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By:Suzanne Niemeyer
Published on 1986 by Beacham Publishing Corporation
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Updates V.1 & V.2 ; Fiction-20th Century Literature.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
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The Scope of Fiction
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By:Cleanth Brooks,Robert Penn Warren
Published on 1960 by Prentice Hall
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Telling Stories
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By:Jacqueline Bardolph
Published on 2001 by Rodopi
ISBN 9789042015241
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The present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concerned. Another important feature is that it deals not only with exclusive practitioners of the genre (Mansfield, Munro), but also with well-known novelists (Achebe, Armah, Atwood, Carey, Rushdie), so that stimulating comparisons are suggested between shorter and longer works by the same authors. In addition, the volume is of interest for the study of aspects of orality (dialect, dance rhythms, circularity and trickster figure for instance) and of the more or less conflictual relationships between the individual (character or implied author) and the community.Furthermore, the marginalized status of women emerges as another major theme, both as regards the past for white women settlers, or the present for urbanized characters, primarily in Africa and India. The reader will also have the rare pleasure of discovering Janice Kulik Keefer's “Fox,” her version of what she calls in her commentary “displaced autobiography'” or “creative non-fiction.” Lastly, an extensive bibliography on the postcolonial short story opens up further possibilities for research.
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity
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By:Philip Armstrong
Published on 2008-02-19 by Routledge
ISBN 9781134245185
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What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity argues that nonhuman animals, and stories about them, have always been closely bound up with the conceptual and material work of modernity. In the first half of the book, Philip Armstrong examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, Frankenstein and Moby-Dick. He then goes on to explore how these stories have been re-worked, in ways that reflect shifting social and environmental forces, by later novelists, including H.G. Wells, Upton Sinclair, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Brigid Brophy, Bernard Malamud, Timothy Findley, Will Self, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel and J.M. Coetzee. What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity also introduces readers to new developments in the study of human-animal relations. It does so by attending both to the significance of animals to humans, and to animals’ own purposes or designs; to what animals mean to us, and to what they mean to do, and how they mean to live.
Worlds Apart
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By:Carl Darryl Malmgren
Published on 1991 by Indiana University Press
ISBN 9780253336453
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|[Malmgren] succeeds in formulating a typology of science fiction that will become a standard reference for some years to come.|Â —Choice |... the most intelligently organized and effectively argued general study of SF that I have ever read.|Â —Rob Latham, SFRA Review |... required reading for its evenhanded overview of so much of the previous critical/theoretical material devoted to science fiction.| —American Book Review Worlds Apart provides a comprehensive theoretical model for science fiction by examining the worlds of science fiction and the discourse which inscribes them. Malmgren identifies the basic science fiction types, including alien encounters, alternate societies and worlds, and fantasy, and examines the role of the reader in concretizing and interpreting these science fiction worlds.
