Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography...  Read More >>

This book brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism as the root problem...  Read More >>

Discover the origin of Dragon Ball with this unique cultural tour guide to the world's most recognized anime and...  Read More >>

This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient...  Read More >>

Goku goes west! His grand adventure begins anew as his martial arts master tells him to travel the world to increase...  Read More >>

Goku goes west! His grand adventure begins anew as his martial arts master tells him to travel the world to increase...  Read More >>

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The book is an against-the-grain study of Primo Levi’s lifelong concerns about agency, both personal and political....  Read More >>

This book is about testimonial and fictional narratives emerging from the War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971....  Read More >>

The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes book treatment of the rivalry between the two comic book giants. THEY ARE...  Read More >>

The small plains town of Ingleside, Nebraska, is populated by down-on-their-luck ranchers and new money, ghosts...  Read More >>

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This edited volume offers innovative ways of analyzing economics in Gloria Naylor's fiction, using interpretive...  Read More >>

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A scholarly examination of how character development and story details from the Harry Potter books fulfill the hero's...  Read More >>

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A study exploring the prevalence of bigamy as a popular plot in Victorian fiction that upends familiar categories...  Read More >>

Examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers, filmmakers,...  Read More >>

Presents, in a single volume, key seminal essays in the study of James Joyce. Representing important contributions...  Read More >>

In order to demonstrate that one story from the Dubliners is not only a turning point in that book but also a microcosm...  Read More >>

Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges...  Read More >>

This volume explores the theme of time in early modern France: time past, time present and time future, in literature...  Read More >>

Explores the writer and his work with the intimacy of a friend and the perceptiveness of a scholar — essential reading...  Read More >>