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A major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as "literary gamesman," this book systematically shows that behind his ironic manipulation of narrative and his puzzle-like treatment of detail there lies an aesthetic rooted in his intuition of a transcendent realm and in his consequent redefinition of "nature" and "artifice" as synonyms. Begi

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Brian Boyd, Nabokov's biographer and hitherto proponent of the idea that Pale Fire has one narrator, John Shade, now rejects this position and presents a different solution that will shift the nature of critical debate on the novel.

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Explores the many ways in which Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the English language, influences Nabokov, arguably the finest modern English prose stylist.

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Explores the many ways in which Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the English language, influences Nabokov, arguably the finest modern English prose stylist.

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An examination of the writings of Naguib Mahfouz from an existential perspective. The author has conducted a series of interviews with Mahfouz over the last ten years. He concludes that western scholars and politicians conceal the realities of daily life in Egypt, which Mahfouz reveals.

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An account and analysis of new transnational narratives emerging from Latin America.

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An account and analysis of new transnational narratives emerging from Latin America.

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A literary study of memoirs describing at first hand the horrors of German concentration camps. Reiter shows how survivors who were professional authors adapted certain literary genres, while non- professional writers-the vast majority - related their experiences in report form.

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Focuses on some key stories by major authors of contes and nouvelles from the late 1820s to the 1890s. -- .

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This volume represents a first in its analysis of historical trends in the humor of eight Western countries: Australia, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, the United States, and Yugoslavia.

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From the earliest times, Native Americans developed a strong oral tradition. In the shift towards literacy, they began telling their stories through the medium of the written word. This text provides coverage of literature written by Native Americans from the 18th century to 1998.

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This book provides the most complete and definitive study of Roman comedy. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these im

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This work examines three major strands of the work Eugenio Barba, a leading theatre artist and theorist, working across cultures: his research at the International School of Theatre Anthropology; his use of performance as a means of exchange, and his relationship with Latin America.

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By juxtaposing novels from different cultures, this text highlights the ways in which women renegotiate their identities at different ages and writers reconfigure novelistic forms. It discusses works by such authors as Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Keri Hulme and Doris Lessing.

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Negro-African literature in French is one of a number of appellations most commonly used to describe a body of literary texts written in French by Africans and those of African descent from roughly 1920 onward.

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Examining the global dimensions of Neo-Victorianism, this book explores how the appropriation of Victorian images in contemporary literature and culture has emerged as a critical response to the crises of decolonization and Imperial collapse. It also explores the phenomenon by reading a range of popular and literary Anglophone neo-Victorian texts.