Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Literary scholars largely agree that the Romantic period altered the definition of tragedy, but they have confined...  Read More >>

Touching Beauty is the first collection of critical essays on the work of Vietnamese-born Quebec author Kim Thúy....  Read More >>

Hugo von Hofmannsthal is frequently portrayed as an aloof writer, out of step with modern sensibilities. Aesthetic...  Read More >>

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Gothic literature is very popular today, and many places have become tourist attractions because they are either...  Read More >>

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F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, at the age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement,...  Read More >>

Due to the growing popularity of the Young Adult fiction genre and the ever increasing availability of new titles,...  Read More >>

100 imagination-stretching writing exercises inspired by the idea of creative constraints  Read More >>

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Situates the history of adaptation, transmedia storytelling, convergence culture, and participatory fandom within...  Read More >>

This book outlines how the protagonists in The Nibelung's Ring, The Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones attempt...  Read More >>

Englishwoman Laura Hewitt accompanies her newly engaged cousin to India, first to Calcutta and then to the fabled...  Read More >>

Eduardo Galeano--the single most important literary voice to come out of Latin America in the last decades.  Read More >>

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Aims to probe beyond the perception of 'love and death' as a constant theme of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Daniel Defoe established the genre of the novel with Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe. He also wrote pioneering...  Read More >>

A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that...  Read More >>

The book contains the final Chapter of Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock, removed before publication, despite...  Read More >>

This study proposes that Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct cultural moment or historical constellation...  Read More >>

Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses...  Read More >>

A provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization.   When revolutionaries...  Read More >>

A provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization.   When revolutionaries...  Read More >>