Selected Short Fiction

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By:Charles Dickens
Published on 2005-02-24 by Penguin UK
ISBN 9780141936932

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This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with a diverse range of fictional techniques. In his tales of the supernatural, he creates frighteningly believable, spine-tingling stories of prophetic dreams and visions, as well as more fantastical adventures with goblins and apparitions. Impressionistic sketches combine imaginatively heightened travel journals with wry observations of home and abroad, while in his dramatic monologues, Dickens demonstrates his talent for exploring the secret workings of the human mind. These short works display Dickens's exuberant sense of comedy and character as his imagination is given free rein.

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Frightening Fiction

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By:Kimberly Reynolds,Geraldine Brennan,Kevin McCarron
Published on 2004-12-30 by A&C Black
ISBN 9780826477583

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Edited by Morag Styles and written by an international team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive guide to literary and popular texts for children. Each book introduces the reader to a major genre of children's literature, covering the key authors, major works and contexts in which those texts are published, read and studied. The development of the horror genre in children's literature has been a startling phenomenon - one that has provoked strong, but mixed, reactions. Frightening Fiction provides a lucid and lively guide to that genre, ranging from analyses of such popular series as Point Horror, Goosebumps, the X Files and the Buffy stories, to the work of individual authors such as Robert Westall, David Almond, Philip Gross and Lesley Howarth.

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Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction

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By:Dee Goertz,Edward Eden
Published on 2003 by University of Toronto Press
ISBN 9780802084897

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Award-winning Canadian writer Carol Shields has garnered praise from scholars and an international audience of readers. Inspired by the quality and scope of Shields's work, Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction addresses her creative exploration of postmodernism. As the first thorough examination of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this collection of essays establishes the groundwork for future studies of her oeuvre. The collection begins with a significant new essay from Shields herself, 'Narrative Hunger and the Overflowing Cupboard,' perhaps her most substantial commentary upon her own aims as a writer. In addition, scholars from Canada, England, the United States, and Australia explore the complexity of Shields's work and her contributions to the genre of the novel. These lively essays reflect Shields's verve and her playful approach to today's sophisticated critical thinking. Among the topics are Shields's use of biography and autobiography, metafiction, popular romance, and symbolism. While the essays foreground the unreliability of language, and hence our inability to know one another or even ourselves, the contributors argue that Shields has taken a step beyond postmodernism by suggesting that we can transcend the limitations of its epistemology. Containing several essays on Swann and The Stone Diaries, Shields's most popular works, and the most extensive annotated bibliography available of works by and about Shields, this collection will appeal widely to scholars, students, and readers of Carol Shields and Canadian fiction.

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Fantasy Fiction

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By:Lucie Armitt
Published on 2005-04-13 by A&C Black
ISBN 9780826416858

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This is a series of introductory books about different types of writing. One strand of the series will focus on genres such as Science Fiction, Horror, Romance, and Crime. The other strand will focus on movements or styles often associated with historical and cultural locations - Postcolonial, Native American, Scottish, Irish, American Gothic. These introductions all share the same nine-part structure: 1.A broad definition of the genre and its essential elements 2.A timeline of historical developments 3.Critical concerns to bear in mind while reading 4.Detailed readings of several key texts 5.In-depth analysis of major themes and issues 6.Signposts for further study 7.A summary of the most important criticism in the field 8.A glossary of terms 9.An annotated, critical reading list Writers covered in this book include: Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, George Orwell, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mary Shelley, J.K. Rowling, H.G. Wells, Thomas More, Jonathan Swift, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Yann Martel, Jeanette Winterson, and William Gibson.

