Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
AIDS Literature and Gay Identity
The Literature of Loss
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the...
Faithful Vision
Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
"This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature
In Faithful Vision, James W. Coleman places under his critical lens a wide array of African American novels written during the last half...
by Jill Galvan, Elsie Michie
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
In Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Jill Galvan and Elsie Michie bring together top Victorian scholars to scrutinize nineteenth-century marriage in incisive ways. The volume puts marriage in conversation with many aspects of culture, from education and anthropology to...
by Michael Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Though the phrase "Calvinist humor" may seem to be an oxymoron, Michael Dunne, in highly original and unfailingly interesting readings of major American fiction writers, uncovers and traces two recurrent strands of Calvinist humor descending from Puritan times far into the twentieth century....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
In the age of globalization, the category of "World Literature" is increasingly important to academic teaching and research. The Routledge Companion to World Literature offers a comprehensive pathway into this burgeoning and popular field.
Separated into four key sections, the volume covers:
the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today.
Coverage is split into four parts which examine the origins and seminal formulations of world literature, world literature in the age of globalization, contemporary...
by PERCY H. BOYNTON
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
The general purpose in the preparation of this book has been to eliminate negligible detail and to subordinate or omit authors of minor importance in order to stress the men and the movements that are most significant in American intellectual history. The book has therefore been written with a view...
The Legacy of the Grand Tour
New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling. This volume examines the ways in which the legacy of the Grand Tour is still evident in works of travel and literature. From its...
The New Fiction
(A Protest against Sex-Mania) And Other Papers
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This collection of essays attempts to analyse common assumptions about art, literature and criticism at the time of publication in 1895. Taking the position of ‘a Philistine’ , Spender argues against the ‘new’ art and fiction and encourages the average member of the public to state their opinion...
by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Only nine people have ever been chosen by renowned children's author Laura White to join the Rabbit Back Literature Society, an elite group of writers in the small town of Rabbit Back. Now a tenth member has been selected: a young literature teacher named Ella.
Soon Ella discovers that the...
Hermeneutics as a Theory of Interpretation and as a Literary Theory
Hermeneutics Applied to Text, Language and African Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Africa, University of Nigeria, language: English, abstract: Theories of language, linguistic and non linguistic communication are diverse. In the Humanities there are so many interpretative tools. These tools are means to an end and not...
Apples and Ashes
Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South. The product of extensive archival research, it tells an expansive story about a nation struggling to write itself into existence. Confederate literature was in intimate conversation with other contemporary literary cultures,...
Prizing Children's Literature
The Cultural Politics of Children’s Book Awards
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles alone, but despite the profound impact of children’s...
by Herbert G. Giles
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
A History of Chinese Literature is THE classic introduction to Chinese literature, which has given to the world exquisite poetry and such classics as Monkey, The Analects of Confucius, the works of Chuang Tzu, and other writings over a time span of 2,500 or more years.
Author, Professor Giles,...