Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

New view of Remarque's novels as a chronicle of the century yet more than a mere reflection of historical events. Erich Maria Remarque is a writer...

Written originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of 50 Shades of Gray has made obvious what was always clear to fans and ...

This title is National Book Critics Circle Award finalist's posthumous volume of critical essays. Those who have read Orpheus in the Bronx, Reginal...

Zayas's prose through a gynocentric lens. María de Zayas y Sotomayor published two volumes of novellas, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares [1637] and D...

By the early nineteenth century, imperial commodities had become commonplace in middle-class English homes. Such Indian goods as tea, textiles, and...

This book argues that to truly understand the short story form, one mustlook at how it was shaped by the lively, chaotic, and deeply politicizedwor...

This books compelling subject is the narratives of contemporary writers and artists who probe the ravages of breast cancer. Mary K. DeShazers focus...

Edgar Allan Poes image and import in Spanish America shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three...

A spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays   An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a s...

Mary Bercaw Edwards has researched the sources very thoroughly, going well beyond the previously published source studies. The result is a sound hi...

First published in 1937, Thomas Wolfes The Lost Boy gives name to the theme of lost children that has permeated much of southern literature and pro...

Music in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates and analyzes the ways in which Fitzgerald integrated music with literature through his entire...

After more than a century, the urgency with which the writing of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche speaks to us is undiminished. Nietzsche ...

The essays in this collection reflect two of Martís key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in Ne...

Science fiction and fantasy are often thought of as stereotypically male genres, yet both have a long and celebrated history of female creators,...

Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of pure nature apart from the corruption of civilization...

The time period of 1990-2010 marks a significant moment in Spanish literary publishing that emphasized a new focus on Africa and African voices and...

The authors maintain that Llull was an atypical 'scholar' because he enjoyed a form of access to knowledge that differed from the norm and because ...

Shows how Adler, Wander, Hilsenrath, and Klüger intertwine transgressive political criticism with the shadow of trauma, revealing new perspectives ...

In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro. The award focused i...

Imagined or actual returns to a homeland in African literature are examined in relation to changing concepts of identity, belonging, migration and ...

Ernest Hemingway famously called Spain the country that I loved more than any other except my own, and his forty-year love affair with it provided ...