Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

The question I hear most from beginners about building a fantasy storyworld is, ""Where do I start?"" Oz, Wonderland,...  Read More >>

Annie Proulx is one of the most provocative and stylistically innovative writers in America today. She is at her...  Read More >>

Asked in 2006 about the philosophical nature of his fiction, the late American writer David Foster Wallace replied,...  Read More >>

The Maximalist Novel sets out to define a new genre of contemporary fiction that developed in the United States...  Read More >>

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First published in 1998, this bibliography assembles a large body of supernatural fiction written by women from...  Read More >>

By examining the fiction of three women modernists - Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein and Nella Larsen - this book complicates...  Read More >>

This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature...  Read More >>

Presents thirteen essays on Stephen King's recent writings that have not received the critical attention of his...  Read More >>

Explores the development of detective fiction during the critical period between Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock...  Read More >>

""The Eldritch Evola . . . collects a number of essays by James J. O'Meara in which he applies his Traditionalist,...  Read More >>

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""The Eldritch Evola . . . collects a number of essays by James J. O'Meara in which he applies his Traditionalist,...  Read More >>

DEATH CARRIES A CAMCORDER is a snarky romp through the minefields of literary art, conducted by a guide who has...  Read More >>

Examines three types of female monstrous Others in young adult fiction - the haunted girl, the female werewolf and...  Read More >>

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This volume contains two concise works by the innovative twentieth-century literary critic Janko Lavrin, offering...  Read More >>

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""The essays seek to define the unique qualities of female heroism in literary fantasy from 1950s through the present...  Read More >>

With its demand that works of art be judged according to the their morally didactic content, Tolstoy’s reviled aesthetics...  Read More >>

The two note-books of the diary of Mme. Dostoevsky, the rough notes of her lengthy Reminiscences, unfinished at...  Read More >>

The bare events of Dostoevsky’s life go far to account for his strange intensity of vision. This biography, first...  Read More >>

Tolstoy’s fame as one of the world’s greatest novelists has never been in doubt, but the importance of his views...  Read More >>

Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting,...  Read More >>