Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

This stylistic study of consciousness in the Modernist novel explores shifts across different viewpoints and the...  Read More >>

A journey of 100 serials begins with a single Tweet. Okay, more than 100. Whofolk, you are hereby invited to the...  Read More >>

Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international bestseller, read and loved by four generations of readers and...  Read More >>

J B Priestley grew up in Bradford, and served on the front line in the First World War, before attending Cambridge...  Read More >>

J G Ballard self-professedly 'devoured' the work of Sigmund Freud as a teenager, and entertained early thoughts...  Read More >>

Argues that, during the Cold War, modern political imagination was held captive by the split between two visions...  Read More >>

The idea of the ""outside"" as a space of freedom has always been central in the literature of the United States....  Read More >>

American Fiction in Transition offers a case study for defining the 1990s as a transitional decade for US literature...  Read More >>

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Ever since the first appearances of Superman and Batman in comic books of the late 1930s, superheroes have been...  Read More >>

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic...  Read More >>

While critics collect around the question of what comes ""after postmodernism,"" this book asks something different...  Read More >>

A critical companion to the works of Herta Müller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.  Read More >>

En Brisas de agosto, segundo libro de relatos cortos despu s de...  Read More >>

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In Women’s Work, Courtney Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre and geography of African American nationalism as...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith share an ecological philosophy of the world as one highly interconnected...  Read More >>

This study returns Joyce's masterwork to the reader (and to accessibility) by a coupling of essential narrative...  Read More >>

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Translated for the first time into English, The Myth of the Superhero looks beyond the cape, the mask, and the superpowers,...  Read More >>

By fusing biographical, historical, cultural, and literary materials with the insights of psychology and archetypal...  Read More >>

This compilation brings together twenty essays (ten in English and ten in Afrikaans) on the work of one of South...  Read More >>

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A survey of the mystery fiction genre, from its detective-story origins and puzzle-solving influences to the famous...  Read More >>

A survey of the science fiction genre, from its Industrial Revolution-era origins and technological influences to...  Read More >>