World Historical Fiction
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By:Lynda G. Adamson
Published on 1999 by Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 9781573560665
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An annotated bibliography covering the best in historical fiction set all around the world
Monday, October 29, 2018
Microworlds
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By:Stanisław Lem,Franz Rottensteiner
Published on 1984 by Harcourt
ISBN 9780151594801
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In ten essays, a master of science fiction and fantasy discusses the current state of the genre in analyses of the scientific and literary bases of his own and others' work
Fiction
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By:Steven Dietz
Published on 2005 by Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 9780573632396
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Sunday, October 28, 2018
Origins of Futuristic Fiction
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By:Paul Kent Alkon
Published on 1987 by University of Georgia Press
ISBN 9780820309323
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For nearly two thousand years, the future was a realm reserved for prophets, poets, astrologers, and practitioners of deliberative rhetoric. Then in 1659 the French writer Jacques Guttin published his romance Epigone, which carried the subtitle |the history of the future century.| Unlike the stories of space travel that were popular at the time, or the tales of travel to distant earthly lands which had long been a familiar literary genre, Guttin's romance described human societies displaced by time as well as by space and heroes not of his own day but of a future age. Paul Alkon's Origins of Futuristic Fiction examines the earliest works of prose fiction set in future time, the forgotten writings of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries that are the precursors of such well-known masterpieces of the form as H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and George Orwell's 1984. The first secular story to break the imaginative barrier against tales of the future, Epigone marked the emergence of a form unknown to classical, medieval, or renaissance literature. Guttin's courageous displacement of narrative into future time was followed by writers such as Samuel Madden, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Cousin de Granville, Mary Shelley, and Emile Souvestre, who wrote books with such titles as Memoirs of the Twentieth Century, The Year 2440, The Last Man, and The World As It Will Be. Most extraordinary, though, may be Felix Bodin's great metafictional Le roman de l'avenir, |the novel of the future.| Both a narrative of the future and a poetics of the new genre, this book identified in the previous isolated works set in future time a situation rarely encountered in literary history, in which the possibility for a new form clearly existed without yet being altogether achieved. In the introduction to his uncompleted novel, Bodin presented his vision of the futuristic novel as a literature of realism, morality, and fantasy. His remarkably astute attempt to define the aesthetics of a major transformation in the relation between literature and time still stands as the basis for the poetics of futuristic fiction. Tracing the early literary history of what became a major form of modern fiction, Origins of Futuristic Fiction examines the key works of the earliest writers of the genre not for what they betray of past expectations but for what they reveal about the formal problems that needed to be resolved before tales of the future could achieve their full power in the works of later novelists.
Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture
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By:Gary Westfahl
Published on 2000-01-01 by Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 9780313308475
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Literature often is central to individual maturation. It typically reflects, in one way or another, the experiences of the reader and the larger strains of society. This book examines representative works of science fiction, children's literature, and popular culture as mirrors of what it means to grow up in the contemporary world. That world is permeated by technology, and technology thus figures prominently in the process of growing up and in these literary works. Included are chapters on Superman, the Hardy Boys, Star Trek, music videos, and other topics.
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Public Rape
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By:Tanya Horeck
Published on 2004-01 by Psychology Press
ISBN 9780415288569
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In this text, the author considers the public investment in images of rape and the figure of the raped woman. Introducing the idea of 'public rape', Horeck looks at how images of rape serve as cultural fantasies of sexual, racial and class difference.
Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction
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By:Meir Sternberg
Published on 1993-01-01 by Indiana University Press
ISBN 9780253355522
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..||. this is one of the few books on narrative worth reading and rereading, a study that will make -- or should make -- a difference in the way we read narrative.|| -- Nineteenth Century Fiction ||This is a remarkable book: original, clear-sighted, and luminously focused on a subject that has never been explored nearly so systematically or intensively.||A -- Dorrit Cohn, Harvard University This book, long out of print, is now available in a paperback edition, providing another window into one of the most exciting minds working in the areas of literary and biblical literary criticism.
Vanishing Acts
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By:Ellen Datlow
Published on 2001-07-06 by Macmillan
ISBN 9781466821385
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Stories by Suzy McKee Charnas, Ted Chiang, Avram Davidson, Karen Joy Fowler, Paul McAuley, Brian Stableford, and others. The theme of this anthology is |endangered species|, loosely interpreted to include in some cases the human race. The contents are four excellent reprints and a dozen new stories, including a new novella from Ted Chiang, one of the hottest young story writers in SF. This is a distinguished original anthology fit to put on the shelf beside Starlight.
Speaking Science Fiction
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By:Andy Sawyer,David Seed
Published on 2000 by Liverpool University Press
ISBN 9780853238348
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This wide-ranging volume explores the various dialogues that flourish between different aspects of science fiction: academics and fans, writers and readers; ideological stances and national styles; different interpretations of the genre; and how language and 'voices' are used in constructing SF. Introduced by the acclaimed novelist Brian W. Aldiss, the essays range from studies of writers such as Robert A. Heinlein, who are considered as the |heart| of the genre, to more contemporary writers such as Jack Womack and J. G. Ballard.
