Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
The Routledge History of Literature in English
Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises...
The Gothic Wanderer
From Transgression to Redemption; Gothic Literature from 1794 - present
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Gothic Wanderer Rises Eternal in Popular Literature
From the horrors of sixteenth century Italian castles to twenty-first century plagues, from the French Revolution to the liberation of Libya, Tyler R. Tichelaar takes readers on far more than a journey through literary history. The Gothic Wanderer...
by D. S. Likhachev, Christopher M. Arden-Close
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This translation of Likhachev’s Poetika Drevnerusskoy Literatury (The Poetics of Early Russian Literature), provides a description of the basic themes of early (tenth to seventeenth century) Russian literature. Likhachev compares literary narrative with narrative used in the representational arts....
Beyond the Second Sophistic
Adventures in Greek Postclassicism
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
The "Second Sophistic" traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire’s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book...
by Anatole France, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature, Anatole France was a French poet, journalist and novelist, whose works were celebrated for their nobility of style and profound human sympathy. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents France’s complete fictional works,...
Writing the Modern City
Literature, Architecture, Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing...
by Jennifer Lawn
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Through a literary lens, Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008: Market Fictions examines the ways in which the reprise of market-based economics has impacted the forms of social exchange and cultural life in a settler-colonial context. Jennifer Lawn proposes that...
by Josef Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A fresh analysis of both the hidden and explicit philosophical ideas to be found in crime literature Josef Hoffmann covers influences and inspirations in crime writing with references to a stellar cast of crime writers including Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Dashiell Hammett, Albert...
by Theo D'haen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature. Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism to postmodernism, Theo D’haen examines:
the return of the term "world literature"...
Narnia and the Fields of Arbol
The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The remarkable breadth of C. S. Lewis's (1898--1963) work is nearly as legendary as the fantastical tales he so inventively crafted. A variety of themes emerge in his literary output, which spans the genres of nonfiction, fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature, but much of the scholarship...
by Antoine Volodine
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
"Irreducible to any single literary genre, the Volodinian cosmos is skillfully crafted, fusing elements of science fiction with magical realism and political commentary."— Music & Literature
The most patently sci-fi work of Antoine Volodine's to be translated into English, Radiant...
Children's Literature Studies
A Research Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Children's literature is a rapidly expanding field of research which presents students and researchers with a number of practical and intellectual challenges. This research handbook is the first devoted to the specialist skills and complexities of studying children's literature at university level....
Fictionalizing the World
Rethinking the Politics of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The book offers ten essays which explore the interaction between literature and politics. The authors investigate a variety of genres including young-adult fiction, national poetry, novels, autobiography, and performance art from different time periods ranging from the 18th up to the 21st century...
Saving the World
Girlhood and Evangelicalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
This book makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of childhood studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture by drawing on the intersecting fields of girlhood, evangelicalism, and reform to investigate texts written in North America about girls, for girls, and by girls. Responding...