Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Concentrating on the role of the imagination in Updike's works, this book shows him to be an original and powerful...  Read More >>

One of the most innovative writers in modern history, Virginia Woolf changed the landscape of fiction and challenged...  Read More >>

Drawing the Line: Comics Studies and INKS, 1994-1997 collects some of the most important essays from INKS: Cartoon...  Read More >>

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""This book is about the terms that collected, clarified, and crystallized those ideas, sometimes showing them off...  Read More >>

""Scottish novelist Jane Duncan's semiautobiographical My Friends series was dismissed by postwar critics as lightweight,...  Read More >>

At age twenty, Ada's reputation as a faith healer defines her in her rural Pennsylvania community. But on the day...  Read More >>

Figures of the Imagination explores the connections between musical scenes in romance fiction and the domestic song...  Read More >>

Born into a Polish szlachta (noble) family, the extraordinary modern novelist Joseph Conrad maintained, even in...  Read More >>

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This study explores Proust’s answers to some of the fundamental challenges of the inevitable human experience of...  Read More >>

""One of the major figures in science fiction for more than sixty years, James Gunn has been instrumental in making...  Read More >>

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This book investigates how the breakdown of the family and the conventional gendering of roles gives rise to terrorist...  Read More >>

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Ranging across genres including literary fiction, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, graphic novels, children’s...  Read More >>

Staring at Lakes started out as a book about depression. And then became a story about growing old, the essence...  Read More >>

This book is about reading Proust’s novel via philosophical and musicological approaches to “modern” listening....  Read More >>

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Aims to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature,...  Read More >>

This new biography of George Eliot is not just the story of her life. It gives an account of what it means to become...  Read More >>

This book argues that McCarthy’s works convey a profound moral vision, and use intertextuality, moral philosophy,...  Read More >>