Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
Unbound
Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
What does it mean to be Ukrainian in contemporary Canada? The Ukrainian Canadian writers in Unbound challenge the conventions of genre – memoir, fiction, poetry, biography, essay – and the boundaries that separate ethnic and authorial identities and fictional and non-fictional narratives. These...
by Anna Andes, Irene Gammel, Miriam S. Gogol
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Working Women in American Literature, 1865–1950 consists of eight original essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on the subject of working women in late-nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century American literature. The volume examines how the American working woman has been presented,...
Mannerist Fiction
Pathologies of Space from Rabelais to Pynchon
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In Mannerist Fiction, William Donoghue re-conceptualizes the history of formalism in western literature. Rather than presuming that literary experimentation with form – distorting space and time – began in the twentieth century with Modernism, Donoghue identifies the age of Copernicus as the crucible...
China and the West at the Crossroads
Essays on Comparative Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Beginning with a retrospective of the past century, this book offers a panoramic picture of Chinese comparative literature, from its nascence in the early 1920s, through its evolution in the 1980s, to the new development at the turn of the century, ending with a prospective look at the future of comparative...
Algerian Literature
A Readers Guide and Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
The only up-to-date and comprehensive text and reader of Algerian literature available in English, Algerian Literature: A Reader’s Guide and Anthology offers the reader a historical and critical overview of the literature from the early twentieth century to the present, introduces Algerian authors,...
by Connie R. Green, Sandra Brenneman Oldendorf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
This book is an invaluable resource for enabling teachers, religious educators, and families to learn about religious diversity themselves and to teach children about both their own religion as well as the beliefs of others. The traditions featured include indigenous beliefs throughout the world, Native...
by E. Mercer
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examines literature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. It examines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was still suffused with dread and suggestions of war in imagery and language.
Profound Science and Elegant Literature
Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In 1847, at the first meeting of the American Medical Association, the newly elected president reminded his brethren that the profession, "once venerated," no longer earned homage "spontaneously and universally." The medical marketplace was crowded and competitive; state laws regulating...
Literature and the Human
Criticism, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Why does literature matter? What is its human value? Historical approaches to literature have for several decades prevailed over the idea that literary works can deepen our understanding of fundamental questions of existence. This book re-affirms literature's existential value by developing a new...
Writing the Republic
Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
In this provocative book, Anthony Hutchison challenges the belief that the American novel is "antipolitical" and condemns the relative absence of American literature in studies of the political novel. In Hutchison's view, our fiction is always informed by the complexities of the American...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature engages the multiple scenes of tension — historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic — that constitutes a problematic legacy in terms of community identity, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, language, and sovereignty in the study of Native...
Radical Representations
Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929–1941
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 1993
In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival material, the author recaptures an important literature and rewrites a segment of American cultural history...
Odysseys Home
Mapping African-Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging passage through twelve essays presents a history of...
by Maria Lauret
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Liberating Literature is, primarily, a bold and revealing book about feminist writers, readers, and texts. But is is also much more than that. Within this volume Maria Lauret manages to look with fresh vision at the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s; socialist women's writing of the 1930s;...