Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

This study examines postmodern literature— including works by Kurt Vonnegut, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Ishmael Reed, and Thomas ...

Though Friedrich Schiller enjoyed prominent literary standing and great popularity in nineteenth century literary England, his influence has been l...

In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accide...

First published in 1979, this book looks at every aspect of the life and work of Elizabeth Gaskell, including her lesser known novels and writings ...

Critically analyzing the representation of pedagogy in the novels of J.M. Coetzee, this insightful text illustrates the author’s profound conceptio...

This book explores the concept of liminality in the representation of women in eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, as well as in contempo...

Katherine Mansfield has been widely recognised as one of the key authors of her generation, continuing to influence literary modernism and the shor...

This book reconstructs Istanbul through the prism of Orhan Pamuk’s fiction. It navigates the multiple selves and layers of Istanbul to present how ...

The Maya Literary Renaissance is a growing yet little-known literary phenomenon that can redefine our understanding of "literature" universally. By...

This book draws on Iris Murdoch’s philosophy to explore questions related to the importance of attention in ethics. In doing so, it also engages wi...

This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together several leading scholars to explore the substantial body of work produced by Padra...

A charming new paperback edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after the publica...

How does racial ideology contribute to the exploration of narrative voice? How does narrative (un)reliability help in the production and critique o...

Katherine Mansfield has been widely recognised as one of the key authors of her generation, continuing to influence literary modernism and the shor...

Representations of language learning and literacy, also known as “literacy narratives” are a staple of literature. They tell stories of conflict th...

The annotations in this volume, originally published in 1996, intend to assist the reader of Faulkner’s The Hamlet to understand obscure or difficu...

Originally published in 1999 The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature looks at how stereotypical foremother figure exists in ninetee...

This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inq...

This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and...

This book is a collection of essays on Yvonne Owuor’s writings, mainly her most acclaimed novel, Dust as well as Dragonfly Sea and her short story ...

The Pan-Hispanic short story anthology “McOndo” (Grijalbo Mondadori Barcelona, 1996), edited by the Chileans Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez, was e...

In spite of Connie Willis’s numerous science fiction awards and her groundbreaking history as a woman in the field, there is a surprising dearth of...

Reading Words into Worlds asks how it is that reading a novel can feel in some ways like being-in-a-world. The book explores how novels give themse...

This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe’s novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed wit...