Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Weaving Words and Binding Bodies presents the first comprehensive study of weaving and binding imagery through intertextual...  Read More >>

Offers a thoughtful examination of the life and work of William Gibson, author of eleven novels and twenty short...  Read More >>

A study of how literature of the early eighteenth century represented a newly fashionable life of amusement and...  Read More >>

An exploration of science fiction literature, cinema, theater, and comics from Argentina over the last 140 years....  Read More >>

The Orientalist romance, in the late medieval period and in modernity, is emblematic of popular attitudes towards...  Read More >>

If game theory, the mathematical simulation of rational decision-making first axiomatically established by the Hungarian-born...  Read More >>

Not only does any tale which crosshatches between this world and Faerie owe a founder's debt to Lord Dunsany, but...  Read More >>

This fascinating anthology introduces readers to the literary side of Herman Melville's whaling world with an unprecedented...  Read More >>

Short Story Criticism assembles critical responses to the writings of the worlds most renowned short fiction writers...  Read More >>

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Travis McGee & Me is D. R. Martin's book-by-book personal take on the famous boat bum hero created by John D. MacDonald....  Read More >>

Alan H. Goldman presents an original account of the relationship between philosophy and the novel. With reference...  Read More >>

Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on European crime fiction, but his principal area of expertise...  Read More >>

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How do (im)migrant writers negotiate their representation of a multilingual world for a monolingual audience? Does...  Read More >>

Ken Newton argues that George Eliot's fiction is more innovative than previous critics have admitted, anticipating...  Read More >>

Military Men of Feeling considers the popularity of the figure of the gentle soldier in the Victorian period, inviting...  Read More >>

The story's speaker unwinds, in a logical manner, a series of happenings he calls household events. More deeply,...  Read More >>

This large print title is set in Tiresias 16pt font as recommended by the RNIB.  Read More >>

The Juvenile Tradition recovers the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century juvenile tradition. Drawing on...  Read More >>

Modernist poet H.D. had many visionary and paranormal experiences throughout her life. Although Sigmund Freud worried...  Read More >>

This volume applies a sign-oriented approach to the description of articulatory and acoustic iconic phenomena in...  Read More >>

This book studies the use of digression in contemporary Latin American literature by way of close readings of Roberto...  Read More >>

A highly original and engaging appraisal of Kafka's life, work, legacy, and thought  Read More >>