Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
Sacrifice and Modern War Literature
The Battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. It has been common for critics to argue that after the First World War many of the cultural and religious values associated...
National Fictions
Literature, film and the construction of Australian narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
National Fictions is a study of Australian literature and film. It is also a study of Australian culture, viewing the novels and films as products of a specific culture - as narratives with similar structures, functions, forms and meanings. It covers a wide range of texts, offering both close analysis...
Classical Arabic Stories
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Short fiction was an immensely innovative art in the medieval Arab world, providing the perfect vehicle for transmitting dazzling images of life and experiences as early as pre-Islamic times. These works also speak to the urbanization of the Arab domain after Islam, mirroring the bustling life of...
Strange Times, My Dear
The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Originally censored by the US government—“a diverse sampling of contemporary Iranian letters,” fiction, prose, novel excerpts and poetry (Kirkus Reviews).
Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, the United States has been virtually cut off from that country’s rich and diverse culture....
by Spence Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Since the days of Southey the romantic literature of Spain has not received from English writers and critics the amount of study and attention it undoubtedly deserves. In no European country did the seeds of Romance take root so readily or blossom so speedily and luxuriantly as in Spain, which perhaps...
by Stacie Cassarino
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In her new study, Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature, Stacie Cassarino traces the tradition of avant-garde food experimentation across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show how a fixation on the materiality of edible things, expressed through the...
Beyond the Sound Barrier
The Jazz Controversy in Twentieth-Century American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Beyond the Sound Barrier examines twentieth-century fictional representations of popular music-particularly jazz-in the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison. Kristin K. Henson argues that an analysis of musical tropes in the work of these four authors...
by Michael Kreyling
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
"I take...an outward route, arguing that the Agrarian project was and must be seen as a willed campaign on the part of one elite to establish and control 'the South' in a period of intense cultural maneuvering. The principal organizers of I'll Take My Stand knew full well there were other 'Souths' than...
by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Idling in Italy studies of literature and of life. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally...
Disorienting Fiction
The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of culture and its accredited researcher, the Participant Observer. Buzard reads the great nineteenth-century...
A Scream Goes Through the House
What Literature Teaches Us About Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“For too long we have been encouraged to see culture as an affair of intellect, and reading as a solitary exercise. But the truth is different: literature and art are pathways of feeling, and our encounter with them is social, inscribing us in a larger community.... Through art we discover that...
Heimat, Loss and Identity
Flight and Expulsion in German Literature from the 1950s to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
What became of ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe during the Second World War? In recent years, their suffering, flight and expulsion during and after the war has attracted increasing critical attention. A wave of literary fiction has accompanied this trend, contributing to, and sometimes triggering,...
Fundamental Concepts of Children's Literature Research
Literary and Sociological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In this book, Ewers provides students and professors with a new system of categorization for a differentiated description of children’s literature. In the early 1970s, Swedish children’s literature scholar Göte Kingberg worked to establish a system of scientific terminology for international...
Writing Menopause
An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
The Writing Menopause literary anthology is a diverse and robust collection about menopause: a highly charged and often undervalued transformation. It includes over fifty works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews and cross-genre pieces from contributors across Canada and the United...