Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
Here Comes the Bogeyman
Exploring contemporary issues in writing for children
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Here Comes the Bogeyman is an essential text focussing on critical and contemporary issues surrounding writing for children. Containing a critically creative and a creatively critical investigation of the cult and culture of the child and childhood in fiction and non-fictional writing, it also contains...
by Kate Houlden
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This book focuses on sex and sexuality in post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Countering the critical orthodoxy that literature from this period dealt with sex only tangentially, implicitly transmitting sexist or homophobic messages, the author instead highlights the range and diversity...
Four British Fantasists
Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Four British Fantasists explores the work of four of the most successful and influential fantasy writers of the generation who rose to prominence in the "second Golden Age" of children's literature in Britain: Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Penelope Lively. Drawing on...
Fashion and Fiction
Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In Fashion and Fiction, Lauren S. Cardon draws a correlation between the American fashion industry and many canonical works of American literature that feature narratives of self-transformation and upward mobility, including The Great Gatsby, The House of Mirth, and poems and novels of the Harlem Renaissance.
by Chin Ce
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
African Literature 10 Contemporary Series features critical entries and reviews on favourite authors of African fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction. The lead work shows how Toomer created a new idiom which allowed him to express the more immediate and intricate complexities of the African-American...
Little Red Readings
Historical Materialist Perspectives on Children’s Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A significant body of scholarship examines the production of children's literature by women and minorities, as well as the representation of gender, race, and sexuality. But few scholars have previously analyzed class in children's literature. This definitive collection remedies that by defining and...
Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture
Technogothics
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This volume, a collection with contributions from some of the major scholars of the Gothic in literature and culture, reflects on how recent Gothic studies have foregrounded a plethora of technologies associated with Gothic literary and cultural production. The engaging essays look into the links...
by A J Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Nominated for the BSFA Awards 2017 for non-fiction and cover art!
'This is an essential guide to help readers and writers of fantasy know their grimdark from their urban, dark, epic, high and metaphysical fantasy. International fantasy author A J Dalton explains how each of the sub-genres of...
Ramsey Campbell
Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
As the author of more than two dozen novels and hundreds of short stories, as well as essays, reviews, and columns, Ramsey Campbell is one of the most prolific writers in the field of horror literature. The consistently high level of quality in his work has resulted in every major award that weird...
Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy
The Politics of the Turkish Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy is the first critical study of all of Pamuk’s novels, including the early untranslated work.
In 2005 Orhan Pamuk was charged with "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. Eighteen months later he was awarded the Nobel...
Studying Literature in English
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Studying Literature in English provides the ideal point of entry for students of English Literature. This book is an accessible guide for Literature students around the world. This book:
Grounds literature and the study of literature throughout by referencing a selection of well-known novels,...
by Mario Klarer
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
In this classic beginner's guide to English literature, Mario Klarer offers a concise and accessible discussion of central issues in the study of literary texts, looking at:
definitions of key terms such as literature and text
the genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and film
periods and classifications...
by Louise M. Rosenblatt, Wayne Booth
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Louise Rosenblatt's Literature as Exploration has influenced literary theorists and teachers of literature at all levels. This attractive trade paperback edition features a new foreword by Wayne Booth, a new preface and retrospective chapter by the author, and an updated list of suggested readings.
In...
by Medeiros e Albuquerque & Machado de Assis & Carmen Dolores & Coelho Netto
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The noted Brazilian critic, José Verissimo, in a short but important essay on the deficiencies of his country's letters, has expressed serious doubt as to whether there exists a genuinely Brazilian literature. "I do not know," he writes, "whether the existence of an entirely independent literature is...