Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
Ways of Being Male
Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Given the substantial impact of feminism on children’s literature and culture during the last quarter century, it comes as no surprise that gender studies have focused predominantly on issues of female representation. The question of how the same patriarchal ideology structured representations of...
Love, Sex, Death and Words
Surprising Tales From a Year in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. In this absorbing companion to literature's rich past, arranged by days of the year, acclaimed critics and friends...
A Gushing Fountain
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Appearing for the first time in English, this masterful novel by one of the foremost figures of postwar German literature is an indelible portrait of Nazism slowly overtaking and poisoning a small town. Semi-autobiographical, it is also a remarkably vivid account of a childhood fraught with troubles,...
American Lit 101
From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Harper Lee and Naturalism to Magical Realism, an essential guide to American writers and works
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
From poetry to fiction to essays, American Lit 101 leaves no page unturned!
Edgar Allan Poe. Willa Cather. Henry David Thoreau. Mark Twain. The list of important American writers goes on and on. These voices played a vital role in shaping the scope of American literature, and the United States...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11’s effects on literature and literature’s attempts to convey 9/11.
by Paul Di Filippo
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
How to write wild-eyed, overstuffed, multiplex, maximalist, recomplicated, high-bandwidth Science Fiction, or, “realize I don’t wanna be a miser/how come everybody wanna keep it like the Kaiser?”
Don’t expect this book to be a traditional “How To”. It’s a travel into the Science Fiction.
“Science...
by Lane Dunlop
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
"Lane Dunlop's translations read elegantly, and his selection of modern Japanese Stories is both fresh and persuasive." -Donald Keene, Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.
The fourteen distinct voices of this collection tell fourteen...
American Literature
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This comprehensive history of American Literature traces its development from the earliest colonial writings of the late 1500s through to the present day. This lively, engaging and highly accessible guide:
offers lucid discussions of all major influences and movements such as Puritanism, Transcendentalism,...
Great Books of China
From Ancient Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Great Books of China invites readers to discover—or rediscover—some of the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. The literature of China remains largely unknown in the West, yet it offers much insight into Chinese life. The long continuity of Chinese culture means that texts created...
by Ricardo Piglia, Robert Croll, Ilan Stavans
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
A giant of contemporary Latin American literature, Argentine novelist Ricardo Piglia’s secret magnum opus was a compilation of 327 notebooks that he composed over nearly six decades, in which he imagined himself as his literary alter ego, Emilio Renzi. A world-weary detective, Renzi stars in many...
The Broken Estate
Essays on Literature and Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov,...
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei
Volume Four: The Climax
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
This is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt,...
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei
Volume Five: The Dissolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2013
This is the fifth and final volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly...
Chinese Literature
AN ANTHOLOGY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Almost three thousand years of Chinese literature have been gathered together in Chinese Literature: An Anthology from the Earliest Times to the Present Day.
The earliest preserved folk songs of the peasantry; the major works of the "Golden Age" of Chinese philosophy; the "prose-songs"...