Literary Studies: General

An analysis of how visual variety and grandeur are intrinsic and artistically well-conceived elements of the work of Rabelais, and that they develo...

In her exploration of the quest for God in Beckett''s fiction, Barge discloses a powerful substratum of thematic and narrative movements underlying...

In this book, Richard A. Carr elucidates Boaistuau''s quest for a ''nouvelle form'' in his loose adaptation of Bandello''s Novelle. Emphasizing psy...

This edition is annotated and introduced with a detailed chart of representative Spanish and French works of useless-precaution plots. The inte...

There is a new category of authors blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction: women who work or have worked in criminal justice--lawyers,...

Les Enchantemenz de Bretaigne is a portion of a medieval Arthurian prose romance extracted from a longer work entitled La Suite du Merlin. Editor P...

While many American superheroes have multiple powers and complex gadgets, the Flash is simply fast. This simplicity makes his character easily c...

The Limits of Literary Historicism is a collection of essays arguing that historicism, which has come to dominate the professional study of literat...

Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, ...

Since the publication of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, authors, filmmakers, and theatrical producers have been retelling and ...

In The Nature of Trauma in the American Novel, Michelle Balaev undertakes an ambitious rethinking of the foundations, implementations, and new poss...

The House on Mango Street is easily one of the most critically and commercially successful novels by a Mexican American writer. Since its publicati...

During the Harlem Renaissance, several literary periodicals encouraged African American women to submit poetry, short stories, essays, or other ...

The Harry Potter phenomenon created a surge in reading with a lasting effect on all areas of culture, especially education. Today, teachers acro...

Coleridge's poetry often overshadows the brilliance of the other genres and forms of writing that occupied his interests. Classic works such as Kub...

Known for his sometimes-gritty naturalism and use of Appalachian dialect, Harry Harrison Kroll (18881967) was a remarkably prolific Tennessee novel...

How often does a novel earn its author both the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded to Harper Lee by George W. Bush in 2007, and a spot on a lis...

Barbara Kingsolver's books have sold millions of copies. The Poisonwood Bible was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and her work is studied in cour...

Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics. A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Things Fall Apart an...

The past century's culture wars that Britain has been consumed by, but that few North Americans seem aware of, have resulted in revised notions of ...

Many academics dismiss Stephen King as a mere genre writer, an over-glorified bestseller who appeals to the masses, but lacks literary merit. Th...

This work analyzes dramatic structures, from Sophocles to Orson Welles and the 21st century cinema, all from the viewpoint of Hegelian dialectic...

Resistance is a key concept for understanding the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and for approaching the poetry of the period. This...

This first book-length critical examination of the life and work of Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) reveals a major English writer whose prodigious o...

Fictional war narratives often employ haunted battlefields, super-soldiers, time travel, the undead and other imaginative elements of science fi...

Marxist theories have had a profound influence on crime fiction, beginning with the works of the American writers of the 1930s. This study explo...

Focusing on crime fiction and films that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this book explores the reasons writers and filmmakers inject humor...

The term friendly fire was coined in the 1970s but the theme appears in literature from ancient times to the present. It begins the narrative in Ae...

Nicholas Delbanco has assembled a carefully selected, highly crafted work based on over 30 years correspondence with Jon Manchip White, a prolific ...

In recent years horror and gothic themes have penetrated mainstream popular culture in a manner unseen since the horror boom of the 1970s. Prime...

Authors such as Gish Jen, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chang-rae Lee, Ha Jin, Amy Tan, and Maxine Hong Kingston are among the established authors and newly emerg...

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The Romantics valued nature, spontaneity, visionary experience, powerful feeling, and the artist''s individual response to the experience of life. ...