Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Modern Critical Views

The work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez attracts the interest of cultural historians as well as literary critics as he brings Latin American culture closer to the rest of the world. Numerous works by the author are examined here, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Autumn of the Patriarch.
This title, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, examines the major works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

The Riddles of Harry Potter - Secret Passages and Interpretive Quests

Handbooks, guides, and articles on the Harry Potter books have been produced, but there is as yet no sustained discussion of the series as a literary work. Shira Wolosky shows here that the Harry Potter books take part in a rich literary tradition, including allegorical double meanings, mirror images among characters, psychological explorations of family dynamics, political and social critique, and complex moral questions. This book draws readers into deeper meanings of Harry Potter, arguing that the books launch and pursue interpretive quests in an ongoing effort to understand patterns and their attendant meanings, implications, and consequences.

A Fatal Attachment

Robert Barnard - A Fatal Attachment

Many years ago, Yorkshire writer Joshua Sneddon killed his more successful sister with an ax, then shot himself in the head. Now a yahoo entrepreneur has taken a sudden interest in the obscure literary Sneddons, and Detective Constable Charlie Peace wonders why.

Space and the ‘March of Mind’ - Literature and the Physical Sciences in Britain, 1815–1850

This book is about the idea of space in the first half of the nineteenth century. It uses contemporary poetry, essays, and fiction as well as scientific papers, textbooks, and journalism to give a new account of nineteenth-century literature's relationship with science. In particular it brings the physical sciences--physics and chemistry--more accessibly and fully into the arena of literary criticism than has been the case until now.

The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction

This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form.