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The Span of Mainstream and Science Fiction

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By:Peter Brigg
Published on 2002-10-22 by McFarland
ISBN 9780786480296

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From the 1960s (when the advent of what many call the postmodern style made establishing genres more difficult) to the present day, writers have been incorporating science--not only the commonly thought of science and technology but also the |soft| sciences such as psychology and sociology--into what was previously considered mainstream fiction. This book examines works by Thomas Pynchon, Doris Lessing, and others who incorporate science in fiction and exemplify the movement of mainstream fiction writers toward a new genre termed |span.| It also examines works by some science fiction writers who are edging closer to the border of science fiction and slowly over into span. This book maps the boundaries of the new span genre of fiction and thus helps define texts that fall outside the realms of mainstream and science fiction. Diagrams are included and a bibliography and index.

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Invented Religions

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By:Carole M. Cusack
Published on 2010 by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 9780754667803

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Utilizing contemporary scholarship on secularization, individualism, and consumer capitalism, this book explores religious movements founded in the West which are intentionally fictional: Discordianism, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of the SubGenius, and Jediism. Their continued appeal and success, principally in America but gaining wider audience through the 1980s and 1990s, is chiefly as a result of underground publishing and the internet. This book deals with immensely popular subject matter: Jediism developed from George Lucas' Star Wars films; the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, founded by 26-year-old student Bobby Henderson in 2005 as a protest against the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools; Discordianism, and the Church of the SubGenius which retain strong followings and participation rates among college students. The Church of All Worlds' focus on Gaia theology and environmental issues makes it a popular focus of attention. The continued success of these groups of Invented Religions provides a unique opportunity to explore the nature of late/post-modern religious forms, including the use of fiction as part of a bricolage for spirituality, identity-formation, and personal orientation.

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Fitzgerald's Craft of Short Fiction

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By:Alice Hall Petry
Published on 1989 by University of Alabama Press
ISBN 9780817305475

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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Fitzgerald's Craft of Short Fiction offers the first comprehensive study of the four collections of short stories that F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) prepared for publication during his lifetime: Flappers and Philosophers (1920), Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), All the Sad Young Men (1926), and Taps at Reveille (1935). These authorized collections—which include works from the entire range of Fitzgerald's career, from his undergraduate days at Princeton to his final contributions to Esquire magazine—provide an ideal overview of his development as a short story writer. Originally published in 1989, this volume draws upon Fitzgerald's copious personal correspondence, biographical studies, and all available criticism, and analyzes how Fitzgerald perceived his achievements as a writer of short fiction from both artistic and commercial standpoints. Petry pays close attention to the individual stories, exploring how Fitzgerald's growing technical expertise and the evolution of his themes reflect changes in his personal life.

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The Key

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By:James N. Frey
Published on 2000-06-08 by Macmillan
ISBN 9780312241971

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Offers aspiring authors of novels and screenplays advice on using the classic themes of universal folklore and mythology to structure their works, and provides examples from well-known fiction and films.

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The Forms of Historical Fiction

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By:Harry E. Shaw
Published on 1983 by Cornell University Press
ISBN 9780801415920

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Discusses the nature of the historical novel, examines works by Sir Walter Scott and other nineteenth-century novelists, and looks at their common themes

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Fiction of the nineties

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By:Veena Noble Dass,Rajinder Kumar Dhawan
Published on 1994 by Prestige Publications
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The Book Introduces To The Wider Audience Some Of The Significant Novels Published In India And Elsewhere In The 1990S. The Richness And Diversity Of The New Writing Is Represented And Diversity Of The New Writing Is Represented In The Fiction Of Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, Upamanya Chatterjee, Gita Mehta, Shobha De, Rohinton Mistry, Bharati Mukherjee, Yasmine Gooneratne, Bapsi Sidhwa, Miles Franklin And Others.

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Science-fiction

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By:Everett Franklin Bleiler,Richard Bleiler
Published on 1998-01 by Kent State University Press
ISBN 9780873386043

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Complementing Science-Fiction: The Early Years, which surveys Science Fiction books from its beginnings through to 1930, this volume covers all science-fiction printed in the genre magazines - Amazing, Astounding and Wonder, along with offshoots and minor magazines - from 1926 through 1936.

