Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

The result was a tension between theoretical expression and actual discussion of mental phenomena.  Read More >>

Although Rasselas has received more critical commentary than almost any other work by Samuel Johnson, Edward Tomarken's...  Read More >>

It is, rather, an endeavor to fetch the word from silence and restore it to meaning, to resurrect the human soul,...  Read More >>

Drawing on unpublished letters of Howells, James, Lowell, and others and on scores of articles in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

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Explores the act of creation - in literature, film, art, and dance - to arrive at a new synthesis for the young...  Read More >>

This book examines exaggerated masculinities in select novels by James Baldwin, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison....  Read More >>

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Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is a worldwide classic of modern literature for both children and adults....  Read More >>

This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works that engage the numinous--and the critical apparatuses...  Read More >>

Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America considers American minority literatures from the perspective of print...  Read More >>

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

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Phillip Herring distinguishes the solvable problems from the truly insolvable mysteries in Joyce studies. His unusual...  Read More >>

This book has a double purpose: to compare the literary projects, theories, and careers of Balzac and Henry James,...  Read More >>

Patricia McKee demonstrates that Richardson, Eliot, and James see disorderliness and indeterminacy in the human...  Read More >>

Adding a lively voice to Richardsonian studies, Carol Houlihan Flynn traces the complex workings of a major literary...  Read More >>

This highly original interpretation of the novel of the French Classical age explores military strategy as a central...  Read More >>

The publication of James Joyce's Ulysses crowned years of writing and constant rewriting at almost every stage,...  Read More >>

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Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative is the first book to explore the implications of the psychoanalytic...  Read More >>

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