Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

The case of the Cambridge spies has long captured the public's attention, but perhaps never more so than in the wake of Anthony Blunt's exposure as the fourth man in November 1979.

Science fiction represents a diverse community of writers and readers that spans the entire world.

Lively and engaging account of the experience of reading Jane Austen, by leading scholar and novelist.

Ein beinahe unbekanntes Werk des späten Raabe ist hier neu zu entdecken.

In 1997, Terryl Givens's The Viper on the Hearth was praised as a new classic in Mormon studies.

Mark Twain's letters for 1874 and 1875 encompass one of his most productive and rewarding periods as author, husband and father, and man of property.

First published in 1992.

From The Matrix and Harry Potter to Stargate SG:1 and The X-Files, recent science fiction and fantasy offerings both reflect and produce a sense of the religious.

The author states here that Tolstoy was a great educator and his views on education were ingenious and profound.

This History traces the development of the Indian novel from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century up until the present day.

During and after the Second World War, there was a concerted thinking about religion in Britain.

In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city.

Los espíritus de la ciencia ficción efectúa un análisis comparativo de tres de las novelas fundacionales de la ciencia ficción hispanoamericana, publicadas como folletines en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX: Viaje maravilloso del señor Nic-Nac al planeta Marte de Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (Argentina, 1875), Desde Júpiter de Francisco Miralles (Chile, 1877) y Querens de Pedro Castera (México, 1890).

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From Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby to Shelley's Frankenstein, The Literature Book documents the greatest literature ever written.

Arguably the most important living Russian writer, Sasha Sokolov is an acknowledged literary master.

This book shows how realism in twentieth-century Indian literature functioned as a mode of experimentation and aesthetic innovation.

Accomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and longtime friends.

Salman Rushdie is one of the world's most important writers of politicised fiction.

Brian Lee's study of American fiction from 1865 to 1940 draws on a wealth of material by, amongst others, Twain, James, Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner.

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In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan that resulted in the establishment of two separate countries; East Pakistan became Bangladesh, leaving the remaining four western provinces to comprise a truncated Pakistan.

First published in 1968, this reissue of Dr.

Explores the emphasis that contemporary novels, films and television series place on the present, arguing that hope emerges from the potentiality of the here and now, rather than the future, and as intimately entangled with negotiations of structures of belonging.

The publication of Robinson Crusoe in London in 1719 marked the arrival of a revolutionary art form: the novel.

The essays in this collection discuss how comics and graphic narratives can be useful primary texts and learning tools in college and university classes across different disciplines.

This collection of Northrop Frye's writings on Shakespeare and the Renaissance spans forty years of his career as a university teacher, public critic, and major theorist of literature and its cultural functions.

This book reassesses the modernist canon and produces a wealth of new comparative analyses that radically revise the novel''s history.

This book explores the literary and geographical relations between England and Scotland in the Romantic period.

An unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame and failure through writers who failed to achieve it.

Even for those who have never read Jules Verne (1828-1905), the author's very name conjures visions of the submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the epic race in Around the World in Eighty Days, the spacecraft in From the Earth to the Moon, and the daring descent in Journey to the Center of the Earth.

The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory brings together top scholars in the field to explore the significance of narrative to pressing social, cultural, and theoretical issues.

This project offers an original contribution to the interpretation of the documents of the Second Vatican Council that constitute the most authoritative doctrinal teaching within the Catholic Church.

Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guide to the contemporary literary scene.

Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books, of which almost equally many bear readers' marks, ranging from deliberate annotations and accidental blots to corrections and underlinings.

This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

A fully updated edition with seven brand new essays.

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.

A wide-ranging exploration of women''s travel writing between 1714 and 1789, emphasising women''s contribution to processes of cultural change.

A guide to Stowe''s long career as a professional author, with detailed readings of Uncle Tom''s Cabin.