Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
Into the Closet
Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children’s fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fiction to teen films and novels for young adults. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the different types of cross-dressing found in children’s narratives,...
Finding Meaning
Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Winner of the Native American Literature Symposium's Beatrice Medicine Award for Published Monograph
In this first extensive study of contemporary Hawaiian literature, Brandy Nalani McDougall examines a vibrant selection of fiction, poetry, and drama by emerging and established Hawaiian authors,...
Cognitive Literary Science
Dialogues between Literature and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book brings together researchers with cognitive-scientific and literary backgrounds to present innovative research in all three variations on the possible interactions between literary studies and cognitive science. The tripartite structure of the volume reflects a more ambitious conception of...
by Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This book is intended to serve as an elementary edition for all studies of Egyptian Literature. Its object is to present a short series of specimens of Egyptian compositions, which represent all the great periods of literary activity in Egypt under the Pharaohs, to all who are interested in the study...
The Way of Kinship
An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
That these treasures are available to us as writing is a miracle. . . . The writings here, while altogether modern in one sense, are based upon a literature, albeit oral, that has existed for thousands of years. They are the reflections of people who have lived long on the earth, on their own terms,...
by Brian Stableford
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Acclaimed author and scholar Brian Stableford turns his penetrating mind to matters of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in this collection of essays. He covers such diverse topics as: SLAVES OF THE DEATH SPIDERS: Colin Wilson and Existentialist Science Fiction IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD?: The Woeful...
by M. Thomas Gammarino
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
This dark comedy explores the lost universes of disgraced idol Dylan Greenyears. Dylan had always wanted to live as many lives as he could—that was the appeal of being an actor. But at the end of a brief stint as a Hollywood heartthrob, Dylan loses the lead in Titanic and exiles himself and his...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
This fully revised second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and topics. For this edition several chapters have been completely rewritten to reflect major developments in Canadian literature since 2004. Surveys of...
Migrant Text
Making and Marketing a Global French Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The expression "littérature migrante," coined by Québécois critics in the mid-1980s, reflected the emerging body of literary works written by recent immigrants to the province. Redefining the concept of migrancy, Subha Xavier’s The Migrant Text argues that global movements of people have fundamentally...
The Narcissistic Text
A Reading of Camus' Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
Critics, theologians, philosophers, and psychoanalysts have written several thousand books, theses, and articles about Camus' fiction. His first published novel, L'Etranger, had a unique impact on a whole generation of readers, and is other fiction, although not as well known, has also been influential....
Latin American Literature
Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of Poststructuralist Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Critical theory meets Latin American fiction in this bold and challenging analysis of literature and literary criticism through post-structuralist analysis. Focusing on Latin American literary and critical production from the 1890s to the 1990s, Bernard McGuirk highlights the confrontation between...
by Marshall Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Marshall Walker's lively and readable account of the highs and lows of Scottish literature from this important date to the present addresses the important themes of democracy, power and nationhood. Disposing of stereotypical ideas about Scotland and the Scots, this fresh approach to Scottish literature...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers have also recently begun...
by Emer O'Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2005
WINNER OF THE 2007 CHLA BOOK AWARD!
Children's literature has transcended linguistic and cultural borders since books and magazines for young readers were first produced, with popular books translated throughout the world.
Emer O'Sullivan traces the history of comparative children's...