Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

The volume offers an overview of the economic, political and cultural factors that influence the production of literature. By bringing together the...

Australias official Reconciliation project confronted Australians with the continuous violent dispossession suffered by the countrys Indigenous peo...

This study is an analysis of the novels Black Water (1992), Blonde (2000), and My Sister, My Love (2008) by Joyce Carol Oates. Based on real-life c...

Victorian Pilgrimage: Sacred-Secular Dualism in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot argues that Charlotte Brontë, E...

Victorian Pilgrimage: Sacred-Secular Dualism in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot argues that Charlotte Brontë, E...

Neil Jordan is immediately associated with the successful films he has directed (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire, Michael Collins...). ...

This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writers trilogy: Boyhood (1997...

This study of Voss by the Anglo-Australian Patrick White analyses the historical novel, set in the 1850s and concerning Vosss exploration of the in...

The second of two studies devoted to the interrelations of poetry and prose fiction, this volume examines the origins, development and flowering of...

This book analyzes the literature that emerged from World War II. It also examines the literature that resulted from the two major earthquakes that...

Theres No Word for Saudade contains twenty-one essays aimed at a readership interested in cultural and historical materials, including those relate...

This study of a novel by William T. Vollmann offers a port of entry into his fiction. Like other titles from his planned «Seven Dreams» collection,...

This book offers a new, complex understanding of Indian writing in English by focusing its analysis on both Indo-Pakistani Partition fiction and no...

This book offers a new, complex understanding of Indian writing in English by focusing its analysis on both Indo-Pakistani Partition fiction and no...

In this innovative book, Bahman Solati presents a comparative study of fe, an internationally renowned poet in the West, particularly in Germany, F...

This monograph is focused on the fictional works of Arnold Bennett whose literary role was very important in the history of the late nineteenth and...

This book examines Ian McEwan's ability to discern in his writing sentiments that easily resonate with musicians, explores the value of music in ex...

This book examines Ian McEwan's ability to discern in his writing sentiments that easily resonate with musicians, explores the value of music in ex...

New and cutting-edge work in animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanismRepresentations of animality continue to proliferate in vario...

John McGahern (19342006) believed that fiction could act as a window on the world. Such windows, however, frame our fields of vision, alter and sha...