Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
The Philosophy of Literature
Four Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
The Philosophy of Literature: Four Studies puts forth the question of the extent to which philosophers must go to school with the poets. It begins with a new interpretation of the famous Platonic quarrel with the poetic wisdom of Homer. It brings this question forward through the humanism of thinkers...
Their Brilliant Careers
The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Absurd, original and highly addictive . . .
In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovered the secret...
by Li-hua Ying
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world literature from the moment it was born, it has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the...
Post-Conflict Literature
Human Rights, Peace, Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace. Essays put insights from Peace and Conflict Studies into dialog with...
by Wenying Xu
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Asian American literature is one of the most recent forms of ethnic literature and is already becoming one of the most prominent, given the large number of writers, the growing ethnic population from the region, the general receptivity of this body of work, and the quality of the authors. In recent...
by Ricardo Piglia, Robert Croll
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Book Description:
The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia’s acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in the tumultuous years 1968-1975—running a magazine, working as a publisher, and encountering...
Ideology, Power, Text
Self-Representation and the Peasant ‘Other’ in Modern Chinese Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
The division between the scholar-gentry class and the “people” was an enduring theme of the traditional Chinese agrarian-bureaucratic state. Twentieth-century elites recast this as a division between intellectuals and peasants and made the confrontation between the writing/intellectual self and...
Tales of Futures Past
Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state. The future is thus understood as a preconceived endpoint that is propagated, at times even imposed,...
Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century
Progressive Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Verena Laschinger and Sirpa Salenius, is a collection of essays that offer a fresh perspective and original analyses of texts by American women writers of the long nineteenth century. The essays, which are written both by European...
The Body as Capital
Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Through economic liberalization and the untethering of labor and production markets, masculinity as hegemon has entered a crisis stage. Renegotiated labor and familial orders have triggered a widespread cultural renegotiation of how masculinity operates and is represented. This holds especially true...
Modernity's Metonyms
Figuring Time in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Modernity's Metonyms considers the representation of temporal frameworks in stories by the nineteenth-century Spanish authors, Leopoldo Alas and Antonio Ros de Olano. Adopting a metonymic approach_exploring the reiteration of specific associations across a range of disciplines, from literature, philosophy,...
by Ruth Finnegan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa.
This revised edition makes Finnegan’s...
by Giulana Pieri
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
The present volume is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular focus on the representation of space, especially city space, gender, and the tradition of impegno, the...
Literary Diseases
Theme and Metaphor in the Italian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Disease—real or imagined, physical or mental—is a common theme in Western literature and is often a symbol of modern alienation. In Literary Diseases, a comprehensive analysis of the metaphorical and symbolic force of disease in modern Italian literature, Gian-Paolo Biasin expands the geography of...