Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

The Canadian author Alice Munro, recognized as one of the worlds finest short story writers, published some seventeen books between 1968 and 2014, ...

Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji. Exploring iterations of...

This user-friendly resource is the perfect reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore fiction from around the world. Profiling...

Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark bio...

I greatly admire the work of Tiziana de Rogatis. She is a reader of deep refinement. Often I think that she knows my books better than I. So, I rea...

Nearly 100 years after Franz Kafka's death, his works continue to intrigue and haunt us. Even for those who are only fleetingly acquainted with his...

Longing for an Absent God unveils the powerful role of faith and doubt in the American literary tradition. Nick Ripatrazone explores how two major ...

In Robert Chandler's exquisite biography, literary giant Alexander Pushkin, lauded as the Russian Shakespeare, is examined as writer, lover and pub...

Can there be a novel of the international working class despite the conditions and constraints of economic globalization? What does it mean to invo...