Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

""Through a study of literary representations of catastrophic figures, this book examines how nature and history...  Read More >>

Central to the nineteenth-century Ottoman Tanzimat reform project, the novel originally developed outside of Ottoman...  Read More >>

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre – from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images...  Read More >>

Unpacking the complicated ways superheroes reproduce cultural beliefs about gender, sexuality, and romance, Love,...  Read More >>

Presents a history of the ways in which authors of the Middle Ages mobilized the force of emotion in their rhetorical...  Read More >>

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The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright...  Read More >>

Las habitaciones estaban muy quietas mientras las paginas se pasaban suavemente y el sol de invierno se colaba para...  Read More >>

Os quartos estavam muito quietos enquanto as paginas eram suavemente viradas e o sol de inverno penetrava para tocar...  Read More >>

Thomas Pynchon’s style has dazzled and bewildered readers and critics since the 1960s, and this open access book...  Read More >>

Hope and future are not the terms with which James Joyce has usually been read, but this book paints a picture of...  Read More >>

This book is a comprehensive study of Hedayat's life and works set against the background of literary and political...  Read More >>

The Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers...  Read More >>

Examining the ways in which modernism is created within specific historical contexts, as well as how it redefines...  Read More >>

"This book of poetry is about the journey of life and how there are ups and downs throughout. The poems are about...  Read More >>

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Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.  Read More >>

Oh the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful, And since we've no place to go, Let it...  Read More >>

At the Mercy of Their Clothes explores the agency of fashion in modern literature. Celia Marshik’s study combines...  Read More >>

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Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the...  Read More >>

The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of...  Read More >>

I never thought that sex was wrong, sinful, dirty. When you take away the thought of things being dirty or forbidden,...  Read More >>