Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

This encyclopedia examines famous and influential depictions of angels, demons, and demigods in film, television,...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive feminist reading of ancient Greek fictional letter collections.  Read More >>

A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding...  Read More >>

Examines Ovid’s Amores through a comics-based methodology to demonstrate how Latin elegy uses its segmented format...  Read More >>

Using author interviews and in-depth manuscript case studies, this book explores the process of creativity in literature...  Read More >>

Offers a dedicated and detailed theorization and genre study of the ""bonkbuster,"" a phenomenally popular genre...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of fictions of radical life extension, this book recovers a major but as-yet unrecognized...  Read More >>

An examination of the ethical and social assumptions of Zora Neale Hurston’s aesthetics and feminist visions, this...  Read More >>

'The Life of Herod The Great – like Hurston herself – is a masterpiece, a miracle, and a marvel. In other words,...  Read More >>

In the shadows of Victorian London, Alice Lumsley's life has been a sequence of entrapment and despair. Committed...  Read More >>

Piano has always been my one true love. So when the music stops, I do whatever I can to hear it again. But...  Read More >>

All I want is revenge. But I'm afraid it will destroy me because I'm not a monster. Or maybe I am. And...  Read More >>

In Monstrosity, Alienation and Impossibility of Communication in J. M. Coetzee's Novels, readers embark on a profound...  Read More >>

Le livre Empreintes tremblantes est une collection de très courtes histoires qui se concentrent sur des moments...  Read More >>

This book provides a brief scholarly introduction to A Game of Thrones, the first volume of George R. R. Martin's...  Read More >>

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Demonstrates how African literature grapples with the enforced optimism of US empire that circulates in postcolonial...  Read More >>

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

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

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

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

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers  Read More >>

Argues that J. M. Coetzee's works constitute a form of late modernism that situates life at the heart of questions...  Read More >>

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>