Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

"The Anonymous Marie de France" offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman...

The Irish writer Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) has suffered a regrettable decline in critical esteem. Although one of the most popular and critically ac...

"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."--Robert Musil Best known as author of the...

Louise Erdrich, following in the Native American narrative tradition has, crafted enduring tales of homecomings. Her widely acclaimed debut novel L...

In eleven novels written over four decades, Leon Uris has chronicled the unceasing fight of dedicated individuals against the forces of oppression,...

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God highlights the vitality of African American culture. This casebook demonstrates how African Ameri...

In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Margaret Atwood. This guide will deal with her themes, ...

This selection of Bowen's non-fictional writings includes her wonderfully funny, precise recollections of schooldays and childhood experiences, her...

A study which highights the ironic intrusion of novelistic elements in Persiles y Sigismunda, subverting its categorization as pure romance fiction...

Rudolfo A. Anaya's seven novels can all be viewed in terms of the Chicano literary tradition though their rich texts have earned Anaya a place of r...

This book investigates how nature and history intertwined during the violent aftermath of the Latin American Wars of Independence. Synthesizing int...

Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for ...

A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev.SHO...

Through close readings of a selection of European novels and novellas written between 1340 and 1827, this study of "analytical fiction" examines ho...