Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

A complete and comprehensive guide to the science fiction (sf) field for literature students.  Read More >>

This book offers the first in-depth examination of the friendship between the authors. Hawthorne's influence upon...  Read More >>

Lacework or Mirror?  Read More >>

Presents the psycho-social complexes that drive the fictional characters' sense of selfhood in the works of Banks,...  Read More >>

Der Vorleser continues to be a highly controversial work of contemporary fiction. The author's analysis elucidates...  Read More >>

This fully updated second edition traces the ways in which centuries of human beings have used narrative to make...  Read More >>

This book reveals fundamental connections between nationalist violence, religious identity, and the origins of the...  Read More >>

Widely acknowledged as an important, if highly controversial, figure in contemporary literature, French novelist...  Read More >>

A complete and comprehensive guide to the science fiction (sf) field for literature students.  Read More >>

Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that ""we have suffered a general loss...  Read More >>

In its centennial year, Marcel Proust’s masterpiece of literary imagination is available in a Norton Critical Edition....  Read More >>

This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside...  Read More >>

The Gothic has taken a revolutionary turn in this century. Today's Gothic has fashioned its monsters and devils...  Read More >>

Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on...  Read More >>

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Building Christian Character through The Hobbit is a companion book with a built-in Bible-study based upon Bilbo's...  Read More >>

Yn y cyfnod presennol o ryfela a dadlau am ymyrraeth Prydain yn Afghanistan ac Irac, dyma gyfrol sy'n amlygu mor...  Read More >>

Vladimir Nabokov's ""Western choice"" allowed him to take a literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Rzepka draws on more than twelve hours of personal interviews with Leonard and applies what he learned to his close...  Read More >>

Where the Shadows Lie takes the reader on a journey through Tolkien's Middle-earth, following the hobbits, their...  Read More >>

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The Litany of the Elves is a beautifully composed children's story which draws on Ancient Greek folklore. Originally...  Read More >>

Diese Studie entwickelt mit einem lateinamerikanistischen Korpus das Motiv der Weltenvielfalt als einen gattungs-,...  Read More >>

This collection of articles, essays, interviews, and poems defines urban literature-street lit-and provides valuable...  Read More >>