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Choosing and Using Fiction and Non-Fiction 3-11

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By:Margaret Mallett
Published on 2010-06-25 by Routledge
ISBN 9780203854969

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Winner of the United Kingdom Literacy Association's Author Award 2011 for its contribution to extending children's literacy. Praise for the book: 'This book is about making readers. A compact summary of its contents would not do it justice. It is the accountof a life's work and it deserves thanks and readers. *****'. - Margaret Meek, Books for Keeps on-line, Number 185, November 2010. 'This book is a cornucopia of varied pleasures, offering something for all tastes, presented with an awareness of the complexities of the field and communicated with commitment, enthusiasm and deep knowledge'. - Eve Bearne, English 4-11, the primary school journal of The English Association, Number 42, Summer 2011. Choosing and Using Fiction and Non-Fiction 3-11 is a guide to the many kinds of text we want children to encounter, use and enjoy during their nursery and primary school years. So children’s non-fiction literature – including autobiography, biography, information and reference texts – is given equal status with fiction – nursery rhymes, picturebooks, novels, traditional tales, playscripts and poetry. The author addresses important issues and allows the voices of teachers, reviewers and children to be heard. The book supports teachers as they help children on their journey to becoming insightful and critical readers of non-fiction and sensitive and reflective readers of fiction. It also contains suggestions for practice which are in the spirit of the more flexible and creative approach to learning towards which primary schools are moving. It includes: help on using criteria to select quality texts of all kinds; annotated booklists for each kind of text for different age groups; suggestions for keeping a balance between print and screen-based texts; case studies showing teachers and children using texts in interesting and imaginative ways to support learning in English lessons and across the curriculum; advice on developing children’s visual and multimodal literacy; guidance on using the school library and embedding study skills in children’s wider purposes and learning; critiques of key theoretical perspectives and research projects. Although the main readership will be primary and student teachers, it is hoped that the book will be of interest and use to anyone concerned with the role of texts in children’s learning.

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Science Fiction at Large

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By:Peter Nicholls
Published on 1976 by HarperCollins Publishers
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Romance for Sale in Early Modern England

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By:Steve Mentz
Published on 2006 by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 9780754654698

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Steve Mentz provides a comprehensive historicist and formalist account of prose romance, the most important genre of Elizabethan fiction. He explores how authors and publishers of prose fiction in late sixteenth-century England produced books that combined traditional narrative forms with a dynamic new understanding of the relationship between text and audience. Though prose fiction would not dominate English literary culture until the eighteenth century, Mentz demonstrates that the form began to invent itself as a distinct literary kind in England nearly two centuries earlier.

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The Art of Brevity

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By:Per Winther,Jakob Lothe,Hans H. Skei
Published on 2004-01 by Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 9781570035579

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The Art of Brevity gathers fresh ideas about the theory and writing of short fiction from around the globe to produce an international, inclusive exploration of the steadily growing field of short story studies. Though Anglo-American scholars have served as the primary developers of contemporary short story theory since the field's inception in the 1960s, this volume adds the contributions of scholars living in other parts of the world. Such Anglo-American pioneers as Mary Rohrberger, Charles May, Susan Lohafer, and John Gerlach join with short fiction scholars at universities in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Canada to build academic bridges and expand the field, geographically as well as conceptually. Contributors to the volume weave together themes of time, space, compression, mystery, reader response, and narrative closure. They discuss writers as varied as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sarah Orne Jewett, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Mavis Gallant, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Robert Olen Butler. the nineteenth-century queer short story, and contemporary Danish short shorts.

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The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction

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By:Denys Johnson-Davies
Published on 2006 by Anchor
ISBN 9781400079766

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Ranging from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day, a treasury of modern Arab literary works features the contributions of eighty outstanding writers from all over the Arab world, including Naguib Mahfouz, Tewfik al-Hakim, Mahmoud Teymour, Yusuf Idris, Tayeb Salih, Ibrahim al-Koni, Mohamed Khudayir, Leila Abouzeid, and Hanan al-Shaykh. Original. 15,000 first printing.

