Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
Science Fact and Science Fiction
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how...
by Laura Call, Nathan Germain, Gilles Mossière
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Ecocriticism is a critical approach that focuses on the representation in literature of the non-human elements of the natural world, a method of inquiry that has been largely limited to literature written in English. The aim of Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French is twofold: to introduce...
by Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
“The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01”. An enterprise such as THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS is to be judged from two different standpoints. It may be judged with respect to its specific achievement--the material of which it consists; or it may be judged with regard to its general utility in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940 gathers together in a single volume preeminent critics and historians to offer an authoritative, analytic, and theoretically advanced account of the Depression era's key literary events. Many topics of canonical importance, such as protest literature,...
Lost in Space
Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writers contribute to postmodern literary canons with radical alternatives to mainstream patriarchal society....
Surfacing the Politics of Desire
Literature, Feminism and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2008
A particular model of masculine desire has traditionally been evoked in an effort to understand the subordinate role of women in male-authored fiction. Because of this, the belief that male-authored texts are unfailingly built upon the denial of feminine difference has come to dominate many aspects...
by Anastasia Ulanowicz
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Book Award
This book visits a range of textual forms including diary, novel, and picturebook to explore the relationship between second-generation memory and contemporary children’s literature. Ulanowicz argues that second-generation memory...
Fact and Fiction
Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined,...
by Theresia Knuth
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2005
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin, course: Modern and Contemporary Short Stories, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Greek prepositionµet?('meta'), which in this...
Sea-Brothers
The Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis of his study of Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and ten lesser-known sea-writers, Bert Bender argues that the tradition of American sea fiction did not end with...
by Maria Beville
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book visits the 'Thing' in its various manifestations as an unnameable monster in literature and film, reinforcing the idea that the very essence of the monster is its excess and its indeterminacy. Tied primarily to the artistic modes of the gothic, science fiction, and horror, the unnameable...
by Celine Briot
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Bonn (Anglistik), course: Science-Fiction, language: English, abstract: In recent decades the literary genre of Science Fiction has experienced a rising interest which might...
The relationship between fiction and history
Why historical fiction captures our malleable identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1.1, The University of Sydney, course: Fiction Writers at Work, language: English, abstract: It stands to reason that historical and political discourses are only two of many paths leading to a truthful representation of the...
Sounding Real
Musicality and American Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Examining American realist fiction as it was informed and shaped by the music of the period, Sounding Real sheds new light on the profound musical and cultural change at the turn of the twentieth century.
Sounding Real by Cristina L. Ruotolo examines landmark changes in American musical...