Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Any student of Cervantes' literary production must at some point take into account the theories that inspired the...  Read More >>

By attempting to suspend moral, ideological, or psychological assumptions, a phenomenological interpretation of...  Read More >>

In the three decades following Stalin's death, major underground Russian writers have subverted Soviet ideology...  Read More >>

The Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat is the most influential figure in twentieth-century Persian fiction--and the object...  Read More >>

The author charts the interaction between self and world through four major phases whereby the self initially has...  Read More >>

After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western...  Read More >>

Formalist criticism of the modern novel has concentrated on its spatial aspects. Patricia Tobin focuses, instead,...  Read More >>

Robert Storey's lively and gracefully written study of Pierrot is the first scholarly history of this fascinating...  Read More >>

Sartre's friend and sometime rival, Paul Nizan was a prototype of the angry young man. Ideologically a Marxist,...  Read More >>

The oddly diverse character of James Fenimore Cooper's writings and activities has led many critics to view his...  Read More >>

Professor Ellison demonstrates that the characteristic difficulties of Emerson's prose--its repetitiveness, discontinuity,...  Read More >>

Arguing that psychoanalytic method enlarges and enriches the significance of literature by discovering a fundamental...  Read More >>

Since his death in October 1970, Jean Giono's reputation as a major French novelist has steadily increased. In order...  Read More >>

With these two volumes Princeton University Press concludes the first scholarly edition of the letters of Samuel...  Read More >>

The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents a feature of...  Read More >>

The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents a feature of...  Read More >>

""It is now become so much the fashion to publish letters, that in order to avoid it, I put as little into mine...  Read More >>

Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, acclaimed as the father of modern Persian short story, wrote this work. Sar o Tah-e Yak...  Read More >>

Alban Forcione analyzes the problem which has most troubled modern readers of the Persiles, its episodic character...  Read More >>

Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the ""Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel""...  Read More >>

This supplementary bibliography describes work by and about Ernest Hemingway published between 1966 and 1973. Part...  Read More >>

One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott, The Hero of the Waverley Novels is a model for reconstructing...  Read More >>

Fiction criticism has a long and influential history in pre-modern China, where critics would read and reread certain...  Read More >>

Thomas Hart examines Erich Auerbach's contention that Don Quixote is not a tragedy but a comedy and suggests that...  Read More >>

Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation...  Read More >>