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Transparent Minds

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By:Dorrit Cohn
Published on 1978 by Princeton University Press
ISBN 9780691101569

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This book investigates the entire spectrum of techniques for portraying the mental lives of fictional characters in both the stream-of-consciousness novel and other fiction. Each chapter deals with one main technique, illustrated from a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction by writers including Stendhal, Dostoevsky, James, Mann, Kafka, Joyce, Proust, Woolf, and Sarraute.

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Short Fiction and Critical Contexts

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By:Eric Henderson,Geoff Hancock
Published on 2010 by
ISBN 9780195429930

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Short Fiction and Critical Contexts: A Compact Reader is a challenging, versatile, and engaging resource for the study of short fiction. This collection features a diverse group of writers from differing ethnic, cultural, and national backgrounds and highlights female and Canadian authors.Each story is introduced by a brief biography of the author, information on his or her approach to writing fiction, and information about the story itself. The second half of the text collects a variety of documents written on the topic of the short story, many by the authors featured in the firsthalf of the text. The combination of stories and their context makes this an invaluable reader for students studying the short story at any level.Online Instructor's Manual offers:* Grammar review, including self-testing quizzes* Advice on creative writing* Comprehensive up-to-date information on citing literature in MLA * Lists of further readings, interesting links* Study and Discussion questions* Access to Documentation in the Humanities: Updated Guidelines for Style and Referencing online

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Fantasm and Fiction

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By:Peter Schwenger
Published on 1999 by Stanford University Press
ISBN 9780804734721

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This book analyzes the complex relationship between the fantasmal experience and the material text, reading a wide range of works that treat explicitly what is implicit in reading. Also, drawing on artists' books, drawings by authors, and films such as Prospero's Books, the author illuminates the process of textual visualization.

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Embracing Illusion

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By:Francisca Cho Bantly
Published on 1996-07-03 by SUNY Press
ISBN 9780791429709

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Embracing Illusion is an interdisciplinary study of a classic Korean novel. It argues that a work of narrative fiction can be taken seriously as Buddhist philosophical discourse. The capacity of fiction to speak on behalf of Buddhist truths is set in the larger context of how the literary imagination approaches the exploration of reality.

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Fiction and Truth in Transition

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By:Oscar Hemer
Published on 2012 by LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 9783643801227

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What can fiction tell us about the world that journalism and science cannot? This simple yet vast question is the starting-point for an interrogation of the relationship between literary fiction and society's dramatic transformation in South Africa and Argentina over the past several decades. The resulting discursive text borders on both journalism and literature, incorporating reportage, essay, and memoir. (Series: Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology - Vol. 34)

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Atomic Fiction

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By:Ken Gelder
Published on 1993-01-01 by University of Queensland Press(Australia)
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Study of the works of one of Australia's most critically acclaimed contemporary authors, who has won the Miles Franklin Award three times. Author uses a range of approaches from literary theory, philosophy and cultural studies to examine the structure of Ireland's narrative. Includes a bibliography and an index. Author is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne and is co-author of 'The New Diversity: Australian Fiction 1970-1988'.

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British short-fiction writers, 1800-1880

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By:John R. Greenfield
Published on 1996-02 by Gale
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Essays on British short-fiction writers during the Romantic and the early and middle Victorian periods. Poets held sway during the first quarter of the nineteenth century, while writers of fiction, particularly novelists, gained greater influence in the Victorian period by innovatively combining personal observation and creative vision in addressing social, moral and aesthetic questions. A period marked by an increase in the amount of fiction appearing in periodicals.

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Speculations on Speculation

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By:James E. Gunn,Matthew Candelaria
Published on 2005 by Scarecrow Press
ISBN 9780810849020

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Science fiction is a field of literature that has great interest and great controversy among its writers and critics. This book examines the roots, history, development, current status, and future directions of the field through articles contributed by well-respected science fiction writers, teachers, and critics. This book can be used as a textbook for courses in theory as well as courses in science fiction literature and science fiction writing.

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