Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Trauma, Memory, and the Lebanese Post-War Novel: Beirut’s Invisible Histories in Rabee Jaber’s Fiction

Trauma, Memory, and the Lebanese Post-War Novel: Beirut’s...

Author: Dani Nassif
ISBN: 9783031491702
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book takes the case of the civil war disappeared in Lebanon to draw on fiction’s potential to inform peacebuilding...  Read More >>

Tamil Prose after Bharathi

Tamil Prose after Bharathi

Author: Vallikannan ,  S Thillainayagam
ISBN: 9781032718156
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book discusses the individualistic features of several great writers of Tamil fiction and their contribution...  Read More >>

When I Died for the First Time

When I Died for the First Time

Author: Tim Booth
ISBN: 9781408718889
Format: Hardback
$55.00

THE DEBUT NOVEL BY JAMES FRONTMAN, TIM BOOTH  Read More >>

Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality

Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality

Author: Kylie Crane (University of Rostock, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350380592
Format: Hardback
$170.00

"""Plastic and concrete are two of the most important and ubiquitous materials of the modern age. This open access...  Read More >>

Tamil Prose after Bharathi

Tamil Prose after Bharathi

Author: Vallikannan ,  S Thillainayagam
ISBN: 9781032718132
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book discusses the individualistic features of several great writers of Tamil fiction and their contribution...  Read More >>

Psychology in the Fiction of Henry James: Memory, Emotions, and Empathy

Psychology in the Fiction of Henry James: Memory, Emotions,...

Author: Teckyoung Kwon
ISBN: 9781666905748
Format: Hardback
$177.00

This book discusses consciousness using the teachings of Freud, William James, and recent neuroscientists, as well...  Read More >>

Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Ros Ballaster
ISBN: 9781837651276
Format: Paperback
$69.84

"An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of ""presence"" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth...  Read More >>

Christianity and Comics: Stories We Tell about Heaven and Hell

Christianity and Comics: Stories We Tell about Heaven...

Author: Blair Davis
ISBN: 9781978828216
Format: Paperback
$105.47

This book presents an 80-year history of how the comics industry has drawn inspiration from biblical imagery, stories,...  Read More >>

Misrecognitions: Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel

Misrecognitions: Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel...

Author: Ben Parker
ISBN: 9781501774072
Format: Hardback
$129.23

"""In Misrecognitions, Ben Parker mounts a defense of novelistic recognition scenes based on Karl Marx's account...  Read More >>

Marlow's Dream: Joseph Conrad in Antipodean

Marlow's Dream: Joseph Conrad in Antipodean

Author: Martin Edmond
ISBN: 9780648629702
Format: Paperback
$35.00

"Before establishing his literary career with ""Heart of Darkness"" in 1899, Joseph Conrad was a merchant mariner,...  Read More >>

Horror in Classical Literature: ‘On a Profound and Elementary Principle'

Horror in Classical Literature: ‘On a Profound and Elementary...

Author: Edmund P. Cueva
ISBN: 9781837720934
Format: Hardback
$124.95

"Bridges ancient Graeco-Roman texts with modern appreciations of the horror genre and introduces them to students,...  Read More >>

Christianity and Comics: Stories We Tell about Heaven and Hell

Christianity and Comics: Stories We Tell about Heaven...

Author: Blair Davis
ISBN: 9781978828223
Format: Hardback
$192.59

This book presents an 80-year history of how the comics industry has drawn inspiration from biblical imagery, stories,...  Read More >>

100 Uplifting Short Stories for Seniors: From 50s to 90s Discover Funny Story Collections that are Easy to Read for Elderly Women and Men

100 Uplifting Short Stories for Seniors: From 50s to...

Author: Evelyn Press
ISBN: 9781803860671
Format: Paperback
$55.41

"Step into a world of laughter and nostalgia with ""100 Uplifting Short Stories for Seniors."""  Read More >>

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle ,  Catherine Wynne (Reader in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Visual Culture, Reader in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Visual Culture, University of Hull)
ISBN: 9780198865759
Format: Paperback
$14.95

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine,...  Read More >>

The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators

The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries...

Author: Martin Edwards
ISBN: 9780008192440
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Now revised and expanded for its first paperback publication, The Life of Crime was the winner of four major prizes...  Read More >>

The Writing School: A memoir

The Writing School: A memoir

Author: Miranda France
ISBN: 9781472157355
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Clever, funny and captivating The Writing School is a memoir told by way of a fictionalised account of the author's...  Read More >>

Seamus Heaney: A Portrait in Letters

Seamus Heaney: A Portrait in Letters

Author: Peter Raina
ISBN: 9781803744896
Format: Hardback
$77.63

Seamus Heaney wrote hundreds of letters and postcards in long hand, answering almost all the letters he received...  Read More >>

Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour

Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour

Author: Robert Volpicelli
ISBN: 9780198914792
Format: Paperback
$52.95

A study of the twentieth-century transatlantic literary lecture tour, with a focus on the role that this circuit...  Read More >>

Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920: 'The Indispensable East'

Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920:...

Author: Katharina Herold-Zanker (Assistant Professor, Department of English Studies, Assistant Professor, Department of English Studies, Durham University)
ISBN: 9780198880974
Format: Hardback
$170.95

This book examines late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature written in England and Germany, exploring...  Read More >>

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8:...

Author: Cyrus R. K. Patell (Professor of English, New York University) ,  Deborah Lindsay Williams (Clinical Professor of Liberal Studies, New York University)
ISBN: 9780192844729
Format: Hardback
$260.95

An overview of US fiction since 1940 that explores the history of literary forms, the history of narrative forms,...  Read More >>

States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic

States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic...

Author: Alice Kaplan ,  Laura Marris
ISBN: 9780226833309
Format: Paperback
$26.95

States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose

Author: Robert Morrison (British Academy Global Professor, British Academy Global Professor, Bath Spa University)
ISBN: 9780198834540
Format: Hardback
$311.95

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is the first full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British...  Read More >>

Conrad’s Presence in Contemporary Culture: Adaptations and Appropriations

Conrad’s Presence in Contemporary Culture: Adaptations...

Author: Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech ,  Nathalie Martinière
ISBN: 9789004691971
Format: Hardback
$348.48

The book showcases the Conrad-effect in contemporary culture. It consists of various essays authored by scholars...  Read More >>

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