Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
Literature and Liberty
Essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The economic theories of Karl Marx and his disciples continue to be anthologized in books of literary theory and criticism and taught in humanities classrooms to the exclusion of other, competing economic paradigms. Marxism is collectivist, predictable, monolithic, impersonal, linear, reductive —...
Grief Taboo in American Literature
Loss and Prolonged Adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
In this feminist rereading, Pamela A. Boker examines the prolonged adolescence of the American male in the works of three quintessential American male authors, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Ernest Hemingway, through a highly original psychoanalytic inquiry. Challenging conventional interpretations,...
Religion and Technology into the Future
From Adam to Tomorrow's Eve
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Religion and Technology into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow’s Eve examines the broad significance of the current trends and accomplishments in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of the human imagination of making sentient beings. It seeks to enrich our understanding of the present...
Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature
Texts, Territories, Globalizations
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
This book explores the debates surrounding two dynamic fields – postcolonial studies and world literature. Contrary to many dominant narratives in critical theory, it asserts that as an analytical framework the idea of world literature is dead: the nineteenth-century ideal of world literature had...
Examine the representation of the relationship between language and power inSouth African Literature
Examine the representation of the relationship between language and power inSouth African Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Essay from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: B, University of London (Faculty of English Literature), course: Literature in History: Race and Subjectivity in South African Writing, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...
Beckett's Dantes
Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. It is an informative...
by Susanne Flohr
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Kassel (Literature: Language and Cultural Awareness), course: Department of English & Romance Languages, language: English, abstract: This term paper will take several questions into account...
by Mario Ortiz-Robles
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Why do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a human endeavor apart from its capacity to represent animals. Focusing on the literary representation...
Queer Victorian Families
Curious Relations in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The Victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to an almost secular religion. Yet alongside the middle-class domestic ideal were other families, many of which existed in the literature of the time. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature is chiefly concerned with...
by Amir Hossein Yasini Visti
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: PhD, University of Tehran, course: A Survey of American Literature, language: English, abstract: The present paper aims to reveal how the poetry and thought of Wallace Stevens are represented...
by Alexandra Koch
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, RWTH Aachen University, language: English, abstract: Many authors would agree that Frankenstein is one of the most famous Gothic tales of all time. It was first published in 1818 and is famous for...
Creating Communities
Towards a Description of the Mask-function in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and illustrates literature's engagement...
Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis
Climate Change, Subsistence, and Questionable Futures
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis continues Patrick D. Murphy's focus on transversal ecocritical praxis by considering literature and cinema in terms of the persuasive force of aesthetic activity and whether or not artistic production and its criticism can be considered forms of activism. Murphy...
by Theresa Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Contemporary African-American Fiction, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: As the winner...