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Exile as a Continuum in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction
Joseph Conrad is famous for being an unusual, strange, and even eccentric English writer. However, despite his difference, English criticism has primarily interpreted his fiction …
Valencian Folktales
Enric Valor is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century. This selection of his highly popular rondalles (folk tales) will for the first time introduce his …
On the Avenue of the Mystery
This volume is a study of eight major novels from the postwar period (1945–65) in conjunction with the films made from them during a later period of a little less than three …
Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender
Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender presents fresh insight into the gender issues and sexual ambiguities that have always been present in Hemingway’s work, utilising a …
D. H. Lawrence and Ambivalence in the Age of Modernity
D. H. Lawrence is renowned for his scathing criticism of the ruling class, industrialisation of the country and wartime patriotism. However, his texts bear the imprint of …
Uncertainty and Undecidability in Twentieth-Century Literature and Literary Theory
Undecidability is a fundamental quality of literature and constitutive of what renders some works appealing and engaging across time and in different contexts. This book explores …
Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels
Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History argues historical novels can help readers receive the burdens of history—meaning both the …
Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture
Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture addresses the interesting revival of Henry James’s works in Anglo-American film adaptations and contemporary fiction from the …
Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction
This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. This book's …
Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels
Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman, a journalist, activist and globally recognized novelist. This …
The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myong-sun
The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myong-sun offers an introduction to Korea’s first modern woman writer to publish a collection of creative works, Kim Myong-sun (1896–ca. …
Owen Barfield’s Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
Owen Barfield influenced a diverse range of writers that includes T. S. Eliot, J. R. R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden, Howard Nemerov, and Saul Bellow, and Owen Barfield's Poetry, Drama, …