Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Theologies of Pain: Literary Bodies and Afflicted Forms in Puritan New England

Theologies of Pain: Literary Bodies and Afflicted Forms...

Author: Lucas Hardy (Associate Professor, Youngstown State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350400405
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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

Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction: Complicity and Continuities

Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction: Complicity...

Author: Dr Stephanie Bird (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350424135
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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

Fanfiction as Queer Healing: Femslash Authorship and the Swan Queen Ship

Fanfiction as Queer Healing: Femslash Authorship and...

Author: Dr Alice M. Chapman-Kelly (Fellow-in-Residence, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, University of Oxford, UK) ,  Senior Lecturer Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow UK)
ISBN: 9781350350908
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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

Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Translating

Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach...

Author: Professor Douglas Robinson (Chair Professor English, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9798765112809
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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

Rabelais and the Social Order: An Essay in Cognitive Criticism

Rabelais and the Social Order: An Essay in Cognitive...

Author: Neil Kenny (Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of French, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198987246
Format: Hardback
$282.95

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

The Oxford Handbook of Allegory

The Oxford Handbook of Allegory

Author: David Parry (Tutorial Fellow and Director of Studies in English Regent's Park College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192894359
Format: Hardback
$355.95

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

Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture

Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature...

Author: Julia C. Obert
ISBN: 9781805966852
Format: Hardback
$369.60

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

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955

Author: Stephen O'Neill
ISBN: 9781836244813
Format: Hardback
$310.50

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

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction...

Author: Erik Larson
ISBN: 9781684485901
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction: Confronting Dogmatism, Demagoguery, and Disinformation

Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction: Confronting Dogmatism,...

Author: Professor John Rieder (Emeritus Professor of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
ISBN: 9781350551527
Format: Hardback
$170.00

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

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time Travel

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time...

Author: Edward Royston
ISBN: 9780814259825
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time Travel

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time...

Author: Edward Royston
ISBN: 9780814216132
Format: Hardback
$343.07

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

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction...

Author: Erik Larson
ISBN: 9781684485918
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

Author: John Brenkman
ISBN: 9780226849447
Format: Paperback
$45.95

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What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You)

What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should...

Author: Naomi Kanakia
ISBN: 9780691251929
Format: Hardback
$44.99

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Ukrainian Literary Modernism of the 1910smid-1930s, Vol II: A Critical Reader

Ukrainian Literary Modernism of the 1910smid-1930s,...

Author: Dr. Halyna Babak ,  Dr. Yuliya Ilchuk
ISBN: 9798897831357
Format: Hardback
$270.00

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

Ukrainian Literary Modernism of the 1910smid-1930s, Vol I: A Critical Reader

Ukrainian Literary Modernism of the 1910smid-1930s,...

Author: Dr. Halyna Babak ,  Dr. Yuliya Ilchuk
ISBN: 9798897831197
Format: Hardback
$270.00

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

Perverse Attachments: Reading Fiction Around 1800

Perverse Attachments: Reading Fiction Around 1800

Author: Anastasia Eccles
ISBN: 9780226847382
Format: Paperback
$45.95

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

Pale Fire, Nabokov’s Art and Shakespeare’s Magic

Pale Fire, Nabokov’s Art and Shakespeare’s Magic

Author: Gerard de Vries
ISBN: 9781041276098
Format: Hardback
$144.87

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

Wrydart Series – Book One: Kneaded

Wrydart Series – Book One: Kneaded

Author: Lane White
ISBN: 9781035825301
Format: Paperback
$20.67

A Little Novel Wrydart  Read More >>

Short Story Index, 2025 Annual Cumulation

Short Story Index, 2025 Annual Cumulation

Author: HW Wilson
ISBN: 9798891796980
Format: Paperback
$551.10

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Affective Crisis and the Possibility of Attachment: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Fiction in Neoliberal Ruins

Affective Crisis and the Possibility of Attachment:...

Author: Hans Demeyer ,  Sven Vitse
ISBN: 9781806550401
Format: Paperback
$90.56

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

Sustainable Development Goals in Women’s Literature: Voices from Across the Americas

Sustainable Development Goals in Women’s Literature:...

Author: Cláudia Maria Ceneviva Nigro ,  Débora Spacini Nakanishi
ISBN: 9783032157935
Format: Hardback
$232.85

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

Homework: A Memoir

Homework: A Memoir

Author: Geoff Dyer
ISBN: 9781837262014
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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

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