Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888–1900

The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings,...

Author: Michael G. Kelly ,  Ken Roemer
ISBN: 9781800798649
Format: Paperback
$103.50

The Obsolete Necessity greatly expanded the canon of utopias during their Golden Era. Roemer examines insights offered...  Read More >>

Fiction and Research: A Guide to Connecting Stories and Inquiry

Fiction and Research: A Guide to Connecting Stories...

Author: Becky Tipper (freelance writer and researcher) ,  Leah Gilman (Manchester Metropolitan University)
ISBN: 9781447369721
Format: Hardback
$124.95

Discover the captivating power of fiction in research through this engaging book. With practical insights, this...  Read More >>

Reanimating Grief: Waking the Dead in Literature, Theatre and Performance

Reanimating Grief: Waking the Dead in Literature, Theatre...

Author: William McEvoy
ISBN: 9781526176691
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning....  Read More >>

100 True and Terrifying Ghost Stories

100 True and Terrifying Ghost Stories

Author: Robert J Dornan
ISBN: 9798227437037
Format: Paperback
$68.61

In the silent whispers of night, when shadows cloak the world and an unsettling stillness hangs in the air, a lost...  Read More >>

A Reviewer's Guide to Writing Book Reviews: And How to Get Paid for Them

A Reviewer's Guide to Writing Book Reviews: And How...

Author: Rick Hipson
ISBN: 9781964398105
Format: Paperback
$29.01

Dive into the world of book reviewing with this essential guide, perfect for anyone passionate about sharing their...  Read More >>

The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing: Kitchen Sink Aesthetics

The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar...

Author: Simon Lee
ISBN: 9781350193154
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Centering on the British kitchen sink realism movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically its documentation...  Read More >>

Lovecraft Annual No. 18 (2024)

Lovecraft Annual No. 18 (2024)

Author: S T Joshi ,  David Haden
ISBN: 9781614984528
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Lovecraft Annual is published once a year, in Fall. Articles and letters should be sent to the editor, S. T. Joshi,...  Read More >>

Kaleidoscope Japan: A nation through the lens of literature

Kaleidoscope Japan: A nation through the lens of literature...

Author: Richard Nathan
ISBN: 9781912864140
Format: Paperback
$58.05

Kaleidoscope Japan is a new lens through which the storytelling of The Land of the Rising Sun can be read and understood...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures...

Author: Greg Barnhisel
ISBN: 9781350304536
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in...  Read More >>

Angela Carter and Folk Music: 'Invisible Music', Prose and the Art of Canorography

Angela Carter and Folk Music: 'Invisible Music', Prose...

Author: Dr Polly Paulusma (independent scholar) ,  Marie Mulvey-Roberts (University of the West of England)
ISBN: 9781350296329
Format: Paperback
$59.99

From her unique standpoint as singer-songwriter-scholar, Polly Paulusma examines the influences of Carter’s 1960s...  Read More >>

Taiwanese Literature as World Literature

Taiwanese Literature as World Literature

Author: Professor or Dr. Pei-yin Lin (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) ,  Wen-chi Li (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781501381386
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""Explores the richness of 20th-century Taiwanese literature as multilingual and diverse-styled world literature,...  Read More >>

Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel: A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Vision

Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel: A Philosophical...

Author: Dr Ryan S. Kemp (Wheaton College, USA) ,  Dr Jordan Rodgers (King's College, Wilkes-Barre, USA)
ISBN: 9781350318397
Format: Paperback
$59.99

In her five novels and many essays, Marilynne Robinson develops a distinctive Christian vision animated by a powerfully...  Read More >>

Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play

Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary...

Author: Stefano Gualeni (University of Malta, Malta) ,  Dr. Riccardo Fassone (University of Torino, Italy)
ISBN: 9781350277120
Format: Paperback
$59.99

What roles do imaginary games have in story-telling? Why do fiction authors outline the rules of a game that the...  Read More >>

Conrad Without Borders: Transcultural and Transtextual Perspectives

Conrad Without Borders: Transcultural and Transtextual...

Author: Brendan Kavanagh (Jagiellonian University Poland) ,  Grazyna Maria Teresa Branny (Akademia Ignatianum, the Jesuit University, Poland)
ISBN: 9781350293182
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A diverse and multinational volume, this book showcases the passages of Joseph Conrad’s narratives across geographical...  Read More >>

Ekphrasis, Memory and Narrative after Proust: Prose Pictures and Fictional Recollection

Ekphrasis, Memory and Narrative after Proust: Prose...

Author: Leonid Bilmes (HSE University)
ISBN: 9781350336872
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book explores the relationship between ekphrasis and memory in the novel. Drawing on À la recherche du temps...  Read More >>

Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History

Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury:...

Author: Jesse Wolfe (California State University Stanislaus, USA)
ISBN: 9781350328860
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Exploring how the Bloomsbury Group’s cutting-edge thinkers—Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, and E. M. Forster—understood...  Read More >>

Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story: Modernity, Authoritarianism and Gender

Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short...

Author: Alessandro Columbu (University of Westminster, London, UK)
ISBN: 9780755644094
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Zakariyya Tamir is Syria’s foremost writer of short stories, and his works are widely read across the Arab world....  Read More >>

Retelling Jane Austen: Essays on Recent Adaptations and Derivative Works

Retelling Jane Austen: Essays on Recent Adaptations...

Author: Tammy Powley ,  April Van Camp
ISBN: 9781476691930
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Fills the gap in Austen scholarship from 2000 to today, demonstrating Austen’s enduring talent and relevancy. The...  Read More >>

Irony and Earnestness in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Dimensions of Satire and Solemnity

Irony and Earnestness in Eighteenth-Century Literature:...

Author: Shane Herron (Flinders University of South Australia)
ISBN: 9781108995047
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Delving into the interaction between satire and more serious forms of literature, Shane Herron overturns long-standing...  Read More >>

On Style in Victorian Fiction

On Style in Victorian Fiction

Author: Daniel Tyler (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781108446266
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Suited to students and scholars alike, On Style in Victorian Fiction provides a timely and passionate argument for...  Read More >>

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