular functions of the novelistic designs they inherited and transformed.

This landmark anniversary edition contains a selection of Twain's hard-to-find letters and notes expressing his always-engaging opinions on the publication of Tom Sawyer.

With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century.

Are you captivated by detective fiction and mystery stories?

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

In this book Donovan Roebert provides a path for Christians and Buddhists who wish to better understand the essential, living tenets of their own faith while exploring how these two great religious paths can provide insights of real benefit to adherents of either.

The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries.