Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
A Freedom Bought with Blood
African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In the first comprehensive study of African American war literature, Jennifer James analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the U.S. military in 1948. Examining literature about the Civil War, the Spanish-American Wars, World War...
Utopia and Cosmopolis
Globalization in the Era of American Literary Realism
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 1998
When did Americans first believe they were at the center of a truly global culture? How did they envision that culture and how much do recent attitudes toward globalization owe to their often utopian dreams? In Utopia and Cosmopolis Thomas Peyser asks these and other questions, offers a reevaluation...
Drawing the Line
The Father Reimagined in Faulkner, Wright, O'Connor, and Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
In an original contribution to the psychoanalytic approach to literature, Doreen Fowler focuses on the fiction of four major American writers—William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison—to examine the father's function as a "border figure." Although the father has most...
Recoding World Literature
Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Winner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association
Winner, 2018 German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize in Germanistik and Cultural Studies.
From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries,...
by Michael Keren
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Politics and Literature shows how important insights about genocide, poverty, state violence, world terrorism, the clash of civilizations, and other phenomena haunting the world at the turn of the millennium can be derived from contemporary novels. Keren demonstrates ways in which fictional literature...
by Angela Jane Weisl, Anthony Joseph Cunder
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities present in the narratives and connects...
by Gloria Fisk
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
When Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, he was honored as a builder of bridges across a dangerous chasm. By rendering his Turkish characters and settings familiar where they would otherwise seem troublingly foreign, and by speaking freely against his authoritarian state, he demonstrated...
Odysseys Home
Mapping African-Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
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...
Dr. John Watson - The clue to understanding
The detective story through the eyes of Holmes's friend
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Bayreuth, course: PS Whodunit, language: English, abstract: If we think about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his writings, we automatically think about Sherlock Holmes. But what...
by F. W. Bateson
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
At first glance A Guide to English Literature may seem to be no more than a short bibliography of English literature with perhaps rather more extensive--and certainly more outspoken--comments on the principal editions, commentaries, biographies, and critical works than bibliographies usually provide....
by Warren Motte
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
French Fiction Today focuses on the French novel in the twenty-first century, examining a series of works that are exemplary of broader currents in the genre. Each of these texts wagers insistently upon our willingness to speculate about literature and its uses, in an age when the value of literature...
Strange Bodies
Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Adapts Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the grotesque, as well as the latest in gender and psychoanalytic theory, to the major works of acclaimed southern writer Carson McCullers.
This innovative reconsideration of the themes of Carson McCullers's fiction argues that her work has heretofore suffered...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development...
Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature
Remitting the Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural study responds to the general trend in migration discourse that presents the Caribbean experience...