Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu
New Lovecraftian Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
For more than 80 years H. P. Lovecraft has inspired writers of horror and supernatural fiction with his dark vision of humankind's insignificant place in a vast, uncaring cosmos. At the time of his death in 1937, Lovecraft was virtually unknown, but from early cult status his readership expanded exponentially;...
The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales
The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
When the pulp magazine Weird Tales appeared on newsstands in 1923, it proved to be a pivotal moment in the evolution of speculative fiction. Living up to its nickname, “The Unique Magazine,” Weird Tales provided the first real venue for authors writing in the nascent genres of fantasy, horror,...
Science Fiction in Argentina
Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
It has become something of a critical commonplace to claim that science fiction does not actually exist in Argentina. This book puts that claim to rest by identifying and analyzing a rich body of work that fits squarely in the genre. Joanna Page explores a range of texts stretching from 1875 to the...
by Fran Mason
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Few previous periods in the history of American literature could rival the richness of the postmodern era - the diversity of its authors, the complexity of its ideas and visions, and the multiplicity of its subjects and forms. This volume offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide...
Disturbing the Universe
Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books....
Inseparable
Desire Between Women in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
From a writer of astonishing versatility and erudition, the much-admired literary critic, novelist, short-story writer, and scholar (“Dazzling”—The Washington Post; “One of those rare writers who seems to be able to work on any register, any time, any atmosphere, and make it her own” —The...
The Heart Has Its Reasons
Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Society does not make it easy for young people, regardless of their sexual orientation, to find accurate, nonjudgmental information about homosexuality. It makes it even more difficult for young homosexuals to find positive role models in fiction either written or published expressly for them or—if...
Literature into Film
Theory and Practical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
For most people, film adaptation of literature can be summed up in one sentence: “The movie wasn’t as good as the book.” This volume undertakes to show the reader that not only is this evaluation not always true but sometimes it is intrinsically unfair. Movies based on literary works, while...
Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature
Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contributors...
Transnational Canadas
Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from the centennial period to the present, it shows how current work in transnational studies can provide...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature.
• Highlights the most important print and electronic resources on multicultural literature through a detailed bibliography
•...
by Eileen Chang
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
**Masterful short works about passion, family, and human relationships by one of the greatest writers of 20th century China.
A New York Review Books Original**
“[A] giant of modern Chinese literature” –The New York Times
"With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang...
by Viet Thanh NGUYEN
Language: French
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: August 17, 2017
À la fois fresque épique, reconstitution historique et œuvre politique, un premier roman à l'ampleur exceptionnelle, qui nous mène du Saigon de 1975 en plein chaos au Los Angeles des années 1980. Saisissant de réalisme et souvent profondément drôle, porté par une prose électrique, un véritable...