Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Mining unexplored discourses of pain in New England literary texts, this book shows how pain was central in shaping...  Read More >>

Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies...  Read More >>

The first book-length exploration of femflash fanfiction and its implications for wider fan communities, this text...  Read More >>

Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation,...  Read More >>

This book explores the fiction of the French writer François Rabelais (d. 1553) and its engagement with the seemingly...  Read More >>

A Handbook on allegory, as both a literary genre and a means of interpretation. The Handbook reflects the diversity...  Read More >>

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This book examines joy...  Read More >>

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 is the first study of the impact of partition on the culture of Ireland....  Read More >>

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An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction’s power to intervene in the social, political, and environmental...  Read More >>

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction explores the dominant noir moods of precarity and uncertainty...  Read More >>

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The Reader introduces Anglophone audiences to the original theoretical writings and poetry produced in Ukraine from...  Read More >>

The Reader introduces Anglophone audiences to the original theoretical writings and poetry produced in Ukraine from...  Read More >>

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This new theory of reader response describes ""perverse attachment,"" or the powerful desire to intervene in a story,...  Read More >>

By tracing Shakespearean threads throughout Nabokov's intricate narrative structure, this study offers new insights...  Read More >>

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An in-depth study of contemporary novels through the lens of affect theory and ideology critique. Affective Crisis...  Read More >>

This book analyzes how women’s literary production across the Americas engages with the United Nations’ Sustainable...  Read More >>

The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, recollecting his childhood...  Read More >>