Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
by Ellen Boccuzzi
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With the acceleration of global migration, literature by migrant writers has emerged as a powerful medium for describing the ways in which global forces are experienced at the personal level. Migrant literature offers a compelling counter‐narrative to abstract visions of globalization, grounding...
by David Damrosch
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The new edition of this highly popular guide, How to Read World Literature, addresses the unique challenges and joys faced when approaching the literature of other cultures and eras. Fully revised to address important developments in World Literature, and generously expanded with new material, this...
Imaginary Existences
A psychoanalytic exploration of phantasy, fiction, dreams and daydreams
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Imaginary Existences: A psychoanalytic exploration of phantasy, fiction, dreams and daydreams interweaves scholarly psychoanalytic knowledge and extensive clinical experience with insights derived from close readings of great literature in a uniquely imaginative and creative manner, convincingly demonstrating...
The Untimely Present
Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1999
The Untimely Present examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the recent Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Idelber Avelar argues that through their legacy of social trauma and obliteration of history, these military regimes gave rise to unique...
Mocking Bird Technologies
The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Contributors: Madeleine Brainerd, Joe Conway, Fraser Easton, Christopher GoGwilt, Shari Goldberg, Melanie D. Holm, Sarah Kay, Kaori T. Kitao, Holt V. Meyer, Isabel A. Moore, Fawzia Mustafa, Gavin Sourgen.
Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of perspectives to offer an extended...
Beyond the Ancient Quarrel
Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers have taken Socrates at his word, and out of the ancient quarrel there has emerged a long tradition that...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
This collection of essays focuses on the role of spirituality in American literature through an examination of the multiple ways in which a deep engagement with the spiritual has shaped and affected literature in the Americas (three of the essays involve Canadian and Caribbean literature). The essays...
Fiction Agonistes
In Defense of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
In this path-breaking new work, Gregory Jusdanis asks why literature matters. Why are we afraid to admit our pleasures of reading, to defend the arts to the school board, to discuss the importance of literature in life? Drawing on a wealth of references from Aristophanes to Eudora Welty, from Fernando...
by Scott M. DeVries
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region’s literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth century to the most recent fiction. The book begins with a consideration of the way in which Argentine...
by H P Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Supernatural Horror In Literature is H P Lovecraft's crowning work of non-fiction, a brilliant, incisive and comprehensive survey of macabre literature from its very inception up until 1927. As well as providing invaluable information on this genre of fiction, the essay also sheds revealing light on...
Maurice Gee
A Literary Companion: The Fiction for Young Readers
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Maurice Gee's fiction for younger readers blends exciting stories with serious issues. Told through a range of genres, from fantasy to realism, adventure to science fiction, mysteries, psychological thrillers and gangster stories, they offer a distinctive body of work that shows New Zealand to children...
by Daniel Hahn
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that tackle extraordinarily difficult subjects. The...
Late Cold War Literature and Culture
The Nuclear 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This book analyses the 1980s as a nuclear decade, focusing on British and United States fiction. Ranging across genres including literary fiction, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, graphic novels, children’s and young adult literature, thrillers and horror, it shows how pressing nuclear...
by Sharon DeGraw
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs primarily supported essentialist constructions of racial identity, but also included...