Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

This masterful synthesis of criticism and biography surveys all of Hermann Hesse's major works and many of his minor...  Read More >>

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Marianna Torgovnick maintains that it is worthwhile to think about novels in terms of the visual arts--in part because...  Read More >>

Arguing that Beckett's understanding of subjectivity cannot be reduced to that of phenomenology or existential humanism,...  Read More >>

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Novels affirm the power of fiction to portray the horizons of knowledge and to dramatize the ways that the truths...  Read More >>

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In a new interpretation of the fiction of Anthony Trollope, Coral Lansbury argues that Trollope's work in the Post...  Read More >>

Edmund Wilson helped shape American letters from the early 1920's through the mid-'60s. He remains a presence in...  Read More >>

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

""If you inquire into the origins of the novel long enough,"" writes James Tatum in the preface to this work, ""...you...  Read More >>

Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) occupies a position in Spanish literature surpassed only by Cervantes, and, like...  Read More >>

These nineteen essays introduce the rich and until now largely unexplored tradition of women's experimental fiction...  Read More >>

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What happens when we read novels and how do we make sense of them? Inge Wimmers explores these questions by developing...  Read More >>

For James McMichael, Joyce's Ulysses invites the wide range of interpretations it has received: what it also does...  Read More >>

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

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