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The Voyageur Classic Canadian Fiction 7-Book Bundle
All Else Is Folly / Pauline Johnson / The Town Below / Self Condemned / Storm Below / The Yellow Briar / Maria Chapdelaine
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Voyageur Classics is a series of special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions by noted experts. This bundle contains some of the greatest Canadian fiction, including influential literature from Quebec (Maria Chapdelaine, The Town Below), a collection of...
G. W. M. Reynolds and His Fiction
The Man Who Outsold Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, reaching an enormous audience through his thirty-six novels. Often selling in very large numbers in weekly one-penny installments, his works were known as by the most popular English novelist ever. Yet today,...
Out of the Blue
New Short Fiction from Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This extraordinary collection, the first anthology of Icelandic short fiction published in English translation, features work by twenty of Iceland’s most popular and celebrated living authors—including Andri Snær Magnason, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Kristín Ómarsdóttir, and Auður Jónsdóttir—granddaughter...
by Jem Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
At last! Literature for the time-starved generation. One hundred amazingly short stories including:
-Slightly amusing snapshots
-Criminal activities
-Child, youth, thug
-Life and all that stuff
-Marriage, birds and blokes
-Stroboscopic glimpses
Read one – Reflect on it (extra time needed for this)...
by B. S. Laura F. Kready
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
ONE of the problems of present-day education is to secure for the entire school system, from the kindergarten to the university, a curriculum which shall have a proved and permanent value. In this curriculum literature has established itself as a subject of unquestioned worth. But children's literature,...
by David Damrosch
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
How to Read World Literature addresses the unique challenges faced by a reader confronting foreign literature. Accessible and enlightening, Damrosch offers readers the tools to navigate works as varied as Homer, Sophocles, Kalidasa, Du Fu, Dante, Murasaki, Moliere, Kafka, Soyinka, and Walcott.
Offers...
by Yuan Xingpei
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Different from previous researches weighted toward historical description and individual writer and work, this book establishes a general analytical system and a multi-angled methodology to examine Chinese literature.
In ancient China, there was no definite concept of pure literature. Considering...
Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader
Reading Science Fiction and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The writer of alternate history asks “what if?” What if one historical event were different, what would the world look like today? In a similar way, the postmodern philosopher of history suggests that history is literature, or that if we read certain historical details differently we would get...
Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction
Reflections on Fantastic Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons why SF provides such a rich medium for both the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Latino/a literature is one of the fastest developing fields in the discipline of literary studies. It represents an identity that is characterized by fluidity and diversity, often explored through divisions formed by language, race, gender, sexuality, and immigration.
The Routledge Companion...
The Handy Literature Answer Book
An Engaging Guide to Unraveling Symbols, Signs and Meanings in Great Works
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
From the epic of Gilgamesh to Aristotle and Cicero, and from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to Wuthering Heights, War and Peace, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Nobel-winning lyrics of Bob Dylan, the world of literature is an integral part of our lives. Great literature can shape...
by Will Tattersdill
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
In this revisionary study, Will Tattersdill argues against the reductive 'two cultures' model of intellectual discourse by exploring the cultural interactions between literature and science embodied in late nineteenth-century periodical literature, tracing the emergence of the new genre that would...
Contemporary Adolescent Literature and Culture
The Emergent Adult
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Offering a wide range of critical perspectives, this volume explores the moral, ideological and literary landscapes in fiction and other cultural productions aimed at young adults. Topics examined are adolescence and the natural world, nationhood and identity, the mapping of sexual awakening onto...
by Maria Nikolajeva
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Now available in paperback! Until now, there was no theoretical research of character in children's fiction and very few comprehensive theoretical studies of literary characters in general. In her latest intellectual foray, the author of From Mythic to Linear ponders the art of characterization. Through...