Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
Worlds Apart
An Anthology of Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
“Discover some curiosities and some genuinely fascinating, powerfully resonant works” in this Book Riot 50 Must-Reads of Slavic Literature selection (Kirkus Reviews).
A constant thread woven throughout the history of Russian literature is that of fantasy and an escape from the bounds of...
What Is a World?
On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature’s cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative theory...
Literature Against Criticism
University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside...
by Alex Goody
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has represented the inescapable presence and progress of technology. As this study argues, from the Fordist revolution in manufacturing to computers and the...
The Politics of Perfection
Technology and Creation in Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in Literature and Film provides an exploration of the relationship between modern technological progress and classical liberalism. Each chapter provides a detailed analysis of a film or novel, including Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Ridley Scott’s...
by Gerald Alva Miller Jr., Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Gerald Alva Miller Jr.’s Understanding William Gibson is a thoughtful examination of the life and work of William Gibson, author of eleven novels and twenty short stories. Gibson is the recipient of many notable awards for science fiction writing including the Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick awards....
by Jennifer Beidendorf, Mary Elizabeth Bezanson, Lauren Rose Camacci
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature is an edited volume with contributions from established and new scholars of rhetoric offering case studies that analyze a full array of genres in children’s literature from picture books to young adult novels. Collectively, this volume’s contributions...
Traditional Japanese Literature
An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, Abridged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Haruo Shirane's critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both high and low styles of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of...
by Kathryn James
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Knowledge about carnality and its limits provides the agenda for much of the fiction written for adolescent readers today, yet there exists little critical engagement with the ways in which it has been represented in the young adult novel in either discursive, ideological, or rhetorical forms. Death,...
Violence Against Indigenous Women
Literature, Activism, Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation’s colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate rates. What insights can literature...
Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation
Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This study of children's literature as knowledge, culture, and social foundation bridges the gap between science and literature and examines the interconnectedness of fiction and reality as a two-way road. The book investigates how the civilized narrative orders experience by means of segregation,...
Eleanor Cameron
Dimensions of Amazement
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and children's literature criticism. From her beginnings as a librarian, Cameron went on to become a prominent and respected voice in children's literature, writing one of the most beloved children's science...
The Art of Life
Studies in American Autobiographical Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Autobiographical literature especially reveals the processes by which writers convert their own historical experience into fictional form and suggests how literary forms function in life. This volume defines an original theory of autobiographical writing and provides intriguing analyses of major American...
The Fabrication of American Literature
Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers tell a different story: they derided literature as a fraud, an imposture, and a humbug, and they likened it to inflated currency, land bubbles,...