Friday, October 26, 2018
Fantasy Fiction
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By:Frances Sinclair
Published on 2008 by School Library Association
ISBN 9781903446461
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Thursday, October 25, 2018
Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction
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By:Victoria Rimell
Published on 2002-11-28 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9781139436250
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Petronius' Satyricon, long regarded as the first 'novel' of the Western tradition, has always sparked controversy. It has been puzzled over as a strikingly modernist riddle, elevated as a work of exemplary comic realism, condemned as obscene and repackaged as a morality tale. This reading of the surviving portions of the work shows how the Satyricon fuses the anarchic and the classic, the comic and the disturbing, and presents readers with a labyrinth of narratorial viewpoints. Dr Rimell argues that the surviving fragments are connected by an imagery of disintegration, focused on the pervasive Neronian metaphor of the literary text as a human or animal body. Throughout, she discusses the limits of dominant twentieth-century views of the Satyricon as bawdy pantomime, and challenges prevailing restrictions of Petronian corporeality to material or non-metaphorical realms. This 'novel' emerges as both very Roman and very satirical in its 'intestinal' view of reality.
William Trevor
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By:Suzanne Morrow Paulson
Published on 1993 by Twayne Pub
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Intensely poetic, understated, and ironic, William Trevor's fiction contains the very hallmarks of the modern short story, following a long tradition of Irish and British literature about the often painful and grueling route people travel in the simple effort to integrate themselves into society. In his many poignant stories - among them |Mulvihill's Memorial,| |The Mark-2 Wife,| |The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,| |Lovers of Their Time,| and |The Ballroom of Romance| - Trevor reveals his mastery of tragi-comedy, whereby human interaction at even the most parochial level lends to an understanding of the universal. In this first book-length study of Trevor's stories, Suzanne Morrow Paulson provides a comprehensive overview of this Anglo-Irish writer's craft, examining his |masterpieces| of the form, his proficiency with the comic as well as the tragic. Trevor writes a personal sort of fiction, Paulson observes, rendering the grotesque aspects of human nature under stress, yet he transcends the personal because his art encourages sympathy for even the most ridiculous figures. Refuting critics who find his work dour and pessimistic, Paulson finds that most of Trevor's stories convey a genuine optimism and a love of people - a love based on a profound understanding of suffering, a sympathetic acceptance of human weakness, and shrewd insights into social hierarchies. Paulson finds Trevor at his best in stories that express his sympathy for women, sensitive men, and adolescents who suffer from destructive stereotypes of feminine and masculine behavior. Paulson assigns the fiction discussed to four thematic groups: stories that explore the psychology of coping or failing to cope with trauma; stories about fathers and mothers who cannot understand themselves or their adolescent children; stories depicting the suffering of adolescent girls, spinsters, wives, and mothers as they conform to destructive stereotypes governing proper female behavior; and stories concerned with materialistic values promoted by advertising and the mass media. In Parts 2 and 3 of this clear, concise introduction to the Trevor short-fiction canon Paulson has compiled, first, Trevor's comments on his art, his reader, and his community (including an original 1989 interview with the author), and, second, a survey of responses to Trevor's work and a brief gathering of articles and reviews published in Ireland, England, France, Canada, and America.
Henry James
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By:Ian F. A. Bell
Published on 1985-01-01 by Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 9780389205159
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This collection of new essays relates James's work to the political and social issues of his day, making this outstanding literary figure accessible to a broader reading public. Contributors include Richard Godden and Charles Swann, Millicent Bell and Deborah Phillips.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Science Fiction and Market Realities
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By:George Edgar Slusser,Gary Westfahl,Eric S. Rabkin
Published on 1996 by University of Georgia Press
ISBN 9780820317267
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Through case studies, other contributors relate science fiction to other forms of |underground| literature, consider the continual cycle of illegitimate art replacing legitimate art, look at young readers of science fiction, chart the rising and falling |stock| of science fiction writers' reputations, and consider the influence of editors on a writer's work.
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Umberto Eco
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By:Michael Caesar
Published on 2013-05-29 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 9780745665948
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today.
