Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
Progressive Traditions
Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
According to a dichotomy commonly found in studies of American Indians, some noble Native people defiantly defend their pristine indigenous traditions in honor of their ancestors, while others in weakness or greed surrender their culture and identities to white American economies and institutions....
Irish Children's Literature and Culture
New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Irish Children’s Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genres, forms, and issues, including the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, ethnicity, and globalization....
Women and Power in Argentine Literature
Stories, Interviews, and Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The astonishing talent of Argentine women writers belies the struggles they have faced—not merely as overlooked authors, but as women of conviction facing oppression. The patriarchal pressures of the Pern years, the terror of the Dirty War, and, more recently, the economic collapse that gripped the...
by Students' Academy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The novel is based on the fundamental theme of the Few and the Many. Greek philosopher Heracleitus had first introduced this theme in Greek literature. Fowles was highly inspired by Heracleitus’s work.According to the author, the Few include educated, intelligent, and good. On the other hand,...
Poverty in Contemporary Literature
Themes and Figurations on the British Book Market
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important aspect in the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies.
Literature and the Public Good
The Literary Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
STENDAHL.COMMERCIAL life had never left me much time for making a business of pleasure and relaxa- tion, such as I see now around me as I have passed that uncertain meridian politely termed middle- age. Having fallen into what is called the sere and yellow category, I think I am entitled in my dotage...
Becoming Cajun, Becoming American
The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
From antebellum times, Louisiana's unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, Maria Hebert-Leiter explores how American writers have portrayed Acadian culture over...
Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Literature
Imaginary Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This book is a study of the evolving relationships between literature, cyberspace, and young adults in the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave explores the ways that young adult fiction is becoming a platform for a public conversation about the great benefits and terrible risks of our increasing...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Responding to the increasingly powerful presence of dystopian literature for young adults, this volume focuses on novels featuring a female protagonist who contends with societal and governmental threats at the same time that she is navigating the treacherous waters of young adulthood. The contributors...
by Tess Cosslett
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In her reappraisal of canonical works such as Black Beauty, Beautiful Joe, Wind in the Willows, and Peter Rabbit, Tess Cosslett traces how nineteenth-century debates about the human and animal intersected with, or left their mark on, the venerable genre of the animal story written for children. Effortlessly...
Metafiction in American Short Stories - Readers' Perception of Language and Symbols in Shattered Realities.
A Research Paper on Donald Barthelme's 'The Glass Mountain'
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Koblenz-Landau (Fachbereich 2, Institut für Anglistik), course: American Short Fiction, language: English, abstract: Reading Donald Barthelme's short story 'The Glass Mountain'...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This is the eighth of “The Pearl”, a pornographic magazine published in London by William Lazenby between 1879 to 1880. The magazine contained erotic tales, songs, rhymes, and parodies, all based around sex in high society, flagellation, and incest. In 1880, the magazine was legally forced to...
Father–Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature
The Complex Trauma of the Wound and the Voiceless
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The first major study to challenge the narrow definition of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by rereading six American literary texts, this book argues for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties,...