Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
Children's Literature Comes of Age
Toward a New Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Originally published in 1996. A detailed analysis of the art of children's literature covering world literature for children, children's literature as a canonical art form, the history of children's literature from a semiotic perspective, and epic, polyphony, chronotope, intertextuality, and metafiction in children's literature.
Cuba and the Tempest
Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established...
Conquest of the New Word
Experimental Fiction and Translation in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Latin American fiction won great acclaim in the United States during the 1960s, when many North American writers and critics felt that our national writing had reached a low ebb. In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne argues that the North American reception of the "boom"...
Songbirds on the Literary Stage
The Woman Singer and her Song in French and German Prose Fiction, from Goethe to Berlioz
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This interdisciplinary study, situated at the cross-section of music, literature and gender, examines the woman singer and her song as a literary motif in French and German prose fiction from the 1790s to the mid-nineteenth century. Through selected case studies, this diachronic history of motifs...
by Kalenda C. Eaton
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as...
Crime Scenes
Modern Crime Fiction in an International Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Crime Scenes: Modern Crime Fiction in an International Context examines the ways in which crime fiction has developed over several decades and in several national literary traditions. The volume covers a wide spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of crime fiction studies....
National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada
Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Fiction that reconsiders, challenges, reshapes, and/or upholds national narratives of history has long been an integral aspect of Canadian literature. Works by writers of historical fiction (from early practitioners such as John Richardson to contemporary figures such as Alice Munro and George Elliott...
by Colin Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Much of the scholarship on twentieth-century Canadian literature has argued that English-Canadian fiction was plagued by backwardness and an inability to engage fully with the movement of modernism that was so prevalent in British and American fiction and poetry. Modern Realism in English-Canadian...
by James Blish
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
This is a posthumous collection of Blish essays, mostly on science fiction and fantasy. These include studies of Poul Anderson, James Branch Cabell, and the application of Spengler to science fiction. Other pieces range from "Music of the Absurd" (modern music—more fantastic than any fiction ) to...
Is Literature Healthy?
The Literary Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
Distraction
Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Early novel reading typically conjures images of rapt readers in quiet rooms, but commentators at the time described reading as a fraught activity, one occurring amidst a distracting cacophony that included sloshing chamber pots and wailing street vendors. Auditory distractions were compounded by...
The Fiction of Valerie Martin
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
In the first book-length study of Valerie Martin's fiction, Veronica Makowsky explores the work of this lauded, but often overlooked, contemporary novelist. Winner of the Orange Prize for her novel Property (2003), Martin also won the Kafka Prize for Mary Reilly (1990), which was then translated into...
The Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran
Companion Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has...
by Philip F. Gura
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1996
The Crossroads of American History and Literature collects two decades' worth of the best-known essays of Philip F. Gura. Beginning with a definitive overview of studies of colonial literature, Gura ranges through such subjects in colonial American history as the intellectual life of the Connecticut...