The Fan Fiction Studies Reader
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By:Karen Hellekson,Kristina Busse
Published on 2014-02-15 by University of Iowa Press
ISBN 9781609382278
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An essential introduction to a rapidly growing field of study, The Fan Fiction Studies Reader gathers in one place the key foundational texts of the fan studies corpus, with a focus on fan fiction. Collected here are important texts by scholars whose groundbreaking work established the field and outlined some of its enduring questions. Editors Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse provide cogent introductions that place each piece in its historical and intellectual context, mapping the historical development of fan studies and suggesting its future trajectories. Organized into four thematic sections, the essays address fan-created works as literary artifacts; the relationship between fandom, identity, and feminism; fandom and affect; and the role of creativity and performance in fan activities. Considered as literary artifacts, fan works pose important questions about the nature of authorship, the meaning of “originality,” and modes of transmission. Sociologically, fan fiction is and long has been a mostly female enterprise, from the fanzines of the 1960s to online forums today, and this fact has shaped its themes and its standing among fans. The questions of how and why people become fans, and what the difference is between liking something and being a fan of it, have also drawn considerable scholarly attention, as has the question of how fans perform their fannish identities for diverse audiences. Thanks to the overlap between fan studies and other disciplines related to popular and cultural studies—including social, digital, and transmedia studies—an increasing number of scholars are turning to fan studies to engage their students. Fan fiction is the most extensively explored aspect of fan works and fan engagement, and so studies of it can often serve as a basis for addressing other aspects of fandom. These classic essays introduce the field’s key questions and some of its major figures. Those new to the field or in search of context for their own research will find this reader an invaluable resource.
Science fiction
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By:Mark Rose
Published on 1976-09 by Prentice Hall
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Noted science fiction writers discuss many aspects of one of literature's newest genres.
Science fiction
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By:Robert E. Scholes,Eric S. Rabkin
Published on 1977 by Oxford University Press, USA
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A concise guide to the intellectual, social, and scientific elements that comprise the history and background of science fiction, to the genre's main developments, and to its most significant writers
Science Fiction in the Real World
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By:Norman Spinrad
Published on 1990 by SIU Press
ISBN 9780809316717
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No ordinary critic, Norman Spinrad explicates, celebrates, and sometimes excoriates science fiction from the privileged perspective of an artist armed with intimate knowledge of the craft of fiction and even of the writers themselves. In these 13 essays, Spinrad urges science fiction as a genre to reach its potential. He divides the essays—new works written specifically for this book combined with those that appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine—into five sections: |Literature and Genre: A Critical Overview,| in which Spinrad establishes his critical standards; |Alternate Media: Visual Translations,| a discussion of comic books and books made into movies; |Modes of Content: Hard SF, Cyberpunk, and the Space Visionaries|; |Psychopolitics and Science Fiction: Heroes—True and Otherwise|; and |Masters of the Form: Careers in Profile,| discussions of Sturgeon, Vonnegut, Ballard, and Dick.
Monday, October 22, 2018
Daughters of the Great Depression
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By:Laura Hapke
Published on 1997-01-01 by University of Georgia Press
ISBN 9780820319087
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Daughters of the Great Depression is a reinterpretation of more than fifty well-known and rediscovered works of Depression-era fiction that illuminate one of the decade's central conflicts: whether to include women in the hard-pressed workforce or relegate them to a literal or figurative home sphere. Laura Hapke argues that working women, from industrial wage earners to business professionals, were the literary and cultural scapegoats of the 1930s. In locating these key texts in the |don't steal a job from a man| furor of the time, she draws on a wealth of material not usually considered by literary scholars, including articles on gender and the job controversy; Labor Department Women's Bureau statistics; |true romance| stories and |fallen woman| films; studies of African American women's wage earning; and Fortune magazine pronouncements on white-collar womanhood. A valuable revisionist study, Daughters of the Great Depression shows how fiction's working heroines--so often cast as earth mothers, flawed mothers, lesser comrades, harlots, martyrs, love slaves, and manly or apologetic professionals--joined their real-life counterparts to negotiate the misogynistic labor climate of the 1930s.
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