Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

A fresh look at how Borges's most celebrated stories critique various forms of sovereignty, from philosophical ideals...  Read More >>

Explores how Edwardian era writers used the mystical novel as a way to represent transcendent experiences within...  Read More >>

Delves into Italian contributions to these genres and what those contributions mean to global Italian cultural and...  Read More >>

Index to short stories (1915). This book, Index to short stories, by Ina Ten Eyck Firkins, is a replication of...  Read More >>

An innovative collection of essays that explore the intersections between two powerful creative movements  Read More >>

From their inception, ‘low culture’ comics have intersected with the ‘high culture’ of Shakespeare. This is the...  Read More >>

""In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of...  Read More >>

Is conflict inherent to the politics of borders? Recent global events, erupting from national, religious, class,...  Read More >>

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the “neural unconscious” and higher-order...  Read More >>

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

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

This engaging volume provides an authoritative assessment of the middle period in the career of the widely-read,...  Read More >>

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

This book offers a new and unique interpretation of Argentine essayist and fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges as...  Read More >>

Joseph Ashmore argues that early modern literature became a key site for handling questions of faith during the...  Read More >>

An investigation of the specific uses of the motif of melancholy in modern Kurdish novels  Read More >>

This volume explores the evolution of Arab women's self-representations in literature, highlighting their resistance...  Read More >>

A look into how Anglo masculinities weaponize forms of violence to bolster U.S. interests and expand borders, establishing...  Read More >>

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An exploration of how comics illuminate medicine, religion, and identity  Read More >>

A revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to today Middlemen...  Read More >>

This volume explores the early Soviet reception of Laurence Sterne. By reconstructing individual readerly encounters...  Read More >>

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