Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

33910 books were found.

Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth Century

Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth...

Author: Maïa Hruska
ISBN: 9780008768614
Format: Hardback
$34.99

‘Dazzling … one fine day, you open a book by an unknown writer, and a charge of pure talent blows you away’ La...  Read More >>

The Great Good Places

The Great Good Places

Author: Margaret Drabble
ISBN: 9781837265374
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A luminous hybrid collection of short fiction, essay and memoir from literary giant Margaret Drabble  Read More >>

Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes, and Iconoclastic Essays

Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes,...

Author: David Brin
ISBN: 9798337205830
Format: Paperback
$47.99

Collected literary and film criticism and more-now revised and updated with new material-from an award-winning,...  Read More >>

Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions

Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other...

Author: José A. de la Garza Valenzuela
ISBN: 9781477333532
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

Zadie Smith: New perspectives

Zadie Smith: New perspectives

Author: Nurten Birlik ,  Noémi Albert
ISBN: 9781526177742
Format: Hardback
$206.99

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

Hip-Hop and Comics

Hip-Hop and Comics

Author: Sheena C. Howard ,  Justin D Burton
ISBN: 9781496861849
Format: Paperback
$57.99

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

Women (Re)Writing Illness as Their Own

Women (Re)Writing Illness as Their Own

Author: Rachel N. Spear
ISBN: 9781666979947
Format: Hardback
$150.00

An exploration of the ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spaces of their own to...  Read More >>

The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture

The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture

Author: Dr. Anne-Marie Evans (York St John University, UK) ,  Dr. Sarah Trott (York St John University, UK)
ISBN: 9798765142233
Format: Hardback
$160.00

From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies’ Home Journal to Vogue this diverse...  Read More >>

Apocalypse in Media, Literature, and Linguistics: Narratives of  Despair and Hope

Apocalypse in Media, Literature, and Linguistics: Narratives...

Author: Mohamed Mliless (Independent Researcher, Morocco) ,  Author Latifa Belfakir
ISBN: 9798216380252
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The book demonstrates how apocalyptic narratives actively shape public understanding of environmental crisis, alternately...  Read More >>

Hip-Hop and Comics

Hip-Hop and Comics

Author: Sheena C. Howard ,  Justin D Burton
ISBN: 9781496857910
Format: Hardback
$254.00

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

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Author: Laini Kavaloski
ISBN: 9781978830981
Format: Paperback
$61.60

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Author: Richard Barlow (Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University) ,  Paul Fagan (Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Maynooth University)
ISBN: 9781399529440
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter

The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter

Author: Paul Benedict Grant (Associate Professor of English, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
ISBN: 9781399519229
Format: Paperback
$57.99

The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick,...  Read More >>

Judy Blume: a life

Judy Blume: a life

Author: Mark Oppenheimer
ISBN: 9781761380686
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The definitive, all-access biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  Read More >>

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211819
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and...

Author: Rongbin Han
ISBN: 9780231220552
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight...  Read More >>

Hispanic Coetzee: World Literature Beyond the Anglosphere

Hispanic Coetzee: World Literature Beyond the Anglosphere...

Author: Cristóbal Pérez Barra (Independent scholar)
ISBN: 9781399547116
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern...  Read More >>

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Author: Laini Kavaloski
ISBN: 9781978830998
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

A History of Romance Novels: From Trembling Innocents to Hunky Werewolves

A History of Romance Novels: From Trembling Innocents...

Author: Dale DeBakcsy
ISBN: 9781036122812
Format: Hardback
$69.99

When you pick up the latest Emily Henry novel, or settle in for an evening with the newest volume of your favorite...  Read More >>

Allen Ginsberg in Context

Allen Ginsberg in Context

Author: Erik Mortenson (Lake Michigan College)
ISBN: 9781009525589
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Provides both scholars and interested readers the context necessary to understand how Allen Ginsberg's life and...  Read More >>

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature...

Author: Daniel Dufournaud (Assistant Professor, University of Macau)
ISBN: 9781399554466
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  Read More >>

The Historical Poem: On the Lives and Afterlives of Romantic Literary Criticism

The Historical Poem: On the Lives and Afterlives of...

Author: Joel Childers
ISBN: 9781503636682
Format: Hardback
$173.00

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story...  Read More >>

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives, 1850s to 1930s

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives,...

Author: Louise Benson James (Postdoctoral Fellow in English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781399523080
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211802
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and...

Author: Rongbin Han
ISBN: 9780231220545
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight...  Read More >>

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