Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

First English translation of the final work of Theodor Fontane, one of Germany's most significant novelists. Theodor Fontane (1819-98), widely reg...

New essays on the works and themes of Hesse, one of the most perennially relevant and widely-read German authors. Today, forty years after Timothy...

OrIoff shows that Cortázar did not become a political writer as a result of the Cuban Revolution, as is often claimed, but rather that the represen...

A comprehensive advanced introduction to and scholarly commentary on the work of the Swiss writer Max Frisch, one of the leading German-language dr...

A detailed and lively discussion and analysis of the novels, short stories, newspaper columns, and other works of one of the most important and pop...

This volume seeks to document the development of the Palestinian short story between 1944 and 1967. This particularly significant phase that carrie...

The Antwerp Testament is Evelyn Grills longest book to date and her most complex. It shows those who were damaged and dislocated by World War II re...

Final volume in three-volume set of translations of Arthurian romances from medieval Scandinavia. Hærra Ivan (Sir Ivan, the Knight with the Lion) ...

A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time. A panel of a...

A volume of carefully focused essays illuminating the works of one of the leading 20th-century German writers. Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) was one o...

Fresh essays on the works of the most significant -- and readable -- German Baroque author. Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (ca. 1621-16...

Analyzes Wolf's, Drewitz's, and Weil's views of individual responsibility in history, with reference to theories of memory and feminist ethics. Ch...

This research sheds new light on Angela Carters critique of her contemporary world, not only as a feminist and socialist but also as a political wr...

This book is a collection of essays by international writer Bapsi Sidhwa gathered for the first time in one edition by Teresa Russo, with a forewor...

New essays on topics spanning the Age of Goethe, with a special section of fresh views of Goethe and Idealism. The Goethe Yearbook is a publicatio...

This volume examines the engagement with national histories, citizenship, and the larger transnational contexts in the narrative plot lines in sele...

Der 90. Geburtstag im Jahr 2019 hat Michael Ende (1929-1995) erneut in die Öffentlichkeit gerückt und auch die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung...

The first book to examine the connection between gender and memory in Grass's oeuvre, which is especially timely in light of current concerns about...

This book explores the representations of disability, gender and old age in the novels of Samuel Beckett. His works go against the foundations of W...

A contextualizing overview of the polarized critical reception of Willa Cather, one of the pre-eminent US authors of the twentieth-century. The ...

Carlos BulosanRevolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States: A Critical Appraisal is an in-depth, critical evaluation of Bulosan's major works...