Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
Socialist Literature
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Socialist Literature studies the relationship between the development of socialist literary theory and the process of cultural transformation in modern society by tracing the outline of the theory in the works of Marx, Lenin, and Mao, and examining its reflection in actual works of literature. This...
Human Rights and Literature
Writing Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Set at the intersection of Human Rights, social justice and Literature, this cutting edge book examines a range of literary texts, fiction, plays and poetry, and through them considers representations of Human Rights and their violations. Examining violated bodies and subjects, the settings and environments...
The Transnational in English Literature
Shakespeare to the Modern
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
The Transnational in English Literature examines English literary history through its transnational engagements and argues that every period of English Literature can be examined through its global relations. English identity and nationhood is therefore defined through its negotiation with other regions...
Hispanicism and Early US Literature
Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Well-researched analysis of the impact that Spain and Spanish America had on antebellum literature in the United States.
In Hispanicism and Early US Literature, author John C. Havard posits that representations of Spain, Spanish America, Spanishness, and Spanish Americanness are integral elements...
Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature
Where Children Rule
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children’s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to children’s literature, and childhood is frequently represented as a state of being, with children seen as aliens in need of passports to Adultland...
by Julia Diedrich
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Psychological Approaches to British Fiction, language: English, abstract: Since the early beginning of literature the double motif...
Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe
From Local History to the Global Individual
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"After more than twenty years as a full member of the European Union, Greece has produced a literature with radically different thematic, ideological and linguistic orientations from previous periods, for both domestic and international reasons. Since literature is considered to constitute both...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot...
On the Teaching of Literature
From Charismatic Secrecy to Joyful Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Drawing on the author’s teaching practice and experience, this book is based on the premise that reading and analyzing literary texts are rewarding pursuits. The target group is grammar school pupils and students at colleges of education and universities. Pedagogic theories are dealt with only in...
The Soft Machine
Cybernetic Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The Soft Machine, originally published in 1985, represents a significant contribution to the study of contemporary literature in the larger cultural and scientific context. David Porush shows how the concepts of cybernetics and artificial intelligence that have sparked our present revolution in computer...
by Oddný Eir, Philip Roughton
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Winner of the EU Prize for Literature
“Oddný Eir is an authentic author, philosopher, and mystic. She weaves together diaries and fiction. She is the writer I feel can best express the female psyche of now.… A true pioneer!!!!!!!!” —Björk
“Part diary, part philosophy (think...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
A History of Virginia Literature chronicles a story that has been more than four hundred years in the making. It looks at the development of literary culture in Virginia from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the twenty-first century. Divided into four main parts, this History examines the literature...
Faulkner and the Native Keystone
Reading (Beyond) the American South
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
The last fifty years have witnessed a never-ending flow of criticism of William Faulkner and his fiction. While this book touches on the prevailing critical theory, it concentrates on a number of fresh observations on themes and motifs that place William Faulkner’s fiction in general, regional,...
Henry James' 'The Art of Fiction' and the application of his theory in 'What Maisie knew'
'A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life'
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), course: The Art of Fiction in 1890s Britain , 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Introduction Henry James is known...