Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
by Peter Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Children's literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting of interdisciplinary academic studies, of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education, internationalism, childhood or culture in general. The second edition of Peter Hunt's bestselling International Companion...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This Companion offers a comprehensive account of the influence of contemporary British Black and Asian writing in British culture. While there are a number of anthologies covering Black and Asian literature, there is no volume that comparatively addresses fiction, poetry, plays and performance, and...
Writing Okinawa
Narrative acts of identity and resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction, from it’s emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It provides readings of major authors and texts set against a carefully researched presentation of the region’s political and...
Oscar Wilde Complete Works – World’s Best Collection
140+ Works All Plays, Poems, Poetry, Books, Stories, Fairy Tales, Rarities Plus Biographies & Bonuses
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Oscar Wilde Complete Works World's Best Collection
This is the world’s best Oscar Wilde collection, including the most complete set of Wilde’s works available plus many free bonus materials.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright....
Literary Passports
The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Literary Passports is the first book to explore modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. It not only serves as an introduction to this important body of literature, but also acts as a major revisionist statement, freeing this literature from a Zionist-nationalist...
Futurity
Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on the weight of the past. In this book, Amir Eshel suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a search for reason in the madness of the twentieth century’s catastrophes at the expense of literature’s...
The Southwest in American Literature and Art
The Rise of a Desert Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Is there a way to appreciate the desert without destroying it, a way to enjoy it without consuming it and to love it without killing it? Moreover, how can literature about the southwestern landscape affect ways in which it is either exploited or preserved? When and how did the desert change dramatically...
A History of American Literature
1950 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
The History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st century
Covers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novels
Features discussion of American works within the...
Haunted Presence
The Numinous in Gothic Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Are ghosts, vampires, and other forms of “haunted presence” related to universal religious instincts? Are emotions that play a part in religious ritual and narrative similar to those in classical works of Gothic fiction such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Turn of the Screw, and the tales of Edgar...
Irish Stories and Folklore
A Collection of Thirty-Six Classic Tales
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
For a comparatively small country, Ireland’s contributions to the world of literature have been enormous. From the older tradition, Irish writers have inherited a sense of wonder in the face of nature, a narrative style that tends toward the deliberately exaggerated or absurd, a keen sense of the...
Children's Fantasy Literature
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children's Fantasy Literature traces the development of the tradition of the children's fantastic - fictions specifically written for children and fictions...
by Zadie Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writers brought to English-language literature was a wide variety of new ideas, styles,...
by Andrew Wiget
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Handbook of Native American Literature is a unique, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to the oral and written literatures of Native Americans. It lays the perfect foundation for understanding the works of Native American writers.
Divided into three major sections, Native American Oral Literatures,...
The Edge of the Swamp
A Study in the Literature and Society of the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
The flowering of literary imagination known as the American Renaissance had few roots in the South. While Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman were creating a body of work that would endure, the only southern writer making a lasting contribution was Edgar Allan Poe. This failure on the...