Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

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

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel.  Read More >>

An exploration and insightful analysis of sisters in literature and their depiction in three centuries of the novel....  Read More >>

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Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to...  Read More >>

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