Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer.

Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of 'Hardyan Folk Horror'.

Although scholars have widely acknowledged the prevalence of religious reference in the work of Cormac McCarthy, this is the first book on the most pervasive religious trope in all his works: the image of sacrament, and in particular, of eucharist.

First published in 1984, John Hardy's important interpretation of Jane Austen's heroines breaks through the accepted tradition of viewing the author as merely a rational comedienne of manners.

For several decades, interest in the British Romantics' theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms.

First published in 2006.

From the epic saga of the Buendia family in One Hundred Years of Solitude to the enduring passion of Love in the Time of Cholera to the exploration of tyranny in The Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has built a literary world that continues to captivate millions of readers across the world.

Northrop Frye and American Fiction challenges recent interpretations of American fiction as a secular pursuit that long ago abandoned religious faith and the idea of transcendent experiences.

The social novel in nineteenth-century Britain has been considered the effort of a predominantly male canon of writers.

“Does an admirable job of examining Capote as a writer whose work reflects America of the late 1940s and 1950s more deeply than previously thought.

American environmental literature has relied heavily on the perspectives of European Americans, often ignoring other groups.

The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions is the most comprehensive treatment of the subject to date.

Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London.

Scholarship on Italian emigration has generally omitted the Julian-Dalmatians, a group of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia, two regions that, in the wake of World War Two, were ceded by Italy to Yugoslavia as part of its war reparations to that country.

Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) defines sympathy as a series of shifts in perspective by which one sees from a different point of view.

Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies c.

Newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals reached a peak of cultural influence and financial success in Britain in the 1850s and 1860s, out-publishing and out-selling books as much as one hundred to one.

"e;A fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the graphic novel, its origins, and its continuing evolution as a literary art form.

Dieser Band versammelt die weniger bekannten Erzählungen von Ernst Jünger.

'That word, "e;vacation,"e; makes me sweat.

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US postmodernity.

As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an early proponent of the civil rights movement.

Ulysses and Faust: Tradition and Modernism from Homer till the Present examines the most important authors of Western literature: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Marlowe, Goethe, Joyce, Eliot, Mann, Bulgakov and Pasternak, who based their works on one or other of the two key myths of the West, Ulysses and Faust.

This is a new English translation of a classic of medieval Islamic learning, which illuminates the intellectual debates of its age and speaks vividly to the concerns of our own.

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Das Thema einer »deutschen Kultur« durchzieht das gesamte Werk von Thomas Mann und nimmt darin eine Schlüsselstellung ein.

Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century.

First published in 1957, this book explores what remained of Joyce's background, not only in Ireland but in those cities abroad where his books were written.

Examining the family saga as an instrument of literary analysis of writing by Italian American women, this book argues that the genre represents a key strategy for Italian American female writers as a form which distinctly allows them to establish cultural, gender and literary traditions.

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Examines women''s life writing in order to shed light on female complicity in the Second World War and the Holocaust.

The two note-books of the diary of Mme.

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With the success of Fight Club, his novel-turned-movie, Chuck Palahniuk has become noticed for accurately capturing the exploitation of power in America in the 21st century.

A crime novel, at once disturbing and perversely comforting, factually has been known to curtail social anxieties through the 'open and shut case' of its narrative form.

As the story goes: Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start something new in Seattle only after a deeply affecting reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day.

Trifles--a play exploring what happens when women unite against forces that deny them a voice and identity--has become an international classic, as powerful and relevant today as it was in the summer of 1916, when it was first staged by vacationing friends in a converted fishing wharf in Provincetown,Massachusetts.

This study, originally published in 1990, assesses a shift in the presentation of self-consciousness in two pairs of novels by Doris Lessing and Carmen Martin Gaite: 1) Lessing's The Summer Before the Dark (1973) and Martin Gaite's Retahilas (1974) and 2) Lessing's The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) and Martin Gaite's The Back Room (1978).

What is often termed 'Nordic Noir' has dominated detective fiction, film and television internationally for over two decades.

The relationship between traditional myths, fairytales and current fiction novels featuring women as crime-solvers is examined in this critical study.

Mention Shaft and most people think of Gordon Parks' seminal 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in a leather coat, walking the streets of Manhattan to Isaac Hayes' iconic theme music.

A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.

A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.

This unique collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand, who has had an enduring influence on the appreciation and study of Lord Byron for sixty years.