Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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

Contending that a search for ""realism"" distorts the writing of Crebillon, Marivaux, Laclos, and Stendahl, Peter...  Read More >>

Faulkner said that ""Life is motion"" and that ""The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by...  Read More >>

Exploring the consciousness and creative impulse of William Dean Howells, Professor Vanderbilt finds that Howells'...  Read More >>

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The author, in defining the genre of ""lyrical fiction,"" separates a type of .fiction that can be legitimately...  Read More >>

Considering horror fiction both as a genre and as a social phenomenon, Joseph Grixti provides a theoretical and...  Read More >>

This study focuses on the subversive techniques of British postmodernist fiction and examines its challenge to Realist...  Read More >>

First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women’s novelists of the...  Read More >>

This title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré, and shows how...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing...  Read More >>

Since Plato and Aristotle’s declaration of the essence of literature as imitation, western narrative has been traditionally...  Read More >>

In this radical reinterpretation, Mr. Thompson argues that Melville, seeking to disguise his agonized conviction...  Read More >>

Most of these letters are 'finds,' never previously published and serving to deepen and to give order to our awareness...  Read More >>

Represents an attempt to apply the techniques of modern literary criticism to the fiction of the Elizabethan period....  Read More >>

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

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

This bibliography of Hemingway's writings and related materials includes, for the first time, all of his books,...  Read More >>

Through a probing study of Flaubert's novels which brings out their nuances of tone, technique, vision, and meaning,...  Read More >>

It seems to me that it was far from right for the Professor of English Literature in Yale, the Professor of English...  Read More >>

The contributions to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume - from many of the world's foremost Levi...  Read More >>

Castellani examines the various ways writers have solved the crucial point-of-view problem. By unpacking the narrative...  Read More >>

Positioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism considers...  Read More >>

This book explores four themes which are innately interconnected within the globalised landscape of the early 21st...  Read More >>

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