Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines, de Martina Censi, explore les représentations du...  Read More >>

""In the Greek romances,"" writes David Konstan, ""sighs, tears, and suicide attempts are as characteristic of the...  Read More >>

Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative is the first book to explore the implications of the psychoanalytic...  Read More >>

In this masterly interpretation of narrative sequence in the Iliad, Keith Stanley not only sharpens the current...  Read More >>

As femme fatale, cabaret siren, and icon of Camp, the Christopher Isherwood character Sally Bowles has become this...  Read More >>

The recent discovery of fragments from such novels as Iolaos, Phoinikika, Sesonchosis, and Metiochos and Parthenope...  Read More >>

Much of what was central to Tolstoy seems embarrassing to Western and Soviet critics, points out Richard Gustafson...  Read More >>

Practicing Romance sets out to re-tell the story of Hawthorne's career, arguing that he is best understood as a...  Read More >>

This analysis of the writings of two major Victorian intellectuals examines the crucial place of gender in the larger...  Read More >>

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If the modern Western novel is linked to the rise of a literate bourgeoisie with particular social values and narrative...  Read More >>

A major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as ""literary gamesman,"" this book systematically shows...  Read More >>

The seventeenth-century English collaborative authors Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher were not only the most...  Read More >>

In the early Roman Empire a new literary genre began to flourish, mainly in the Greek world: prose fiction, or romance....  Read More >>

Guiding readers through the disorienting dreamworld of James Joyce's last work, Kimberly Devlin examines Finnegans...  Read More >>

The novelist Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) is known primarily as a chronicler of his age and crafter of elegant prose--like...  Read More >>

Encouraged by the response of the avid novel-reading public in early nineteenth-century England, minor novelists...  Read More >>

Challenging the view of epistolary narrative as a faulty precursor to the nineteenth-century realist novel, Elizabeth...  Read More >>

In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that the act of writing history is the key to the political concerns...  Read More >>

In a critical examination of Thackeray's style, Mr. Loofbourow shows how Thackeray ""hybridized"" the genre of the...  Read More >>

Alone of the great Russian novels of the nineteenth-century, Dead Souls has remained almost as profound a mystery...  Read More >>

Marianna Torgovnick maintains that it is worthwhile to think about novels in terms of the visual arts--in part because...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf's discovery as a novelist--how to convey the inner reality of experience--is set forth for the first...  Read More >>

With the aid of new analytic techniques, including the computer, Karl Kroeber examines the fictional styles of three...  Read More >>