Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros. Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954), author of the acclaimed novel Th...

Company was first composed in English over two years, with Beckett breaking a 20-year-long pattern of composing primarily in French to craft this m...

While many of Freuds original formulations have required either revision or rejection and replacement with newer models, his cultural books, such a...

Adopting the modernist master Vladimir Nabokov as its guide, Nabokov in Motion: Modernity and Movement is an exploration of the radically changing ...

Recognised now as one of the most important voices to emerge from Scotland's literary 'Renaissance' in the 1930s, the full extent of Nan Shepherd's...

These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatts essays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921...

Since the appearance of her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960a book that undermined the nations ideal of innocent and pious Irish girlhoodEdn...

Literature has never looked weirder--full of images, colors, gadgets, and footnotes, and violating established norms of character, plot, and narrat...

How does a writer approach a novel about a real person? In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, Dav...

In 1962, The Christian Century published C. S. Lewiss answer to the question, What books did most to shape your vocational attitude and your philos...

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid X, giving full Latin text, co...

Almost as soon as 'club culture' took hold - during the UKs Second Summer of Love in 1988 - its sociopolitical impact became clear, with journalist...

Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. This book is the first comprehensive study of Hedayat's...

What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, S...

Nabokov's Shakespeare is a comprehensive study of an important and interesting literary relationship. It explores the many and deep ways in which t...

Scholarly responses to Henry Millers works have never been numerous and for many years Miller was not a fashionable writer for literary studies. In...

Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. ...

Literatures, Cultures, Translation presents a new line of books that engage central issues in translation studies such as history, politics, and ge...

How can we use digital media to understand reading, editing, and writing as literary processes? How can we design the digital medium in a way that ...

Described as the most widely read and influential serious writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains relevant in our own era of contest...

Flat Aesthetics seeks to secure a more granular and ontologically demotic handle on the contemporary in American literature. While contemporaneity ...

SHORTLISTED, 2024 MSA FIRST BOOK PRIZE Topothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of Br...

SHORTLISTED, 2024 MSA FIRST BOOK PRIZE Topothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of Br...

First published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marked by a distinctive ...