Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

An up-to-date, comprehensive and interdisciplinary interpretationof notions of evil in French literature and thought....  Read More >>

In early nineteenth-century Russia, members of jocular literary societies gathered to recite works written in the...  Read More >>

Introduces key concepts in contemporary literary theory to explore the major novels of Sir Walter Scott.  Read More >>

Der schlesische Dichter Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635-1683) gehört neben Gryphius zu den bedeutendsten Autoren...  Read More >>

Die 1876 von Wilhelm Braune als Neudrucke deutscher Literaturwerke des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts begrundete Reihe...  Read More >>

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When Brautigan took his own life in September of 1984 his close friends and network of artists and writers were...  Read More >>

This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work...  Read More >>

This reading of Melville's ""Moby-Dick"" brings into play some of the most consequential developments in philosophy,...  Read More >>

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Two centuries on from the first publication of Pride and Prejudice in 1813, this Companion investigates some of...  Read More >>

Two centuries on from the first publication of Pride and Prejudice in 1813, this Companion investigates some of...  Read More >>

"In letter written at the end of 1960, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote that, while parts of The Lord of the Rings, ""owe...  Read More >>

This study posits that the narrative of sibling love as a culturally significant tradition in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Chronicles the making of an iconic American writer by exploring Ray Bradbury's childhood and early years of his...  Read More >>

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Pbk. printing of hardcover ed. published in 2005.  Read More >>

Instead of canonizing Thoreau as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, these essays...  Read More >>

Staring at Lakes is about the essence of love and marriage, about growing old and sitting in cars and staring at...  Read More >>

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A chronologically arranged study, providing lucid and insightful analyses of each of Waugh's novels, their apparently...  Read More >>

Instead of canonizing Thoreau as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, these essays...  Read More >>

In 1996, S.T. Joshi's H.P. Lovecraft: a life was published. The edition was abridged by more than 150,000 words....  Read More >>

In 1996, S.T. Joshi's ""H. P. Lovecraft: a life"" was published as an abridged edition to his earlier editions of...  Read More >>

This book examines the literary politics of Orhan Pamuk’s novels within the framework of contestations over “Turkishness,”...  Read More >>