Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

In this wide-ranging study Marina Scordilis Brownlee investigates the importance of the letter--often a complex...  Read More >>

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Departing from established structuralist or psychological approaches to the fantastic, Jos Monlecn offers an ideological...  Read More >>

To the linguistic inquiry associated with Benveniste and to the current preoccupation with the nature of writing....  Read More >>

Arguing that Beckett's understanding of subjectivity cannot be reduced to that of phenomenology or existential humanism,...  Read More >>

David Bethea examines the distinctly Russian view of the ""end"" of history in five major works of modern Russian...  Read More >>

""A clear and straightforward discussion of the ways in which literatures and their comparative study must depend...  Read More >>

What happens when we read novels and how do we make sense of them? Inge Wimmers explores these questions by developing...  Read More >>

Is the historical novel the outmoded genre that some people imagine--form inseparable from romanticism, nationalism,...  Read More >>

This masterful synthesis of criticism and biography surveys all of Hermann Hesse's major works and many of his minor...  Read More >>

Stevenson's fiction is evaluated in the light of the significant Romantic traditions that have influenced the novel...  Read More >>

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Contents: I. Religion, evolution, and the novel; 1. 1888 and a look backwards; 2. George Eliot, Walter Pater, and...  Read More >>

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""The primary aim of this book is to give its readers an idea of the places Thoreau describes in his own books....  Read More >>

Mary Reynolds studies the rhetorical and linguistic maneuvers by which Joyce related his work to Dante's and shows...  Read More >>

James Joyce, the great and bold literary innovator of our time, was also a rebel in life, a self-exile from family,...  Read More >>

Based upon the London edition of 1834, this text uses a copy annotated, underlined, and marginally marked by Byron's...  Read More >>

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