Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
Between Pen and Pixel
Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominee, Best Academic/Scholarly Work
In Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future, Aaron Kashtan argues that paying attention to comics helps us understand the future of the book. Debates over the future of the book tend to...
No Country
Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Can there be a novel of the international working class despite the conditions and constraints of economic globalization? What does it mean to invoke working-class writing as an ethical intervention in an age of comparative advantage and outsourcing?
No Country argues for a rethinking of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture, the news, scholarly organizations, and education – where it is found on the syllabus in schools and universities – but it also offers challenges. What is ‘contemporary’?...
by Alexandra Schultheis Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This book responds to the failures of human rights—the way its institutions and norms reproduce geopolitical imbalances and social exclusions—through an analysis of how literary and visual culture can make visible human rights claims that are foreclosed in official discourses. Moore draws on theories...
by Professor Walter L. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Literature and literary criticism throughout the twentieth century are famous for their proclamations of the death of the author, the eclipse of character and the "nothingness of personality," as Borges put it. Walter Reed investigates the ideas of personhood developed by one of the most...
The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension
Higher Spatial Thinking in the Fin de Siècle
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension describes the development and proliferation of the idea of higher dimensional space in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de siècle as a staple of genre...
Deconstructing Paradise
Inverted Religious Symbolism in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Deconstructing Paradise investigates Christian symbols that appear in Latin American Literature in an inverted way. The texts under investigation invert the Christian center to generate a social, political, cultural, or even artistic commentary. In doing so, each text underscores a search for meaning...
Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture
Writing Materiality
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Addressing the Victorian obsession with the sordid materiality of modern life, this book studies dirt in nineteenth-century English literature and the Victorian cultural imagination. Dirt litters Victorian writing – industrial novels, literature about the city, slum fiction, bluebooks, and the reports...
Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature
New Interdisciplinary Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book is about the interaction between literary studies and the philosophy of literature. It features essays from internationally renowned and emerging philosophers and literary scholars, challenging readers to join them in taking seriously the notion of interdisciplinary study and forging forward...
The Labors of Modernism
Domesticity, Servants, and Authorship in Modernist Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In The Labors of Modernism, Mary Wilson analyzes the unrecognized role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and Jean Rhys. Examining issues of class, gender, and race in a transatlantic Modernist context,...
by Alistair Ainscott
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
Professionally published writer Alistair Ainscott unleashes a vile compendium of five literary transgressions, a special room in hell for the serious-minded: "The Ferro-Erotic Roaches of Kiki," "Occupy Stinking America," "Maiden Voyage of the Pink Plastic Ponies," "Captain...
Saracens and Franks in 12th - 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature
Perceptions of Self and the Other
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Saracens and Franks in 12th - 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature examines the tension between two competing discourses in the medieval Muslim Mediterranean and medieval Christian Europe: one rooted in the desire to understand the world and one's place in it, and another promoting an...
Russian Literature, 1988-1994
The End of an Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
The collapse of the Soviet Union brought about radical changes in the Russian literary world. With the state's relinquishment of control over literary production, writers acquired freedom of expression and publication. State publishing houses, now self-supporting enterprises, stopped printing money-losing...
by Madame De Stael, Morroe Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Madame Germaine de Stael is often regarded as the "mistress to an age", or (like England and Russia) one of the three great European "powers" of the 19th century. She was in some sense both, but she was also an important and influential writer whose works, astonishingly, have not,...