Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
Text in the Natural World
Topics in the Evolutionary Theory of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The study of literature has expanded to include an evolutionary perspective. Its premise is that the literary text and literature as an overarching institution came into existence as a product of the same evolutionary process that gave rise to the human species. In this view, literature is an evolutionary...
by Luise A. Finke
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Leipzig (Institute for Anglistics), course: Postcolonial Literatures, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: J. M. Coetzee's 1986 novel Foe leaves...
by Sylvia M. Vardell
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
The third edition of Children's Literature in Action provides an activity-oriented survey of children's literature for undergraduate and graduate students seeking licensure and degrees that will lead to careers working with children in schools and public libraries. Author Sylvia M. Vardell draws on...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
The Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature presents a comprehensive overview of Chinese literature from the 1910s to the present day. Featuring detailed studies of selected masterpieces, it adopts a thematic-comparative approach. By developing an innovative conceptual framework predicated...
The New Human in Literature
Posthuman Visions of Changes in Body, Mind and Society after 1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Twentieth-century literature changed understandings of what it meant to be human. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, in this historical overview, presents a record of literature's changing ideas of mankind, questioning the degree to which literature records and creates visions of the new human.
Grounded...
Tolerance Discourse and Young Adult Holocaust Literature
Engaging Difference and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
What, exactly, does one mean when idealizing tolerance as a solution to cultural conflict? This book examines a wide range of young adult texts, both fiction and memoir, representing the experiences of young adults during WWII and the Holocaust. Author Rachel Dean-Ruzicka argues for a progressive...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The Cambridge Companion to World Literature introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts in world literature, including the problems of imagining the totality of literature; comparing literary...
by Melissa Naase
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Paderborn (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Native American Literature, language: English, abstract: American Indian literature grew out of an oral tradition passed on from one generation to...
by Marco Sievers
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Hannover (Englisches Seminar), course: HS Caribbean Literature and Culture, 26 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: (...) The novel belongs to the genre...
by Coral
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Amongst The Swirling Dust Category: Fiction & Literature » Horror | Work: Story / Narration A ghost short story about a woman who discovers a shocking truth. Mary has liked horror and gruesome art since before she was six. Now, she has the chance to photograph a real life murder house. However, the...
Philosophy As Fiction
Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
Philosophy as Fiction seeks to account for the peculiar power of philosophical literature by taking as its case study the paradigmatic generic hybrid of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. At once philosophical--in that it presents claims, and even deploys arguments concerning...
Body of Writing
Figuring Desire in Spanish American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2000
Body of Writing focuses on the traces that an author’s “body” leaves on a work of fiction. Drawing on the work of six important Spanish American writers of the twentieth century, René Prieto examines narratives that reflect—in differing yet ultimately complementary ways—the imprint of the...
Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers
Biography, Bibliography, and Critical Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In the years since the death of Mao Zedong, interest in Chinese writers and Chinese literature has risen significantly in the West. In 2000, Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature followed by Mo Yan in 2012, and writers such as Ha Jin and Da Sijie have...
In Dogs We Trust
An Anthology of American Dog Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Dogs have lived with humans for thousands of years as working partners. By the nineteenth century their role expanded to companions. American dog literature reflects this gradual but dramatic shift that continues even today. Our household dogs are quite literally closer than ever to us: sleeping in...